Courses and instructors of the Summer School


General introductory courses

1. Morphosyntactic typology
BERNARD COMRIE (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)

2. Phonological typology
LARRY M. HYMAN (UC Berkeley)

Overview courses of specific language groups

3. Italian dialects and typology:
MICHELE LOPORCARO (U Zurich)

4. Typology of classical languages (Ancient Greek and Latin)
 PAOLO RAMAT (U Pavia) and PIERLUIGI CUZZOLIN (U Bergamo)

5. Typology across North America
  MARIANNE MITHUN (UC Santa Barbara)

6. Australian languges and semantic typology
 NICHOLAS EVANS (U Melbourne)

7. Creole languages and typology          CANCELLED
JOHN MCWHORTER (UC Berkeley)

Language acquisition

8. Language acquisition and semantic typology
MELISSA BOWERMAN (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)

9. Morphological typology and language acquisition
 WOLFGANG U. DRESSLER (U Vienna)

specialized courses

10. The syntax/semantics interface
CLAUDE HAGEGE (Collège de France, Paris)

11. Typology of agreement constructions
GREVILLE CORBETT (U Surrey)

 12. Typology of sign languages
 URIKE ZESHAN (Research Centre for Linguistic Typology La Trobe University, Melbourne) 

13. Typology and generative syntax
 FREDERICK NEWMEYER (U Washington)

14. Noun phrase typology in areal perspective
MARIA KOPTJEVSKAJA-TAMM (U Stockholm)

15. Languages of South East Asia
DAVID GIL (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)

16. Typology and language change
 MARTIN HASPELMATH (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig)

 

Evening plenary lectures

(In progress)

Greville Corbett
Larry Hyman
Bernard Comrie
Marianne Mithun
Frederick Newmeyer
Wolfgang Dressler
Nicholas Evans

Antonietta Dettori

Giulio Paulis