Preliminary syntax topics

WEEK 1

  • John Frederick Bailyn: Introduction to Syntactic Structures (all levels)
  • Jenia Khristoforova: Intro to Syntax I (beginners)
  • Tom Meadows: Spooky Agreement, Agree and Phi-syntax (advanced)
  • Zorica Puškar-Gallien: Markedness in morphosyntax (advanced)
  • Stan Zompì: (*)ABA effects and their theoretical implications (advanced)

WEEK 2:

  • Stan Zompì: Intro to Syntax II (beginners)
  • Jenia Khristoforova: Sign Language Syntax (beginners/advanced)
  • Magdalena Lohninger & Tom Meadows: Weird types of movement (advanced)
  • Natasha Abner: TBA (advanced)

Updates & abstracts will follow soon!

One more semantics teacher & preliminary semantics topics

Morwenne Hoeks will join the semantics line-up in week 2.

And here are some preliminary topics for semantic classes (stay tuned for more):

  • Ashwini Deo & David Beaver: Speech acts: Undertaking and influencing commitments (week 1)
  • Jon Ander Mendia & Rajesh Bhatt: Introduction to semantics (week 1)
  • Jon Ander Mendia & Rajesh Bhatt: Degrees (week 1)
  • Tom Roberts: Attitudes (week 1 and maybe also week 2, or another topic for one of the weeks)
  • Morwenna Hoeks: Interpreting focus: Bridging theory and incremental measures (week 2)
  • Nina Haslinger: Structural complexity in formal pragmatics (week 2)
  • Jon Ander Mendia: Introduction to intensional semantics (week 2)

Phono classes

We have a fifth phonologist on board, Jason Bishop (CUNY). Below are the titles of the phono classes. Veno Volenc’ course descriptions are online, as well as the description of Kyle Gorman’s exceptionality class: check out the classes page. More to come…

Kyle Gorman: 1. Exceptionality, 2. Phonotactics

Charles Reiss: 1. Phonology and cognitive science (intro) 2. Overview of Substance Free Logical Phonology

Veno Volenec 1. Introduction to Generative Phonology (excluding autosegmental structure), 2. Neurobiology of Language and Speech 

Katalin Balogné-Bérces: 1. Classical and current models of autosegmental phonology, 2. Laryngeal realism/relativism

Jason Bishop: 1. Introduction to Intonational Phonology (intro), 2. tba

Zagreb 2025

This year the EGG will go to the wonderful city of Zagreb in Croatia. It will be running on the usual schedule: last week July + first week August (July 28th to August 8th). Stay tuned, more to come…