From July 26 to 29, the HPSG and the LFG communities had a joint conference in Warsaw, HeadLex 2016.

The conference included the following presentations by members of the IEAS: Continue reading HeadLex 2016, Warsaw
From July 26 to 29, the HPSG and the LFG communities had a joint conference in Warsaw, HeadLex 2016.
The conference included the following presentations by members of the IEAS: Continue reading HeadLex 2016, Warsaw
A joint HPSG-LFG conference, HeadLex 2016, will take place in Warsaw, July 24-29. The program contains presentations by three members of the IEAS/Linguistics team:
Dianne Jonas gave a talk with Verner Egerland (Lund) at the Budapest-Potsdam-Lund Linguistics Colloquium in Budapest, June 16&17. The title of their presentation is Just think about it already!. In their talk, they looked at uses of already as a modal particle in English and Swedish.
Dianne Jonas is currently in Iceland, attending the 22nd Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference in Reykjavík. She will be giving a talk with her coauthor, Ásgrímur Angantýsson, on the syntax of adverbial clauses in Icelandic on May 21st. Here is a pdf of an abstract of their talk.
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
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.
On Monday 16th – Tuesday 17th November 2015 we will be hosting an HPSG workshop here at the IEAS in Frankfurt
<Auf nach Frankfurt !>
This is an informal meeting (no abstracts, no selection) bringing togther people from across Europe who are interested in HPSG. We are following on from the tradition of previous workshops held in Paris (2014) and Frankfurt (2013). Anyone is welcome to attend and there is no registration and no fee. Continue reading < Auf nach Frankfurt !> European HPSG workshop 16-17th November 2015
On October 8th Frank Richter gave a talk on the use of text corpora in linguistics at the MedienBildungsmesse 2015. Here are the slides to the talk (in German).
Manfred Sailer and Assif Am-David presented at the 8th Colloquium of Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE), 17.-19.9.2015, at the Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, England. Continue reading Am-David and Sailer at “Semantics and Philosophy in Europe”
Sascha and Manfred attended the 5th General Meeting of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions) in Iași, Romania.
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