OVA 2026 teachers and course titles

OVA teachers and course titles

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)
  • Opacity in rule-based phonology (introductory/intermediate, week 1)
  • Opacity in constraint-based phonology (intermediate/advanced, week 2)
• Shakuntala Mahanta (IIT Guwahati)
  • Vowel harmony (introductory/intermediate, week 1)
• Clàudia Pons-Moll (Universitat de Barcelona)
  • Constraint interaction and variation in phonology (intermediate, week 1)

Semantics

• Berry Claus (University of Hanover)
  • 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? (introductory/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 (intermediate/advanced, week 1)
• Yasutada Sudo (UCL)
  • Introduction to semantics I (week 1)
  • Focus (intermediate, week 2)

Statistics

• Varvara Magomedova (University of Nova Gorica)
  • From zero to hero (week 1)

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 syntax II (week 2)
  • TBD
• 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) (mid-level, week 2)
• Timea Szarvas (University of Potsdam)
  • Introduction to syntax I (week 1)