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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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.
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 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→
From April 18 to April 29, Dr. Monica-Mihaela Rizea (Bucarest) spend a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the IEAS. Monica’s stay was supported by the European research network Parsing and Multiword Expressions (Parseme).
The purpose of Monica’s visit was to work on an online documentation of multiword expressions in Romanian and on a collection of Romanian Negative Polarity Items (NPI) that is hosted by our department at https://www.englishlinguistics.
de/codii/.