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).
Continue reading Sailer at Workshop on Encoding Multiword Expressions
Assif Am-David and Manfred Sailer held a talk at a workshop titled “Experimental and crosslinguistic evidence for the distinction between implicatures and presuppositions” (July 1-3, 2015). The Continue reading Am-David and Sailer at XPrag Workshop
At a workshop on grammar development in Zichron Ya’akov in the second half of June Janina Radó and Frank Richter gave two talks. Janina reported on ongoing experimental work on complex sluicing and focus. Frank discussed some aspects of a paper with Michael Hahn on using Henkin semantics for automatic reasoning with natural language.
The perfect conference location provided ample opportunity to explore the town and to learn about the local historical, botanical and culinary offerings.
The European network on Parsing and Multiword Expressions (Parseme) has its next General Meeting in Iași, Romania, September 23 & 24.
There will be two poster presentations from Frankfurt: Sascha Bargmann has a poster on “Syntactically Flexible VP-Idioms and the N-after-N Construction”. Manfred’s poster deals with “Possessive alternations in German idioms.”
The 8th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics, The Grammar of Idioms was a really inspiring event!
Continue reading Short report from “The Grammar of Idioms”, Brussels, June 4&5
Sascha and Manfred will participate in the 8th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics, whose topic is The Grammar of Idioms.
The conference is organized by the project The Syntax of Idioms: Project description, a joint project of KU Leuven (Belgium) and RU Utrecht (the Nederlands).
Manfred is going to talk about Possessive (Non-)Alternations in Idioms.
March 19 & 20, Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer attended the 4th General meeting of the network Parsing and Multiword Expressions (PARSEME).
Continue reading “Parsing and Multiword Expressions” Met in Valletta
The 4th General Meeting of the network Parsing and Multiword Expressions (PARSEeme) will take place in Valletta, Malta, March 19 & 20. Continue reading Network Parsing and Multiword Expressions Meets in Malta
Manfred gave a talk on Doing the Devil: An Unrescuable PPI at the workshop Varieties of Positive Polarity Items of the annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Leipzig, March 4-6, 2015.
Continue reading Sailer at DGfS Workshop “Varieties of Positive Polarity Items”
Sascha Bargmann presented joint work with Manfred Sailer on the Syntactic Flexibility of Non-decomposable Idioms during the 16th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, February 20-23, 2015.
