Du 9 au 11 septembre 2025, la Paris Graduate School of Linguistics organise le LingFest, une formation intensive en linguistique pour préparer l’entrée dans les masters qu’elle fédère.
La formation s’adresse également aux étudiants d’autres écoles doctorales désireux de se former en linguistique.

Détail des cours et conseils de lecture :

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:

Interactive IPA chart : https://www.ipachart.com/

http://smu-facweb.smu.ca/~s0949176/sammy/

https://www.speechandhearing.net/laboratory/vtdemo/

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.