Assif Am-David and Manfred Sailer held a talk at a workshop titled “Experimental and crosslinguistic evidence for the distinction between implicatures and presuppositions” (July 1-3, 2015). The Continue reading Am-David and Sailer at XPrag Workshop
Monthly Archives: July 2015
e-Learning certificate for Am-David
Assif Am-David acquired the e-learning certificate of the Goethe University. Continue reading e-Learning certificate for Am-David
Bedtime Readings in Linguistics
Recently Karen Chung (Taipei, Taiwan) has posted on linguistlist an updated list of popular science, easy-to-read books on linguistics. The original list from 1994 had been compiled by Edith Moravcsik. Continue reading Bedtime Readings in Linguistics
Workshop in Zichron Ya’akov
At a workshop on grammar development in Zichron Ya’akov in the second half of June Janina Radó and Frank Richter gave two talks. Janina reported on ongoing experimental work on complex sluicing and focus. Frank discussed some aspects of a paper with Michael Hahn on using Henkin semantics for automatic reasoning with natural language.
The perfect conference location provided ample opportunity to explore the town and to learn about the local historical, botanical and culinary offerings.
Holger Wochele on product names
Holger Wochele (Vienna University of Economics and Business and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) gave a talk on the “Onomastics of product names” on July 6, 2015. Continue reading Holger Wochele on product names