APPLICATIONS TO SSoL2025 ARE NOW CLOSED.
The Summer School of Linguistics will take place from 2 to 9 August 2025 in České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
The applications are accepted from February 8 till March 15 March 20, 2025. See page To apply.
Schedule (as of August 4)
Saturday, August 2
ARRIVAL, EVENING PUB
Sunday, August 3
10:00–11:10 Opening
11:20–12:30 Martin Haspelmath: The efficiency theory of asymmetric coding
14:30–15:40 Susanne Michaelis: Principled hybridization in Creole languages
16:00–17:10 James Kirby: Tonal variation and change I
17:30–18:40 James Kirby: Tonal variation and change II
Monday, August 4
10:00–11:10 Martin Haspelmath: On the concepts of words and the lexicon
11:20–12:30 Susanne Michaelis: Differential place marking in Creole languages
14:30–15:40 Martin Haspelmath: Semantic typology and efficient coding
16:00–17:10 James Kirby: Tonal variation and change III
17:30–18:40 James Kirby: Tonal variation and change IV
19:00–20:30 POSTER SESSION I
Tuesday, August 5
10:00–11:10 FREE TIME
11:20–12:30 FREE TIME
14:30–15:40 Martin Haspelmath: Constructions in language comparison: Functions vs. strategies
16:00–17:10 Susanne Michaelis: Cross-modal perspectives on grammaticalization: Aspect markers in Creoles and sign languages
17:30–18:40 Nikola Paillereau: Early L1 acquisition: theories and behavioral data
Wednesday, August 6
10:00–11:10 Alex Lorson: Pragmatics and cognition: an experimental approach I
11:20–12:30 Louise Connell: Language and embodiment I
14:30–15:40 Nikola Paillereau: Early L1 acquisition: neural processing
16:00–17:10 Lars Meyer: The electrophysiology of language comprehension: ERPs and neural oscillations I
17:30–18:40 Lars Meyer: The electrophysiology of language comprehension: ERPs and neural oscillations II
19:00–20:30 POSTER SESSION II
Thursday, August 7
10:00–11:10 Alex Lorson: Pragmatics and cognition: an experimental approach II
11:20–12:30 Louise Connell: Language and embodiment II
14:30–15:40 Lars Meyer: The electrophysiology of language comprehension: ERPs and neural oscillations III
16:00–17:10 Lars Meyer: The electrophysiology of language comprehension: ERPs and neural oscillations IV
17:30–18:40 Karolina Muszyńska: Innovative tools for early language development: exploring bilingual and monolingual language acquisition I
Friday, August 8
10:00–11:10 Alex Lorson: Pragmatics and cognition: an experimental approach III
11:20–12:30 Louise Connell: Language and embodiment III
14:30–15:40 Karolina Muszyńska: Innovative tools for early language development: exploring bilingual and monolingual language acquisition II
16:00–17:10 Kateřina Chládková: “Hello world,” said the linguist: When language research leaves the lab
Saturday, August 9
DEPARTURE
Speakers
Kateřina Chládková (FF UK, PsÚ AV ČR): “Hello world,” said the linguist: When language research leaves the lab
Louise Connell (Maynooth University): Language and embodiment I–III
Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig): (1) The efficiency theory of asymmetric coding; (2) On the concepts of words and the lexicon; (3) Semantic typology and efficient coding; (4) Constructions in language comparison: Functions vs. strategies
James Kirby (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich): Tonal variation and change
Lars Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig): The Electrophysiology of Language Comprehension: ERPs and Neural Oscillations
Susanne Michaelis (Leipzig University): (1) Principled hybridization in Creole languages; (2) Differential place marking in Creole languages; (3) Cross-modal perspectives on grammaticalization: Aspect markers in Creoles and sign languages
Karolina Muszyńska (University of Warsaw): Innovative tools for early language development: exploring bilingual and monolingual language acquisition
Alexandra Lorson (University of Groningen): Pragmatics and cognition: an experimental approach
Nikola Paillereau (Charles University): (1) Early L1 acquisition: theories and behavioral data; (2) Early L1 acquisition: neural processing
Poster session
Monday (7PM, Student club Kampa)
Evelyn Bagley: Displaced Neutrality: A Semiotic Diagnostic of Form and Power
Rachel Casper: Sentence cues or semantics? Using eye tracking to study sentence processing in heritage Spanish-English bilinguals.
Davide De Martino: Emotional Resonance Within a Language: Comparing Dialect and Standard German
Ondřej Drobil: Humans are bad at recognizing AI – but they can learn it from feedback
Martina Dvořáková: Detecting foreign rhythm in native-language speech at birth
Qiujing Fan: How Language Moves the Climate Debate: Metaphors in Global Climate News
Dejan Gabrovšek: Degrees of Subordination and Coordination in All Types of Slovenian Multi-Clause Sentences
Niklas Grüninger: Variation in the Plural Paradigm of Alemannic Verbs: The Dental Suffix
Lucie Guštarová: Immediate recall of information from written and spoken utterances
Yajun Cheng: Detecting Repeated de(的) in Chinese Reading: Eye Movements and Processing
Julija Kos: Jamaican Creole: Language Continuum, Grammar, and Phonology
Sofie Ljuboňka: Lists and Co-speech Gestures in Japanese
Sára Mádrová: Dialect Discrimination in Bilingual and Monolingual Infants: A Neurodevelopmental fNIRS Study
Meritxell Mico Frau: Classifying Implicatures Through Experimental Evidence
Paula Miķelsone: Vowel Contraction in Latvian: Connected Speech Analysis
Georgia Mikrouli: Verbal multiplets in Medieval Greek
India Nayak-Sheehy: Does the concept of verbal aspect help our understanding of ancient texts?
Shervin Nosrati: Gestural Relativity of Spatial Cognition: Speakers’ co-speech gestures shape listeners’ spatial frame of reference
Lion Oks: Avoiding Gaps or Nodes: The Case of Resumptive Pronouns in Hebrew
Anna Pietrzak: Phonological Components Analysis in French Sign Language : a multiple case study
Ting Zhang: Intensifier Adjective Constructions in Sinitic Languges
Yanning Zhao: A Comparative Review of the Integrated-Systems Hypothesis: Neurocognitive Perspectives on Speech-Gesture Integration
Zhencao Zhong: Contact-induced changes by Chinese in Western Yugur
Wednesday (7PM, Student club Kampa)
Khatia Buskivadze: A Construction Grammar Perspective on the Topic Orientation Discourse Markers in Georgian
Lucie Doležal Nováková: The Good, the Bad and the Intentional: How Popular Belief in Bilingual Benefits Shapes Family Language Choice
Ondřej Drobil: The Effects of Adjective Position on Information Recall in Czech
Alice Eddyshaw: Does the mental language store encode pragmatics? A priming study
Michaela Hájková: From 402 to 100: Development of Short-form DOVYKO I
Milana Hrachova: Gender Differences and the Position of Onomatopoeia in Adult Language. Evidence from English and Slovak.
Veronika Hudáková: Genitive constructions and compounds: A Contrastive Study of English and Slovak
Mihaela Chirpanlieva: Negation, czy, and evidential bias in Polish polar questions: An acceptability rating study
Maria Koschnitzke: Effects of Semantic Context in Picture Naming
Ivan Kraus: Predicting readability of Czech legal writing using linguistic features
Cecylia Linková: The Need to Reopen the Study of Prosodic Units in Latin
Kristýna Lorenzová: The development of discourse markers in the interlanguage of Czech and Slovak (and other Slavic) learners of Italian as a non-mother tongue: a longitudinal study. Current state of the art.
Eva Pospíšilová: Sentence Processing and Memory: Immediate Recall of Information from Adjectives with Different Syntactic Status in Czech Adult Speakers
Mikuláš Preininger, Jan Chromý, James Brand, & Filip Smolík: Visual word processing across lifespan
Iurii Savelev-Galiaminskii: Functions of the Definite Article in Kopernicki’s Galician Variety of Romani
Seyedehsepideh Seyedhosseini: Investigating the Relationship between Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance and Neural Tracking of Speech in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Fatma Solmaz & Songül Tas: A Corpus-Based Study on the Markers of Exemplification in Argumentative Essays of Turkish EFL and Native Speakers of English: The Case of For Example
Anna Staňková: Three readings of negation in Czech: a rating experiment
Konstantin Sulimenko: A New Explainable Sentiment Model. These {negative, positive} Topics Correlate with Opinion Polls
Daina Turlā-Pastare: Enunciative Aspects of the Latvian Discourse Markers “it kā” and “sava veida”