DONKA FARKAS and KAREN DUEK AT ESSLLI

The 25th ESSLLI (European Summer School of Language, Logic and Information) was held in Duesseldorf, Germany between August 5th and 16th. As always, ESSLI consisted of two one week sessions, with each course meeting daily. The topics cover Language and Computation, Language and Logic and Logic and Computation. The audience typically consists
of advanced graduate students and faculty members.

Donka Farkas co-taught a course at this year’s event, with Floris Roelofsen, a regular LRC visitor and collaborator with UCSC linguists who now holds a research position at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. The course that Donka and Floris taught was Assertions, questions and hybrids in an inquisitive discourse model. Besides teaching, Donka reports that she audited a course on Speech acts given by Sarah Murray and William Stark (Cornell), enjoyed intense, instructive and fun conversations with students and colleagues, and saw absolutely nothing of Duesseldorf itself.

Karen Duek also attended and enjoyed the event.

The 26th ESSLLI will be held in Tübingen in August of 2014.