Who can apply? Post-doctoral, PhD and master's students in Linguistics or other scientific areas; Researchers in general, particularly in the areas of cognitive science. Preference is given to PhD and Post-doctoral students in Linguistics. The selection...

Dirk Geeraerts , University of Leuven The course will sketch a framework for an approach to diachronic (lexical) semantics that, descriptively speaking, integrates a semasiological and an onomasiological perspective and that, theoretically speaking,...

Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez , University of La Rioja Figurative language results from the activity of cognitive operations on cognitive models (e.g. frames or image schemas). This kind of account allows us to find what is common to the different...

Martin Hilpert , University of Neuchâtel This course will address current developments in Construction Grammar in order to give the participants an overview of where the field is going. The course is structured into three units. The first unit focuses on...