Hiwa Asadpour, Shene Hassan & Manfred Sailer will present a joint paper on “Non-wh relatives in English and Kurdish: Constraints on grammar and use” at this year’s HPSG conference.

Continue reading Hiwa, Shene & Manfred on non-wh relatives at HPSG 2022 →

Hiwa Asadpour will give papers at two international conferences in August. Congratulations!!

He will present a paper on “Flagging-drop typology and its relevance on Target Word Ordering” at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics 2022, ICHL 25 — University of Oxford, 1-5 Continue reading Hiwa at conferences in Oxford and Bucharest →

The third instantiation of the student workshop REsearch in English Linguistics (REEL Day 2021) will take place online Saturday, February 13, 1:00-3:30pm.

The workshop is based on a cooperation between the working group English Linguistics of Gutenberg University Mainz and the IEAS working group linguistics. Students from Mainz and Frankfurt will Continue reading Student workshop “Research in English Linguistics” →

After the spontaneous but extremely successful reorganization of last years International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG 2020) as an online event, it was decided that this year’s instantiation of the conference will be organized as a virtual meeting right from the start.

Nurit Melnik (Open University of Israel) acts as the program chair Continue reading Virtual HPSG 2021 conference →

The 27th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG 2020) took place as an online conference,  August 17-19. Continue reading HPSG 2020: Conference report →

The 27th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG 2020) will occur as an online conference, around August 17-19. Participation will be free of  charge.  The exact details are still in the planning. Continue reading Three IEAS talks at HPSG 2020 →

The 4th student conference on “REsearch in English Linguistics” (REEL-Day) took place February 15 at Goethe Univesity. It is a continuation of a teaching cooperation between the Department of English Linguistics, Mainz, and IEAS/Linguistics, Frankfurt, which started last year. This year, Ulrike Schneider (Mainz) and Manfred Sailer (Frankfurt) taught parallel project-oriented courses on the overreaching topic of Language in Politics.

Naomi Truan (Leipzig) opened the conference with an invited talk on Continue reading 4th REEL Day, Feb. 15 →