Members of the linguistic section of the Institute of English and American Studies participate in a number of research projects.
Ongoing projects and co-operations
- April 2024-December 2027: Projects as part of the CRC 1629 Negation in Language and Beyond:
- A04: Resolving the NegRaising paradox. PIs: Manfred Sailer & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen)
- B01: Negation at the interfaces: Negation and existential quantification in German. PIs: Markus Bader, Sascha Bargmann & Gert Webelhuth
- B05: Negative Polarity Items in non-negative contexts. PIs: Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer
- Since 2022: The Dynamics of Asymmetric Language Contact (DALC), informal special interest group, initiated by Hiwa Asadpour, Carolina Plaza-Pust and Manfred Sailer.
- Since October 2018: Teaching cooperation REsearch in English Linguistics (REEL Day), with Arbeitsbereich Englische Sprach- und Übersetzungswissenschaft, JG University Mainz.
Completed projects and co-operations
- May 2020-Apr 2023: Conversion in English: The interaction of generic knowledge, contextual information, and syntactic constructions. PI: Gert Webelhuth
- Oct 2014-Sep 2023: Graduate School Nominal Modification GRK 2016/1.
- 2017-2019: VisaS: Visualisierung akademischer Schreibkompetenz (Schreibzentrum & IEAS)
- Oct 2018-Mar 2019: Digital Data in English Linguistics (Mainz & Frankfurt)
- Jan 2017-Dec 2018: One-to-Many Correspondences in Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics (Frankfurt & Paris)
- Oct 2014- Sep 2017: Constraint-based Analysis of Relative Clauses in English and German. Part of the Research Unit Relative Clauses FOR 1738. (second phase)
- Mar 2013-Mar 2017: PARSEME Parsing and Multiword Expressions. COST Action 1207.
- Oct 2011- Sep 2014: Constraint-based Analysis of Restrictive Relative Clauses. Part of the Research Unit Relative Clauses FOR 1738. (first phase)
- Oct 2013-Jul 2014: eLRS2 (e-Learning Resource for Semantics 2)
- Jan 2011-Dec 2013: Text as Instance of the Language System. Part of the Loewe Schwerpunkt Digital Humanities (Frankfurt & Darmstadt)
- Oct 2012-Mar 2013: eLRS (e-Learning Resources for Semantics)