7th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar
Blagoevgrad - Bulgaria
31 July - 11 August 2000

http://coolschool.auf.net/

This is the summer school previously held in Olomouc-Debrecen-Plovdiv. As always it is entirely free, with very inexpensive lodging, it has very high level teachers discussing the results of the latest research, offers two weeks of intensive intellectual work, and is hosted in a small and charming city. This year we have a particularly enticing roster of teachers:

David Pesetsky (MIT), Orin Percus (Milano), Michal Starke (Geneva), Irina Sekerina (Rutgers), Stephen Neale (Rutgers), Peter Ludlow (Suny), Winfried Lechner (Tubingen), Jeffrey King (UCDavis), Katarina Hartman (UFrankfurt), Gienek Cyran (Lublin), Michael Brody (UCL/Budapest), Daniel Buring (UCSantaCruz), Cedric Boeckx (UConn), Klaus Abels (UConn)

The school will be separated into two distinct tracks:

* an intro-track, with 11 topical introductions (covering syntax, semantics, phonology, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, see class listing at the end), * an advanced-track with 12 seminars + daily intensive discussion-sessions (see class listing at the end)).

Up-to-date info, forms for applications, news, etc. will always be at: http://coolschool.auf.net/

(If you need more info, you can contact: starke@uni2a.unige.ch)

Here are some keypoints:

Blagoevgrad is a small and charming university-town in Bulgaria, easily reachable, just 1h south of Sofia. There is a sizeable amount of grants available to cover travel and hotel charges of people from Central/Eastern Europe. Hotel costs is low: 3,60$/night.

the registration deadline is: 15 May 2000, with the registration form at: http://coolschool.auf.net/apply.html
the school has a tradition of great fun on top of intensive intellectual life. And we intend to maintain that this year ;-)

Acknowledgements: The egg school is organised by the Blue Twin Society + GLEE, and it is most greatful to the American University of Blagoevgrad (AUBG) and other sponsors for their financial support.

Classes in the Intro Track:

David Pesetsky (MIT)
Introduction to Minimalism, its precursors and alternatives

Michal Starke (Geneva)
The Basics of Generative Syntax

Winfried Lechner (Tubingen)
Introduction to Binding Theory

Katarina Hartman (UFrankfurt)
Introduction to the Syntax of Coordination

Cedric Boeckx (UConn)
Introduction to Case (and the EPP)

Klaus Abels (UConn)
Introduction to Locality

Daniel Buring (UCSantaCruz)
The Basics of Formal Semantics

Peter Ludlow (Suny) + Stephen Neale (Rutgers) + Jeff King (UCDavis)
Introduction to Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

Orin Percus (Milano)
Introduction to Logical Form: the motivation for variables

Gienek Cyran (Lublin)
Introduction to the Structure and Content of Syllables

Irina Sekerina (Rutgers)
Introduction to Psycholinguistics

 

Classes in the Advanced Track:

David Pesetsky (MIT)
Case, Tense and the Typology of Clauses

Michal Starke (Geneva)
Morphology, the Lexicon and Other Embarassing Appendices

Winfried Lechner (Tubingen)
Syntactic Phrase Structure Paradoxes

Katarina Hartman (UFrankfurt) + Daniel Buring (UCSantaCruz)
Reconstruction

Michael Brody (UCL/Budapest)
Developments in Elegant Syntax

Cedric Boeckx (UConn)
Movement and theta-positions

Jeffrey King (UCDavis)
The Syntax and Semantics of Day Designators

Peter Ludlow (Suny)
Directional Entailingness and NPIs

Stephen Neale (Rutgers)
Quantifiers and Necessity

Orin Percus (Milano)
Locality conditions on variable binding

Gienek Cyran (Lublin)
Syllable Markedness and Typology

Irina Sekerina (Rutgers)
Experimental Methods