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    • Aljani: Multiple coordinated questions
    • Cotfas: Control vs Raising in English infinitival complements
    • Cotfas: Introduction to phrase and sentence structure (Intro)
    • Dočekal: Experimental Semantics: Data Science and Programming in R
    • Hoge: Minimalist Foundations
    • Hoge: The Functional Architecture of Nominals
    • Köhnlein: Phonological approaches to word stress (Intro)
    • Köhnlein: Word-Level Prosodic Typology
    • Lahrouchi: Sonority (Intro)
    • Lahrouchi: Templates
    • Landau: Basics of ellipsis (Intro)
    • Landau: Obligatory control, perspective and speech acts
    • Leduc: On contradirectional spreading
    • Leduc: Topics in ATR Harmony (Intro)
    • Manzini: Left-right asymmetries in NPS: adjectival modification
    • Manzini: Theories of cliticization and the SE clitic
    • Scheer: (No) Trees in phonology
    • Scheer: Substance-free phonology: making good on Saussure’s promise
    • Tobyn: The lexical semantics of unaccusative verbs (Intro)
    • Wellwood: Psychosemantics
    • Wellwood: The Grammar of Events
  • Registration
  • 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)
      • Exploration of phonological space
      • Introduction to Phonological Space
      • Introduction to Syntax
      • 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)
    • EGG 2025: Zagreb, Croatia
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      • Classes 2025
        • Abner – Event structure
        • 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
        • Bishop – Introduction to Intonational Phonology
        • Bishop – What is a prosodic phrase? Grammatical vs. processing perspectives
        • 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
        • Open Podium (starting at 17:00, syntax room)
        • Puškar-Gallien – Markedness in morphosyntax
        • Reiss – Overview of Substance Free Logical Phonology
        • Reiss – Phonology and Cognitive Science
        • Roberts, Tom – What embedded sentences do
        • Roberts, Tom – What sentences do
        • Volenec – Introduction to formal generative phonology
        • Volenec – Neurobiology of language and speech
        • Zompí – (*)ABA effects and their theoretical implications
        • Zompí – Introduction to syntax II
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open podium on the timetable

Posted on August 4, 2026 by Tobias

the open podium programme is now on the EGG timetable.

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