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Abner – TBA
Bailyn – Where it all began: Introduction to “Syntactic Structures”
Balogné-Bérces – Classical and current models of autosegmental phonology (intro)
Balogné-Bérces – Laryngeal realism/relativism
Bhatt, Rajesh & Jon Ander Mendia: Degree
Bhatt, Rajesh & Jon Ander Mendia: Introduction to formal semantics
Deo, Ashwini & David Beaver – Speech Acts: Undertaking and Influencing Commitments
Gorman – Exceptionality
Gorman – Theories of phonotactics
Haslinger, Nina – Structural complexity and formal pragmatics
Hoeks, Morwenna – Interpreting focus: Bridging theory and incremental measures
Khristoforova – Challenging Theories: Insights from Sign Language Syntax
Khristoforova – Introduction to syntax I
Lohninger & Meadows – Weird types of movement
Meadows – Spooky Agreement, Agree and Phi-syntax
Mendia, Jon Ander – Introduction to intensional semantics
Puškar-Gallien – Markedness in morphosyntax
Reiss – Overview of Substance Free Logical Phonology
Reiss – Phonology and Cognitive Science
Volenec – Introduction to formal generative phonology
Volenec – Neurobiology of language and speech
Zompí – (*)ABA effects and their theoretical implications
Zompí – Introduction to syntax II
Earlier schools
EGG 2015: Brno, Czech Republic
Open Podium
EGG 2016: Lagodekhi, Georgia
classes EGG16
D’Alessandro – Syntactic agreement
D’Alessandro – Syntactic microvariation
Dekany – The structure of DP, with special reference to Hungarian
Den Dikken – Dependency and directionality
Den Dikken – From GB to minimalism
Faust – How real are roots and templates? Issues in non-concatenative morpho-phonology
Faust – What’s phonological in phonologically-conditioned allomorphy: an introduction to the phonology-morphology interface
Hamann – The phonetics-phonology interface in perception and production
Mayr/Schmitt – Introduction to semantics
Mayr/Schmitt – Precedence in semantics
mini-theme in phonology: The relationship between phonology and phonetics is arbitrary
Papillon – Introduction to substance-free phonology
Papillon – Reduplication in derivational theories
Scheer – Why modularity predicts that the relationship between phonetics and phonology is arbitrary
Sudo – Presuppositions
Walkden & Zeijlstra – Intro to syntax
Walkden – syntactic change
Walkden – verb second
Zeijlstra – NPIs and PPIs
EGG 2017: Olomouc (Czech Republic)
Courses & Presentations: EGG 2017
Intro Courses
Introduction to Phonological Space
Introduction to Syntax
Exploration of phonological space
The morphophonology of passives and the architecture of grammar
EGG 2018 in Banja Luka
Bailyn – Introduction to Syntax (Part II)
Bailyn – Theories of scrambling
Borer – Roots and beyond – topics in the syntax of words
Donati – Labels in syntax
Donati – The syntax of relative clauses
Elliott & Murphy – Topics in the Syntax of Ellipsis
Elliott & Sudo – Ellipsis, Binding, and Logical Form
Elliott – Introduction to Semantics (Part II)
Honeybone – Does word frequency affect phonology? Reasons to be cautious (week 1)
Honeybone – Introduction to historical phonology (week 1)
Kulikov – Intro to experimentally-based phonological evidence
Kulikov – Voicing assimilation and its relevance for the Dresher-Reiss debate on existence of contrast in phonology
Lampitelli – Intro to Interface theories (phonology – morpho-syntax)
Lampitelli – Phonological decomposition of inflectional markers: paradigms vs. allomorphy
local org’s page (travel, visa…)
Lundquist – Experimental methods in the study of morpho-syntactic variation, change and acquisition
Murphy – Introduction to syntax (Part I)
Murphy – Phase theory
Panizza & Sudo – The Exhaustivity Operator: Current Issues and Perspectives
Panizza – Neurolinguistics
Ramchand – Introduction to Formal Semantics (Part I)
Ramchand – Situations and Syntactic Structures
Zobel – Introduction to Pragmatics
Zobel – The Semantics of Perspective Sensitivity
EGG 2019 in Wrocław
Classes (2018)
Christian Uffmann – Distinctive Feature Theory
Christian Uffmann – Issues in Feature Theory
David Odden – Formal and Substance Free Theories of Phonological Grammar
David Odden – Introduction of Phonological Computation and Representation
Deniz Rudin – The Semantics-Discourse-Pragmatics Interface: Theory and Applications:
Elizabeth Coppock – Introduction to Formal Semantics (2 weeks)
Emily Hanink – Internally headed relatives and clausal nominalization
Jessica Coon – Hierarchy effects (2-day mini course)
Jessica Coon – Introduction to Ergativity:
Karlos Arregi & Emily A. Hanink – The syntax of switch reference
Karlos Arregi – When heads move
Sandhya Sundaresan & Hedde Zeijlstra – Introduction to Syntax (2 weeks)
Serge Minor – The Semantics of Grammatical Aspect in Slavic (and Beyond)
Shanti Ulfsbjorninn – A typology of morphological segment-zero alternations
Shanti Ulfsbjorninn – Introduction to Affixation
Simon Charlow – Alternatives in Semantics (2 weeks)
Thomas McFadden – Clause-Peripheral Agreements — Allocutivity, Complementizer Agreement and the Theory of Agree
Thomas McFadden, Sandhya Sundaresan, and Hedde Zeijlstra – Structure Building, Selection & Selective Opacity (2 weeks)
EGG 2021 – online
Adrian Stegovec — Language particulars versus language universals: An Algonquian case study
Adrian Stegovec — Person restrictions in syntax: A generative typological approach
Anke Himmelreich — Upward vs. Downward Agreement
Chris Golston – Introduction to stress
Chris Golston – Phonological Movement
Elan Dresher – Topics in Contrastive Hierarchy Theory
Elan Dresher, Intro: Foundations of Contrastive Hierarchy Theory
Maria Kouneli — Determiner spreading
Marijn van ‘t Veer – Introduction to Element Theory (two weeks)
Milica Denić & Wataru Uegaki – Semantic universals: Theories and experimental investigations
Milica Denić – Experimental methods in semantics and pragmatics
Vera Hohaus & Wataru Uegaki – Introduction to semantics
Vera Hohaus – Modality and gradability
classes EGG 2021 – online
EGG 2022 in Brno
Chabot – Features in phonological theory: what, where, and why
Chabot – Phonology as substance-free cognition
Daria Seres – (In)definiteness in natural languages
Doreen Georgi: The syntax of sharing constructions (Week 1)
Hadil Karawani – Aspect
Iosad – What did representations ever do for us?
James Griffiths’s Topics in Ellipsis (Week 2)
Jeremy Kuhn – Sign Language Semantics
Marcin Wągiel – The form and meaning of numerals
Natalia Slioussar – Experimental studies of the grammar
Pavel Caha: Introduction to Nanosyntax (Week 1)
Pavel Caha: Introduction to Syntax
Pavel Caha: The Nanosyntax of the Adjective (Week 2)
Petra Mišmaš: Introduction to Cartography (Week 2)
Sayeed – Phonological theory and Bayesian philosophy of science
Scheer – What substance-free phonology means for substance-free phonology
Stephanie Solt & Jeremy Kuhn – Introduction to Semantics
Stephanie Solt – The semantics of degree modification
Viola Schmitt – The status of possible worlds in deriving semantic representations
Volenec – Formal rule-based phonology
Volenec – The logical structure of phonological theory
EGG 2023: Novi Sad, Serbia
Aron Hirsch: The syntax and semantics of only
Beáta Gyuris: The semantics of interrogatives and the pragmatics of questions
Berit Gehrke & Daria Seres: Introduction to semantics
Bošković: Distributed coordinations
Bošković: On wh and subject positions and contextuality
Breit – Introduction to melodic representation
Breit – Phonology at the Interface with Morphosyntax
Fenger: Domains in syntax, morphology, and phonology (Week 2)
Fenger: Introduction to syntax (Week 1)
Grillo: Better together: Topics in experimental (psycho)linguistics
Irina Burukina: Topics in non-finite complementation
John Frederick Bailyn: Syntactic Structures and its legacy
Marcin Wągiel: Part-whole structures
Moreno Mitrović: Comparative Morpho-Logic & Parametric Semantics
Neda Todorović: Negation and questions in Serbian
Neda Todorović: Syntax-semantics-morphology interplay in Gitksan complements
Olga Borik: The semantics of nominal reference
Schwartz – Bilingual speech and phonological representation
Schwartz – Phonetic arguments for phonological abstraction
Shikunova – Stress in a lateral theory of phonology
Shikunova – Topics in the phonology of Uralic
Simonović – Pitch accent: Stress+Tone?
Simonović – Morphologically Controlled Tone: A Case Study from BCMS
EGG 2024: Brașov, Romania
Aida Talić: The Clitic SynPhony: Syntactic phases and prosodic domains (Week 1)
Alison Biggs: The Syntax of Argument and Event Structure (Week 1)
Alison Biggs: Topics in morphosyntax (Week 2)
Berit Gehrke: Aspect and temporal definiteness
Deniz Özyıldız: Event Semantics
Deniz Özyıldız: Intonation and Meaning
Ede Zimmermann (week 1) & Ekaterina Vostrikova (week 2): Introduction to Semantics
Ekaterina Vostrikova: Exceptive Constructions
Harris: Introduction to the Prosodic Structure of Words
Harris: the Prosodic Structure of Words: Experimental Explorations
Hestvik: Advanced topics in MMN and phonology
Hestvik: Introduction to MMN and phonetics / phonology
Iosad: Representations and contrast
Iosad: Slavic Phonology
John Frederick Bailyn: Scrambling the EGG (Week 1)
Madeleine Butschety: Additives and Comitatives
Madeleine Butschety: Topics at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Magdalena Lohninger: What is a subject? (Week 2)
Scheer: Phase space
Scheer: Substance-free Phonology and 3x Phonology
Todd Snider: The Semantics of Anaphora
Tom Meadows: The Williams Cycle (Week 1)
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Register – EGG 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia (July 28th – August 8th)
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Abner – TBA
Natasha Abner
– University of Michigan
TBA
