Check it out on the classes page.

Our semantics team is complete: Daria Seres will teach a topic seminar in one of the weeks.

We also have a first title & abstract for one of the semantics courses: Jeremy Kuhn will teach a topic seminar on Sign Language Semantics. Check it out on the classes page.

Three more teachers have joined the line-up: Pavel Caha, Hadil Karawani, Natalia Slioussar.

The syntax teachers at this year’s EGG will be (all for both weeks):

• James Griffiths (Konstanz)
• Petra Mišmaš (Nova Gorica)
• two more TBD

And the semantics teachers:

• Jeremy Kuhn (CNRS/IJN Paris, 2 weeks)
• Viola Schmitt (HU Berlin, 1 week)
• Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin, 2 weeks)
• Marcin Wągiel (Brno/Wrocław, 1 week)
• one more TBD

Stay tuned for more!

This unit is an introduction to formal semantics. We will introduce some conceptual and formal foundations and then go on to build a basic model of meaning composition, using situations. Some of the phenomena discussed in the unit include the interpretation of determiners, negative polarity items as well as modification and ambiguity. No background required, but feel free to get in touch if you wonder if this course is suitable for you.

Slides for both weeks

Vera Hohaus & Wataru Uegaki – Introduction to semantics

Milica Denić – Experimental methods in semantics and pragmatics (week 1)

Abstracts are in for the following two semantic classes (more to come):

Wataru Uegaki & Milica Denić: Semantic universals (2-week course)
Vera Hohaus: Modality and gradability (week 2)