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Jonas talks on “Already” in Budapest

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.

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Lücking on “Demonstration Acts in Grammmar”

We are glad to announce a talk by

Andy Lücking (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
Demonstration Acts in Grammar

in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, June 13, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.

Andy Lücking speaking in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, June 2016.
Andy Lücking speaking in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, June 2016. (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)

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Although demonstration acts like pointing gestures or head nods are frequently mentioned in the context of reference, they still live in the shadows of semantic theories. In this talk, a spatial semantics for Continue reading Lücking on “Demonstration Acts in Grammmar”

Guzmán Naranjo on “Quantitative effects and formal models of grammar”

We are glad to announce an invited talk by

Matías Guzmán Naranjo (Leipzig)
on
Quantitative Effects and Formal Models of Grammar

in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, June 6, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.

Abstract

In this talk I will present a model that tries to combine work on quantitative effects in language with insights from formal Continue reading Guzmán Naranjo on “Quantitative effects and formal models of grammar”

Parra speaks on “How good shall it be? Establishing Machine Translation quality thresholds to boost professional translators’ productivity”

We are happy to announce an invited talk by

Carla Parra Escartín
on
How good shall it be?
Establishing Machine Translation quality thresholds to boost professional translators’ productivity

in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, May 30, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.

Carla presenting in Frankfurt, May 2016. (Photo:  M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Carla presenting in Frankfurt, May 2016. (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)

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