Dianne Jonas will participate at this year’s meeting of the Netværk for nordisk syntakshistorie (Nordic historical syntax network)  Copenhagen, November 1 & 2. The title of her talk is On the Comparative Morphosyntax of ‘think’.

Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer presented recent developments on Lexical Resource Semantics (LRS) at the Symposium on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics (LACompLing) 2018.

Frank gave an overview of the current state of the LRS Continue reading Richter & Sailer at LACompLing 2018 →

Jamie Findlay, Sascha Bargmann, and Manfred Sailer presented their joint work on figurative uses of idiomatic expressions at the workshop on From-Meaning Mismatches in Natural Language, Göttingen, August 3&4.

Jamie, Sascha and Manfred’s work was the result of their intense interaction during Jamie’s visit in Frankfurt in June. In their talk “Pulling a pretence rabbit out of the hat”, they argue Continue reading Findlay, Bargmann & Sailer at Form-Meaning Mismatches, Göttingen →

This year’s annual meeting of the German Lingusitic Society (DGfS) hosted a workshop on One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics, organized by Berthold Crysmann (Paris). The workshop comprised a number of presentations by members of the IEAS-LLF network One-to-Many (2017 & 2018). Continue reading One-to-Many Workshop at DGfS 2018 →

Sascha Bargmann, Berit Gehrke (LLF, Paris) & Frank Richter had a joint presentation during the 19th Szklarska Poreba Workshop (February, 23-26). Sascha and Berit attended the meeting and gave a talk on “How to modify idioms”. 

The talk is based on joint research initiated within the DAAD-ANR-funded networking program One-to-many correspondendences in morphology, syntax, and semantics.

Continue reading Bargmann, Gehrke & Richter on “How to modify idioms” →

One day before the start of the annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS),  the society’s Lehramtsinitiative organized its  traditional information day for teachers. This year’s topic was Welche Grammatik braucht die Schule? (What kind of grammar is needed for school?). The event included a 2-hour working group on conlanging under the title Kreative Grammatikreflexion: Sprachen erfinden im Grammatikunterricht. This working group was organized by Alexandra Zepter (Cologne), Judith Bündgens-Kosten (Frankfurt) and Manfred Sailer (Frankfurt).

Continue reading Zepter, Bündgens-Kosten & Sailer on Conlangs at the DGfS Lehrerinformationstag →

Over the last year, the projects NRR (Non-restrictive Relative Clauses) and CON (Constraint-based Analysis of relative clauses) worked together on non-restrictive relative clauses with split antecedents. The results of this cooperation were presented as a poster at this year’s Sinn und Bedeutung, Berlin/Potsdam, 7.-10.9.2017. The poster was presented by Claudia Poschmann and Continue reading Poster at “Sinn und Bedeutung”, Berlin/Potsdam, 7.-10.9.2017 →

The concluding workshop of the Research Unit “Relative Clauses” took place May 4-6, in the Casino building of Goethe-University.

IEAS linguistics is part of this unit through the project CON, Constraint-based Analysis of Relative Clauses in English and German. This project is done in co-operation with Anke Holler,  Seminar für Deutsche Philologie, Göttingen.

Continue reading Short report from the Concluding Workshop on Relative Clauses →

The closing workshop of the Research Unit “Relative Clauses” will take place

May 4-6, 2017
Room CAS 1.801

The program and more information can be found on http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~tezimmer/HP_FG-RelS/windex.html