November 19 & 20, Berthold Crysmann (Paris) visited Frankfurt to give two talks on his joint work with Alain Kihm on Apparent reversal in Old French declension. Berthold and Alain argue that even though the Old French declension looks like a case of reversal, it should better be described in terms of generalizations over various declension classes.
We are happy to announce that David Lahm has submitted his doctoral dissertation last week! Congratulations!! David was a member of the graduate school Nominal Modification.
David after submitting his dissertation. October 2018 (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
David has also just published a paper on Plural in Lexical Resource Semantics in the proceedings of this year’s HPSG conference.
Monica showed that so-called vre-NPIs are weak NPIs but have often claimed to be excluded in sentences with a simple negation. She provides a more refined generalization that accounts for both Continue reading Rizea in Frankfurt→
Dianne Jonas will participate at this year’s meeting of the Netværk for nordisk syntakshistorie (Nordic historical syntax network) Copenhagen, November 1 & 2. The title of her talk is On the Comparative Morphosyntax of ‘think’.
During the winter term, Manfred Sailer is offering meetings for his exam candidates. All meetings will take place tuesday, 14.15-15.45, IG 3.214.
13.11.2018 (semantics, New Englishes)
18.12.2018 (conlangs, negation)
12.2.2019 (oral exam: pragmatics, survey)
Please contact Manfred Sailer (sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de) directly if you have not yet registered at Sailer’s Olat exam group or if you have any other questions.
Gerald Penn from the University of Toronto came back to Frankfurt this summer for an entire month of intense implementation work on CLLRS, the constraint language that gives a computational interpretation to Lexical Resource Semantics (LRS). LRS is the semantic framework that we use in teaching introductory semantics, and it is developed actively in various ongoing research projects. Continue reading Gerald Penn visiting (again)→
In der Arbeitsgruppe „Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle“ (Sailer) der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft sind zum 1.10.2018 zwei studentische Hilfskraftstellen zu besetzen. (Die beiden Stellen können auch von derselben Person besetzt werden.)
