Manfred Sailer
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News for students
I will be on a sabbatical till October 2024. I will be available for Staatsexamen, BA/MA theses, independent reading modules, and other exams.
My office hour will take place on zoom and by individual appointment.
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question.
Areas of research
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Syntax
- Syntax-semantics interface
- Constructions and collocations
- Negative polarity items
- Idioms
- Definiteness
- Corpus linguistics
Highlights
Overview over all
past and upcoming events
Selected recent publications
- Crysmann, Berthold & Manfred Sailer (eds). 2021. One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Syntax and Morphology). Berlin: Language Science Press.
URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/262. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4638824
Including a joint paper with Frank Richter on Negative Conjuncts and Negative Concord Across the Board.
- Rizea, Monica-Mihaela & Manfred Sailer. 2020. A constraint-based modeling of negative polarity items in result clause constructions in Romanian. Linguisticae Investigationes 43(1). 129-168. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/li.00042.riz
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Bargmann, Sascha & Manfred Sailer. 2018. The syntactic
flexibility of semantically non-decomposable idioms. In: Manfred Sailer
& Stella Markantonatou (eds): Multiword Expressions: Insights
from a Multi-lingual Perspective
(Phraseology and Multiword Expressions 1).
Berlin: Language Science Press. 1-29. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1182587
- Sailer, Manfred. 2018. Doing the devil: Deriving the
PPI-hood of a negation-expressing multi-dimensional idiom.
In: Linguistics 52(2). 401-433.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0041
- Sailer, Manfred
& Stella Markantonatou (eds). 2018. Multiword Expressions: Insights
from a Multi-lingual Perspective
(Phraseology and Multiword Expressions 1). Berlin: Language Science Press.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1182583
- Eva Csipak,
Regine Eckardt, Mingya, Manfred Sailer (eds) (2013):
Beyond
"any" and "ever". New Explorations in Negative Polarity
Sensitivity. De Gruyter, Berlin.
Contributions: Introduction (with Regine Eckardt) and one chapter
(with Edgar Onea)
- Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer, Heike Walker (eds)
(2013): Rightward Movement in a Comparative
Perspective. Benjamins.
Flyer
Contributions: Introduction (with Gert Webelhuth and Heike Walker)
- Jack Hoeksema & Manfred Sailer (2012):
Literal and Nonliteral Meaning in Placename Idioms. In
Yearbook of Phraseology, volume 3, pp. 127-142. De Gruyter, Berlin.
Complete list of
publications
Recent projects
Overview over all past and current projects.
Areas of teaching
- Introductory level: Introduction to linguistics, both BA
and Lehramt
- Seminar level: Semantics 1, Syntax 1, New Englishes, ...
- Hauptseminar level: Semantics 2, Pragmatics, Ambiguity,
Idioms, Negative Polarity Items, Constructed languages
- Oberseminar: Syntax and Semantics
Overview over all
teaching activities