Rizea on Particularities of Romanian as a Negative Concord Language

We are happy to announce an invited talk by

Monica-Mihaela Rizea (Bucarest)
on
Particularities of Romanian as a Negative Concord Language.
The Idiosyncratic Behaviour of
Nici and an HPSG Account of Long Distance Negative Concord

in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, April 18, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.

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Bargmann in Essex

Essex Campus
Essex Campus (Photo: Sascha Bargmann, BY-NC-ND 3.0)

February 14 to 28 Sascha Bargmann visited the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. The purpose of this visit was to discuss Doug Arnold’s analysis of non-restrictive relative clauses (NRCs) as syntactically fully integrated (subordinated) units as well as my semantic representation (SR) account of semantically decomposable idioms (SDIs) like pull strings and to combine the two into an analysis of SDIs in NRCs formulated within Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Continue reading Bargmann in Essex