On June 29, Bob Levine (Ohio State University, Columbus) presented joint work with Yusuke Kubota (University of Tsukuba) on Hybrid Type-logical Categorial Grammar (Hybrid TLCG). Bob presented the empirical challenges presented by operators such as respectively, by symmetrical predicates, and summatives. He showed how they can be overcome within Hybrid TLCG. Continue reading Bob Levine on ”respectively”→
The European network on Parsing and Multiword Expressions (Parseme) has its next General Meeting in Iași, Romania, September 23 & 24.
There will be two poster presentations from Frankfurt: Sascha Bargmann has a poster on “Syntactically Flexible VP-Idioms and the N-after-N Construction”. Manfred’s poster deals with “Possessive alternations in German idioms.”
David presented his work on a uniform analysis of different in sentences with plurals (All games attracted different children.) and coordination (Different children sang and played.) at the first retreat of the Graduate School Nominal Modification, Braunfels, June 12&13.