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.
Continue reading Lahm on “Different´´ as a Restrictor on Skolem Functions
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.
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.
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
Manfred attended the 6th General Meeting of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions) in Struga, FYR Macedonia.
Continue reading Sailer at Multiword Expressions Meeting in Struga
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”
Application closed!
Das Project Constraint-based analysis of relative clauses in English and German der Forschergruppe Relativesätze sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine
studentische Hilfskraft
Continue reading Studentische Hilfskraft für Projekt CON gesucht!
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!