Ever wondered about grammatical frameworks other than HPSG and Minimalism? Miriam Butt (Konstanz) recorded an introductory course on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG).
Miriam’s course can be access through the following links:
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/main/Teaching.html#lfg-ma Continue reading Online material for learning LFG
Note: The position has been filled!
Für das Wintersemester 2017/18 wird in der Abteilung Linguistik des IEAS ein/e Tutor/in für die Introduction to Linguistics gesucht
Unterstützung der Lehre in der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft Continue reading Tutor/in gesucht Intro Linguistics WiSe 2017/18
June 26 & 27, Susanne Flach (Neuchâtel) visited our research group. She gave a talk on “We must be born with it … maybe … are we?” A case study in morphological constraint acquisition in the Oberseminar meeting June 26. She discussed data on the go-V constrution as in Go get the nurse!. This construction has puzzled researchers because it cannot occur with verb forms distinct from the base form, i.e. we do not have *He goes gets/get the newspaper, *She went see/saw the doctor.
Thomas Hoffmann (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) visited Frankfurt on June 12 to give a talk on Football Chants as Multimodal Constructions.
Thomas motivated the concept of multimodal constructions, which leads to a considerable extension of what should be described within a linguistic theory. Thomas has just come back from the International Conference on Multimodal Communication in Osnabrück, so we were priviledged to learn about current developments in this domain.
Heike Walker’s dissertation on “The syntax and semantics of relative clause attachment” is available online through the university library!
Heike’s dissertation not only gives a great overview over the existing literature and approaches on relative clause extraposition, it also contains a concise introduction into HPSG and Lexical Resource Semantics and provides a new analysis of challenging data.
The dissertation abstract as it appears on the UB page: Continue reading Walker’s dissertation!
This semester’s Retreat of the Graduate School “Nominal Modification” took place in Fulda, June 22-24. During this event, David Lahm presented his recent work on the semantics of different and plurals.
The concluding workshop of the Research Unit “Relative Clauses” took place May 4-6, in the Casino building of Goethe-University.
IEAS linguistics is part of this unit through the project CON, Constraint-based Analysis of Relative Clauses in English and German. This project is done in co-operation with Anke Holler, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie, Göttingen.
Continue reading Short report from the Concluding Workshop on Relative Clauses
The closing workshop of the Research Unit “Relative Clauses” will take place
May 4-6, 2017
Room CAS 1.801
The program and more information can be found on http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~tezimmer/HP_FG-RelS/windex.html
This term, Petra Schulz and Manfred Sailer are offering a colloquium “Recent trends in linguistic research” during which colleagues will present current work.
The colloquium takes place: Tuesday 14.15-15.45 in IG 0.251
The program of the colloquium is still not entirely fixed, but an up-to-date version will always be given on the colloquium page.
Next tuesday, April 25, there will be a talk by Céline Pozniak (Paris) on the processing of relative clauses.
Sascha Bargmann spent a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the University of Essex from February 20 to March 6. This stay was supported by the COST Action Parsing and Multiword Expression (Parseme). Continue reading Bargmann in ESSEX