2018 LinC Summer School and Workshop

The next summer school and workshop will be held September 3-7 2018 at RWTH Aachen in Aachen, Germany. Yes, that’s right the LinC summer school is going on the road!

Programme Outline

Details and abstracts to follow soon.

Introduction to SFL

• Introduction to SFL: Mood & Theme (Stella Neumann and Gerard O’Grady)
• Introduction to SFL: Transitivity & Logico-semantic relations (Rebekah
  Wegener)
• Introduction to SFL: Analyses & Results in context (Rebekah Wegener and Stella Neumann)

Advanced SFL programme

Advanced SFL: Transitivity (Tom Bartlett)
Advanced SFL: The Nominal group in context (Lise Fontaine)
Advanced SFL: Architectures for linguistic models (Mick O’Donnell)

Special Interest workshops

Morning programme:

• PRAAT
• Intonation (Gerard O’Grady)
• Prosody in Context (Stefan Baumann)

Afternoon programme:

• Register and context (Stella Neumann)
• Special Interest Topic TBC: (Elke Teich)
• Register, Context and language learning (Elma Kerz)
• Registerial variation and multimodality: concepts and methods (John Bateman)
• Instantiation and the reach of context (Wendy Bowcher)
• SFL architecture: context, semantics, and the notion of textual instantiation (Erich Steiner)
• Special Interest Topic TBC: (Miriam Taverniers)
• Statistics for register studies I (Stefan Evert)
• Statistics for register studies II (Stefan Evert)

You can register your interest now by emailing lingunite@rwth-aachen.de – places are limited.

More detail will be posted soon on the RWTH Aachen University website (click here).

View the summer school poster2018 here.

[updated November 9 2017]

Contact

If you want to contact us about the summer school, please email me at fontainel@cf.ac.uk or use the form below.