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EGG 2022 in person in Brno, 25 July to 5 August

Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG)

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    • 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
  • Earlier schools
    • EGG 2015: Brno, Czech Republic
      • Certificates
      • EGG@Brno: Course Schedule
        • Bhatt & Homer – Topics in Modality (2 weeks)
      • Open Podium
      • REGISTRATION 2015
        • List of registered participants
    • EGG 2016: Tbilisi, 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
        • Advanced Courses
          • Agreement Mismatches: When Theory and Experiments Meet
          • Cognitive modeling in linguistics: connecting experimental findings and theoretical claims
          • Exploration of phonological space
          • Interaction and satisfaction: a theory of agreement
          • Issues in the Syntax of Case & Agreement
          • Linguistic variation and English dialect syntax
          • Semantics of Aspect
          • Semantics of propositional attitudes
          • Tense in Crosslinguistic Perspective
          • The morphophonology of passives and the architecture of grammar
          • The semantics and pragmatics of discourse particles (2 weeks)
          • The subject position
          • Topics in Variation (TV)
        • EGG 2017 Schedule
        • EGG 2017: Course certificate
        • Intro Courses
          • Introduction to Determinants and Consequences of Primary and Secondary Stress
          • Introduction to Phonological Representations
          • Introduction to Phonological Space
          • Introduction to Semantics (2 weeks)
          • Introduction to Syntax
        • Open Podium Schedule
        • Student Presentations: Week 1 (Friday, July 28)
        • Student Presentations: Week 2 (Tuesday, August 1)
        • Student Presentations: Week 2 (Wednesday, August 2)
    • 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
      • 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
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Intro Courses

Semantics:

  • Ryan Bochnak & Berit Gehrke: Introduction to Semantics

Syntax:

  • Andras Barany & Sandhya Sundaresan: Introduction to Syntax

Phonology:

  • Guillaume Enguehard: Introduction to Phonological Space
  • Andrew Nevins: Introduction to Determinants and Consequences of Primary and Secondary Stress
  • Sławomir Zdziebko: Introduction to Phonological Representations
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