Activities

Forthcoming events

• June 28: Manfred Sailer: Lexical Effects of Epistemic Modals on Resolving the Scope of 
Strong Quantifiers (joint work with Frank Richter). Invited talk at the Universität Düsseldorf.

Chronology of all past events

2012

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  Participants of the HPSG Workshop, May 11-12, Frankfurt

• May 11 & 12: Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Lexical Effects of Epistemic Modals on Resolving the Scope of Strong Quantifiers. Presentation at the HPSG Workshop Frankfurt.

2011

• 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

2010

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

2008

• 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.
• 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)

2007

• November 2-3: Neg Raising, Negative Polarity Items, and Underspecification Theoretical and Computational Perspectives on Underspecification

2006

• 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)
• 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

2005

• 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, France. Abstract
• 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. Handout

2004

• August 4-6: Manfred Sailer: Propositional Relative Clauses in German. Talk at HPSG 2004, K.U. Leuven, Belgium. Abstract
• June 1: Manfred Sailer: Basic Concepts and Empirical Motivation of Lexical Resource Semantics. CNRS, Paris, France.
• 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
• 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

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  ESSLLI course, Viena

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

2002

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

2000

• December 19-20: Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Three Kinds of 'Underspecified Semantics' in HPSG. at the Workshop Linguistic Data Structures: Theoretical, Methodological, Descriptive Issues at the Universität Tübingen and the University of Pennsylvania, Tübingen.