Dear all,

This post contains important information about the confirmation procedure: what it is, how to do it, why we do it, etc. Please read this carefully and make sure you confirm your application between June 16 and June 26.

What is the “confirmation procedure”?

We need you to confirm your presence to the summerschool. Only after confirmation your registration is complete. If you don’t confirm, you will automatically be deregistered.

Why?

Experience shows that many people who register don’t show up at the school. But those who bother to confirm, do show up. This way, we can plan the practical details of the school much better. Also, the dorm people must know in advance who they will have to host.

How?

You will receive an email (not by me, but by Benjamin Burkhardt) in the next couple of days. This email contains the instructions for the confirmation. Please read it carefully, and everything will speak for itself.

What happens if I confirm and then I don’t come?

If you confirm and then don’t come to the school, apart from sill having to pay, you will have the privilege of being thrown into the basket of rotten eggs J. And, as Klaus Abels’ famous words are: rotten eggs stink! Seriously: rotten eggs cannot register for school in the next 3 years.

So make sure that you have access to email between July 16-26 and send your confirmation.

Best,

The EGG organizers

It looks like there has been a small bug in the registration website. We’re working on repairing it.

Dear all, just to make sure: this is the registration period, followed by a confirmation period. After the confirmation period all registrations are definite, not before. We do not have a strict selection procedure, but we need to ensure that all students fits in the dorm and that people are serious (‘I would like to learn English and I love Hungary’ is not a good motivation to attend Brno15). If the numbers are too high, we have to select on the basis of your motivations. After the confirmation period ( mid June) your registration is definite and you can safely buy your tickets.

Registration will start in the second half of May, and we will run the usual two rounds: first you register and provide a short self-description, then in June you confirm that you really will be in Brno. If you confirm and don’t come, you’ll be a rotten egg, and these don’t smell good.

The Teachers & Classes page is now active, and the first two course descriptions (Phillip Backley’s) are on. Take a look, the others will drop in…
…And registration will open soon, keep an eye on this page.

To complete, here’s the belated phonology crew:

• Phillip Backley (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan)
• Heather Newell (UQAM, Montreal)
• Ewan Dunbar (EHESS, Paris)
• Tobias Scheer (Nice)

Ph. Backley will focus on subsegmental structure (melody), while the others will talk about the interface with morpho-syntax (from different perspectives). Course abstracts to come…

And here are the syntax teachers for this year: Susi Wurmbrand (UConn), Jonathan Bobaljik (UConn), Jeff Parrott (Olomouc), Thomas McFadden (ZAS Berlin) and our own Sandhya Sundaresan (Leipzig). Great team, I’d say. Semantics and phono teachers will follow soon!

As you see the EGG website has moulted, and so has the EGG org team. The four of us now run the school: Sandhya Sundaresan (Leipzig), Markéta Ziková (Brno), Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen) and Tobias Scheer (Nice).

Keep an eye on the site, the teacher lineup for the 2015 school in Brno is to come soon…

This year’s school will take place in Brno, Czech Republic, from July 27 till August 7. Mark the dates! We will soon announce the first teachers. But I can assure you already: it will be big fun!