Subject: 6th dgfs - summer school : ` language typology in mainz

6th dgfs - summer school 1998 : " language typology " from august , 31 - september , 11 1998 at the johannes gutenberg - university mainz organizers : walter bisang / bernhard hiegl the 6th summer school of the german linguistic society ( dgfs ) will take place at the johannes gutenberg - university of mainz from august , 31 to september , 11 1998 . 1 . contents - 14 courses of 2 hours a day from monday to friday - plenary lectures and discussions every day - distinguished guest speakers participation will be certified . courses : courses entitled in german will be held in german ; courses entitled in english will be held in english - auer , peter ( hamburg ) : sprachtypologie und phonologie ( language typology and phonology ) - bisang , walter ( mainz ) : grammatikalisierung ( grammaticalization ) - cinque , guglielmo ( venice ) : the syntax and typology of adverbs and tense / mood / modality / aspect - comrie , bernard ( leipzig ) : typology of reference tracking - corbett , greville ( surrey ) : typology of gender systems and number systems - croft , william ( manchester ) : typology and cognition - foley , william ( sidney ) : comparative grammar of papuan languages - haspelmath , martin ( bamberg ) : morphologische typologie ( morphological typology ) - kornfilt , jaklin ( syracuse ) : theoretical perspectives in syntactic change - lehmann , christian ( bielefeld ) : typologie des yukatekischen ( typology of yucatec ) - plank , frans and lahiri , aditi ( konstanz ) : co - variation of phonology , morphology , and syntax ? the prospects for holistic typology - siewierska , anna ( lancaster ) : word order typology : synchrony and diachrony - stassen , leon ( nijmegen ) : typology as a reductionist method - stolz , thomas ( bremen ) : sprachliche konvergenz : areale und typologie ( linguistic convergence : areals and typology ) plenary lectures : - lehmann , christian ( bielefeld ) : sprachdokumentation : ein programm ( language documentation-a programme ) - foley , william ( sidney ) : the problem of precategoriality and symmetrical voice languages in the philippines - cinque , guglielmo ( venice ) : the universal structure of the clause : adverb phrases and tam heads - lahiri , aditi ( konstanz ) : grammaticalisation in germanic - stolz , thomas ( bremen ) : komitative - global und areal ( comitatives - globally and areally ) - siewierska , anna ( lancaster ) : agreement markers vs . bound pronouns - kornfilt , jaklin ( syracuse ) : remarks on types of agreement and case : a study in the historical morphosyntax of turkic languages - comrie , bernard ( leipzig ) : typology and the history of language - stassen , leon ( nijmegen ) : black and white languages : parameter clusters from a typological and areal perspective guest speakers : - haider , hubert ( salzburg ) : sprachvergleich in der formalen linguistik ( language comparison in formal linguistics ) - johanson , lars ( mainz ) : aspekt ( aspect ) - ramat , paolo ( pavia ) : sprachliche kategorien und kategorisierungen - van der auwera , johan ( antwerpen ) : areality in language typology ( with special reference to the problem of standard average european languages ) for a detailed schedule of the summer school please look at our homepage . however , it has been determined that the courses will be assigned to three timeblocks . the planned assignments to the individual blocks look like follows : 10 : 45 - 12 : 15 auer , corbett , comrie , siewierska , haspelmath 13 : 45 - 15 : 15 cinque , croft , foley , stolz 15 : 30 - 17 : 00 bisang , kornfilt , lehmann , plank / lahiri , stassen 2 . costs students / persons without income : non-member : dm 280 / 350 * dgfs - member : dm 252 / 315 * university employees / persons with income : non-member : dm 560 / 650 * dgfs - member : dm 504 / 585 * participants from ` countries with low salaries have to pay half of the students fees . * = participants fee after june , 30 1998 . 3 . accomodation there are accomodation possibilities on campus at very reasonable prices ( approximately 100 beds ) : 1 bed in a double room : approx . dm 170 , - for 2 weeks + deposit of dm 50 , - - the assignment follows after application in chronological order of requests . mediation of hotel rooms is also possible . 4 . application / information johannes gutenberg - universitat mainz institut fur allgemeine und vergleichende sprachwissenschaft fb 14 . 20 dgfs - summer school bernhard hiegl d-55099 mainz , germany phone / fax : + + 49 ( 0 ) 6131 / 39-3980 e-mail : lingtyp @ mail . uni-mainz . de homepage : http : / / www . uni-mainz . de / ~ lingtyp ( latest information and course descriptions here ! ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
