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.
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”
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.
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”
Carla Parra Escartín (Hermes Traducciones, Madrid) gave two lectures in Frankfurt on May 30, 2016.
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
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.
Frank Richter (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
Higher-order Reasoning with Natural Language”
Room: NG 2.731, 4:15-5:45 (pm)
Continue reading Richter on `Higher-order Reasoning with Natural Language´
We are happy to announce a talk by
Sabrina Weber (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
Extraposition of prepositional phrases
– corpus data and elicited production experiments
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, May 23, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
Extraposition of prepositional phrases out of NP is considered to be a marked structure as it splits up the head noun and the PP. However, there is another syntactic dependency to consider: the Continue reading Weber on “Extraposition of prepositional phrases – corpus data and elicited production experiments”
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).
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/.
We are happy to announce an invited talk by
David Lahm (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
“Different” as a Restrictor on Skolem Functions
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, May 2, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
Continue reading Lahm on “Different´´ as a Restrictor on Skolem Functions
We are happy to announce an invited talk by
Gianina Iordăchioaia (Stuttgart)
on
Agents and Causers in Psych Nominals
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, April 25, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
We are happy to announce an invited talk by
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.