The LingFest

Linguistique

From September 9 to 11, 2025, the Paris Graduate School of Linguistics is organizing the LingFest, an intensive training course in linguistics to prepare students for entry to the Paris Graduate School of Linguistics masters programs. The course is also open to students from other graduate schools wishing to train in linguistics.

Registration is free but mandatory – a form will be made available soon.

Program:

  • Tuesday September 9
    • 10h-12h : Presentation of the graduate school PGSL (Aimée Lahaussois)
      PGSL Ethics committee (Maud Pelissier)
    • 14h-16h : Language phonetics and phonology (Quang Chau)
  • Wednesday September10
    • 10h-12h : Language syntax 1 (Yanis Da Cunha)
    • 12h-14h : Buffet lunch, poster presentation by 2024-2025 M1 students
    • 14h-16h : Language syntax 2 (Yanis Da Cunha)
    • 16h-17h : Visite du campus
  • Thursday September11
    • 10h-12h : Language semantics (Patrick Caudal)
    • 12h-14h : Buffet lunch, poster presentation by 2024-2025 M2 students
    • 14h-16h : Language pragmatics (Patrick Caudal)

Syllabus and recommended reading :

Language Phonetics and Phonology

Phonetics covers phonetic inventories; understanding the IPA alphabet; practicing IPA transcription. Phonology covers phonemic inventories; spotting phonemes and allophones
Useful resources:

Language Syntax

This course is an introduction to syntactic theory and analysis. After defining syntax, its objects and its goals, the basic concepts of formal syntax will be presented and put into practice (lexical categories, constituency, rewriting rules…).Finally the X-bar Theory will be introduced.

Recommended reading:  Müller, S. (2016). Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches. Language Science Press. Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 6.

Language Semantics and Pragmatics

This course offers an introduction to the study of semantics and pragmatics across languages, and covers a broad range of topics and issues, including e.g. quantification, tense-aspect, modality, implicatures and entailments, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and discourse coherence/structure.

Recommended reading: Paul Kroeger 2022. Analyzing meaning: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics. Third edition. Language Science Press.