Mo., 29. Juni
|Room 329, Blg for Administration,BLCU
BLCU International Summer School in Linguistics
Our event is likely to gather hundreds of young minds who share one goal: working together to bring about change in linguistics. Have a look at the details below and secure your place as early as possible.
Time & Location
29. Juni 2020, 08:00 GMT+8 – 10. Juli 2020, 18:00 GMT+8
Room 329, Blg for Administration,BLCU, Xue Yuan Lu, Haidian Qu, Beijing Shi, China
Guests
About the event
The first BLCU International Summer School in Linguistics will take place at the Department of Linguistics of Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) from June 29 to July 10, 2020.
The summer school features intermediate and advanced-level intensive courses on a wide range of topics in generative linguistics, aimed at graduate students in linguistics and adjacent fields.
WEEK 1 (June 29 – July 3, 2020)
08:00‒09:50 Mark Baker (Rutgers University): Properties and parameters of Agree
10:00‒11:50 Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (NUS): Topics in Mandarin syntax and semantics
14:00‒15:50 Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin Univ.): The phonological structure of morphemes
16:00‒18:50 Ming Xiang (Univ. of Chicago): Parsing and interpretation in sentence comprehension
19:00‒19:50 Open forum
WEEK 2 (July 6–10, 2020)
08:00‒09:50 Mark Baker (Rutgers University): Novel and non-canonical uses of Agree
10:00‒11:50 Viola Schmitt (Univ. of Vienna): Semantic typology: Quantifiers and plurality
14:00‒15:50 Marcel den Dikken (Eötvös Loránd Univ.): Syntactic theory: From GB to minimalism
16:00‒17:50 Maria Polinsky (Univ. of Maryland): The structure of heritage and minority languages
18:00‒19:50 Stephen Crain (Macquarie University): The logical structure of child language
The summer school is open to participants from around the world.
To register for the summer school, please click on the “Registration” link on the summer school website.
For questions related to the summer school, please contact the organizers at the following E-mail address: blcusummerschool@126.com
The organizers of the first BLCU International Summer School in Linguistics are looking forward to welcoming you in Beijing this summer.
Fuzhen Susan Si – BLCU Department of Linguistics
Marcel den Dikken – ELTE Department of English Linguistics