Courses / Instructors

 

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Overview Courses, Instructors and Rooms
Information about the exact room locations will be provided in the Conference Office.

Course Instructor

A / Basic Courses

 
Morphology
Room: Lecture Hall 2B
Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook
Typology
Room: U1.69
Walter Bisang, Mainz
Sociolinguistics
Room: U1.72
Florian Coulmas, Duisburg
Introduction to Nonlinear Phonology
Room: U1.72
Tracy Alan Hall, Leipzig
Psycholinguistics
Room: U1.69
Peter Indefrey, MPI Nijmegen
Introduction to Formal Semantics
Room: U1.42
Gerhard Jäger, Berlin
Lexical Semantics
Room: U1.72
Sebastian Löbner, Duesseldorf
Field Methods
Room: FZ 1
Marianne Mithun, Santa Barbara
Constraints in Syntax
Room: U1.69
Gereon Müller, IDS Mannheim
Language Contact
Room: U1.69
This course will start on July 25
Pieter Muysken, Nijmegen
Pragmatics
Room: U1.42
Jef Verschueren, Antwerp

B / Advanced Topical Courses  
OT and Typology
Room: Lecture Hall 2B
Judith Aissen, Santa Cruz  / Joan Bresnan, Stanford
Information Structure
Room: U1.69
Daniel Büring, UC Los Angeles
Spoken Language Comprehension
Room: U1.72
Anne Cutler, MPI Nijmegen
Advanced Semantics
Room: U1.72
Kai von Fintel, MIT
Syntactic Structure of German
Room: U1.69
Hubert Haider, Salzburg
The Nature of Explanation in Linguistics: Formal and Functional Approaches
Room: Lecture Hall 2B
Martin Haspelmath, MPI Leipzig / Frederick Newmeyer, Seattle
Dynamic Syntax: The Flow of Language Understanding
Room: FZ 1
Ruth Kempson, King's College London     
Phonological Theory
Room: U1.42
Armin Mester / Junko Ito, Santa Cruz
Approaches to Language Change
Room: Lecture Hall 2B
April McMahon, Sheffield
Approaches to L2 Acquisition
Room: U1.72
Clive Perdue, Paris
The Syntax-Discourse Interface and Language Contact
Room: U1.72
Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania
Acquisition Evidence for Fundamental Operations within a Minimalist Framework
Room: U1.72
Tom Roeper, Amherst
The Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Room: U1.81
Robert Van Valin, Buffalo
Theories of the Lexicon
Room: U1.81
Dieter Wunderlich, Duesseldorf


Grouping of Courses

        You can register for the following courses. The courses of one group will take place at the same time, so please choose max. 1 course from each group . A-designated-courses are basic courses, B-designated-courses are more advanced.
Please note: If you wish to register for 'Language Contact (A)' with Pieter Muysken or 'The Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (B)' with Robert Van Valin you will need to choose these twice - from both groups. 


Group A (Mon/Weds/Fri 8:30-10:30am) Group B (Tues/Thurs/Sat 8:30-10:30am)
  Introduction to Nonlinear Phonology (A)
       - Tracy Alan Hall
  Lexical Semantics (A)
       - Sebastian Löbner
  Syntactic Structure of German (B)
       - Hubert Haider
  Psycholinguistics (A)
       - Peter Indefrey
  The Nature of Explanation in Linguistics:
       Formal and Functional Approaches (B)
       - Martin Haspelmath & Frederick Newmeyer
  OT and Typology (B)
       - Judith Aissen & Joan Bresnan

Group C (Mon/Weds/Fri 11am-1pm) Group D (Tues/Thurs/Sat 11am-1pm)
  Constraints in Syntax (A)
       - Gereon Müller
  Typology (A)
       - Walter Bisang
  Approaches to Language Change (B)
       - April McMahon
  Advanced Semantics (B)
       - Kai von Fintel
  Approaches to L2 Acquisition (B)
       - Clive Perdue
  Phonological Theory (B)
       - Armin Mester & Junko Ito

Group E (Mon/Weds/Fri 2-4pm) Group F (Tues/Thurs/Sat 2-4pm)
  Morphology (A)
       - Mark Aronoff
  Pragmatics (A)
       - Jef Verschueren
  Dynamic Syntax: The Flow of Language Understanding (B)
       - Ruth Kempson
  Theories of the Lexicon (B)
       - Dieter Wunderlich
  Spoken Language Comprehension (B)
       - Anne Cutler
  Acquisition Evidence for Fundamental Operations within a Minimalist Framework (B)
       - Tom Roeper
  Language Contact (A)
       - Pieter Muysken
  (remember to choose this course from the right column as well)
  Language Contact (A)
       - Pieter Muysken
  (remember to choose this course from the left column as well)

Group G (Mon/Weds/Fri 4:30-6:30pm) Group H (Tues/Thurs/Sat 4:30-6:30pm)
  Introduction to Formal Semantics (A)
       - Gerhard Jäger
  Sociolinguistics (A)
       - Florian Coulmas
  Field Methods (A)
       - Marianne Mithun
  Information Structure (B)
       - Daniel Buring
  The Syntax-Discourse Interface
       and Language Contact (B)
       - Ellen Prince
 
  The Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (B)
       - Robert Van Valin
  (remember to choose this course from the right column as well)
  The Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (B)
       - Robert Van Valin
  (remember to choose this course from the left column as well)



Credits:
For successfully-completed A courses 3 credits will be granted, for B courses 6 credits.