SSoL 2014

The 8th Summer School of Linguistics took place from 16 to 23 August 2014 in Dačice, Czech Republic. It was financially supported by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.

Program

Su 17/08
10:00–11:10 Gil: How different can languages be?
11:20–12:30 Gil: How different can languages be?
14:00–15:10 WORKSHOPS:
A) Bičovský: Srovnávací rekonstrukce
B) Šimík: Určitost v jazycích bez členu
15:20–16:30 WORKSHOPS:
A) Bičovský: Srovnávací rekonstrukce
B) Šimík: Určitost v jazycích bez členu
17:00–18:10 Wilkin: Compositionality – the basics
18:20–19:30 Stroński: Revisiting hierarchies – differential argument marking in Indo-Aryan

Mo 18/08
10:00–11:10 POSTER SESSION
11:20–12:30 POSTER SESSION
14:00–15:10 Gil: How different can languages be?
15:20–16:30 Wilkin: Compositionality – problems and solutions
17:00–18:10 Březina: Statistics in corpus-based sociolinguistics (A practical workshop)
18:20–19:30 Březina: Statistics in corpus-based sociolinguistics (A practical workshop)

Tu 19/08
10:00–11:10 Stroński: Puzzles of agreement – lessons from Indo-Aryan
11:20–12:30 Gil: How different can languages be?
14:00–15:10 Březina: Which words are useful for learners? Counting words, distinguishing meanings and developing wordlists (A corpus approach)
15:20–16:30 Březina: Which words are useful for learners? Counting words, distinguishing meanings and developing wordlists (A corpus approach)
17:00–18:10 Marzecová: The cognitive benefits of bilingualism: theory, myths & facts
18:20–19:30 WORKSHOPS:
A) Bičovský: Srovnávací rekonstrukce
B) Šimík: Určitost v jazycích bez členu

We 20/08
10:00–11:10 FREE TIME
11:20–12:30 FREE TIME
14:00–15:10 WORKSHOPS:
A) Bičovský: Srovnávací rekonstrukce
B) Šimík: Určitost v jazycích bez členu
15:20–16:30 Wei-lun Lu: From Corpus to Cognition (I): Lexical Patterns (in Mono-lingual Corpora) as a Window to the Mind
17:00–18:10 Marzecová: Experimental approaches to the study of bilingual advantage(s): experimental paradigm & methodological considerations
18:20–19:30 Stroński: Origin and development of ergativity, The case of Indo-Aryan

Th 21/08
10:00–11:10 Chládková: Uncovering the phonological structure of language: perceptual experiments and simulations
11:20–12:30 Chládková: Uncovering the phonological structure of language: perceptual experiments and simulations
14:00–15:10 WORKSHOPS:
A) Bičovský: Srovnávací rekonstrukce
B) Šimík: Určitost v jazycích bez členu
15:20–16:30 Wei-lun Lu: From Corpus to Cognition (II): Use of Parallel Texts as a Methodology in Contrastive Research
17:00–18:10 Nekovářová: Sociální kognice a referenční vokalizace u zvířat
18:20–19:30 Nekovářová: Sociální kognice a referenční vokalizace u zvířat

Fr 22/08
10:00–11:10 Kuzmičová: Mental imagery and imageability in written narrative
11:20–12:30 WORKSHOPS:
A) Bičovský: Srovnávací rekonstrukce
B) Šimík: Určitost v jazycích bez členu
14:00–15:10 Faltýnek – Matlach: Gramatické popisy DNA a proteosyntézy
15:20–16:30 Faltýnek – Matlach: Gramatické popisy DNA a proteosyntézy

Speakers of 2014

Jan Bičovský (Charles University in Prague)
Václav Březina (Lancaster University)
Dan Faltýnek (Palacký University Olomouc)
David Gil (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Kateřina Chládková (University of Amsterdam)
Anežka Kuzmičová (Stockholm University)
Anna Marzecová (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)
Tereza Nekovářová (Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Krzysztof Stroński (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Radek Šimík (University of Potsdam)
Wei-lun Lu (Masaryk University in Brno)