Manfred Sailer
Institut für England- und Amerikastudien (Section English Linguistics)
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Grüneburgplatz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
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A joint HPSG-LFG conference, HeadLex 2016, will take place in Warsaw, July 24-29. The program contains presentations by three members of the IEAS/Linguistics team:
The Institute of Linguistics of Goethe University Frankfurt invites applications to its MA program.
MA Linguistics
From this year on it will also be possible to choose a specialization in Constraint-based Grammar, which will be offered by the linguistics section of the Department of English and American Studies. Continue reading MA Linguistics in Frankfurt a.M.→
Dianne Jonas gave a talk with Verner Egerland (Lund) at the Budapest-Potsdam-Lund Linguistics Colloquium in Budapest, June 16&17. The title of their presentation is Just think about it already!. In their talk, they looked at uses of already as a modal particle in English and Swedish.
Andy Lücking (Frankfurt a.M.)
on Demonstration Acts in Grammar
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, June 13, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
Andy Lücking speaking in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, June 2016. (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Abstract
Although demonstration acts like pointing gestures or head nods are frequently mentioned in the context of reference, they still live in the shadows of semantic theories. In this talk, a spatial semantics for Continue reading Lücking on “Demonstration Acts in Grammmar”→
Carla Parra Escartín (Hermes Traducciones, Madrid) gave two lectures in Frankfurt on May 30, 2016.
Carla presenting in Manfred’s Intro Linguistics, May 2016 (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Carla gave a talk in Manfred’s class Introduction to Linguistics. She presented basic applications of computational linguistics and how much linguistics there is behind these applications. Continue reading Carla Parra in Frankfurt→