The first BLCU International Summer School in Linguistics will take place at the Department of Linguistics of Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) from June 29 to July 10, 2020.

The summer school features intermediate and advanced-level intensive courses on a wide range of topics in generative linguistics, aimed at graduate students in linguistics and adjacent fields.

WEEK 1   (June 29 – July 3, 2020)                             

08:00‒09:50  Mark Baker (Rutgers University): Properties and parameters of Agree

10:00‒11:50  Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (NUS): Topics in Mandarin syntax and semantics 

14:00‒15:50  Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin Univ.): The phonological structure of morphemes

16:00‒18:50  Ming Xiang (Univ. of Chicago): Parsing and interpretation in sentence comprehension

19:00‒19:50  Open forum

WEEK 2    (July 6–10, 2020)                        

08:00‒09:50  Mark Baker (Rutgers University): Novel and non-canonical uses of Agree

10:00‒11:50  Viola Schmitt (Univ. of Vienna): Semantic typology: Quantifiers and plurality

14:00‒15:50  Marcel den Dikken (Eötvös Loránd Univ.): Syntactic theory: From GB to minimalism

16:00‒17:50  Maria Polinsky (Univ. of Maryland): The structure of heritage and minority languages

18:00‒19:50  Stephen Crain (Macquarie University): The logical structure of child language

The summer school is open to participants from around the world.

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