Frank Richter  (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
Higher-order Reasoning with Natural Language”

Room: NG 2.731, 4:15-5:45 (pm)

Abstract:

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We are happy to announce a talk by

Sabrina Weber (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
Extraposition of prepositional phrases
– corpus data and elicited production experiments

in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, May 23, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.

Abstract:

Extraposition of prepositional phrases out of NP is considered to be a marked structure as it splits up the head noun and the PP. However, there is another syntactic dependency to consider: the Continue reading Weber on “Extraposition of prepositional phrases – corpus data and elicited production experiments” →

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/.

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We are happy to announce an invited talk by

David Lahm (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
“Different” as a Restrictor on Skolem Functions

in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, May 2, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.

Abstract:

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We are happy to announce an invited talk by

Gianina Iordăchioaia (Stuttgart)
on
Agents and Causers in Psych Nominals

in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, April 25, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.

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We are happy to announce an invited talk by

Monica-Mihaela Rizea (Bucarest)
on
Particularities of Romanian as a Negative Concord Language.
The Idiosyncratic Behaviour of Nici and an HPSG Account of Long Distance Negative Concord

in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, April 18, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.

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February 14 to 28 Sascha Bargmann visited the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. The purpose of this visit was to discuss Doug Arnold’s analysis of non-restrictive relative clauses (NRCs) as syntactically fully integrated (subordinated) units as well as my semantic representation (SR) account of semantically decomposable idioms (SDIs) like pull strings and to combine the two into an analysis of SDIs in NRCs formulated within Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Continue reading Bargmann in Essex →

We are happy to announce that PD Dr. Heiko Motschenbacher will  offer a Hauptseminar on Research Methods in Linguistics in the summer term 2016.

The class will meet Thursday, 4-6pm, in Seminarhaus SH 4.101

If you want to enrol for this class, please send a message to motschenbacher_AT_em.uni-frankfurt.de by April 10. Continue reading New Hauptseminar “Research Methods in Linguistics” →