Carla Parra Escartín (Hermes Traducciones, Madrid) gave two lectures in Frankfurt on May 30, 2016.
Carla presenting in Manfred’s Intro Linguistics, May 2016 (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Carla gave a talk in Manfred’s class Introduction to Linguistics. She presented basic applications of computational linguistics and how much linguistics there is behind these applications. Continue reading Carla Parra in Frankfurt→
From April 18 to April 29, Dr. Monica-Mihaela Rizea (Bucarest) spend a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the IEAS. Monica’s stay was supported by the European research network Parsing and Multiword Expressions (Parseme).
Monica working on documenting Romanian MWEs, Frankfurt, April 2016. (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
The purpose of Monica’s visit was to work on an online documentation of multiword expressions in Romanian and on a collection of Romanian Negative Polarity Items (NPI) that is hosted by our department at https://www.englishlinguistics.
de/codii/.
Monica-Mihaela Rizea (Bucarest) on Particularities of Romanian as a Negative Concord Language.
The Idiosyncratic Behaviour of Nici and an HPSG Account of Long Distance Negative Concord
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, April 18, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
February 14 to 28 Sascha Bargmann visited the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. The purpose of this visit was to discuss Doug Arnold’s analysis of non-restrictive relative clauses (NRCs) as syntactically fully integrated (subordinated) units as well as my semantic representation (SR) account of semantically decomposable idioms (SDIs) like pull strings and to combine the two into an analysis of SDIs in NRCs formulated within Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Continue reading Bargmann in Essex→
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