Starting in the winter term 2022/23, the MA program in Empirical Linguistics of Goethe University will have a new area of specialization: English Linguistics.
The application for this specialization is open 01.06.-31.07.2022 Continue reading English Linguistics in the MA Empirical Linguistics
Host Institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Website: https://blog.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/etpoll22/home/
Dates: 16-Jun-2022 – 20-Jun-2022
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
During the course of the workshop, we will discuss various empirical and theoretical approaches in the study of low-resource languages, with a particular focus on passive and relative clause structures. Our topics are relevant for researchers in the fields of linguistic typology, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, empirical linguistics, and applied linguistics.
The languages which will be covered in this workshop include: Arabic, Armenian, Azeri Turkic, Balochi, Domari, Japanese, Kurdish, Neo-Aramaic, Persian, Romeyka, Turkish Continue reading ETPOLL 2022
Hiwa Asadpour, Shene Hassan & Manfred Sailer will present a joint paper on “Non-wh relatives in English and Kurdish: Constraints on grammar and use” at this year’s HPSG conference.
Continue reading Hiwa, Shene & Manfred on non-wh relatives at HPSG 2022
Es ist vorgesehen, dass ab dem Wintersemester 2022/23 Englische Sprachwissenschaft als Schwerpunkt innerhalb des Studiengangs MA Empirische Sprachwissenschaft gewählt werden kann.
Am 10.5., 16.00-18.00 Uhr, findet eine Informationsveranstaltung für die Bewerbungen zum MA-Studiengang Empirische Sprachwissenschaft statt. Die Veranstaltung kann in Präsenz Continue reading Informationsveranstaltung MA Empirische Sprachwissenschaft
Dr. Janina Radó is offering a colloquium for exam preparation during the summer semester 2022, wednesday 2.15-3.45pm. The colloquium is open to all students who take their Erstes Staatsexamen in English linguistics, independently of the exam topics and the examiner. You are also welcome to join if you are writing your wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit or your BA/MA thesis in English linguistics. Continue reading Exam preparation Lehramt
Hiwa Asadpour will give papers at two international conferences in August. Congratulations!!
He will present a paper on “Flagging-drop typology and its relevance on Target Word Ordering” at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics 2022, ICHL 25 — University of Oxford, 1-5 Continue reading Hiwa at conferences in Oxford and Bucharest
Hiwa Asadpour was recently awarded the Focus Track A|B: Promotion of Independent Grant Proposals by Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers (GRADE) at Goethe University Frankfurt. Continue reading Focus grant for Hiwa
The proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 2021 are now online! They contain three papers (co-)authored by members of the Frankfurt English Linguistics group: Continue reading HPSG 2021 proceedings online
Shene Hassan has published her disseration with the Frankfurt university library . Congratulations! The full text is available online.
In her thesis, Shene develops a theory of supplementary relative clauses in English and Sōrānī Kurdish. She looks at two Continue reading Shene’s disseration published
Language Science Press has published Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook.
In 32 chapters, the handbook covers the major aspects and developments of HPSG. The following chapters are (co-)authored by IEAS members: Continue reading HPSG handbook with IEAS contributions