Members of the linguistic section of the Institute of English and American Studies participate in a number of research projects.
Ongoing projects and co-operations
- Apr 2024-Dec 2027: Participation in projects of the CRC 1629 Negation in Language and Beyond:
- A04: Resolving the neg raising paradox (Sailer & Zeijlstra)
- B01: Negation at the interface. Negation and existential quantification in German (Bader, Bargmann & Webelhuth)
- B05: Negative polarity items in non-negative contexts (Richter & Sailer)
- INF: Scientific services and data management (Lago, Mehler & Sailer)
- May 2024-Apr 2026 : A frame-based approach to implicit arguments (Webelhuth)
- Since October 2024: Linguistic Science Communication
- Since October 2018: Teaching cooperation REsearch in English Linguistics (REEL Day), with Arbeitsbereich Englische Sprach- und Übersetzungswissenschaft, JG University Mainz.
Completed projects and co-operations
- Oct 2014-Sep 2023: Graduate School Nominal Modification GRK 2016/1; second phase approved, starting April 2019
- May 2020-Apr 2023: Conversion in English: The interaction of generic knowledge, contextual information, and syntactic constructions (Webelhuth)
- 2017-2019: VisaS: Visualisierung akademischer Schreibkompetenz (Schreibzentrum & IEAS)
- Oct 2018-Mar 2019: Digital Data in English Linguistics (Mainz & Frankfurt)
- Jan 2017-Dec 2018: One-to-Many Correspondences in Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics (Frankfurt & Paris)
- Oct 2014- Sep 2017: Constraint-based Analysis of Relative Clauses in English and German. Part of the Research Unit Relative Clauses FOR 1738. (second phase)
- Mar 2013-Mar 2017: PARSEME Parsing and Multiword Expressions. COST Action 1207.
- Oct 2011- Sep 2014: Constraint-based Analysis of Restrictive Relative Clauses. Part of the Research Unit Relative Clauses FOR 1738. (first phase)
- Oct 2013-Jul 2014: eLRS2 (e-Learning Resource for Semantics 2)
- Jan 2011-Dec 2013: Text as Instance of the Language System. Part of the Loewe Schwerpunkt Digital Humanities (Frankfurt & Darmstadt)
- Oct 2012-Mar 2013: eLRS (e-Learning Resources for Semantics)