Registration is open between 1th and 15th May 2009 at http://egg.auf.net/register.html

COST A33 is co-organisator of the recent Eastern European Summer School in Generative Grammar (EGG) training school. This year's school will be a thematic one, based on the search for external evidence for linguistic theories, with many classes on various cognitive aspects of language (language acquisition, SLI, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language and music). The school is aimed at students and practitioners at all levels.

This year's school will feature the following teachers and classes (COST based classes are marked with *):

• Introduction to Optimality Theory – Sara Finley (John Hopkins)
• Introduction to Standard Government Phonology – Markus Poechtrager (Istanbul)
• Introduction to phonological phrasing – Charles Kisseberth (Tel Aviv)
• Introduction to experimental phonology – Mary Ann Walter (Northwestern)
• Introduction to (phonological aspects of) Arabic non-linear morphology – Ali Idrissi
• Introduction to syntax (10 classes) – Omer Preminger (MIT)
• Introduction to semantics and pragmatics (10 classes) – Hedde Zeijlstra (Amsterdam)
• Introduction to neurolinguistics – Linnaea Stockall (Concordia)
• *Bilingualism, L2 learning and SLI – Stavroula Stavrakaki (Thessaloniki)
• *Introduction to Language Acquisition – Bart Hollebrandse (Groningen)
• *Introduction to Recursion – Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin)

• Optimal Domains Theory – Charles Kisseberth (Tel Aviv)
• External evidence and the linguistic structure of Arabic – Ali Idrissi
• External evidence and Government Phonology – Markus Poechtrager (Istanbul)
• Language games – Mary Ann Walter (Northwestern)
• Understanding vowel harmony using artificial grammars – Sara Finley (John Hopkins)
• Agreement and its failures – Omer Preminger (MIT)
• *Embedding: subordination and Theory of Mind – Bart Hollebrandse (Groningen)
• *Acquisition of aspect – Natalia Gagarina (ZAS Berlin)
• *Development of verb categories in first language acquisition – Natalia Gagarina (ZAS Berlin)
• *Lexical development (10 classes) – Ewa Haman (Warsaw)
• *The acquisition of Binding Principles – Spyridoula Varlokosta (Athens)
• *Morphosyntax and SLI – Spyridoula Varlokosta (Athens)
• Neuromorphology: How the brain detects and analyzes morphological constituents – Linnaea Stockall (Concordia)
• Syntax of Case – David Pesetsky (MIT)
• Syntax of music – David Pesetsky (MIT)
• Interrogatives in child language: issues at the syntax/semantics interface (2 courses) – Hamida Demirdache (Nantes)
• Semantics of plurals – Eytan Zweig (York)
• Processing of scalar implicatures – Eytan Zweig (York)
• *SLI and other developmental disorders (with a special reference to developmental dyslexia) – Stavroula Stavrakaki (Thessaloniki)
• *Semantics and Pragmatics in Language Disordered Children – Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin)

Travel and accommodation subsidy grants are available for applicants associated with COST from ALL European countries. To be eligible for COST reimbursement, you must be recommended by a COST action A33 member and attend at least one of the COST classes at the school. Reimbursement may be only partial depending on the number of applicants. This is the procedure to apply for the school and COST A33 reimbursement:

1) register on the EGG website for the school and note which COST action member recommends you in the statement you have to enter during the registration process

2) ask your recommending COST action member to send an email to "cost at zas dot gwz-berlin dot de" noting that he/she supports your application.

More information about the school can be found at http://egg.auf.net