OVA 2026 teachers and course titles
The schedule can be found here.
Morphology
- Guy Tabachnick (Masaryk University Brno)
- The role of paradigms in morphology (intermediate, week 1)
- Morphological productivity (introductory, week 2)
Phonology
- Yuriy Kushnir (Leipzig University)
- Lexical accent systems: Case study Lithuanian (introductory/intermediate, week 2)
- Natalia Kuznetsova (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
- Phonological typology (introductory/slightly intermediate, week 1)
- Phonology of Finnic languages (intermediate/slightly advanced, week 2)
- Andrew Lamont (UCL)
- Introduction to phonology (introductory, week 1)
- Harmonic serialism (advanced, week 2)
- Shakuntala Mahanta (IIT Guwahati)
- Vowel harmony at the intersection of phonetics, phonology & computation (introductory/intermediate, week 1)
- Clàudia Pons-Moll (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Constraint interaction and variation in phonology (intermediate, week 1)
Semantics
- Berry Claus (Leibniz University Hannover)
- Searching for meaning: Methods and findings in experimental (psycho)linguistics (introductory/intermediate, week 2)
- Berit Gehrke (HU Berlin)
- Introduction to semantics II (week 2)
- Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (University of Salzburg)
- Introduction to comparative constructions (intermediate, week 2)
- Maria Onoeva (Charles University Prague & HU Berlin)
- Introduction to polar questions? (intermediate, week 1)
- Tom Roberts (Utrecht University)
- Attitude reports: From modal logic to event semantics (intermediate, week 1)
- Vesela Simeonova (University of Graz)
- The semantics and pragmatics of evidentiality (advanced, week 1)
- Yasutada Sudo (UCL)
- Introduction to semantics I (week 1)
- Focus (intermediate, week 2)
Statistics
- Varvara Magomedova (University of Nova Gorica)
Syntax-semantics interface
- Éva Kardos (University of Debrecen)
- The syntax and semantics of inner aspect (advanced, week 2)
Syntax
- Kenyon Branan (University of Göttingen)
- Introduction to post-syntactic constituency (intermediate, week 1)
- Introduction to syntax II (week 2)
- Imke Driemel (University of York)
- Agree and agreement (advanced, week 2)
- Matěj Kundrát (UiT) & Jeffrey Parrott (Tomas Bata University in Zlín)
- Of mice and men: The scope of suppletion (advanced, week 1)
- Magdalena Lohninger (University of Salzburg) & Timea Szarvas (University of Potsdam)
- Scientific problem solving for linguists (I got 99 problems but evidence ain’t one) (intermediate, week 2)
- Timea Szarvas (University of Potsdam)
- Introduction to syntax I (week 1)
Additionally, there will be a Japanese languages course (with some linguistics), given by Sayuri Arafune.