Dianne Jonas is currently in Iceland, attending the 22nd Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference in Reykjavík. She will be giving a talk with her coauthor, Ásgrímur Angantýsson, on the syntax of adverbial clauses in Icelandic on May 21st. Here is a pdf of an abstract of their talk.
Richter on `Higher-order Reasoning with Natural Language´
On Tuesday, May 17, there will be a talk by
Frank Richter (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
Higher-order Reasoning with Natural Language”
Room: NG 2.731, 4:15-5:45 (pm)
Abstract:
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Weber on “Extraposition of prepositional phrases – corpus data and elicited production experiments”
We are happy to announce a talk by
Sabrina Weber (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
Extraposition of prepositional phrases
– corpus data and elicited production experiments
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, May 23, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
Abstract:
Extraposition of prepositional phrases out of NP is considered to be a marked structure as it splits up the head noun and the PP. However, there is another syntactic dependency to consider: the Continue reading Weber on “Extraposition of prepositional phrases – corpus data and elicited production experiments”
Rizea’s research visit in Frankfurt
From April 18 to April 29, Dr. Monica-Mihaela Rizea (Bucarest) spend a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the IEAS. Monica’s stay was supported by the European research network Parsing and Multiword Expressions (Parseme).
The purpose of Monica’s visit was to work on an online documentation of multiword expressions in Romanian and on a collection of Romanian Negative Polarity Items (NPI) that is hosted by our department at https://www.englishlinguistics.
de/codii/.
Lahm on “Different´´ as a Restrictor on Skolem Functions
We are happy to announce an invited talk by
David Lahm (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
“Different” as a Restrictor on Skolem Functions
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, May 2, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
Abstract:
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Iordăchioaia on “Agents and Causers in Psych Nominals”
We are happy to announce an invited talk by
Gianina Iordăchioaia (Stuttgart)
on
Agents and Causers in Psych Nominals
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, April 25, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
Abstract: Continue reading Iordăchioaia on “Agents and Causers in Psych Nominals”
Rizea on Particularities of Romanian as a Negative Concord Language
We are happy to announce an invited talk by
Monica-Mihaela Rizea (Bucarest)
on
Particularities of Romanian as a Negative Concord Language.
The Idiosyncratic Behaviour of Nici and an HPSG Account of Long Distance Negative Concord
in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, April 18, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.
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Bargmann in Essex
February 14 to 28 Sascha Bargmann visited the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. The purpose of this visit was to discuss Doug Arnold’s analysis of non-restrictive relative clauses (NRCs) as syntactically fully integrated (subordinated) units as well as my semantic representation (SR) account of semantically decomposable idioms (SDIs) like pull strings and to combine the two into an analysis of SDIs in NRCs formulated within Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Continue reading Bargmann in Essex
Sailer at Multiword Expressions Meeting in Struga
Manfred attended the 6th General Meeting of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions) in Struga, FYR Macedonia.
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New Hauptseminar “Research Methods in Linguistics”
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”