1st International Summer School on "Language Comparison and Typology: German and the Mediterranean languages”
28-Aug-2019 - 30-Aug-2019
Kalandra University Camping AUTh (Chalkidiki, GR)

The Call for Papers can be found here

Focus: The research network DeMiNeS („Deutsch-Mittelmeerisches Netzwerk Sprachwissenschaft”) funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2017 Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives to Athina Sioupi) in cooperation with the Research Unit on (Experimental) Syntax and Heritage Languages at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Artemis Alexiadou) is organizing a Summer School for MA and PhD students. Host of the school is the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Kalandra University Camping AUTh (Chalkidiki).
Minimum Education Level: MA

The summer school is aimed at early career researchers – MA and PhD students, and other researchers –, offering a mix of lectures, courses and workshops on various topics relevant to anyone interested in General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Comparative Linguistics and Typology. The summer school will offer classes on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches on syntax, semantics and pragmatics, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics on Language Comparison and Typology of German and/or the Mediterranean languages.

The summer school offers ten courses and workshops as well as one invited lecture. The aim is to attract students and scholars, who wish to broaden their knowledge in linguistics in a relaxed yet very focused and stimulating atmosphere that promotes in depth analysis and discussion.
The languages of the summer school will be English and German.

Description: Classes will address topics of NPs, Word Order Variation, Argument Structure, Space and Polysemy in a cross-linguistic perspective.

A plenary talk will be given by Manfred Krifka (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)).

Classes (working titles) and Instructors:
Polysemy in the lexicon within and across languages: theory and methods: Thanasis Georgakopoulos (National Research University, HSE, Moscow)
Path encoding in typologically different languages: Barbara Lübke (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) (in German)
Syntax and semantics of NPs: Comparing German and Spanish: Antonio Machicao y Priemer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) (in German)
Cross-linguistic investigation of argument structure: experimental and observational research: Elisabeth Verhoeven (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Interface between Syntax and Pragmatics: Word order variation in German V2-Sentences: Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (Sorbonne Université) (in German)

Beside several social events, there will be a poster session for MA and PhD students to present own research.

The Summer School “DeMiNeS („Deutsch-Mittelmeerisches Netzwerk Sprachwissenschaft”) is funded by Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.  

Submission guidelines for posters

Please submit your proposal (max 500 words in pdf format only, margins: 2.5 cm or 1 inch, font size: 12 points, Times New Roman, spacing: single. An additional page for references, data, tables and figures can be included) by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Submissions do not need to be limited to the topics of classes; they should be anonymous, but please state your name, affiliation as well as your current status, i.e. MA/PhD student, in your message. Posters should follow a common format of A0 (ca. 84 x 120 cm) and must have portrait orientation. The subject line of the email should be “DeMiNeS abstract“.

Please make sure to enter a valid email-address and check your mailbox (including spam folder) regularly. On request, we will be happy to provide you with an invitation letter for visa purposes.

Deadline for abstract submission for poster is May 20, May 30, 2019. A notification of acceptance will be sent by May 31, 2019.

Accommodation:
There is one accommodation option available, including camping in a tent sharing with other students a tent (small or big for 2 persons). If you would like to take part in this option, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the subject line “DeMiNeS accommodation”. The cost for accommodation with breakfast, lunch and dinner for four days will be approx. between 120-180Euros. If you prefer to find your own accommodation, you can search online using various websites.  There are a full range of rooms available around and within a short distance from the summer camp.

The cost does not include health insurance for the duration of your stay (for non-EU participants; EU participants are typically covered through European Health Insurance).
You will have several options for payment including payment online.

Registration instructions: 

For application, please send a letter of motivation, a short abstract of your MA/PhD project (max. 300 words), and a CV to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. In the letter of motivation, please indicate at least 4 classes (course & workshop) which interest you. Each participant may attend 3 of the 10 offered classes.
Please submit the electronic copies of all required documents merged into one pdf-file. The subject line of the email should be “DeMiNeS application”

Deadline for application is May 20, May 30, 2019. A notification of acceptance will be sent by May 31, 2019.

Contact Person: Athina Sioupi
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Apply by Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Participation is free of charge.

The number of participants is limited to 35 for each class.

Articles, books and other publications concerned with aspects of the analysis of German and/or the Mediterranean languages of the DeMiNeS partners are hyperlinked to their respective pages (on ResearchGate, Academia.edu or other personal website). Because so many items span multiple categories, this listing is not organized by subject matter. Neither host of the DeMiNeS website nor the host institution (the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) makes no warranty as to the content, accuracy, completeness of any of the content of the links. Please contact the authors directly regarding any question about its content.

Artemis Alexiadou
https://hu-berlin.academia.edu/ArtemisAlexiadou

Laurent Gautier
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laurent_Gautier2 
https://u-bourgogne.academia.edu/LaurentGautier

Thanasis Georgakopoulos
https://thanasis-georgakopoulos.weebly.com/publications.html

Barbara Lübke
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barbara_Luebke/info

Athina Sioupi
https://users.auth.gr/sioupi

Elisabeth Verhoeven
https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/professuren/allgemeine-sprachwissenschaft/allgemeine-sprachwissenschaft-syntax/mitarbeiter/verhoeven/publikationen

Hélène  Vinckel-Roisin
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helene_Vinckel-Roisin2

Heike Wiese
https://uni-potsdam.academia.edu/HeikeWiese

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Grigoriadis, Panagiotis & Athina Sioupi  (2022): (Reflexively) marked and unmarked anticausatives in German grammars. Talk at the ​Modern Linguistics and Language Didactics (LiDi). University of Kassel (April 28-29, 2022) (online).

Sioupi, Athina (2022): An account for Change of State verbs cross-linguistically. Talk presented at the 44th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2022). Eberhard  Karls Universität Tübingen (February 23- 25, 2022). Workshop 4: Change of State Verbs - Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (online).

Sioupi, Athina (2021): German, Greek, English (Anti-)Causative, reflexive and middle constructions. Talk presented at the 9th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2021). University of Genoa (May 20-21, 2021) (online).

Sioupi, Athina (2020): Πρόταση απόδοσης του όρου 'Smoldering' MS lesions στην Ελληνική - 7th Panellenic Congress of the Hellenic Academy of Neuroimmunology (10.-13.12.2020) (online).

Sioupi, Athina (2020) @lphabetisierung - Digitalkonferenz zum Weltalphatag 08.09.20 (KASA): Vorstellung der Erfahrungen mit dem digitalen Lernen und Lehren (online).

Sioupi, Athina (2019) (with Thanasis Georgakopoulos):  Literalität von Erwachsenen in Griechenland. KASA-Regionalkonferenz, Berlin