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”
Category Archives: Conferences
Bargmann and Sailer at Multiword Expression Meeting in Iași
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
Sailer at Workshop on Encoding Multiword Expressions
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).
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Am-David and Sailer at XPrag Workshop
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
Workshop in Zichron Ya’akov
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.
Bargmann and Sailer: Posters accepted for Iași
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.”
Short report from “The Grammar of Idioms”, Brussels, June 4&5
The 8th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics, The Grammar of Idioms was a really inspiring event!
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“The Grammar of Idioms” in 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.
“Parsing and Multiword Expressions” Met in Valletta
March 19 & 20, Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer attended the 4th General meeting of the network Parsing and Multiword Expressions (PARSEME).
(source: http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/events/74-4th-general-meeting-march-2014-malta)
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Network Parsing and Multiword Expressions Meets in Malta
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