Last term Dr. Assif Am-David took part at the Writing Fellow Programme of the university writing centre (Schreibzentrum), a pilot that was first introduced at the Goethe University. This involved 7 courses university wide across all disciplines. As a part of this Continue reading Am-David in the “writing fellow” programme
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Emmon Bach (1929-2014)
It is with great sadness that we learned that Emmon Bach died on November 28.
The website http://emmonbach.info is a place for sharing memories and contains many pictures from the Emmon Fest in Frankfurt just a few months ago.
Emmon’s colleagues from SOAS have have posted a Tribute to Emmon Bach.
An obituary has been posted on the Language Log.
TAU-GU Workshop on Relative Clauses
November 27th to 30th, the Research Group Relative Clauses hosted a workshop on relative clauses, sponsored by the Strategic Parnership Program (DAAD) and the Research Group 1783 (DFG). The aim of the workshop was to intensify the scientific cooperation between Tel Aviv University and Goethe University Frankfurt.
There were three presentations from members of the IEAS linguistics section:
- Sascha Bargmann (Frankfurt): About bear services and flabbergasted building blocks – Applying Soehn’s idiom theory to English data.
- Gert Webelhuth (Frankfurt), Sascha Bargmann (Frankfurt) & Christopher Götze (Göttingen): Idioms as evidence for the proper analysis of relative clauses.
- Christopher Götze (Göttingen): On Jacobson’s and Barker’s analysis of binding-theoretic reconstruction effects.
Second European Workshop on HPSG
The Second European Workshop on HPSG (EW-HPSG) will take place in Paris, November 17 & 18.
Information on the workshop and the program are available on the workshop website.
There will be three presentations by members of the IEAS:
- Assif Am-David & Manfred Sailer: An LRS encoding of a semantic typology of definiteness
- Frank Richter: Polyadic “same” and “different”
- Manfred Sailer: Inverse linking as complex quantifier formation
Multilingual web site about the languages of Europe
lingvo.info is a website in 18+ languages that contains information on (at least) the official languages of the European Union.
The purpose of the web site is to promote multilingualism and an awareness for linguistic diversity. The information on the web site is carefully researched and presented in an easily accessible way. It also includes a huge number of links to other language-related sites.
Sailer talks at “Sinn und Bedeutung”
Manfred Sailer will give a talk on Inverse Linking and Telescoping as Polyadic Quantification (download the abstract) at Sinn und Bedeutung 19, September 15-17, 2014, in Göttingen.
Other contributions from Frankfurt will be:
- Daniel Gutzmann and Robert Henderson: “Expressive, much?”
- T. Ede Zimmermann: “Remarks on Type Shifts” (invited talk)
Two IEAS presentations at ISLE, Zurich
The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) will have its bi-annual conference this year in Zurich, August 24-27. The meeting will feature two presentations from the IEAS:
- Janina Radó: Fronted demonstratives in reverse wh-clefts and topicalization
- Pia Weber: Functional and stylistic preferences in English and German
Second Phase of Research Unit “Relative Clauses”
The second phase of Research Unit 1783 “Relative Clauses” is now approved. The research unit is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The second phase will run from September 2014 to August 2017.
The aim of the research unit is summarized on its web site as:
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HPSG Workshop in Paris, November 17-18.
The following text has been posted by Berthold Crysmann:
Following up on the HPSG workshop Gert Webelhuth organised in Frankfurt in May 2012, I am happy to announce that the Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (CNR & U Paris 7) is going to host the second such workshop this coming autumn at Paris-Diderot.
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1 Postdoc or 2 doctoral positions at IEAS/Linguistics
Application closed!
The following job ad for either 1 postdoc or 2 doctoral positions has appeared on linguistlist.
Description:
The Linguistics section in the Department of English and American Studies (part of the College of Modern Philologies) of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) has an opening for either one full postdoctoral or two halftime Ph.D. positions as Wissenschafterliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (E13 TV-G-U). The position(s) start(s) on September 1, 2014 and is/are initially restricted to a duration of 3 years.
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