Derek Bickerton’s seminal book Roots of Language (1981) is now available on open access via Language Science Press!
Bickerton’s book was an important contribution to creole studies and heavy stimulated theoretical linguists to start looking at creole languages in depth. Continue reading “Roots of Language” on Open Access!
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.
Pia Gerhard defended her doctoral dissertation on February 8, 2016. The thesis has the title Translating from English to
German: Structural and Stylistic Preferences.
Congratulations!!
In her thesis Pia discusses the factors that differentiate between the following English constructions: Continue reading Pia Gerhard Defended Her Thesis!
From Februar 1 to 4 Manfred Sailer made a research visit to the University of Belgrade.
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/).
Reacting to recent developments in England’s schools, this committee has produced a glossary of grammatical terminology for use in schools: http://lagb-education.org/grammatical-terminology-for-schools . Continue reading Grammatical terminology for schools
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
October 20 to 30 Manfred Sailer spent in Athens on a Short Term Scientific Mission of the network PARSEME (Parsing and Multiword Expressions). Most of the time Manfred was working with Stella Merkantonatou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens) on the planned edited volume on Multiword Expressions: Insights from a Multi-lingual Perspective. Continue reading Sailer in Athens
At the beginning of October Assif Am-David visited the Ferring Foundation on the North Sea island of Föhr. The visit aimed at promoting joined research on the Germanic minority language Northern Frisian spoken in Schleswig-Holstein. Northern Frisian is a recognised minority language in Germany and one of three Frisian languages. These languages are more closely related to English than German. The institute promotes the language by devising educational material, facilitating research, collecting and documenting materials in its library and archive as well as running a regional radio station. The language is still vital.
One of the peculiarities of Northern Frisian is its use of three distinct definite articles, each with its own paradigm. This should be the focus of the future scientific cooperation.
The proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19 are now online! They contain Manfred’s paper on Inverse linking and telescoping as polyadic quantification. He presents a uniform analysis of inverse linking (as in Continue reading Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2014 online
Manfred Sailer and Assif Am-David presented at the 8th Colloquium of Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE), 17.-19.9.2015, at the Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, England. Continue reading Am-David and Sailer at “Semantics and Philosophy in Europe”