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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Maybe of interest?!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt"> Bakker, Dik [mailto:D.Bakker@uva.nl]
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 02. November 2016 12:51<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> SLE - Summerschool 2017 - Call for applications (2)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Apple Chancery";color:blue">SOCIETAS LINGUISTICA EUROPAEA</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<b>SLE summer school<br>
September 7-9 2017<br>
Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland</b><br>
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THE 2017 </b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">SLE</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> SUMMER SCHOOL:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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The Societas Linguistica Europaea invites applications from current PhD students </span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">for participation in the 2017
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">SLE</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> summer school, which will take place in
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">September 2017 at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. The summer school
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">will offer a range of short theoretical and methodological courses that will introduce
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">the participants to linguistic topics of high current relevance. The courses will be
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">complemented by three keynote lectures.<br>
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Application is open to all </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">SLE</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> members (to become a member of SLE, please follow
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">this link:
<a href="http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/membership/members.htm">http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/membership/members.htm</a> ).<br>
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The summer school is competitive, with a total of 30 places. Tuition, accommodation
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">and lunches will be provided free of charge for successful applicants, but we ask
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">delegates to pay for their own travel to and from Neuchâtel. The deadline for applications
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">is January 1, 2017. The application email is <<a href="mailto:SLEsummer2017@gmail.com">SLEsummer2017@gmail.com</a>>.<br>
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COURSES:</b><br>
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Damián Blasi (Zurich) – Data science applied to language: a bag of methods to wrangle with
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Francesco Gardani (Zurich) – Advances in contact linguistics<br>
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Natalia Levshina (Leipzig) – Semantics in space: semantic maps, MDS, correspondence analysis
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> and graph-theoretical approaches<br>
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Florent Perek (Birmingham) – Experimental methods and behavioral data<br>
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Karsten Schmidtke-Bode (Leipzig) – Usage-based linguistics and language typology<br>
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Elena Smirnova (Neuchâtel) – Diachronic construction grammar: Tenets, recent developments
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:</b><br>
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Susanne Michaelis (Leipzig)<br>
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Marianne Mithun (Santa Barbara)<br>
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Johan Van der Auwera (Antwerp)<br>
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<b>THE APPLICATION PROCESS:</b><br>
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All applications have to be sent in electronic form to <<a href="mailto:SLEsummer2017@gmail.com">SLEsummer2017@gmail.com</a>>.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Applications have to contain the following items, combined in a single PDF document:<br>
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1. A cover page with the applicant’s name, address, university affiliation, and employment
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2. A brief letter of motivation that explains why the applicant wishes to participate
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3. A brief curriculum vitae (max. 2 pages, including information on 1: research interests and
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4. A list that ranks the six courses in terms of the applicant’s preferences, from 1 (This is my
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">favorite course) to 6 (I will take this course if there is no other option). The schedule will allow
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">the attendance of two courses. We will try to accommodate the applicants’ wishes as best we can.<br>
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5. Proof of current </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">SLE</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> membership
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(available at
<a href="http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/members/login.php">http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/members/login.php</a>, screenshots are fine)<br>
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All applications have to be sent to <<a href="mailto:SLEsummer2017@gmail.com">SLEsummer2017@gmail.com</a>> by the deadline of
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">January 1, 2017. All incoming applications will be acknowledged.<br>
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APPLICATION ASSESSMENT:</b><br>
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The applications will be ranked primarily on the basis of academic merit. In keeping with
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">the goals of the
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">Socieats Linguistica Europaea</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, we particularly encourage applications from
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">weak-currency countries. The organizing committee will strive for a balance of different
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">countries, different genders, and a broad range of linguistic interests in the pool of accepted
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We wish all applicants success and the best of luck!<br>
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<b>THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:</b><br>
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Martin Hilpert (Neuchâtel)<br>
Francesca Masini (Bologna)<br>
Andrej Malchukov (Mainz)<br>
Michela Cennamo (Naples)<br>
Jeanette Sakel (Bristol)<br>
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<b>WEBPAGE:<br>
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<a href="http://members.unine.ch/martin.hilpert/SLEsummer.html">http://members.unine.ch/martin.hilpert/SLEsummer.html</a></b><br>
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<b>COORDINATION WITH SLE-50 IN ZURICH</b><br>
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The summer school will end on the afternoon of September 9, so that participants who plan to
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">SLE</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> conference in Zurich (Sep 10-13) can seamlessly combine the two events: Zurich
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">is a 90-minute train ride away from Neuchâtel.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Dept. of General Linguistics
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Universities of Amsterdam & Lancaster<br>
tel (+31) 35 544 75 78<br>
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<a href="http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/b/a/d.bakker/d.bakker.html">www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/b/a/d.bakker/d.bakker.html</a><br>
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Societas Linguistica Europaea <br>
Secretary/Treasurer<br>
<a href="http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.linguisticsociety.eu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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