Manfred attended the 6th General Meeting of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions) in Struga, FYR Macedonia.
Continue reading Sailer at Multiword Expressions Meeting in Struga
We are happy to announce that PD Dr. Heiko Motschenbacher will offer a Hauptseminar on Research Methods in Linguistics in the summer term 2016.
The class will meet Thursday, 4-6pm, in Seminarhaus SH 4.101
If you want to enrol for this class, please send a message to motschenbacher_AT_em.uni-frankfurt.de by April 10. Continue reading New Hauptseminar “Research Methods in Linguistics”
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.
Pia Gerhard defended her doctoral dissertation on February 8, 2016. The thesis has the title Translating from English to
German: Structural and Stylistic Preferences.
Congratulations!!
In her thesis Pia discusses the factors that differentiate between the following English constructions: Continue reading Pia Gerhard Defended Her Thesis!
From Februar 1 to 4 Manfred Sailer made a research visit to the University of Belgrade.
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
October 20 to 30 Manfred Sailer spent in Athens on a Short Term Scientific Mission of the network PARSEME (Parsing and Multiword Expressions). Most of the time Manfred was working with Stella Merkantonatou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens) on the planned edited volume on Multiword Expressions: Insights from a Multi-lingual Perspective. Continue reading Sailer in Athens
On Monday 16th – Tuesday 17th November 2015 we will be hosting an HPSG workshop here at the IEAS in Frankfurt
<Auf nach Frankfurt !>
This is an informal meeting (no abstracts, no selection) bringing togther people from across Europe who are interested in HPSG. We are following on from the tradition of previous workshops held in Paris (2014) and Frankfurt (2013). Anyone is welcome to attend and there is no registration and no fee. Continue reading < Auf nach Frankfurt !> European HPSG workshop 16-17th November 2015