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.
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
Manfred attended the 6th General Meeting of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions) in Struga, FYR Macedonia.
Continue reading Sailer at Multiword Expressions Meeting in Struga
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”
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.
Application closed!
Das Project Constraint-based analysis of relative clauses in English and German der Forschergruppe Relativesätze sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine
studentische Hilfskraft
Continue reading Studentische Hilfskraft für Projekt CON gesucht!
Many tests of semantic properties that linguists use in their everyday life rely on reasoning. For example, if you know that all space aliens love chocolate, and you learn that Mary is a space alien, then you also know that Mary loves chocolate. This does not only tell you something important about space aliens, on closer inspection and after some serious linguistic analyzing it also reveals certain properties of the meaning of the determiner all. Continue reading Paper on Automatic Reasoning
Derek Bickerton’s seminal book Roots of Language (1981) is now available on open access via Language Science Press!
Bickerton’s book was an important contribution to creole studies and heavy stimulated theoretical linguists to start looking at creole languages in depth. Continue reading “Roots of Language” on Open Access!
February 17, 2016, Janina Radó (Frankfurt a.M., Tübingen) will give an invited talk at KonferenzLE, Tübingen, together with Oliver Bott (Tübingen). In their talk on Processing Quantifiers in German they will illustrate various methods for investigating semantic processing.
Pia Gerhard defended her doctoral dissertation on February 8, 2016. The thesis has the title Translating from English to
German: Structural and Stylistic Preferences.
Congratulations!!
In her thesis Pia discusses the factors that differentiate between the following English constructions: Continue reading Pia Gerhard Defended Her Thesis!