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
“Roots of Language” on Open Access!
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!
Radó Talks at KonferenzLE
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.
Links
- KonferenzLE, Tübingen
Pia Gerhard Defended Her Thesis!
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!
Sailer in Belgrade
From Februar 1 to 4 Manfred Sailer made a research visit to the University of Belgrade.
IEAS Christmas Party
It is that time of the year again: December 14th saw all of us linguists coming together celebrating the completion of another productive year. As pictures of the event reveal, we were having a good time. Lighting and scenery were just perfect!
Grammatical terminology for schools
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain has posted a list of grammatical terms, with definitions and explanations. Dick Hudson has posted the following message on linguistlist today:
Dear Colleague,
As some of you may know, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) has a long-standing interest in building bridges to schools and an education committee responsible for this building process (http://lagb-education.org/).
Reacting to recent developments in England’s schools, this committee has produced a glossary of grammatical terminology for use in schools: http://lagb-education.org/grammatical-terminology-for-schools . Continue reading Grammatical terminology for schools
Am-David in Jerusalem
Assif Am-David held a talk at the linguistics department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on October 27, 2015. He spoke on “Determined reference as a CI component in the meaning of definites,” presenting joint work with Manfred. Continue reading Am-David in Jerusalem
Sailer in Athens
(Photo: Anne Sailer, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
October 20 to 30 Manfred Sailer spent in Athens on a Short Term Scientific Mission of the network PARSEME (Parsing and Multiword Expressions). Most of the time Manfred was working with Stella Merkantonatou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens) on the planned edited volume on Multiword Expressions: Insights from a Multi-lingual Perspective. Continue reading Sailer in Athens
< Auf nach Frankfurt !> European HPSG workshop 16-17th November 2015
On Monday 16th – Tuesday 17th November 2015 we will be hosting an HPSG workshop here at the IEAS in Frankfurt
<Auf nach Frankfurt !>
This is an informal meeting (no abstracts, no selection) bringing togther people from across Europe who are interested in HPSG. We are following on from the tradition of previous workshops held in Paris (2014) and Frankfurt (2013). Anyone is welcome to attend and there is no registration and no fee. Continue reading < Auf nach Frankfurt !> European HPSG workshop 16-17th November 2015