Semantics course topics (descriptions soon to come)

  • 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)

Semantics line-up for 2024

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)

Open podium programme and one more workshop

On behalf of this year’s Open podium organizers Andrea Szávó, Jeanne Lecavelier and Veronica Bressan, let me announce there will be two days of Open podium student presentations – on Wednesday and Thursday from 17:00. Find the program and talk abstracts here.

On Friday, in the last slot starting at 17:00 Florian Breit will give a workshop on Praat.

Certificates of attendance

To get a certificate showing that you’ve attended classes at the summer school:

1. Download the certificate, fill out your full name and courses attended and print it out.
2. Drop the printed and filled out form in the Syntax room and collect it signed by the organizers on the following day or on Friday.
2′. If you are leaving earlier than Friday, come talk to András, Berit or Petra.