At the beginning of October Assif Am-David visited the Ferring Foundation on the North Sea island of Föhr. The visit aimed at promoting joined research on the Germanic minority language Northern Frisian spoken in Schleswig-Holstein. Northern Frisian is a recognised minority language in Germany and one of three Frisian languages. These languages are more closely related to English than German. The institute promotes the language by devising educational material, facilitating research, collecting and documenting materials in its library and archive as well as running a regional radio station. The language is still vital.
One of the peculiarities of Northern Frisian is its use of three distinct definite articles, each with its own paradigm. This should be the focus of the future scientific cooperation.
Sascha and Manfred attended the 5th General Meeting of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions) in Iași, Romania.
Sascha at his poster, Iași, 23.9.2015 (Manfred Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Sascha presented a poster on “Syntactically Flexible VP-Idioms and the N-after-N Construction”. The poster is about how morphosyntactically flexible VP-idioms, like pull strings, and the so-called N-after-N construction, as in car after car, can combine to result in idiomatic VPs like pull string after string. Sascha is using a Semantic Continue reading Bargmann and Sailer at Multiword Expression Meeting in Iași→
Our former colleague, Heike Walker, has succesfully finished her teacher training program (Referendariat) in Leer, Lower Saxony. She has been awarded prices for outstanding thesis and outstanding overall results. Congratulations and best wishes for the future!!!
On June 29, Bob Levine (Ohio State University, Columbus) presented joint work with Yusuke Kubota (University of Tsukuba) on Hybrid Type-logical Categorial Grammar (Hybrid TLCG). Bob presented the empirical challenges presented by operators such as respectively, by symmetrical predicates, and summatives. He showed how they can be overcome within Hybrid TLCG. Continue reading Bob Levine on ”respectively”→
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