The Curation Tool is a web-based platform for collaborative linguistic data annotation and curation. It provides a flexible environment for creating annotation projects, assigning datasets to multiple curators, and systematically evaluating and resolving annotation disagreements.
Annotation interfaces can be configured through reusable project-specific layouts, supporting free-text input, predefined categories, Continue reading Curator tool
Category Archives: Links and resources
NPI Bank: Now with English NPIs!
The first eight English NPIs have been integrated into the NPI Bank, with 10 licensers and a total number of 371 corpus examples. More English data will hopefully be available soon.
Since its official lauch on December 2, 2025, the NPI Bank has made information on roughly 250 German NPIs and about 80 Romanian NPIs available via a web interface. Continue reading NPI Bank: Now with English NPIs!
Resource: Interviews with famous semanticists
This year’s Sinn und Bedeutung conference featured a special session on the History of Formal Semantics.
This section consisted of interviews with four famous linguists who were influential in the development of formal semantics: Hans Kamp, Barbara Partee, Martin Stokhof, and Angelika Kratzer.
The interviews were recorded and are available on the conference web site. Continue reading Resource: Interviews with famous semanticists
International Year of Indigenous Languages: Events at the IEAS
2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL). World-wide, many initiatives use this occasion to raise awareness for indigenous langauges, their importance, the threats that they are facing, and their chances. Continue reading International Year of Indigenous Languages: Events at the IEAS
englicious: Material for teaching English grammar
The Survey of English Usage project of University College London has been creating resources for teaching English. The web site englicious.org is of particular interest for future teachers of English. It is freely accessible and contains material to explain and practice English grammar, based on the UK National Curriculum of 2014. Continue reading englicious: Material for teaching English grammar
Paper published: Split-antecedent relative clauses
The proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22 have just been published and are freely accessible for download from the semantics archive. The proceedings contain a joint contribution of the projects NRR and CON of Research Unit 1783 Relative Clauses.
In their contribution on “Split antecedent relative clauses and the symmetry of predicates”, Claudia Poschmann, Sascha Bargmann, Christopher Götze, Anke Holler, Manfred Sailer, Gert Webelhuth, and Thomas Ede Zimmermann present the results of Continue reading Paper published: Split-antecedent relative clauses
New book: “Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective”
Earlier this week, Language Science Press has published the following edited volume:
Sailer, Manfred & Stella Markanotantou. 2018. Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective (Phraseology and Multiword Expressions, Vol 1). Berlin: Language Science Press. doi 10.5281/zenodo.1182583
The book is one of the results of the COST Action 1207 Parseme: Parsing and Multiword Expressions (2013-2017).
The book is summarized on the web page as follows: Continue reading New book: “Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective”
Online material for learning LFG
Ever wondered about grammatical frameworks other than HPSG and Minimalism? Miriam Butt (Konstanz) recorded an introductory course on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG).
Miriam’s course can be access through the following links:
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/main/Teaching.html#lfg-ma Continue reading Online material for learning LFG
Linguistic calendar
Today is International Mother Language Day!
A great opportunity to celebrate linguistic diversity, to support projects to explore and protect endangered languages, to find out about language minorities and linguistic diversity in your own country!
Here is a list of holidays and special dates with relation to language and linguistics. This list will hopefully expand in the near future and we will add more information to the indicated events. Continue reading Linguistic calendar
Language musea
Recently, the plans for a Museum of Linguistics have been widely spread through the (social) media. In winter 2019, Planet World has been announced to open as the first interactive museum on language in the USA.
There are already a number of similar musea, maybe you will have the opportunity to visit one of them in the near future. Please drop a comment, if you know of other such places or if you would like to report on your visit in one of them!
- Leiden (The Netherlands): Taalmuseum
- Paris (France): Mundolingua
- Maryland (USA): National Museum of Language (in development)
- Toronto (Canada) : Canadian Language Museum/Musée Canadien des Langues
- Washington (DC): Planet World (in development)
- Virtual: Language Museum