We are happy to annouce the following course by our new colleague, Sascha Bargmann:
“Idioms and their variability”
Monday, 12.15-13.45; room IG 3.201
Start: 9.4.2018
One-to-Many Workshop at DGfS 2018
This year’s annual meeting of the German Lingusitic Society (DGfS) hosted a workshop on One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics, organized by Berthold Crysmann (Paris). The workshop comprised a number of presentations by members of the IEAS-LLF network One-to-Many (2017 & 2018). Continue reading One-to-Many Workshop at DGfS 2018
Bargmann, Gehrke & Richter on “How to modify idioms”
Sascha Bargmann, Berit Gehrke (LLF, Paris) & Frank Richter had a joint presentation during the 19th Szklarska Poreba Workshop (February, 23-26). Sascha and Berit attended the meeting and gave a talk on “How to modify idioms”.
The talk is based on joint research initiated within the DAAD-ANR-funded networking program One-to-many correspondendences in morphology, syntax, and semantics.
Continue reading Bargmann, Gehrke & Richter on “How to modify idioms”
Tilman Höhle’s Gesammelte Schriften
Earlier this week the open access publisher Language Science Press published a complete collection of papers by Tilman Höhle, edited by Stefan Müller, Marga Reis and Frank Richter. Tilman Höhle wrote a significant number of highly influential papers on German grammar (and on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar) from the early 80s until the beginning of the millenium. Among the topics covered are Continue reading Tilman Höhle’s Gesammelte Schriften
Summer term 2018: Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Unfortunately, not all linguistics courses in FW 1 for the Lehramt prorgrams are visible in QIS/LSF. Here is an overview of the courses:
Course title: Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Module: FW1
Study programs: L1, L2, L3, L5, MA WiPäd Englisch
- Monday, 10-12, NG 2.371 (Frank Richter)
- Monday, 12-14, CAS 1.812 (Manfred Sailer)
- Monday, 14-16, SH 1.108 (Sascha Bargmann)
- Tuesday, 12-14, SH 1.106 (Frank Richter)
Zepter, Bündgens-Kosten & Sailer on Conlangs at the DGfS Lehrerinformationstag
One day before the start of the annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), the society’s Lehramtsinitiative organized its traditional information day for teachers. This year’s topic was Welche Grammatik braucht die Schule? (What kind of grammar is needed for school?). The event included a 2-hour working group on conlanging under the title Kreative Grammatikreflexion: Sprachen erfinden im Grammatikunterricht. This working group was organized by Alexandra Zepter (Cologne), Judith Bündgens-Kosten (Frankfurt) and Manfred Sailer (Frankfurt).
Continue reading Zepter, Bündgens-Kosten & Sailer on Conlangs at the DGfS Lehrerinformationstag
Jonas on the morphosyntax of the verb “think” from a comparative and diachronic perspective
During her visit to Australia, Dianne Jonas is giving two presentations on her recent work on the diachronic change of the argument pattern of the verb think in a number of Germanic languages. On February 27, she gave a talk at the unversity of Melbourne on “Thinking comparatively and diachronically. A case study on the verb think“. March 6, she will give a talk on “Morphosyntactic change – a case study of the verb think” at Monash university (Clayton campus).
Sailer on “Doing the Devil”
Manfred Sailer’s paper on Doing the devil. Deriving the PPI-hood of a negation-expressing multi-dimensional idiom has appeared in the recent number of Linguistics. The paper is an elaboration of a presentation at the workshop on Positive Polarity Items organized by Mingya Liu and Gianina Iordăchioaia at DGfS 2015 and has now been integrated into a special issue on Positive Polarity Items, edited by Mingya and Gianina. Continue reading Sailer on “Doing the Devil”
Pegah Faghiri’s visit
In the week of November 13-17, Pegah Faghiri (Cologne & Paris) visited our group as part of the activities of the Pars-Frankfurt network One-to-many Correspondences.
Pegah gave a talk in our colloquium on “The issue of (in)separability in Persian complex predicates: An experimental investigation“, in Continue reading Pegah Faghiri’s visit
English Linguistics in the study program Empirische Sprachwissenschaft
Since the winter term 2017/18, the linguistics section of IEAS contributes the area of specialization “Englische Sprachwissenschaft/English Linguistics” to the BA program “Empirische Sprachwissenschaft”. English Linguistics can only be chosen as a minor specialization (Nebenfach).
We are looking forward to welcoming the students in this new specialization. They will do a total of 54 to 60 credits in our group, joining their fellow students from other study programs, such as Lehramt Englisch, BA English Studies, and MA Linguistics. Continue reading English Linguistics in the study program Empirische Sprachwissenschaft