The concluding workshop of the Research Unit “Relative Clauses” took place May 4-6, in the Casino building of Goethe-University.
IEAS linguistics is part of this unit through the project CON, Constraint-based Analysis of Relative Clauses in English and German. This project is done in co-operation with Anke Holler, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie, Göttingen.
Continue reading Short report from the Concluding Workshop on Relative Clauses
The closing workshop of the Research Unit “Relative Clauses” will take place
May 4-6, 2017
Room CAS 1.801
The program and more information can be found on http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~tezimmer/HP_FG-RelS/windex.html
This term, Petra Schulz and Manfred Sailer are offering a colloquium “Recent trends in linguistic research” during which colleagues will present current work.
The colloquium takes place: Tuesday 14.15-15.45 in IG 0.251
The program of the colloquium is still not entirely fixed, but an up-to-date version will always be given on the colloquium page.
Next tuesday, April 25, there will be a talk by Céline Pozniak (Paris) on the processing of relative clauses.
Sascha Bargmann spent a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the University of Essex from February 20 to March 6. This stay was supported by the COST Action Parsing and Multiword Expression (Parseme). Continue reading Bargmann in ESSEX
From March 23 to March 29, members of the Frankfurt HPSG community traveled to Paris as part of a co-operation with colleagues from the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle – see the previous post in this blog.
March 24 and 25, the 4th European Workshop on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (EW-HPSG) took place. It featured 15 talks, including topics on morphology, syntax, and semantics. The workshop included the following presentations from the Frankfurt group: Continue reading Paris in March – Short report
Today is International Mother Language Day!
A great opportunity to celebrate linguistic diversity, to support projects to explore and protect endangered languages, to find out about language minorities and linguistic diversity in your own country!
Here is a list of holidays and special dates with relation to language and linguistics. This list will hopefully expand in the near future and we will add more information to the indicated events. Continue reading Linguistic calendar
Many members of the English linguistics team of the IEAS will participate in two events in Paris at the end of March which will be integrated in a meeting of the network on “One-to-many Correspondences”:
The workshop on the first two day includes presentations by various Frankfurt participants in the “One-to-many” network:
The European Worshop on HPSG has been an (almost) annual event, alternating between Frankfurt/Main (2012 & 2015) and Paris (2014).
During 2017 and 2018, there will be a series of mutual visits between our department and the Laborartoire de linguistics formelle in Paris. The overreaching topic of this co-operation is “One-to-many correspondences in morphology, syntax and semantics”.
The Frankfurt part of the co-operation is supported by the DAAD program Programme des projektbezogenen Personenaustauschs. The co-operation builds on research contacts that have been developing over the last few years, which have let, for example, to establishing the European Workshops on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
We will inform on the progress of this co-operation on this blog. Here is a summary of the main ideas of the project.
Continue reading Paris-Frankfurt Cooperation on “One-to-Many Correspondences”
Recently, the plans for a Museum of Linguistics have been widely spread through the (social) media. In winter 2019, Planet World has been announced to open as the first interactive museum on language in the USA.
There are already a number of similar musea, maybe you will have the opportunity to visit one of them in the near future. Please drop a comment, if you know of other such places or if you would like to report on your visit in one of them!
The murder of Richard Montague, disruptive innovator in the thriving field of formal semantics (as he might be called by advertising companies today), is an unsolved police case. His theories of natural language, and their many successors, are of course still taught today, as any student in our semantics courses can tell you. For taking some time off from the intellectual effort that it takes to come to grips with logical languages, without leaving the topic altogether, there is an exciting option: A few years ago, Aifric Campbell published a murder mystery, The Semantics of Murder, which is constructed around the real-world events surrounding the life of Richard Montague. Here’s your exceptional chance to enjoy a structural analysis of a higher-order quantificational formula in a relaxing environment – as a student of semantics you might want to check out page 58 of the 2008 softcover edition right away!