Monica-Mihaela Rizea, Gianina Iordachioăia & Frank Richter have cooperated on Romanian Negative Polarity items since Monica’s visit in Frankfurt in April 2016. As a result of this cooperation, they had joint posters at the Parseme meeting in Dubrovnik (September 2016) and the figurative language workshop in Tübingen (December 2016). They also had a joint paper presentation at the 12 International Conference “Linguistic Resources and Tools for Processing the Romanian Language”, Mălini, 27-29 October 2016. The proceedings of this conference are available online and contain their paper.

One of the aims of this cooperation is an update of the Romanian part of the Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items (CoDII), which was initiated by Frank and Gianina and which is now being updated by Monica.

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Manfred Sailer gave an invited talk at the workshop “Recent Trends in Figurative Language Research”, Tübingen, December 8&9. The workshop brought together researchers from theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, first and second language acquisition research, medicine, and computational linguistics.

Manfred’s presented new research on a “Multi-dimensional Continue reading Sailer talks on kinegrams →

The final meeting of the research network PARSEME (“Parsing and Multiword Expressions”) took place September 26-27, 2016, in Dubrovnik (Croatia).

From the IEAS, Sascha Barmann and Manfred Sailer participated. Sascha presented a joint post with Doug Arnold (Essex) on “Idiom Licensing in Non-restrictive Relative Clauses“.  They show that Continue reading Final Parseme Meeting, Dubrovnik →

Dianne Jonas is again heading north to Iceland, where she will be giving a talk on `The Morphosyntax of the verb tykja in Faroese – a Diachronic and Comparative Perspective’. Her presentation is part of a meeting organized by Háskóla Íslands og Fróðskaparseturs í
Færeyjum (University of Iceland and University of the Faroe Islands).

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:

• David Lahm on “Refining the semantics of lexical rules”.
• Frank Richter on “Integrating Categorematic Unreducible Polyadic Quanti ers in LRS“
• Manfred Sailer on “Definite meaning and definite marking”.

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.

Links

• Budapest-Potsdam-Lund Linguistics Colloquium, Budapest, June 16&17.
• The abstract of Verner Egerland and Dianne Jona’s talk
• Verner Egerland’s homepage