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Preliminary syntax topics

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WEEK 1

  • John Frederick Bailyn: Introduction to Syntactic Structures (all levels)
  • Jenia Khristoforova: Intro to Syntax I (beginners)
  • Tom Meadows: Spooky Agreement, Agree and Phi-syntax (advanced)
  • Zorica Puškar-Gallien: Markedness in morphosyntax (advanced)
  • Stan Zompì: (*)ABA effects and their theoretical implications (advanced)

WEEK 2:

  • Stan Zompì: Intro to Syntax II (beginners)
  • Jenia Khristoforova: Sign Language Syntax (beginners/advanced)
  • Magdalena Lohninger & Tom Meadows: Weird types of movement (advanced)
  • Natasha Abner: TBA (advanced)

Updates & abstracts will follow soon!

One more semantics teacher & preliminary semantics topics

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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)

LaTeX workshop and Open podium student presentations in week 2

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During week 2 there will be more activities in the last slot of the schedule starting at 17:00.

  • On Tuesday (30th July): LaTeX workshop (phonology room) – make sure to bring a laptop.
  • On Wednesday (31st July) and possibly Thursday (1st August), depending on how many are interested in presenting, we will have an Open podium (syntax room). You can present some of your work, discuss it, ask for suggestions in the form of a short talk (10 minutes + 5 min questions/feedback). Time permitting in principle everybody will be included (on a first-come-first-served basis). The schedule can be found here.
  • If you want to present, the deadline for a short abstract submission is Sunday 28th, midnight. Include the title of your talk, your name, affiliation and a short abstract. The abstracts should not be more than a single page long, Times New Roman size 12, references can be on a separate page. Please, incorporate all numbered examples/trees/figures/graphs into the text; do not put them separately. Send your abstracts in a PDF format to mates.kundrat@gmail.com

Opening meeting and welcome get-together on Monday

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Before the classes tomorrow morning, there will be a short opening meeting at 9:00 in the Syntax room (room TII3: T-building, second floor, room 3; (Bd. Eroilor No. 25). Afterwards, the classes will start at 9:30 as scheduled. We will be meeting in front of the dorm buildings at 8:20 and leaving for the uni at 8:30 if you want to walk together.

For the welcome party, the local organizers have booked a terrace called Barique Garden:
https://www.barriquebrasov.ro/ro/restaurant (Strada Mureșenilor, nr 3, 500026 Brașov)
That is on Monday, July 22, from 20:30 – for drinks only. Please, have dinner beforehand, otherwise they might have trouble serving such a large crowd.