Dianne Jonas is again heading north to Iceland, where she will be giving a talk on `The Morphosyntax of the verb tykja in Faroese – a Diachronic and Comparative Perspective’. Her presentation is part of a meeting organized by Háskóla Íslands og Fróðskaparseturs í
Færeyjum (University of Iceland and University of the Faroe Islands).
HeadLex 2016, Warsaw
From July 26 to 29, the HPSG and the LFG communities had a joint conference in Warsaw, HeadLex 2016.
The conference included the following presentations by members of the IEAS:
- David Lahm: Refining the semantics of lexical rules
(abstract, poster) - Frank Richter: Integrating categorematic unreducible polyadic quantifiers in LRS
(abstract, slides) - Manfred Sailer: Definite meaning and definite marking.
(slides, video)
Abstracts and slides of most of the other talks can be downloaded from the conference web site at http://headlex16.ipipan.waw.pl/programme/.
IEAS-members at HeadLex 2016
A joint HPSG-LFG conference, HeadLex 2016, will take place in Warsaw, July 24-29. The program contains presentations by three members of the IEAS/Linguistics team:
- David Lahm on “Refining the semantics of lexical rules”.
- Frank Richter on “Integrating Categorematic Unreducible Polyadic Quanti ers in LRS“
- Manfred Sailer on “Definite meaning and definite marking”.
MA Linguistics in Frankfurt a.M.
The Institute of Linguistics of Goethe University Frankfurt invites applications to its MA program.
From this year on it will also be possible to choose a specialization in Constraint-based Grammar, which will be offered by the linguistics section of the Department of English and American Studies. Continue reading MA Linguistics in Frankfurt a.M.
Hansen-Schirra spricht über ”Psycholinguistische Methoden in der Translationswissenschaft”
Wir freuen uns, einen eingeladenen Vortrag von
Prof. Dr. Silvia Hansen-Schirra (Mainz)
zum Thema
Psycholinguistische Methoden in der Translationswissenschaft
im Obserseminar English Linguistics, Montag, 27.6.2016, 16.15-17.45 Uhr, Raum IG 3.201 Continue reading Hansen-Schirra spricht über ”Psycholinguistische Methoden in der Translationswissenschaft”
Jonas talks on “Already” in Budapest
Dianne Jonas gave a talk with Verner Egerland (Lund) at the Budapest-Potsdam-Lund Linguistics Colloquium in Budapest, June 16&17. The title of their presentation is Just think about it already!. In their talk, they looked at uses of already as a modal particle in English and Swedish.
Links
- Budapest-Potsdam-Lund Linguistics Colloquium, Budapest, June 16&17.
- The abstract of Verner Egerland and Dianne Jona’s talk
- Verner Egerland’s homepage
Lücking on “Demonstration Acts in Grammmar”
We are glad to announce a talk by
Andy Lücking (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
Demonstration Acts in Grammar
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, June 13, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
Abstract
Although demonstration acts like pointing gestures or head nods are frequently mentioned in the context of reference, they still live in the shadows of semantic theories. In this talk, a spatial semantics for Continue reading Lücking on “Demonstration Acts in Grammmar”
Guzmán Naranjo on “Quantitative effects and formal models of grammar”
We are glad to announce an invited talk by
Matías Guzmán Naranjo (Leipzig)
on
Quantitative Effects and Formal Models of Grammar
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, June 6, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
Abstract
In this talk I will present a model that tries to combine work on quantitative effects in language with insights from formal Continue reading Guzmán Naranjo on “Quantitative effects and formal models of grammar”
Carla Parra in Frankfurt
Carla Parra Escartín (Hermes Traducciones, Madrid) gave two lectures in Frankfurt on May 30, 2016.
Carla gave a talk in Manfred’s class Introduction to Linguistics. She presented basic applications of computational linguistics and how much linguistics there is behind these applications. Continue reading Carla Parra in Frankfurt
Parra speaks on “How good shall it be? Establishing Machine Translation quality thresholds to boost professional translators’ productivity”
We are happy to announce an invited talk by
Carla Parra Escartín
on
How good shall it be?
Establishing Machine Translation quality thresholds to boost professional translators’ productivity
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, May 30, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
