Dr. Janina Radó is offering a colloquium for exam preparation during the summer semester 2024, wednesday 2.15-3.45pm, SH 3.101. The colloquium is open to all students who take their Erstes Staatsexamen in English linguistics, independently of the exam topics and the examiner. You are also welcome to join if you are writing your wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit or your BA/MA thesis in English linguistics. Continue reading Exam preparation colloquium
PhD Positions: Negation at the Interfaces
This position has been posted on linguistlist: https://linguistlist.org/issues/35/442/
The Department of Linguistics and the Institute of English and
American Studies, Faculty of Modern Languages at Goethe
University Frankfurt, each offer the position of a
Research associate (m/f/d)
(E 13 TV-G-U, 65% part-time)
to be filled on 01.04.2024 within Project B01 “Negation at the
interfaces: Negation and existential quantification in German”
(principal investigators Prof. Dr. Markus Bader, Dr. Sascha Bargmann, and Prof. Dr. Gert Webelhuth). The project is part of
the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1629 “Negation in
Language and Beyond (NegLaB)”. The position will be temporary
and restricted until 31.12.2027. The salary grade is based on the
job descriptions of the collective agreement (TV-G-U) applicable
to Goethe University. Continue reading PhD Positions: Negation at the Interfaces
PhD position: Semantics and pragmatics of Negative Polarity Items
This position has been posted on linguistlist: https://linguistlist.org/issues/35/440/
At the Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Modern Languages, at Goethe University Frankfurt, the position of a
Research associate (m/f/d)
(E 13 TV-G-U, 65% part time)
is to be filled on 01.04.2024 within the project B05: “Negative polarity items in non-negative contexts“. The project is part of the CRC 1629 “Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB)“, which is established at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures. The position will be non-permanent until 31.12.2027. The salary grade is based on the job characteristics of the collective agreement (TV-G-U) applicable to Goethe University. Continue reading PhD position: Semantics and pragmatics of Negative Polarity Items
Melnik & Sailer edit special issue on “Constructional approaches in formal grammar”
In order to promote a discussion between formal and constructional approaches to grammar, Nurit Melnik & Manfred Sailer edited a special issue of the Journal of Language Modelling devoted to “Constructional approaches in formal grammar”. Continue reading Melnik & Sailer edit special issue on “Constructional approaches in formal grammar”
Studentische Hilfskraft gesucht!
In der Arbeitsgruppe „Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle“ (Sailer) der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft ist zum 1.4.2024 eine studentische Hilfskraftstellen zu besetzen.
20 Stunden im Monat, 1.4.2024-30.9.2024
Die gesuchte Hilfskraft soll die Arbeitsgruppe technisch und inhaltlich unterstützen. Das beinhaltet Scan-Aufträge, Computerbetreuung (Mac), Unterstützung bei LaTex-Projekten, Aktualisierung des Internetauftritts (www.english-linguistics.de), Continue reading Studentische Hilfskraft gesucht!
Sailer & Lamoure in HPSG 2023 Proceedings
The proceedings of this year’s HPSG conference are now available! The volume includes a contribution by Manfred Sailer & Nicolas Lamoure on “Superlative ever in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.”
The paper examines borrowed instances of emphatic superlative ever (ES-ever) into two Germanic languages (Dutch and German) and Continue reading Sailer & Lamoure in HPSG 2023 Proceedings
Asadpour on Effects of Definiteness and Animacy in Word Order Variation
Hiwa Asadpour has published a paper on “A corpus analysis of the effects of definiteness and animacy on word order veration”. In this article deals with the analysis of word order variation regarding subjects, direct objects, and non-direct object phrases called the “Target” in the corpus of languages of northwestern Iran, viz., Armenian, Mukri Kurdish, and Northeastern Kurdish (Indo-European), Jewish Northeastern Neo-Aramaic Continue reading Asadpour on Effects of Definiteness and Animacy in Word Order Variation
Ivanova “Text-type Constraints on the Choice of Linguistic Mechanisms in Research Articles: A Corpus-based Approach” published
Iverina Ivanova’s dissertation is now available from the university library server.
In her dissertation, Iva investigated the structure of research articles in the field of Computational Linguistics (CL) with the goal of establishing that a set of distinctive linguistic features is associated with each section type. She analyzed the interaction between the intentional and the linguistic structure of each section type. The results from the quantitative and qualitative analysis show that each section possesses an individual profile of linguistic features which are associated with it more or less strongly. These section-feature mappings are shown to be derivable from the hypothesized intentions of each section type. Her research findings provide insights into the writing strategies that writers employ in the component sections of a research article so that the overall goal
of the article is achieved. Continue reading Ivanova “Text-type Constraints on the Choice of Linguistic Mechanisms in Research Articles: A Corpus-based Approach” published
IEAS online calendar
From the winter term 2023/24 on, the IEAS is maintaining an online calendar. In it, you can find informations on talks and other events orgaized by the IEAS, as well as on all courses relevant to the study programs organized by the IEAS (BA English Studies, BA/MA American Studies, MA ALCM, MA MCTE, as well as Lehramt Englisch). Continue reading IEAS online calendar
Bargmann at ICEL 2023
On 25 October, Sascha Bargmann gave a keynote talk via Zoom on “Complex Idiom Modification” at the International Conference on Advance in Education, Humanities and Language (ICEL) 2023 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
Sascha’s talk was based on Bargmann, Gehrke & Richter (2021) and the introductory chapter of his dissertation (Bargmann 2019). Continue reading Bargmann at ICEL 2023