This workshop is organized as first event in a networking project in collaboration with the Kyung Hee University (Seoul, Korea). The aim is to explore various negation-related phenomena such as negative polar questions, negative dependencies, and negative concord in German and Korean (primarily), as well as to identify common patterns and structures in the use of negation in these two languages. A central point is also the study of the implications of Large Language Models (LLM) for the investigations of negation. Continue reading Workshop: Investigations of Negation, Negative Polar Questions, and Negative Dependencies in German and Korean→
The first eight English NPIs have been integrated into the NPI Bank, with 10 licensers and a total number of 371 corpus examples. More English data will hopefully be available soon.
Since its official lauch on December 2, 2025, the NPI Bank has made information on roughly 250 German NPIs and about 80 Romanian NPIs available via a web interface. Continue reading NPI Bank: Now with English NPIs!→
Kurz-Workshop Mit Science-Slam aufs nächste Level: Der Einsatz von unterhaltsamer Wissenschaftskommunikation
in der Uni-Lehre
François Conrad (Wuppertal & Göttingen)
am: 15.12.2025 um: 16.15-17.45 in: IG 3.201
Zusammenfassung:
Wie kann ich meine Seminare gleichzeitig lehrreich, catchy und unterhaltsam gestalten? Hierzu gibt es viel Fachliteratur und noch mehr Schulungen. Aber wie wär’s, ein derzeit populäres Format der Wissenschaftskommunikation gezielt in die Lehre einzubinden? Klingt zugleich verlockend und herausfordernd? Continue reading Kurz-Workshop: Wissenschaftskommunikation→
The responsibilities of the position include collaboration and scientific services in research within the project B05. The project explores the occurrence of Negative Polarity Items in non-negative contexts in German, Romanian, and English Specifically, the Continue reading PhD position: Computational linguistics, negation→
There is a growing interest in and a growing need for accessible and available presentation of scientific research and insights. According
to linguistic-TikToker Simon Meier-Vieracker (Dresden), linguistics is in an ideal situation for science communication: (i) Everyone uses
language and has some opinion on language and language use. This Continue reading New course: Linguistics and Science Communication→
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