Sascha and Manfred will participate in the 8th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics, whose topic is The Grammar of Idioms.
The conference is organized by the project The Syntax of Idioms: Project description, a joint project of KU Leuven (Belgium) and RU Utrecht (the Nederlands).
Manfred is going to talk about Possessive (Non-)Alternations in Idioms.
The linguistics department of the IEAS has welcomed a new member this term, Philippa Cook. She will present herself in this blog entry.
Philippa Cook
Office hour: tuesday, 9-10 a.m.
Office: IG 3.212
Homepage at the IEAS: https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/55067540/cook
Dianne Jonas is in Australia, with presentations on the morphosyntax of Norf’k, an English-Tahitian contact variety from Norfolk Island. Talks take place at MONASH University and at The University of Melbourne.
Last term Dr. Assif Am-David took part at the Writing Fellow Programme of the university writing centre (Schreibzentrum), a pilot that was first introduced at the Goethe University. This involved 7 courses university wide across all disciplines. As a part of this Continue reading Am-David in the “writing fellow” programme
Campus Westend is a great place to be. We have been busy taking pictures to show you why.
There is a lot more where this representative example came from.
November 27th to 30th, the Research Group Relative Clauses hosted a workshop on relative clauses, sponsored by the Strategic Parnership Program (DAAD) and the Research Group 1783 (DFG). The aim of the workshop was to intensify the scientific cooperation between Tel Aviv University and Goethe University Frankfurt.
There were three presentations from members of the IEAS linguistics section:
Goethe University celebrated its centennial anniversary with fireworks over Poelzig-Bau last Saturday. Here are four minutes (out of 15), posted on youtube:
We are delighted to announce the addition of a dedicated Oberseminar page to our website: You might already have spotted the new menu item Oberseminar WiSe 2014/15 in the header area of this blog. The new page will keep you updated on the topics of our weekly Oberseminar on Monday, 16:15–17:45, in IG 3.201.
This week Frank is visiting Gerald Penn at the University of Toronto in Canada on a grant from the International Office. We are investigating possibilities to establish a collaboration on research questions that are of interest to the computational linguistics group in Toronto and to the linguists at the IEAS.
