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 (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
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”
The European network on Parsing and Multiword Expressions (Parseme) has its next General Meeting in Iași, Romania, September 23 & 24.
There will be two poster presentations from Frankfurt: Sascha Bargmann has a poster on “Syntactically Flexible VP-Idioms and the N-after-N Construction”. Manfred’s poster deals with “Possessive alternations in German idioms.”
David presented his work on a uniform analysis of different in sentences with plurals (All games attracted different children.) and coordination (Different children sang and played.) at the first retreat of the Graduate School Nominal Modification, Braunfels, June 12&13.
The 8th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics, The Grammar of Idioms was a really inspiring event!
Continue reading Short report from “The Grammar of Idioms”, Brussels, June 4&5
Sascha and Manfred will participate in the 8th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics, whose topic is The Grammar of Idioms.
The conference is organized by the project The Syntax of Idioms: Project description, a joint project of KU Leuven (Belgium) and RU Utrecht (the Nederlands).
Manfred is going to talk about Possessive (Non-)Alternations in Idioms.
The linguistics department of the IEAS has welcomed a new member this term, Philippa Cook. She will present herself in this blog entry.
Philippa Cook
Office hour: tuesday, 9-10 a.m.
Office: IG 3.212
Homepage at the IEAS: https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/55067540/cook
March 19 & 20, Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer attended the 4th General meeting of the network Parsing and Multiword Expressions (PARSEME).
Continue reading “Parsing and Multiword Expressions” Met in Valletta