Language Science Press has just published a volume on One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics, edited by Berthold Crysmann (Paris) and Manfred Sailer. The volume is based on research carried out as part of the DAAD-funded project One-to-many correspondences (2017 & 2018).
The book consists of an introduction and seven chapters, three of which being (co-)authored by colleagues of the IEAS.
Abstract: (from the publisher’s page)
Continue reading Book on one-to-many relations!
The proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 2020 (online) are online! They contain two papers that are (co-)authored by members of the Frankfurt English Linguistics group: Continue reading HPSG 2020 Proceedings Online
Ich biete eine eine zentrale Sprechstunde für Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten an, die im Herbst 2021 das schriftliche Examen bei mir schreiben:
Am Mittwoch, 12.5., 10.15-11.45 Uhr, in meinem Sprechstundenraum
Sollten Sie diesen Termin nicht wahrnehmen können aber noch Gesprächsbedarf haben, schreiben Sie mir bitte eine e-Mail!
Manfred Sailer (sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Dr. Janina Radó is offering a colloquium for exam preparation during the summer semester 2021, wednesday 2.15-3.45pm. The colloquium is open to all students who take their Erstes Staatsexamen in English linguistics, independently of the exam topics and the examiner.
Detailed information will be avialable before the begining of the semester. This page will also be updated.
Please contact Manfred Sailer (sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de) if you have any questions.
The third instantiation of the student workshop REsearch in English Linguistics (REEL Day 2021) will take place online Saturday, February 13, 1:00-3:30pm.
The workshop is based on a cooperation between the working group English Linguistics of Gutenberg University Mainz and the IEAS working group linguistics. Students from Mainz and Frankfurt will Continue reading Student workshop “Research in English Linguistics”
Die angekündigte Examenssprechstunde entfällt, da die entsprechenden mündlichen Prüfungen abgesagt wurden. Wenn Sie dennoch Gesprächsbedarf haben, wenden Sie sich bitte direkt per e-Mail an mich (sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).
Manfred Sailer bietet für seine Prüflinge eine Examenssprechstunde an:
für die mündliche Prüfung im Frühjahr 2021
Montag, 29.3., 10.15-11.45
in seinem Sprechstunden-Zoom-Raum
Continue reading Entfällt: Examenssprechstunde Sailer, 29.3.2021
Note: The position has been filled
In der Arbeitsgruppe „Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle“ (Sailer) der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft ist zum 1.4.2021 eine studentische Hilfskraftstellen zu besetzen.
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!
After the spontaneous but extremely successful reorganization of last years International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG 2020) as an online event, it was decided that this year’s instantiation of the conference will be organized as a virtual meeting right from the start.
Nurit Melnik (Open University of Israel) acts as the program chair Continue reading Virtual HPSG 2021 conference
Shene Othman Hassan submitted her thesis on Syntactic and semantic aspects of supplementary relative clauses in English and Sorānī Kurdish and defended it December 18. Congratulations!
Shene looks at two understudied types of supplementary (i.e. non-restrictive) relative clause in English: those introduced by determiner-which, see (1), and those introduced by that, as in (2).
(1) Maybe people will attack me, in which case I will attack back. (COCA)
(2) The Patas monkey, that spends almost all of its time in open grassland,
adopts just such tactics. (Huddleston & Pullum, 2002: 1052) Continue reading Hassan’s thesis on supplementary relative clauses
The 13th volume of Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics contains Manfred Sailer’s paper on Attributive “wrong” in underspecified semantics. The paper is based on Manfred’s talk at CSSP 2019. Manfred argues that there are two non-local readings of attributive wrong, illustrated in (1) and (2).
(1) The police arrested the wrong person.
‘The person that the police arrested is not (among) the person(s) that the police should have arrested.’
(2) Bluebeard’s wife opened the wrong door.
‘The door that Bluebeard’s wife should not open is among the doors that Bluebeard’s wife opened.’ Continue reading Sailer on attributive “wrong”