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Weber on “Extraposition of prepositional phrases – corpus data and elicited production experiments”

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.

Abstract:

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”

Rizea’s research visit 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.
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/.

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Rizea on Particularities of Romanian as a Negative Concord Language

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.

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Bargmann in Essex

Essex Campus
Essex Campus (Photo: Sascha Bargmann, BY-NC-ND 3.0)

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