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).
Monica working on documenting Romanian MWEs, Frankfurt, April 2016. (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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/.
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.
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→
Janina Radó visited the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from March 3rd through March 5th. On the first day, she and Oliver Bott from Universität Tübingen talked on Experimental evidence against underspecified representations of quantifier scope, followed by a two-day course on Experimental investigations into quantifier scope at Pázmány University Budapest.
Das Project Constraint-based analysis of relative clauses in English and German der Forschergruppe Relativesätze sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine
