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31 July - Klaus:
Melanie has agreed to lead an informal discussion about the issues of doing linguistic work on a minority language. This will take place on Wednesday, Aug 6, 6:20pm in room 111/2. Everybody is welcome to attend and participate.
31 July - Klaus:
Roland Hinterholzl will have to leave Debrecen on Wednesday, so we had to change the schedule. The new schedule for week 2 is here
29 July - Klaus:
The form for the certificate is now on the web at this place. Remember, if you need a certificate, download the form, edit it to suit your needs, print it out and leave it at the beginning of week 2 in the box that we will provide in the office. If you need your certificate not only signed but also stamped, please indicate so. You must have your printed out certificate in the box in the office at the latest at 7pm on Wednesday, August 6.
29 July - Klaus:
Maria Gouskova's, Ben Hermans', and some of Jochen Trommer's materials are now on the web and accessible via the pages of the classes.
16 July - Klaus:
I have now produced a website for my two classes. You can access them via the teachers and classes link in the left bar.
14 July - Klaus:
Unfortuately, Gereon Müller has had to cancel and will not be able to teach at the school this year. I regret this greatly, of course. However, Winfried Lechner has agreed at very short notice to come to the school for one week and teach a relevant course. Hooray for Winnie! His course will be entitled: What remnant movement can and cannot do.
04 July - Klaus:
The faq pages have been substantially updated over the past few days. Many people had questions about arrival/departure outside of the normal window of dates and how much that would cost. These questions should all be answered in the faq now.
01 July - Klaus:
Balazs Suranyi has had the great idea of organizing a workshop in Budapest at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences just before the egg-school. It's kind of a warm-up exercise, as the name of the workshop suggests. This event might be interesting for intermediate and advanced syntax students. The program is still in the making, but you will hear more about it on this channel. Meanwhile, check it out at http://ludens.elte.hu/~b_suranyi/preEGGworkshop.htm
20 June - Klaus:
Confirmation is over now. Due to a high number of people with technical problems with the confirmation, we would like to ask you to follow the registered-people link on the left and check on your personal page whether your status is as you intend it to be. If it is not, i.e., if you think you confirmed but this is not reflected on the webpage, please drop me a line at k.abels at ucl.ac.uk 16 June - Klaus: Anthi Revithiadou has created a web-page for her class at egg in Debrecen. The link is provided in the class list. There isn't much there, yet, but the class materials will be coming online over the next couple of days. 12 June - Klaus: The confirmation period has now started. Please confirm participation to the school according to the instructions you received in your email. We will contact people on the waiting list after the confirmation period is over, i.e., after June 19. We have also sent out emails about grant decisions. If there are problems, please email me. To confirm, simply send an email from the email account you used to register yourself to "egg-confirm at auf.net". 09 June - Klaus: The schedule of events for the next few days is as follows: -- Decisions about grant applications will be sent out on Wednesday, June 11 -- People who applied but did not receive a grant will be deregistered on Wednesday, June 11 -- For everybody who is not deregistered by Wednesday night, the confirmation round starts on Thursday, June 12 and runs until Thursday, June 19. 29 May - Klaus: Yesterday the mailing list for the summerschool came live. If you received the emails, you don't need to do anything else. If you are registered for the school but did not get the emails, please contact me at summerschool at auf.net Please note that if you didn't get the message, you haven't missed out on anything really, as you can read all the mails that have been posted to the list by clicking on the mailing list archive on the left-hand side. 02 May - Klaus: We have now crossed the 200-applicant threshold. There are six hours to go. Apply now or miss your chance! 01 May - Klaus: Only today and tomorrow to go for registration. Make up your mind now, register, be there -- or, well, be a hollow egg. 28 April - Klaus: The final course description is now up -- we are complete. The frequently asked questions page has also been populated to a great extent. Take a look! 19 April - Michal: The egg school has its own group on fakebook. You'll find it here. (You have to be part of the cult to view that page, with the usual warnings about corporate cults.) 18 April - Klaus: I just added the titles and short descriptions for Marta Abrusan's classes to the list of teachers and classes. I have made the faq page visible -- although, if you want to find out things about Debrecen, how to get there, visas, the dorm... you will have to please wait until next week. By then the faq should be much more complete. At the moment, there is basically only information about registering and applying for grants there. ...and of course, the registration is open. 17 April - Klaus: Registration will begin tomorrow! Space is limited, so make sure you register early. 10 April - Klaus: Registration Information Registration for the school will start on April 18 and we will accept registrations for the school for two weeks. The last day for registering is therefore May 2. When you register you need to give us an email address at which we can reach you until the school takes place. This is very important, since this email address will be added to the school's mailing list. Over this list you will receive important information regarding the confirmation of your registration, travel, visas, etc. When you register you also need to give us a brief description of your background and interests in linguistics. If you are from a country that belongs to the former east block, you also have to decide whether you would like to apply for a grant from the school or not. Grants are available to students from the former east block who currently live in one of those countries. If you qualify for a grant we can help you with money for travel, pay your room in the dormitory, or both. Grants are meant for people who would not be able to attend the school unless they received financial help from us. Grants are given on the basis of merit. The information you give us about yourself in the application form are the grounds for the decision. Since we usually get many more grant applications than we can afford to pay, we need a clear statement of your interests in linguistics and your background. Don't worry if you are a beginner and have limited background. We understand -- and we make sure that grants get fairly distributed to people with no, some, and a lot of background. To make sure that only those people who actually need a grant get one, we are going to apply the following principle this year: If you apply for a grant and are not awarded one, you are automatically deregistered from the school and won't be able to attend. For those who have attended previous egg schools, this is a change from the earlier policy, where people who did not get a grant still had the option of attending on their own money. The new rule is: if you apply for a grant but do not get one, you are out. 08 April - Klaus: Three changes to the teachers and courses: Melanie Jouitteau has joined the team for this summer, completing our teacher lineup. Gereon Muller's course titles and abstracts are online now. In case you were wondering, Gereon intends to argue that remnant movement does not exist! Roland Hinterholzl's course description have been changed slightly. 07 April - Michal: From Curt Rice: It looks like there's going to be an phonology workshop in Hungary shortly after the EGG that you might want to include in your summer plans. It's a little seminar on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of SPE, officially co-sponsored by CASTL. If you're in the neighborhood, you might want to participate. The keynote talks will be by John Harris and David Odden. The date isn't written in stone yet, but I think it's going to be approx. Aug. 21-23, or so. 01 April - Klaus: ...and my own course descriptions are now both posted as well. 01 April - Klaus: The program is beginning to take shape also on the syntax side of the school. I have just posted Øystein Nilsen's titles and course descriptions to the list of teachers and classes. 30 March - Klaus: The list of classes for phonology is complete at this point. I have also just posted Roland Hinterhölzl's course descriptions. More syntax descriptions to follow soon. 24 March - Marc: Jochen Trommer's course descriptions have arrived as well! Jochen will teach an introductory course on so-called 'nonconcatenative' morphology, and ways of treating them as concatenative, as well as a topical class on mutation, and ways of treating that in a phonologically sensible way. 20 March - Marc: We added the abstracts for the phonology classes by Anthi Revithiadou (an introduction to the typology of stress, and a research class on interface stress systems) and Maria Gouskova (an introduction to OT and a topical class on phonology and the lexicon). More phonology abstracts will follow soon! 19 March - Klaus: I am very happy to announce that another egg hatched. This one in a double sense. We will be joined in Debrecen by Marta Abrusan, who some of the more regulars may still remember as a student at egg a few years ago. Marta has hatched and is now back in a new role. 06 February - Marc: We have a complete line-up of phonology (and morphology) teachers: Maria Gouskova (New York), Ben Hermans (Amsterdam), Anthi Revithiadou (Rhodes, Greece), and Jochen Trommer (Leipzig). All four will teach an introductory class (Maria on OT, Ben on syllable structure) and an advanced class. More information will appear here soon. 24 January - Klaus: Another egg in the basket. Roland Hinterhölzl (Humboldt University, Berlin), who has argued staunchly that remnant movement is the only reasonable approach to verbal syntax in germanic, will be joining us in Debrecen. 23 November - Klaus: My prior posting boasting the the 08 school would be super-early has disappeared. Maybe this is a signal from the gods -- or the webmaster? -- that I should never have issued that promise of earliness since I couldn't keep it. With the posting the crucial information it contained vanished as well: The egg school 08 will be held in Debrecen (Hungary) from July 28 2008 to August 08 2008. 23 November - Klaus: Egg 08 in Debrecen is going to be another experiment with thematic schools. Syntax will have its own theme next year: remnant movement -- the movement of constituents that contain traces which are not bound on the surface. Remnant movement, once thought to be completely impossible, has had a swift career in theoretical syntax over the past 15 to 20 years. It has been invoked in explaining complex word order patterns and diachronic change, it has been used to eliminate head movement and covert movement, ... As this list makes obvious, remnant movement is a very powerful tool that needs to be constrained if its explanatory value is not to be lost. Every application of remnant movement makes the question more urgent: where are the bounds? This summerschool will bring together syntacticians who bring different perspectives to the issue of remnant movement, its promise as an explanatory device, and its limitations. The team will include Gereon Müller, whose book on Incomplete Category Fronting is a classic in the remnant movement literature, Øystein Nilsen, who showed in his thesis that remnant movement can be used to tackle and describe elegantly even the most complex word order patterns, and me -- I have been trying to act as a whistleblower and demand a more constrained theory of remnant movement than is currently available. 04 August - Michal: the updated schedule for the second week is now available 03 August - Hedde: The school issues certificates of attendance that you might need. In order to get a certificate, you need to (1) download this file; (2) fill in your name; (3) fill in the courses that you have attended; (4) add any information that suits you or is relevant for your home institution; (5) print out the file, which can be done in the printing room in dorm A2; (6) put it in the "In Certificate" box before Wednesday evening of the second week (the box will be in classroom A); (7) give us a day in order to sign and stamp it; (8) collect it in the "Out Certificate" box Thursday after classes (also in class room A). That’s all! 02 August - Hedde: The addditional handout for John Harris class can be found here. 23 July - Tobias: We try to minimize the use of paper. All handouts available are here, and the site will be growing as new ones come in. Please download them and make them available to you in whatever form suits you. Note that the school will not provide any xeroxing facility. 23 July - Tobias: There will be a pre-school workshop on Czech in generative grammar organized by Lida Veselovská Saturday 28 July 10h45 at the dorms (probably in one of the classrooms). Alas, talks will be not only about, but also in Czech. The programme is here. 20 July - Tobias: The five handouts for Ben Hermans' second week class are now available here (also from the class page). 16 July - Tobias: The five handouts for Ben Hermans' first week class are now available here (also from the class page). 02 July - Hedde: The schedule is now available. You can check it out here. 04 June - Michal: the confirmation round started today (and ends Friday) and is going strong - 84 confirmed participants at the end of the first day. 01 June - Michal: All the abstracts are now in, with the arrival of Andrew's case manifesto 31 May - Michal: Peter Racz on the restricitvness of OT: "let us have constr. *AFTERN which would devoice all coda obstruents in the afternoon" ;) 29 May - Michal: many new abstracts are now online - check them out. 24 May - Michal: I just sent the instructions for the confirmation procedure to the mailing list. So be ready to confirm between June 4th and June 8th -- substance consumed while editing the instructions: ayo 23 May - Michal: Several new abstracts have appeared on the class page, and a few new FAQ questions (concerning travel) have also been updated or created. Have fun reading! 20 May - Tobias: Andrew Nevins has sent over a description of his underlying structure course. Have a look at it, there is also a link to more reading and literature. 17 May - Michal: So the registrations are over and to our amazement we discover 317 applications sitting on our computers (that's more than last year and the year before...) - very cool, but way more than reasonable. The next step is the confirmation procedure. I'll send an email to the list about that - and generally, most communication will take place on the mailing list now. (Speaking of communication, we haven't been very good at keeping you up to date, or even giving you accurate info, so there'll be a number of email coming soonish.) 04 May - Michal: Right at the start of registrations, we always get impatient to see how things will evolve this year -- usually there are 50-100 applications the first day. This year happily confirms the trend: 64 applications at the end of the first 24h (without any pre-announcement, so we're actually in good shape ;) 03 May - Michal: The mystery titles have now revealed themselves so the list of titles is now complete on the teachers/classes page. 03 May - Michal: ... and about an hour later, the first registration is in: welcome Jaroslaw Hirny! 03 May - Michal: Registrations started one minute ago! (And they will end on May 16th) 02 May - Michal: We now have almost all titles for the classes (on the 'teachers and classes' page) -- only Biberauer and Koeneman are still keeping theirs secret ;) 02 May - Michal: Now that the teaching team is basically complete, we can move on to registrations. In order to try and catch up some of the lost time, we'll start immediately: tomorrow. If all goes well... 01 May - Michal: Two more new teachers: Uli Sauerland and Maire Noonan, from McGill, Montreal (see the complete list by clicking on the 'teachers and classes' link on the left). We now have an almost complete gang... 25 April - Hedde: Another egg in the basket. Olaf Koeneman from Meertens Institute Amsterdam will also be teaching this year. 24 April - Tobias: The contours of the phono classes emerge: [also keep an eye on the classes-page, which will be fed as soon as definite titles and abstracts are available] Ben Hermans teaches on The too-many-repairs problem of OT in a representational perspective This will be a two-week class, organized in two consistent one-week divisions. Bruce Morén will talk about Minimalist/Substance-free Phonological Feature Theory: Approaches and Implications John Harris teaches an Intro to syllable typology and a thematic class on Information flow in phonology Andrew Nevins will talk about Underlying representations, i.e. Richness of the Base, Lexicon Optimization and heuristic inference for their establishment 20 April - Tobias: Ben Hermans (Meertens, Amsterdam) has joined the phonology programme. So phonology is complete: Andrew Nevins, John Harris, Ben Hermans, Bruce Morén. Titles and abstracts will drop in soon. 05 April - Hedde: More good news: Theresa Biberauer from Cambridge also jumped on board. 05 April - Hedde: Good news: Elena Herburger (Georgetown) will join the teachers team in Brno. 30 March - Michal: Every year, we beat our own record in starting to organize the school late. This year I think the syntax/semantics team has managed not only to beat the record again, but has become so late that it is probably unbeatable in the future. April is coming, and we still don't have a teaching team. Or only the start of one. Negociations are underway though, so expect news soon! 02 March - Tobias: have jumped on board: John Harris (UCL), Bruce Morén (Tromsø) and Andrew Nevins (Harvard). More to come. 08 February - Tobias: Here is the 07-school... late (as usual), bute alive and kicking. This year the school will be held in the lovely city of Brno (you will have to exercise for these words without vowels), the capital of Moravia. It will run from Monday July 30th to Friday August 10th. Keep an eye on this page, more about the programme soon. 07 August - Michal: The first pictures are coming in - thanks to Agnieszka Chada. 04 August - Michal: heard today - Pritty: "what's with this sleeping business?" 04 August - Michal: heard yesterday - Michal Starke: "I will not go into syntax in my classes and I refuse to answer any syntax questions". Glyne Piggot: "I refuse to talk about phonology in my classes". Now that's a succesful pf-interface school! 28 July - Tobias: Glyne Piggott's handout for week 2 (different from the preceding material) is now available from the class page - please download and print. Hardcopies will also be available on Monday in the staff room. 25 July - Tobias: IMPORTANT: the wrong version of the timetable (v3)has been distributed on paper. The correct version (v4) is here. The difference affects only one class in week two. 24 July - Tobias: certificates: here is how you get yours. And here is the practical info about the school that has been announced at the opening on Monday week 1. 20 July - Tobias: material for Glyne Piggott's research class is now available from the class page. 18 July - Tobias: material for Glyne Piggott's intro on stress (course outline and handout) is now available from the class-page. 18 July - Tobias: IMPORTANT please have a look at the latest version of the FAQ: the address of the hostel has changed. 03 July - Tobias: the handout for Marc van Oostendorp's coulour class is now available on the page of the class. Please note that there will be no hardcopies available on site. 01 July - Tobias: the timetable is now available. We have tried to avoid phon-phon and synt-synt concurrence, but of course this year being thematic, the common pool of interest is much bigger than in other years. So probably many people will want to change this or that, and it is clear in advance that all requests cannot be satisfied. But anyway, please express yourself on abstracts and material is growing on the teachers & classes page over the past 20 years, the landscape of the interaction of phonology with morpho-syntax (looked at from the phonological side) has been dominated by two theories, Lexical Phonology and Prosodic Phonology. Both have been transferred into the more recent constraint-based environment: the central instrument of Prosodic Phonology, the Prosodic Hierarchy, is present in (I think) all versions of OT, and the continuators of Lexical Phonology are Stratal OT and DOT (Derivational OT) (although the modern versions are more than just OTed Lexical Phonology). The hot issue in OT is the eternal derivational problem: Stratal OT and DOT have carried derivationalism into OT and claim that this is needed for domestic phonological reasons, but prominently so because of the interface. This line of thought is represented by Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero from Manchester whose work revives interest in what was called morpho-phonology some 20 years ago. Unlike much work in OT, Ricardo is very careful at drawing precise borders of the different modules: how much of morphology can phonology access, and what are the channels that this information flows through? Ricardo has a forthcoming book called "Stratal OT", of which you can download two chapters (among which the theoretical one) on his site (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bermudez/). Another player has entered the scene some 10 years ago, but rather from the non-phonological side: Distributed Morphology. Although this theory obviously raises many phonological issues, the body of work devoted to phonology in DM is still slim, and DM has not really reached the phonologists' quaters yet. We are trying to change that with two representatives of DM, Tatjana Marvin and Glyne Piggott. Glyne is really at the forefront of carrying the ideas of DM into the phonological world and into the minds of phonologists - a hard job, but Glyne is good at that. Jackendoff's parallel option of modular architecture is represented by Sabrina Bendjaballah and Martin Haiden. Martin has a recent book on the organisation of the lexicon and its communication with morphology and syntax. Sabrina and Martin have done joint work on the phonology-morphology interaction as well as on the particular situation that arises in non-concatenative morphology of the Semitic kind where morphology is, so to speak, in-built in the phonology. Finally, I have myself worked on the processing of non-phonological information in phonology (part of that is in my 04-book, the main body will by in volume 2 thereof, which I am presently writing). I will teach a historical overview course on interface (viewed from below, i.e. from the phonologist's perspective), and then in week 2 expose my own thoughts on the matter. I believe that Distributed Morphology is right, but incomplete: it needs to be supplemented with a representational means to talk to phonology, and representational info must not transit through any intermediate object such as "#" or the Prosodic Hierarchy - it must be directly encoded in phonological vocabulary. 31 March - Michal: Final two syntacticians for now: Oystein Nilsen, an addict of the egg, will be teaching the general introduction to syntax. Knowing Oystein, this is going to be both fun and instructive - book your seats :) And finally, I (Michal Starke) will be teaching too. I have been working on very fine-grained syntax and how those exquisite fine structures are spelled out phonologically, so I'm happy to contribute to the theme of the school this year. I'll be teaching what I call "nanosyntax" 30 March - Michal: Next syntactician in line: Joe Emonds. Joe needs no presentation, as he has made crucial contributions to the theory of syntax right from the 70s up to today, and his center of interest nowadays is precisely the interface between syntax, morphology and phonology. This is starting to be a very nice line-up! 28 March - Michal: The 2nd syntactician is Tatjana Marvin, who is working in Distributed Morphology and syntax - ie. exactly on the interface. Tatjana actually started as a student at the school, many years ago and went on to get her PhD from MIT - so it is a special pleasure to have her as a teacher this year! 27 March - Michal: First syntactician: Given our focus on the phono/morpho/syntax interface - we're going to have syntax people who have given some thought to the other side. Particularly the morpho-phonological part of "the other side" (not the focus/intonation connection). The first in line is: Ad Neeleman. Ad has both strong opinions about the (non-)relatedness of syntax to morphology, and has done some real and productive work in the domain - a not-so-frequent case. 26 March - Michal: ok, the fun can slowly start. I think we are beating our own record in lateness this year :) The "registration" link is now alive, and leads to some meaningful information. Stay tuned for more tomorrow. 18 February - Michal: We're late - but here we are! Olomouc 06 will be a thematic EGG. On what? On the interface of phonology with morphology and syntax. The goal is to have syntacticians and phonologists talk to each other (something that is not obvious at all these days) about the strange no-man's land that lies between them: where is morphology standing? what exactly is PF doing? what can it do? what is it unable to do? How exactly does it do it? And many more questions of that kind. All in all, our focus is the general architecture of the grammar. Teachers who look at the interface form the phonological point of view are
I have also uploaded the handouts for Cecila's courses. They are at http://egg.auf.net/05/docs/handouts/Cecilia. 22 July - Klaus: Countdown: Three days to go -- I promise that we will not delay the launch of the summerschool because of a defective fuel sensor. We definitely will not do that. The news is that there has been a change in the tram connections in Wroclaw. The place is under construction, but that makes it all the more interesting. There have also been several changes to the class-pages and some handouts are available online now. 20 July - Klaus: Only five days to go. A flurry of activity has set in. There are lots of updates to the faq, maps, info about dorms, internet,... the egg is hatching. 18 July - Klaus: The countdown to the school is running. Today in a week we will be kicking off! As you will have seen, the FAQ has been updated several times over the last couple of days. Keep checking. Also we know have a place and time for the opening of the school. Next Monday you are all kindly requested to go to Aula Leopoldina in the main University building for the opening of the school at 9:30-10:00am. We will kick off the school there, let you in on some of the details you will need to know to navigate the two weeks ahead, introduce ourselves,... and if all that is not enough, I am told that the Aula Lepoldina is a very impressive baroque hall - for all the architecture buffs around. Also, I am convinced that there will be an inofficial start of the school Sunday night in some local bar. In fact, rumors have it that there is a bar open just for us at the back of the building right across from the dorm: the Plus Minus. 10 July - Hedde: The schedule is currently available at http://egg.auf.net/docs/Schedule05.html. 08 June - Klaus: I have just uploaded the invitation form. I hope it does the job. For further information and backup procedures in case it does not work, please look at the faq. The invitation form is here. 26 May - Klaus: I have just uploaded a very preliminary and rough first shot at a faq page for this year. You find it in the left sidebar of the webpage or at http://egg.auf.net/docs/faq.html . We will keep improving it and adding information, but to start the ball rolling, here is a preliminary version. 24 May - Tobias: The Jensen 94 paper, which Jonathan's & Markus' Big Tree class refers to, is now available at www.unice.fr/dsl/tobias.htm then "other people's papers". 24 May - Michal: The confirmation procedure starts today/tomorrow (one clock says 23:56, the other says 0:04...), May 24th. You should have received an email about it, explaining what to do. (If you haven't received that email please contact us immediately, as it means that we cannot reach you and you will be deregistered) 22 May - Tobias: Course material for Marc's classes has come in, ckeck it out at his class pages: Input-Output, Microvariation. 18 May - Michal: so after a lot of fight with technical details and difficult coordination between people living 200m meters from each other, the emails have now rolled out. If you applied, you should have an email sitting in your mailbox telling you where you stand. (If not, then your email doesn't work for us.) 13 May - Klaus: The decisions concerning grants and who will be admitted to the school have been made. Once a few technical hurdles have been cleared (today or tomorrow) we will send out emails to everyone. 12 May - Michal: We now have all abstracts and all class titles - yay, check it out! 07 May - Klaus: There was a slight shift in focus for one of Jeroen's classes. The class is now called An apparent case of VP-ellipsis in Dutch dialects 02 May - Michal: And the abstracts for Neeleman's classes popped up too. Get them while they're fresh :) 30 April - Michal: The abstracts for Marusic/Zaucer are now in 25 April - Tobias: the phonology abstracts are now complete (except Jonathan's...) - have a look at them at the classes page. 22 April - Michal: We now have titles for the 4 new classes, check out the classes page 20 April - Michal: Given that a number of people had registration problems, and that we just had a major change in the teachers at the school, we decided to extend the registration period by a few days. The new deadline is April 25th. 18 April - Klaus: We have a change in program to announce: Unfortunately, Edwin Williams and Martin Prinzhorn have told us that they will not be able to attend the egg 05 after all. For all of you who were looking forward to their classes, we're sorry about this. However, I am very happy to announce that Ad Neeleman, Lanko Marusic, and Rok Zaucer have agreed to step in and help us out. So: cheers for the three of them! The titles of their classes will be coming soon to this screen. 13 April - Tobias: Check out the teachers and classes link, a new class in phonology has come in (microvariation [sic: phonology, not syntax]), and two abstracts are now available. 06 April - Tobias: Phonology titles complete: Marc and Christian will co-teach their classes: 1. Intro to OT 2. Input-output relations Abstracts will be in soon. 04 April - Luisa: Check out the "Teachers and Classes" link on the left for updates on titles and abstracts. Ede Zimmermann's abstract for his advanced class, "Unspecific Objects", just arrived. 30 March - Tobias: The fourth phonology teacher has jumped on board: Christian Uffmann from Marburg. Also, the titles for Kaye's and Pöchtrager's classes are in: - Markus teaches the intro to Government Phonology - Jonathan teaches two weeks of fieldwork - how-to and experiments on living bodies - finally, they co-teach a class on length in phonology. van Oostendorp's and Uffmann's titles, as well as all the abstracts, soon in this theatre. 30 March - Michal: A bunch of new class titles have just landed. 29 March - Michal: I have added some registration information to the registration page. Also, the missing titles for classes should be coming in over the next few days - hopefully. 21 March - Klaus: The program for the school is taking clearer shape. Steve Franks just sent in the titles for his courses. At the introductory level he will teach Introduction to Slavic Comparative Syntax and at a more advanced level there will be Microvariation: Slavic Clitics. Now we are waiting for the rest of the gang to send their titles and abstracts... 18 March - Tobias: bad news: we lost Paul de Lacy, who can't escape Uncle Sam while greencarding. Back with more on the fourth phono-egg soon. 09 March - Luisa: Yael Sharvit, from Connecticut, joins the semantics team! 10 February - Luisa: Good news! The first semantics egg has hatched: Ede Zimmermann will be joining us from Frankfurt. More semantics news coming soon! 24 January - Klaus: Right. And one shouldn't forget about oneself. So: I will be teaching the introduction to syntax this summer. Ready for the ride? 12 January - Klaus: ... and there is yet another syntactician in our microcomparison crowd: Steven Franks from Bloomington, Indiana, familiar from his comparative work on Slavic. stay tuned for more... 06 January - Klaus: More syntacticians hatching: I am very happy to announce that Cecilia Poletto will join us in Wroclaw. Some of you might know her in depth microcomparative work on Romance. :) Also joining us will be Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, who recently got his Ph D in Leiden and who used a microcomparative approach to Dutch dialects. 10 December - Tobias: Phono parachuted phono-eggs in Wroclaw will be:
After some hours of work, much of the data of these last 5 days is now restored, but do expect some glitches in the next day or two. And of course, if you were among the 70 people who had already registered, you will need to register again -- but you should have received an email about that. eggface of the year 10 May - Michal: Some new class titles arrived, almost all of them are in now. Several abstracts have also popped up. 08 May - Michal: Several small bugs in the registration process have now been fixed, thanks to the reports of the first brave applicants. If you have been having problems with your registration, please try again. And please please please tell us about the problems you are having, so that we can fix them and others do not need to suffer the same annoyance. Thanks! (currently 13 applicants) 07 May - Michal: I tentatively turned registrations on yesterday evening without announcing it, and we already have 8 registered persons :) It seems to work fairly well, so feel free to use it. Please do report any problems you find to us. 06 May - Luisa: Some more abstracts! And even more coming soon, hopefully... Another piece of good news is that Orin Percus will probably be joining us. If he comes, he will co-teach semantics with Luisa Marti. 03 May - Michal: After several hours of coding, most of the registration process is ready. I will be away for the next two days, but back on the keyboard Wedn evening. So it is conceivable that by Thursday, the registration will be alive and kicking. 28 April - Michal: Lots of new info in the classes/teachers page, and with a little luck, more coming over the next few days. Speaking of the next few days, registrations will begin soon. 13 April - Michal: The first class announcement and abstract! Several more coming. 07 April - Michal: Added the registrations dates for this summer! Ooops! 06 April - Michal: And finally, two more teachers, bringing us to eleven: Markus Kracht, doing computational linguistics at UCLA, and our legendary Jonathan Kaye. 24 March - Klaus: Organizing of the egg '05 summerschool which will, so god will, take place in Wroclaw (Poland) has just been kicked off! Champagne! 21 March - Michal: Two more! A syntactician, Alexandra Cornilescu, from Bucharest, and a phonologist, Curt Rice from Tromso, all the way up there around the North Pole. 18 March - Michal: As the link on the left reveals, we have three other recruits: Luisa Marti, who will be teaching semantics, Tom Roeper from uMass, who will probably be teaching both language acquisition and morphology, and our traditional Tobias Scheer, who hasn't been teaching for a few years and is itching to be back on stage. 16 March - Michal: The next two teachers are: Michael Wagner, from MIT, concentrating on the phonology/syntax interface; and Oystein Nilsen, from Tromso, concentrating on the syntax/semantics interface. 15 March - Michal: Of course, everyone is waiting to see who teaches this year. Here is the first pair: Hilda Koopman and Dominique Sportiche, from UCLA. (Next two tomorrow :) 12 March - Michal: Here we go again! (hopefully...). This site is now running new (unfinished) software designed to make it easier - and quicker! - for us to organise the school. It used to run on software that I (Michal Starke) had written about 4 years ago, which made a lot of stuff automatic, and made it possible for just a couple of persons to organise the whole thing. But it all depended on me pushing the right buttons in the right order, and as we grew to be 5-6 people organising, we needed something more collaborative (otherwise I remain a bottleneck -- and schools are always late, as you can see very clearly this year). So I started writing a new version about a month ago, and today I put a first draft online. It is unfinished, buggy, etc. but it gets us started -- and it allows you to read this blog entry :) Hopefully it will not be too much of a rocky road, and new features will be appearing regularly. 14 January - Hedde: Hi! Egg '04 is coming! It's going to be held in the city of Cluj (Romania), starting on July 26 until August 6. As soon as we know more, we'll keep you informed. 15 September - Klaus: Finally ... the photo album is here... where? Here: http://egg.auf.net/03/photos. As before, if you have more pictures you won't to be in the photo album, send them my way: klaus.abels@uconn.edu. Cheers to all 06 July - Tobias: the fatal moment was about two hours ago, and the magic number is 136 (confirmed people). So everybody who has confirmed gets a bed in the cosy Amor dorm. You can start packing... Tobias 02 July - Hedde: The schedule is ready. Check it out! You can see the schedule at www.heddezeijlstra.nl/egg03-schedule2.htm 01 July - Klaus: As you all know, the confirmation is on now and has been on since June 30. It'll work until July 5, so confirm now! To do so send an email to egg-confirm@auf.net as explained in Tobias' posting. 13 June - Tobias: if you don't read this, you will never attend. So here is everything you need to know in order to successfully confirm your participation: Our server will accept confirmation from Monday June 30 to Sunday July 5. To confirm, simply send an email to: egg-confirm@auf.net 1. The content of the email is completely irrelevant. But you MUST use the same email address that you are registered with (the one which is listed on your page at http://egg.auf.net/cur/people/) 2. Also, keep in mind that if you confirm and then you do not come, you will have the special privilege of getting on the rotten-eggs list, which buys you the pleasure of being banned from the school for 3 sweet years. 3. You have 6 days to do your confirmation. The confirmation procedure will stop working on the 6th of July. 4. Your page on the web-site will be updated when you confirm, but it is not automatic so it will take a little while (1-2 days) before it pops up there. 5. once the data in, we will will get back to you with conclusions regarding attendance and bed-allocation as quick as possible. 12 June - Tobias: There has already been some information on air, here is some more. This is actually meant to get dorm-requests low: look how ugly the dorm is. The building is from the 50s, it's the oldest dorm on-site. Accommodation will be in three-bed rooms only. The comfort is basic. Showers and toilets are on each floor, and running water in the room. Students have fridges in there, erratically, and leave them over summer. There is a kitchen on every floor with an oven and heating facilities and a table, but no pots and pans. Access is 24h, through a porter at night. 5 min walk to the classrooms, 15 min to the old town. 11 June - Tobias: 1. if you have applied for a grant and did not hear anything from us, please get in touch. 2. the part of the FAQ concerning accommodation space says "people who are registered and requested a space in the hostel, automatically have rooms allocated in the student-hostel where we all stay". This was before we made the latest decision (cf. previous msg), and does not hold true anymore. Tobias for the orgs 10 June - Tobias: 1. no selection after confirmation !2. everybody who has not received a negative message: get your tickets 3. price to pay: perhaps we run out of beds PLEASE READ THE DETAIL CAREFULLY So here is the information you are waiting for: 1. based on your self-descriptions, a few people have received a personal message saying that egg is probably not the right place for them to be. 2. all others may rush to the ticket office and make travel arrangements: we have decided not to limit access after the confirmation procedure. This sounds nice, but there is a price to pay: we risk to dynamite the accommodation space available. Our overall capacity is about 160 beds for students. 3. so, practically speaking: we hope for natural fall-out through the confirmation procedure. If there are more than 160 people left after that, we distribute beds according to one clear criterion: Easteners first. Hence, some Westeners with home-made euros or dollars may have to look out for another place to lay down their head. This means hotels etc. Of course Gienek, our local organiser, will do everything he can in order to come up with hotel info and so forth, but you must be aware of this complication. 4. among Westeners, how do we decide who gets a bed in the hostel? Good question. One option is first-come-first-serve. If you have a better idea, please tell us, tell everybody on egg.03. 5. at the risk of repeating myself: all this does not mean that you are dispensed from confirmation. The confirmation procedure will run as planned (more info on that shortly), and if you do not confirm, you are out. [if you confirm and don't come, you are a rotten egg and cover yourself with linguistic shame] So here we go... |
