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→
Janina Radó visited the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from March 3rd through March 5th. On the first day, she and Oliver Bott from Universität Tübingen talked on Experimental evidence against underspecified representations of quantifier scope, followed by a two-day course on Experimental investigations into quantifier scope at Pázmány University Budapest.
February 17, 2016, Janina Radó (Frankfurt a.M., Tübingen) will give an invited talk at KonferenzLE, Tübingen, together with Oliver Bott (Tübingen). In their talk on Processing Quantifiers in German they will illustrate various methods for investigating semantic processing.
Right after Pia’s defense. (Photo: Sascha Bargmann, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Pia Gerhard defended her doctoral dissertation on February 8, 2016. The thesis has the title Translating from English to German: Structural and Stylistic Preferences.
It is that time of the year again: December 14th saw all of us linguists coming together celebrating the completion of another productive year. As pictures of the event reveal, we were having a good time. Lighting and scenery were just perfect!
Assif Am-David held a talk at the linguistics department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on October 27, 2015. He spoke on “Determined reference as a CI component in the meaning of definites,” presenting joint work with Manfred. Continue reading Am-David in Jerusalem→
