Past and Upcoming Events

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Linguistics at the Seminar für Englische Philologie, Göttingen

Project A5: Distributional Idiosyncrasies

SFB 441/ Collaborative Research Center 441

Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Tübingen

HPSG in Tübingen

Upcoming Events

2012

• February: End of the project Negative Polarity Items: Between Syntactic and Pragmatic Licensing.

2013

Past Events

2011

• December 2: Manfred Sailer: The Anti-C-Command Condition in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Tübingen.
  Abstract

• September 10: Manfred Sailer: Was ist ein Laut? (What is a (speech) sound?). Hands-on unit on articulatory phonetics for pupils of grade 5. Progymnasium Burladingen.

• September 26-30: Manfred Sailer: Concord and Contribution Constraints in Lexical Semantics. Invited talk at the special session on Frames of the Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Kutaisi, Georgia.
  Slides

• July 19-23: Presentations at the 4th International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE), Osnabrück:

  Manfred Sailer: Classifying Negative Polartiy Items on the Basis of Corpus Profiles.
  Manfred Sailer: Word Doubling in Singapore and Hong Kong English. A Corpus Study.

• June 17-21: Manfred Sailer: Doubling in New Englishes. Telling apart Reduplication and Lack of Fluency. Presentation at International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 2), Boston, Massachusetts.

• June 9-10: Jack Hoeksema and Manfred Sailer: Literal and Nonliteral Meaning in Placename Idioms. Presentation at the International Conference on Images, Constructions, Domains: Syntactic Frozenness and Figurative Forms in Natural Languages, Dijon.

• April 18: Totale Reduplikation in postkolonialen Varietäten des Englischen (Total reduplication in postcolonial varieties of English). Invited talk in the Oberseminar of the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Tübingen.
  Website of the Oberseminar with abstract.

• January 14 & 15: Workshop Beyond "ever" and "any". Challenging theories of NPI licensing, Göttingen. Organized by the DFG-funded project Negative Polarity Items Between Syntactic and Pragmatic Licensing. (Member of the organization committee)

2010

• December 8: Manfred Sailer: Formale Modellierung von eingeschräkter Regelhaftigkeit am Beispiel phraseologischer Einheiten. Invited talk, Freie Universität Berlin.
  (Using phraseological units to motivate and illustrate the formal modelling of restricted regularity.)
  Slides (in German)

• September 3-5: Manfred Sailer: Phonological Idiomaticity. Presentation at the 6th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG6), Prague.
  Slides

• July 22, 23, & 26: Manfred Sailer: Elbisch, Na'vi, Klingonisch - Erfinde deine eigene Fantasie-Sprache. Project on language creation for pupils of grade 5 to 9 at the Progymnasium Burladingen.
  Presentation of the project (in German)

• July 9 & 10: Manfred Sailer: Cognate Objects in English. Presentation at the 17th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Paris.
  Slides

• July 1-3: International Meeting on Text Structure: Form, Meaning, and Processing, Göttingen.
  (Member of the organization committee.)

• March 23-26: Manfred Sailer: Greeting Formulae as Idioms with Phonological and Pragmatic Idiomaticity. Presentation at the 4th International FLaRN Conference - Interdisciplinary Conference on Formulaic Language, Paderborn.
  Slides

• February 18-20: Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Phraseologisierte Teilsätze: Modellierung von partieller Fixiertheit und Flexibilität in nichtlokalen Strukturen. Presentation at the international conference Konstruktionsgrammatik: Neue Perspektiven zur Untersuchung des Deutschen und Englischen

• February 11-13: Eva Csipak, Regine Eckardt, Mingya Liu, Janina Radó and Manfred Sailer: Polarity in Context. Presentation at Linguistic Evidence 2010, Tübingen.

• February 5: Manfred Sailer and Sascha Bargmann: Pfeiff mich, mein Schwein kneift! Versprecher und wie sie zustande kommen. Seminar at the Kinder-Uni Göttingen.

2009

• September 16-18: Manfred Sailer and Eva Csipak: Monotonie im Englischunterricht?. Presentation in the Sektion "Grammatik und Grammatikographie at the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Karlsruhe.
  Slides

• July 16-19: 16th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Göttingen.
  (member of the local organization committee)

  Conference presentation:
  Manfred Sailer and Frank Richter: Phraseological Clauses as Constructions in HPSG.

• June 22: Manfred Sailer: Verbal Negative Polarity Items: Stronger than Strong, Weaker than Weak!. Invited talk, Universität Tübingen.

• May 15: Participation at the Projekttag "Sprache" am Wieland-Gymnasium, Biberach an der Riß. Organization: Anke Holler and Susanne Braig.

• April 17 & 18: Manfred Sailer: Nonlocality in Constructions. At the Workshop on Grammar Theory and Implementation, Berlin.

• March 12 & 13: Manfred Sailer: Formalisierungsansätze in der kompetenz-orientierten Konstruktionsgrammatik. At the 10. Nordeutsche Linguistische Kolloquium (NLK), Greifswald.

• February 13: Manfred Sailer: Elbisch, Europanto, Klingonisch - Erfinde deine eigene Geheimsprache! Seminar im Rahmen der Kinderuni Göttingen.

2008

• September 30-October 2: Manfred Sailer: On Reading-dependend Licensing of Strong Negative Polarity Items. At Sinn und Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart.

• August 11-15: Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Simple Trees with Complex Semantics: On Epistemic Modals and Strong Quantifiers. At the workshop What Syntax Feeds Semantics?, ESSLLI 2008, Hamburg.

• August 4-8: Frank Richter, Janina Radó and Manfred Sailer: Negative Polarity Items: Corpus Linguistics, Semantics and Psycholinguistics. Introductory course at ESSLLI 2008, Hamburg.

• July 18:Beata Trawinski, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Manfred Sailer, Frank Richter: A Multilingual Electronic Database of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items. Euralex 2008, Barcelona.

• July 17, 18 & 20: Manfred Sailer: Projekt: Gebärdensprache und Gehörlosenkultur (Sign language and Deaf culture). Project for the pupils of grade 6 to 9 of the Progymnasium Burladingen.

• July 14: Manfred Sailer: Esperanto. Project for the pupils of grade 7 of the Progymnasium Burladingen.

• July 3: Manfred Sailer: Einfache Syntax, komplexe Semantik. Zur Interaktion von Modalen, starken Quantoren und Negation.. (Simple syntax, complex semantics. On the interaction of modals, strong quantifiers, and negation). Joint work with Frank Richter. Presentation in Stefan Müller's Aufbauseminar: Logik für Linguisten, FU Berlin.
  slides (in German)

• June 1: Beata Trawinski, Manfred Sailer, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Lothar Lemnitzer and Frank Richter:Cranberry Expressions in English and in German. Talk at the Workshop on Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008) at LREC 2008, Marakesh.
  Workshop proceedings

• March 5-6: Manfred Sailer, Mariele Stollenwerk and Torsten Brinkhol: Kollokationsfenster. Talk at the 9. Norddeutsche Linguistische Kolloquim (NLK2008), Bielefeld.

• February 27-29: (together with Gert Webelhuth and Heike Walker) Workshop on Rechtsverschiebung im Sprachvergleich/ Rightward Movement from a Crosslinguistic Perspective. At the Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Bamberg.

2007

• December 17-19: Manfred Sailer: Intervention Effects for Inverse Scope Readings. A DRT Account. Talk at the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam.
  Proceedings

• December 14-15: Manfred Sailer: Collocations and Domains of Idiosyncratic Combinability. Invited talk at the workshop on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Extended Lexical Units, Leiden.

• November 2-3: Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Neg Raising, Negative Polarity Items, and Underspecification. Paper at the Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Perspectives on Underspecification, Stuttgart.

• July 20-22: NPI Licensing, Intervention, and Discourse Representation Structures in HPSG. Presentation at the 14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford.
  Abstract (.pdf)

• July 12: Participation at the Projekttag "Sprache" am Wieland-Gymnasium in Biberach an der Riß. Organization: Anke Holler and Susanne Braig.
  Short news report (in German)

• April 27/28: CoGETI Workshop on Semantics and Information Structure. Workshop of the Cogeti Scientific Network on Constraint-Based Grammar in Göttingen

• March 8-10 Dynamic Interventions. A DRT-based Characterization of Interveners in NPI Licensing. At Workshop on Negation and Polarity, Tübingen.
  Abstract
  Proceedings

• March 7/8: 8. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK07), Göttingen.

  Organization and participation with a talk about:
  Dynamisch Interventionen. Eine dynamische Perspektive auf Interventionseffekte bei NPE-Lizenzierung
  Abstract
  Slides
  

2006

• November 24/25: Komplementmengen-Anaphern und negativpoläre Elemente. Auf Workshop on Anaphoric Relations of the Cogeti Scientific Network on Constraint-Based Grammar in Heidelberg:

• October 5-7: Modelling the Lexis-Grammar Interface in a Competence-Based Framework: The Case of Bound Words. Presentation at Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface, Hannover.

• September 21-23: Complement Anaphora and Negative Polarity Items. Presentation at Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona.
  Abstract (.pdf)
  Slides (.pdf)

• July 24-27: with Frank Richter: Modelling Typological Markedness in Semantics: The Case of Negative Concord. Presentation at the 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Varna, Bulgaria.
  Abstract (.pdf)

• July 6/7: CoGETI Workshop on Non-Canonical Structures. Workshop of the Cogeti Scientific Network on Constraint-Based Grammar in Göttingen

• June 23:Semantikworkshop Tübinger Welten, Ereignisse, Situationen und Zeiten, organized by the Project A5 of the SFB 441 und Laura Kallmeyer's Emmy-Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe

• May 24-26: with Beata Trawinski: The Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items: A Multilingual Resource for Linguistic Research. Presentation at LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy.

• May 15-20: Manfred Sailer, Gert Webelhuth: visit at the Computational Linguistics department of the NTNU Trondheim, Norway.

  May 18: Manfred Sailer: Collocations and Domains of Idiosyncratic Distribution


Handout
• March 2/3: Tod, Verdammnis und NPE-Lizenzierung. Strikte negativpoläre Elemente in nicht-negativen Kontexten. Presentation at the 7. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium
  Abstract (in German)

• February 5/6: Tod, Verdammnis und NPE-Lizenzierung. Presentation at the CoGETI-Workshop on Negative Polarity Items. Workshop of the Cogeti Scientific Network on Constraint-Based Grammar in Tübingen.
  Handout (in German)

2005

• December 8/9: A Collocational Theory of Negative Polarity Item Licensing. Presentation at the Workshop on Polarity Meets Psycholinguistics , University of Potsdam.
  Abstract
  Handout

• October 1: Workshop of the Cogeti Scientific Network on Constraint-Based Grammar, Bochum:
  • with Frank Richter and Tibor Kiss: Tutorium zur Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle.
  • with Roland Schäfer: LRS/MRS Adjunkt-Analysen: Evaluative

• September 30 - October 1: Neg Raising in an Underspecified Semantics Framework. Paper at 6ème Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2005), Paris.
  Abstract

• August 22-24: 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG-05), Lisbon, Portugal.
  Conference Notes
  Workshop Notes
  

  Pictures of the workshop and the conference

• August 8-12: Workshop on Empirical Challenges and Analytic Alternatives to Strict Compositionality. Part of the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI05), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
  Workshop proceedings

• July 12./13.: "Don't Believe" in Underspecified Semantics. An LRS Analysis of Neg Raising. Presentation at the Second International Workshop on Constraint-Based Grammar, Universität Bremen, Germany.
  Handout

• May 9.: Unterspezifikation und Mehrfachmarkierung im Tempussystem des Afrikaans. Universität Göttingen, Germany. Presentation in the Linguistisches Kolloquium, University of Göttingen, Germany.
  Time: 17.15-18.45, Building: Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, Room: 004.
  Handout

• April 6.: Multiple Exponence and Underspecification of Temporal Operators in the Afrikaans Verbal Complex. Presentation at the Leiden Center for Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands .
  Time: 15.15-17.00, Building: 1166, Room: 005
  Handout

2004

• December, 10-11: Timm Lichte and Manfred Sailer: Extracting Negative Polarity Items from a Partially Parsed Corpus. Talk delivered at the The Third Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2004), Universität Tübingen.

• December, 5-6: Workshop: Empirie und Theorie idiosynkratischer Verbindungen, organized by the Project A5 of the SFB 441, Universität Tübingen.

• August, 26-29: Manfred Sailer and Beata Trawinski: Die Sammlung unikaler Wörter des Deutschen. Aufbauprinzipien und erste Auswertungsergebnisse. Paper to be delivered at EUROPHRAS 2004, Basel, Switzerland.

• August, 4-6: Manfred Sailer: Propositional Relative Clauses in German. Talk to be delivered at HPSG 2004, K.U. Leuven, Belgium.
  Abstract

• June, 1: Manfred Sailer: Basic Concepts and Empirical Motivation of Lexical Resource Semantics. CNRS, Paris, France.

• May, 10: Manfred Sailer: Relativsätze bei Idiomen. Invited talk at the University of Jena.

• April 3-7: Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer, Beata Trawinski: visit at the Linguistic Engineering Group of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

  April 5: Manfred Sailer: Local Semantics in HPSG.
  Handout

• March 26-30: Visit at the project Kollokationen im Wörterbuch of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

  March 30, 10.00: Manfred Sailer (joint work with Timm Lichte): Distributionsprofile für Polaritätselemente.

• January, 12, 18.00-20.00: Manfred Sailer: Tempus im Afrikaans. Part of the Oberseminar "Neuere Literatur zu Semantik und Syntax". SfS, Raum 1.13.
  Corrected handout: .ps/.pdf

2003

• October, 27-28: Visit at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim.

• October 2-4.: Manfred Sailer: Local Semantics in HPSG. At: Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris, Paris, France.

• September 29- October 1. Manfred Sailer: Past Tense Marking in Afrikaans. At: Sinn und Bedeutung VIII, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

• August 18-22. Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Constraint-based Combinatorial Semantics. Introductory course at ESSLLI 2003, Vienna.

• August 16-17. Jan-Philipp Soehn and Manfred Sailer: At First Blush on Tenterhooks. Talk given at FGVienna 2003: The 8th Conference on Formal Grammar in Vienna, Austria on August 16th-17th, 2003.

• August 7-8. Manfred Sailer: Past Tense Marking in Afrikaans. At: HPSG-Workshop on Germanic, Bremen, Germany.

• May 30, 11.15-13.00. Manfred Sailer: Kaum zu fassen! Zum Problem der Erfassung von distributionell beschränkten Elementen am Beispiel der Polaritätselemente. Presentation as part of the cours Computerlexikographie (computational lexicography) at the MilCA summer school, Tübingen, May 29-31.

• May 2. Manfred Sailer: Distributional Idiosyncrasies. Lecture in the Linguistics Colloquium of the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, Universiteit Groningen.

• March 11-13. Manfred Sailer: Distributionsidiosynkrasien. Korpuslinguistische Erfassung und grammatiktheoretische Deutung., Vortrag auf der 39. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim.

2002

• November 18, 16.15-18.00. Manfred Sailer and Frank Richter: Vom Fackeln und Wahrhaben. Distributionsidiosynkrasien als Kompetenzphänomen, presentation of the activities and the results of the project A5 after its first year. Room 215, Wilhelmstr. 50.

• November 4. Manfred Sailer: On Collocations in German. Talk given at the meeting of the Syntax Research Group of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Toronto

• October 2-11. Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Grammar Writing and Parsing. Course at the German-Israeli Minerva School in Computational Linguistics, Tübingen and Blaubeuren.

• September 6-8. Manfred Sailer: The German Incredulity Response Construction and the Hierarchical Organization of Constructions. At: 2nd International Conference on Construction Grammar.

• August, 26-29. Manfred Sailer and Frank Richter: Collocations and the Representation of Polarity. At: 7th Symposium on Logic and Language, Pécs.

• August 3-4. Manfred Sailer and Frank Richter: Not for Love or Money: Collocations!. At: Formal Grammar 2002, Trento

• April 26-27. Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: LRS and Welsh Negation. Talk given at the 6th CLAIRE Workshop, University of Essex in Colchester, England.

• April 25. Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Distributionally Restricted Words in LRS. Talk delivered to the meeting of the British Constraint-Based Grammar Group at King's College in London, England.

2001

• December 14-15. Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Discontinuity Continued: LRS 3.0 alpha. At: 5th Claire Workshop.

• October 12. Manfred Sailer: Negative Concord in Polish and Lexical Resource Grammar, invited talk, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht.

• October 11. Manfred Sailer: Idiomatic Expressions in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, invited talk, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht.

• October 5. Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Cranberry Words in Formal Grammar. At: Conférence de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris.

1995 - 2000: under construction