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Manfred Sailer Institut für England- und Amerikastudien (Section English Linguistics) Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Grüneburgplatz 1 D-60629 Frankfurt am Main Germany Homepage: http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~sailer/ Tel.: +49 - (0)69 - 798 32526 Fax: +49 - (0)69 - 798 32509 E-Mail: sailer "at" em "dot" uni-frankfurt "dot" de

PhD Positions: Negation at the Interfaces

This position has been posted on linguistlist: https://linguistlist.org/issues/35/442/

The Department of Linguistics and the Institute of English and
American Studies, Faculty of Modern Languages at Goethe
University Frankfurt, each offer the position of a

Research associate (m/f/d)
(E 13 TV-G-U, 65% part-time)

to be filled on 01.04.2024 within Project B01 “Negation at the
interfaces: Negation and existential quantification in German”
(principal investigators Prof. Dr. Markus Bader, Dr. Sascha Bargmann, and Prof. Dr. Gert Webelhuth). The project is part of
the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1629 “Negation in
Language and Beyond (NegLaB)”. The position will be temporary
and restricted until 31.12.2027. The salary grade is based on the
job descriptions of the collective agreement (TV-G-U) applicable
to Goethe University. Continue reading PhD Positions: Negation at the Interfaces

PhD position: Semantics and pragmatics of Negative Polarity Items

This position has been posted on linguistlist: https://linguistlist.org/issues/35/440/

At the Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Modern Languages, at Goethe University Frankfurt, the position of a 

Research associate (m/f/d)
(E 13 TV-G-U, 65% part time)  

is to be filled on 01.04.2024 within the project B05: “Negative polarity items in non-negative contexts“. The project is part of the CRC 1629 “Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB)“, which is established at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures. The position will be non-permanent until 31.12.2027. The salary grade is based on the job characteristics of the collective agreement (TV-G-U) applicable to Goethe University. Continue reading PhD position: Semantics and pragmatics of Negative Polarity Items

Studentische Hilfskraft gesucht!

In der Arbeitsgruppe „Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle“ (Sailer) der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft ist zum 1.4.2024 eine studentische Hilfskraftstellen zu besetzen.

20 Stunden im Monat, 1.4.2024-30.9.2024

Die gesuchte Hilfskraft soll die Arbeitsgruppe technisch und inhaltlich unterstützen. Das beinhaltet Scan-Aufträge, Computerbetreuung (Mac), Unterstützung bei LaTex-Projekten, Aktualisierung des Internetauftritts (www.english-linguistics.de), Continue reading Studentische Hilfskraft gesucht!

Asadpour on Effects of Definiteness and Animacy in Word Order Variation

Hiwa Asadpour has published a paper on “A corpus analysis of the effects of definiteness and animacy on word order veration”. In this article deals with the analysis of word order variation regarding subjects, direct objects, and non-direct object phrases called the “Target” in the corpus of languages of northwestern Iran, viz., Armenian, Mukri Kurdish, and Northeastern Kurdish (Indo-European), Jewish Northeastern Neo-Aramaic Continue reading Asadpour on Effects of Definiteness and Animacy in Word Order Variation

Ivanova “Text-type Constraints on the Choice of Linguistic Mechanisms in Research Articles: A Corpus-based Approach” published

Iverina Ivanova’s dissertation is now available from the university library server.

In her dissertation, Iva investigated the structure of research articles in the field of Computational Linguistics (CL) with the goal of establishing that a set of distinctive linguistic features is associated with each section type. She analyzed the interaction between the intentional and the linguistic structure of each section type. The results from the quantitative and qualitative analysis show that each section possesses an individual profile of linguistic features which are associated with it more or less strongly. These section-feature mappings are shown to be derivable from the hypothesized intentions of each section type. Her research findings provide insights into the writing strategies that writers employ in the component sections of a research article so that the overall goal
of the article is achieved. Continue reading Ivanova “Text-type Constraints on the Choice of Linguistic Mechanisms in Research Articles: A Corpus-based Approach” published

Sailer & Lamoure at HPSG 2023

Manfred Sailer and Nicolas Lamoure (Frankfurt a.M.) presented a paper on “Superlative ‘ever’ in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish” at the 30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 2023.  Manfred and Nicolas look at the use of English ever in emphatic superlatives as in (1) in two Germanic and two Romance languages:

(1) a. nl: de beste opmerking ever ‘the best comment ever’
       b. de: bestes Bild ever ‘best picture ever’
       c. fr: la meilleure idée ever  ‘the best idea ever’
       d. es: la mejor foto ever ‘the best picture ever’ Continue reading Sailer & Lamoure at HPSG 2023