Grammatical terminology for schools

The Linguistics Association of Great Britain has posted a list of grammatical terms, with definitions and explanations. Dick Hudson has posted the following message on linguistlist today:

Dear Colleague,

As some of you may know, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) has a long-standing interest in building bridges to schools and an education committee responsible for this building process (http://lagb-education.org/).

Reacting to recent developments in England’s schools, this committee has produced a glossary of grammatical terminology for use in schools: http://lagb-education.org/grammatical-terminology-for-schools . Continue reading Grammatical terminology for schools

Sailer in Athens

Manfred Sailer, National Technical University, Athens, October 2015
Stella Markantonatou and Manfred Sailer, National Technical University, Athens, October 2015
(Photo: Anne Sailer, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

October 20 to 30 Manfred Sailer spent in Athens on a Short Term Scientific Mission of the network PARSEME (Parsing and Multiword Expressions). Most of the time Manfred was working with Stella Merkantonatou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens) on the planned edited volume on Multiword Expressions: Insights from a Multi-lingual Perspective. Continue reading Sailer in Athens