Hi eggers, the Open podium student presentations will happen on Tuesday and Wednesday from 18:00, take a look at the schedule. Right after at 19:00, there will be another party in Gather on Tuesday and an EGG themed Quiz on Wednesday. See you there!

This unit is an introduction to formal semantics. We will introduce some conceptual and formal foundations and then go on to build a basic model of meaning composition, using situations. Some of the phenomena discussed in the unit include the interpretation of determiners, negative polarity items as well as modification and ambiguity. No background required, but feel free to get in touch if you wonder if this course is suitable for you.

Slides for both weeks

We will have an Opening party tomorrow, on Thursday at 18:30 CEST. Come meet people, talk, have a drink and discussions. Don’t forget to byob!

Dear EGGers, as announced, we will have an Open podium where you can present some of your work (work in progress or a finished paper), discuss it with your peers, ask for suggestions in the form of Lightning talks (5 min talk + 5 min questions/feedback). It will all be very informal and time permitting we’ll in principle include everybody (on a first-come-first-served basis).

If you want to present, send an email with subject line Open podium including a title of your talk, your name, affiliation and a short abstract to wiebke.petersen@uni-bielefeld.de. Deadline is Friday midnight, and a schedule will be announced by Monday. Presentations are to take place in week 2 on Tuesday and/or Wednesday after classes.

organized by Julia Cataldo, Lucas Cruz and Wiebke Petersen

The schedule for online 2021 EGG is now up. Check it out!

Registration is now open and there is no fee. Click on the following link to register and use the email you will use when attending online: https://uni-goettingen.de/en/645978.html. Please register by July 15th – so that we can plan with how many attendees we should count. When you register, you will see a confirmation screen (no email will be sent). For questions, contact us at: eggsummerschool@gmail.com

Vera Hohaus & Wataru Uegaki – Introduction to semantics

Milica Denić – Experimental methods in semantics and pragmatics (week 1)

Abstracts are in for the following two semantic classes (more to come):

Wataru Uegaki & Milica Denić: Semantic universals (2-week course)
Vera Hohaus: Modality and gradability (week 2)

Exciting news! Here is our first round of teachers for EGG 2020 in Novi Sad. This is the syntax team, which will consist of: András Bárány, Theresa Biberauer, Zorica Puškar-Gallien and Adrian Stegovec. Welcome on board, guys! Stay tuned for information about our other teachers in the coming days and weeks.