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
Recently, the plans for a Museum of Linguistics have been widely spread through the (social) media. In winter 2019, Planet World has been announced to open as the first interactive museum on language in the USA.
There are already a number of similar musea, maybe you will have the opportunity to visit one of them in the near future. Please drop a comment, if you know of other such places or if you would like to report on your visit in one of them!
Manfred Sailer gave a talk at the one-day workshop on “The Syntax of Idioms”, organized by the Leuven & Utrecht project of the same name. In the morning, project members presented their results and the database of idioms in Dutch dialects. In the afternoon, there were invited talks by Julia Horváth (Tel Aviv) on “Idioms and ‘Constructions’: Implications for the architecture of grammar”, Martin Everaert (Utrecht) on “Idioms: what you see is what you get?”, and Manfred on “The meaning of `meaningless’ idiom parts”.
Utrecht, January 2017. (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Manfred’s talk was based on joint work with Sascha Bargman on how to model the syntactic flexibility of non-decomposable idioms such as kick the bucket `die´.
The open access publisher Language Science Press has just announced a new series, Phraseology and Multiword Expressions (PMWE). This series grew out of the activities of the COST Action Parseme, in which several members of our IEAS group have participated.
The series will publish monographs and edited volumes relating to computational, formal, and/or grammar-theoretical approaches to all types of phraseological units/multiword expressions.
Monica presenting in Tübingen, December 2016. (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
One of the aims of this cooperation is an update of the Romanian part of the Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items (CoDII), which was initiated by Frank and Gianina and which is now being updated by Monica.
Castle Hohentübingen, December 2016 (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Manfred Sailer gave an invited talk at the workshop “Recent Trends in Figurative Language Research”, Tübingen, December 8&9. The workshop brought together researchers from theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, first and second language acquisition research, medicine, and computational linguistics.
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.
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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.→
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