A message from the Open Podium organisers:

Hello Everyone,

Here’s some info regarding the open podium.

The podium will be held on Wednesday and Thursday next week between 17:00 and 18:15.

To present you will need to send an abstract to Freya at freayey2018@gmail.com. 1/2 page is enough, optional bibliography (it does not need to be super formal). Send us also your name and where you study.

The talks will be 10 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions. This may be extended or shortened slightly depending on how many presenters we have.

Send us the abstracts by Monday before 17:00 and any slides or handouts you want projected by Tuesday 17:00.

Any printed material will be at your own cost.

Let us know if you have any questions,
Sandy

The local organizers reserved tables at the Bikers Beer Factory to have a first dinner and drinks together! Join us and get to know everyone! Monday, 28.7., 19.30.

Morwenne Hoeks will join the semantics line-up in week 2.

And here are some preliminary topics for semantic classes (stay tuned for more):

• Ashwini Deo & David Beaver: Speech acts: Undertaking and influencing commitments (week 1)
• Jon Ander Mendia & Rajesh Bhatt: Introduction to semantics (week 1)
• Jon Ander Mendia & Rajesh Bhatt: Degrees (week 1)
• Tom Roberts: Attitudes (week 1 and maybe also week 2, or another topic for one of the weeks)
• Morwenna Hoeks: Interpreting focus: Bridging theory and incremental measures (week 2)
• Nina Haslinger: Structural complexity in formal pragmatics (week 2)
• Jon Ander Mendia: Introduction to intensional semantics (week 2)

Phonology:
Veno Volenec
Kyle Gorman
Katalin Balogné-Berces
Charles Reiss
Syntax:
Zorica Puškar-Gallien (week 2)
Stan Zompí
John Bailyn
Tom Meadows
Jenia Khristoforova

Kajsa Djärv [had to cancel]
Tom Roberts
Jon Ander Mendia
Ashwini Deo (week 1)
David Beaver (week 1)
Rajesh Bhatt (week 1)
Nina Haslinger (week 2)
… stay tuned for more!

Since Madeleine Butschety can only make it for week 2, her class “Additives and comitatives” has been moved to week 2. To replace her slot in week 1, we added a new course “Aspect and temporal definiteness“, taught by me.

Check out “Classes”.

• Ede Zimmermann: Intro to semantics (week 1)
• Ekaterina Vostrikova
  – Exceptive constructions (week 1)
  – Intro to semantics (week 2)
• Madeleine Butschety
  – Topics at the syntax/semantics interface
  – Additives and comitatives
• Deniz Özyıldız
  – Meaning and intonation
  – Event semantics
• Todd Snider: The semantics of anaphora (week 2)

The complete list of semantics teachers for this year is:

• Madeleine Butschety (Nova Gorica)
• Deniz Özyıldız (Konstanz)
• Todd Snider (Tübingen)
• Ekaterina Vostrikova (Göttingen)
• Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt) (week 1)

Check it out here.