Manfred gave a talk on Doing the Devil: An Unrescuable PPI at the workshop Varieties of Positive Polarity Items of the annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Leipzig, March 4-6, 2015.
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Sascha Bargmann presented joint work with Manfred Sailer on the Syntactic Flexibility of Non-decomposable Idioms during the 16th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, February 20-23, 2015.
Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer are participating in the Parseme 1st Training School in Prague, January 19-23, 2015. Continue reading Sailer and Bargmann at the PARSEME 1st Training School, Prague
Last term Dr. Assif Am-David took part at the Writing Fellow Programme of the university writing centre (Schreibzentrum), a pilot that was first introduced at the Goethe University. This involved 7 courses university wide across all disciplines. As a part of this Continue reading Am-David in the “writing fellow” programme
Campus Westend is a great place to be. We have been busy taking pictures to show you why.
There is a lot more where this representative example came from.
It is with great sadness that we learned that Emmon Bach died on November 28.
The website http://emmonbach.info is a place for sharing memories and contains many pictures from the Emmon Fest in Frankfurt just a few months ago.
Emmon’s colleagues from SOAS have have posted a Tribute to Emmon Bach.
An obituary has been posted on the Language Log.
November 27th to 30th, the Research Group Relative Clauses hosted a workshop on relative clauses, sponsored by the Strategic Parnership Program (DAAD) and the Research Group 1783 (DFG). The aim of the workshop was to intensify the scientific cooperation between Tel Aviv University and Goethe University Frankfurt.
There were three presentations from members of the IEAS linguistics section:
The Pronouns@Tübingen 2 workshop in Tübingen from November 7th through November 9th provides a venue for discussion on ongoing research on pronouns in general and, in particular, on pronouns in embedded contexts. Frank Richter contributed a commentary on Sarah Zobel’s talk in the special session On the non-uniformity of pronouns.
The Second European Workshop on HPSG (EW-HPSG) will take place in Paris, November 17 & 18.
Information on the workshop and the program are available on the workshop website.
There will be three presentations by members of the IEAS:
Goethe University celebrated its centennial anniversary with fireworks over Poelzig-Bau last Saturday. Here are four minutes (out of 15), posted on youtube: