This semester’s Retreat of the Graduate School “Nominal Modification” took place in Fulda, June 22-24. During this event, David Lahm presented his recent work on the semantics of different and plurals.
Lahm Presents at Grad School Retreat
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Short report from the Concluding Workshop on Relative Clauses
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.
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Closing Workshop of the Research Unit “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
Additional Colloquium, Tuesday 2-4
This term, Petra Schulz and Manfred Sailer are offering a colloquium “Recent trends in linguistic research” during which colleagues will present current work.
The colloquium takes place: Tuesday 14.15-15.45 in IG 0.251
The program of the colloquium is still not entirely fixed, but an up-to-date version will always be given on the colloquium page.
Next tuesday, April 25, there will be a talk by Céline Pozniak (Paris) on the processing of relative clauses.
Bargmann in ESSEX
Sascha Bargmann spent a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the University of Essex from February 20 to March 6. This stay was supported by the COST Action Parsing and Multiword Expression (Parseme). Continue reading Bargmann in ESSEX
Paris in March – Short report
From March 23 to March 29, members of the Frankfurt HPSG community traveled to Paris as part of a co-operation with colleagues from the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle – see the previous post in this blog.
March 24 and 25, the 4th European Workshop on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (EW-HPSG) took place. It featured 15 talks, including topics on morphology, syntax, and semantics. The workshop included the following presentations from the Frankfurt group: Continue reading Paris in March – Short report
Paris in March
Many members of the English linguistics team of the IEAS will participate in two events in Paris at the end of March which will be integrated in a meeting of the network on “One-to-many Correspondences”:
- The 4th European Workshop on HPSG, Paris, 24-25 March 2017
- Constraint-based Syntax and Semantics in honnor of Danièle Godard, Paris, 27 March 2017.
The workshop on the first two day includes presentations by various Frankfurt participants in the “One-to-many” network:
- Andy Lücking (computer science) Can co-verbal gestures tell us something about grammar? Some Examples
- Philippa Cook (IEAS): Presentational there-insertion in English
- Manfred Sailer (IEAS): The multi-dimensional semantics of kinegrams
- Frank Richter & David Lahm (IEAS): Every linguist proposed a different account
The European Worshop on HPSG has been an (almost) annual event, alternating between Frankfurt/Main (2012 & 2015) and Paris (2014).
Paris-Frankfurt Cooperation on “One-to-Many Correspondences”
During 2017 and 2018, there will be a series of mutual visits between our department and the Laborartoire de linguistics formelle in Paris. The overreaching topic of this co-operation is “One-to-many correspondences in morphology, syntax and semantics”.
The Frankfurt part of the co-operation is supported by the DAAD program Programme des projektbezogenen Personenaustauschs. The co-operation builds on research contacts that have been developing over the last few years, which have let, for example, to establishing the European Workshops on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
We will inform on the progress of this co-operation on this blog. Here is a summary of the main ideas of the project.
Summary of the project
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Sailer talks at “The Syntax of Idioms”, Utrecht, 20.1.2017
Manfred Sailer gave a talk at the one-day workshop on “The Syntax of Idioms”, organized by the Leuven & Utrecht project of the same name. In the morning, project members presented their results and the database of idioms in Dutch dialects. In the afternoon, there were invited talks by Julia Horváth (Tel Aviv) on “Idioms and ‘Constructions’: Implications for the architecture of grammar”, Martin Everaert (Utrecht) on “Idioms: what you see is what you get?”, and Manfred on “The meaning of `meaningless’ idiom parts”.
Manfred’s talk was based on joint work with Sascha Bargman on how to model the syntactic flexibility of non-decomposable idioms such as kick the bucket `die´.
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HeadLex16 Proceedings available!
The proceedings of HeadLex 2016, the joint conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar, are available online.
They contain contribtions from the following IEAS/linguistics colleagues: David Lahm, Frank Richter, and Manfred Sailer & Assif Am-David. Continue reading HeadLex16 Proceedings available!