Short description

The Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (= BIP) is set out to provide the students with a comprehensive view of how adverbs and adverbial modification work in the Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian). Apart from the standard languages, a particular focus will also lie on spoken varieties, non-canonical adverbs, Romance dialects, the Latin-Romance interface, and Romance-based creole languages. As the classification of the word-class “adverb” is fuzzy itself, the topic of this BIP expands to contiguous word-classes such as prepositions and discourse markers.

A strong focus of the BIP also lies on the empirical and methodological foundations for the linguistic research of adverbs. The students are provided with the scientific tools to not only study adverbs, but to conduct data and theory based linguistic research in general, with a strong methodological background (e.g., corpus linguistics, field work, questionnaires, etc.).

Organization

Dr. David Porcel Bueno (University of Granada), contact: daporbue(at)ugr.es

Dr. Katharina Gerhalter (University of Graz), contact: katharina.gerhalter(at)uni.graz.at

Dr. Stefan Koch (University of Graz), contact: stefan.koch(at)uni-graz.at