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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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→
Das Project Constraint-based analysis of relative clauses in English and German der Forschergruppe Relativesätze sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine
February 17, 2016, Janina Radó (Frankfurt a.M., Tübingen) will give an invited talk at KonferenzLE, Tübingen, together with Oliver Bott (Tübingen). In their talk on Processing Quantifiers in German they will illustrate various methods for investigating semantic processing.
Right after Pia’s defense. (Photo: Sascha Bargmann, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Pia Gerhard defended her doctoral dissertation on February 8, 2016. The thesis has the title Translating from English to German: Structural and Stylistic Preferences.
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain has posted a list of grammatical terms, with definitions and explanations. Dick Hudson has posted the following message on linguistlist today:
Dear Colleague,
As some of you may know, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) has a long-standing interest in building bridges to schools and an education committee responsible for this building process (http://lagb-education.org/).
Assif Am-David held a talk at the linguistics department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on October 27, 2015. He spoke on “Determined reference as a CI component in the meaning of definites,” presenting joint work with Manfred. Continue reading Am-David in Jerusalem→
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