Manfred Sailer and Assif Am-David presented at the 8th Colloquium of Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE), 17.-19.9.2015, at the Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, England. Continue reading Am-David and Sailer at “Semantics and Philosophy in Europe”
Bargmann and Sailer at Multiword Expression Meeting in Iași
Sascha and Manfred attended the 5th General Meeting of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions) in Iași, Romania.
Sascha presented a poster on “Syntactically Flexible VP-Idioms and the N-after-N Construction”. The poster is about how morphosyntactically flexible VP-idioms, like pull strings, and the so-called N-after-N construction, as in car after car, can combine to result in idiomatic VPs like pull string after string. Sascha is using a Semantic Continue reading Bargmann and Sailer at Multiword Expression Meeting in Iași
Sailer at Workshop on Encoding Multiword Expressions
September 21 and 22 Manfred attended a Hands-on Workshop on Encoding Multiword Expressions at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania. The workshop was organized as part of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions).
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Walker finishes teacher training program
Our former colleague, Heike Walker, has succesfully finished her teacher training program (Referendariat) in Leer, Lower Saxony. She has been awarded prices for outstanding thesis and outstanding overall results. Congratulations and best wishes for the future!!!
See the full article, including some pictures showing Heike at http://www.studienseminarleer.de/2015/07/15/lehrerberuf-ist-nichts-f%C3%BCr-minimalisten/
Am-David and Sailer at XPrag Workshop
Assif Am-David and Manfred Sailer held a talk at a workshop titled “Experimental and crosslinguistic evidence for the distinction between implicatures and presuppositions” (July 1-3, 2015). The Continue reading Am-David and Sailer at XPrag Workshop
e-Learning certificate for Am-David
Assif Am-David acquired the e-learning certificate of the Goethe University. Continue reading e-Learning certificate for Am-David
Bedtime Readings in Linguistics
Recently Karen Chung (Taipei, Taiwan) has posted on linguistlist an updated list of popular science, easy-to-read books on linguistics. The original list from 1994 had been compiled by Edith Moravcsik. Continue reading Bedtime Readings in Linguistics
Workshop in Zichron Ya’akov
At a workshop on grammar development in Zichron Ya’akov in the second half of June Janina Radó and Frank Richter gave two talks. Janina reported on ongoing experimental work on complex sluicing and focus. Frank discussed some aspects of a paper with Michael Hahn on using Henkin semantics for automatic reasoning with natural language.
The perfect conference location provided ample opportunity to explore the town and to learn about the local historical, botanical and culinary offerings.
Holger Wochele on product names
Holger Wochele (Vienna University of Economics and Business and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) gave a talk on the “Onomastics of product names” on July 6, 2015. Continue reading Holger Wochele on product names
Bob Levine on ”respectively”
On June 29, Bob Levine (Ohio State University, Columbus) presented joint work with Yusuke Kubota (University of Tsukuba) on Hybrid Type-logical Categorial Grammar (Hybrid TLCG). Bob presented the empirical challenges presented by operators such as respectively, by symmetrical predicates, and summatives. He showed how they can be overcome within Hybrid TLCG. Continue reading Bob Levine on ”respectively”