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Manfred Sailer Institut für England- und Amerikastudien (Section English Linguistics) Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Grüneburgplatz 1 D-60629 Frankfurt am Main Germany Homepage: http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~sailer/ Tel.: +49 - (0)69 - 798 32526 Fax: +49 - (0)69 - 798 32509 E-Mail: sailer "at" em "dot" uni-frankfurt "dot" de

Bargmann and Sailer at Multiword Expression Meeting in Iași

Sascha and Manfred attended the 5th General Meeting of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions) in Iași, Romania.

Sascha at his poster, Iași, 22.9.2015 (Manfred Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Sascha at his poster, Iași, 23.9.2015 (Manfred Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Sascha presented a poster on “Syntactically Flexible VP-Idioms and the N-after-N Construction”. The poster is about how morphosyntactically flexible VP-idioms, like pull strings, and the so-called N-after-N construction, as in car after car, can combine to result in idiomatic VPs like pull string after string. Sascha is using a Semantic Continue reading Bargmann and Sailer at Multiword Expression Meeting in Iași

Sailer at Workshop on Encoding Multiword Expressions

September 21 and 22 Manfred attended a Hands-on Workshop on Encoding Multiword Expressions at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania. The workshop was organized as part of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions).

http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/contact/how-to-join-us/2-general/126-parseme-wg1-hands-on-workshop-on-lexical-encoding-of-mwes
Workshop participants. Source: typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/contact/how-to-join-us/2-general/126-parseme-wg1-hands-on-workshop-on-lexical-encoding-of-mwes

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Bob Levine on ”respectively”

Bob Levine, Frankfurt a.M., 30.6.2015.
Bob Levine, Frankfurt a.M., 29.6.2015.

On June 29, Bob Levine (Ohio State University, Columbus) presented joint work with Yusuke Kubota (University of Tsukuba) on Hybrid Type-logical Categorial Grammar (Hybrid TLCG). Bob presented the empirical challenges presented by operators such as respectively, by symmetrical predicates, and summatives. He showed how they can be overcome within Hybrid TLCG. Continue reading Bob Levine on ”respectively”