Manfred Sailer
Institut für England- und Amerikastudien
N-Wollheim-Platz 1
Raum 3.214
60629 Frankfurt a.M.
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Secretary Linguistics
of the Institut für England- und Amerikastudien
N-Wollheim-Platz 1
Raum 3.218
60629 Frankfurt a.M.

Tel.: 069/798-32534
Fax: 069/798-32509
E-Mail: mckenzie@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Office hours:
Mon-Thu 10am-3pm

Events

Upcoming Events

2024

• April 19: Nicolas Lamoure, Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Negative polarity items with coffee stain distribution. Presentation at the NegLab Kick-off Workshop, Frankfurt a.M.

• June 19-21: Manfred Sailer: Negation-transparent matrix predicates: Licensing of embedded NPIs. Poster at the MECORE closing workshop: "Advances in the semantics of clause-embedding predicates: theories, cross-linguistic data, and experiments", Konstanz.

• June-August: Host of a research visit by Jong-Bok Kim (Seoul), funded by Alexander von Humboldt Fundation.

• October 10 & 11: Participation in the conference on placeholder, University of Tübingen.

2025

Past Events

2024

• April: Start of the first funding phase of the Collaborative Research Centre "Negation in Language and Beyond" (NegLab, CRC 1629).

2023

• September 30: End of the second funding phase of the Graduate School "Nominal Modification" (DFG GRK 2016/1), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

• June-December: Host of a research visit by Jamie Y. Findlay (Oslo), funded by the Research Council of Norway.

• July 7-9. Manfred Sailer & Nicolas Lamoure. Superlative 'ever' in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish. Paper presented at the 30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 2023.
  abstract, slides

• May 8-12: Participation in the Dagstuhl Seminar ''Universals of Linguistic Idionsyncrasy in Multilingual Computational Linguistics, Schloss Dagstuhl.

• March 8-10: Workshop: Coexistence, competition, and change: Structural borrowing and the dynamics of asymmetric language contact at DGfS 2023, organized together with Hiwa Asadpour and Carolina Plaza-Pust.
  • Manfred Sailer & Nicolas Lamoure: Superlative 'ever': A cross-linguistic lexically anchored structural borrowing. Workshop presentation.
    abstract, slides

• January 24: Manfred Sailer. Explicit or redundant:The social meaning of multiple exponence. Invited talk, Humboldt University Berlin. slides

2022

• December 14: Manfred Sailer. NPI-licensing in enriched semantic representations. Talk at Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, Cologne.
  slides (pdf)

• September 23, 2022: Member of COST Action 21167: Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive)
  Funding period: 23.9.2023-22.9.2026.

• September 14-16: Manfred Sailer & Suzanne Smith. "In ages" is not an NPI, which explains its distribution. Poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 27, Prague.
  Poster

• July 29-31: Hiwa Asadpour, Shene Hassan & Manfred Sailer. Non-"wh" relatives in English and Kurdish: Constraints on grammar and use. Paper presented at The International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 2022, Tokyo.
  Abstract. Slides. Recording of the talk

• July 10: Hiwa Asadpour, Carolina Plaza Pust & Manfred Sailer. Start of the initiative the Dynamics of Asymmetric Language Contact (DALC).

2021

• September 8-10: Manfred Sailer. Use-conditional licensing of strong NPIs. Presentation at Sinn und Bedeutung 26, Cologne.
  Abstract. Slides. Recording of the talk.

• August 29 - September 3: Participant at the Dagstuhl Seminar 20261 Universals of Linguistic Idiosyncrasy in Multilingual Computational Linguistics. Schloss Dagstuhl.

• August 18-20: Together with Nurit Melnik (The Open University of Israel): Workshop on Constructional Approaches in Formal Grammar at the International Conference on Construction Grammar, Antwerp.

• July 28-30: 28th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
  • Manfred Sailer & Sascha Bargmann. A phraseo-lexical analysis of idioms.
    Abstract. Recording of the talk.
    Full paper:
    Sailer, Manfred & Sascha Bargmann. 2021. Gluing idioms back together: A phraseo-combinatorial analysis. Stefan Müller & Nurit Melnik (eds): Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 186-204. doi:10.21248/hpsg.2021.10 (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/415)
  • Manfred Sailer. Minimizer negative polarity items in non-negative contexts. Presentation at the Workshop on negation.
    Abstract. Recording of the talk.
    Full paper:
    Sailer, Manfred. 2021. Minimizer negative polarity items in non-negative contexts. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 348-368. doi:10.21248/hpsg.2021.19 (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/424)

2020

• August 17-19: Manfred Sailer & Annika Dörner. A smurf-based analysis of placeholder expressions. Presentation at the 27th international Conference on HPSG.
  (Slides, Abstract, Proceedings)

• February 15: REEL Day. REsearch in English Linguistics. Digital Data in English Linguistics: Language in Politics Student workshop, based on a teaching cooperation with Ulrike Schneider (Mainz)

• January 20: Words and idioms. Holistic and analytic aspects of idioms. Invited talk KU Eichstätt.
  slides (pdf)

2019

• Ocotober 2-4: Manfred Sailer. Attibutive "wrong" in underspecified semantics. Talk at the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris
  abstract, slides

• August 5-30: Linguistic track of the Frankfurt Summer School: Summer of Knowledge. (Main organizer: Janina Radó, Role: coordinator)

• July 25 & 26: Monica-Mihaela Rizea & Manfred Sailer. Representing scales: Degree result clauses and emphatic negative polarity items in Romanian. Talk at the 26th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Bucharest.

  Published as:
  Rizea, Monica Mihaela & Manfred Sailer. 2019. Representing scales: Degree result clauses and emphatic negative polarity items in Romanian. In: Müller, Stefan & Petya Osenova (Eds.). Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, University of Bucharest. 79-99. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
  URL: http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/HPSG/2019/hpsg2019-rizea-sailer.pdf

• May 23 & 24: Manfred Sailer. Kinegrams as complex predicates between the idiomatic and the literal. Invited talk at the workshop Modification of Complex Predicates, Düsseldorf.

• May 7: Manfred Sailer. Irregularität aus constraint-basierter Perspektive. Invited talk at the Doktorandenkolloquium Germanistische Linguistik, Düsseldorf.
  slides

• March 31: End of the first phase of the Graduate School "Nominal Modification" (DFG GRK 2016/1) and start of the second phase, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

• March 30: Jamie Y. Findlay, Sascha Bargmann & Manfred Sailer. Extended idioms as metaphors. Poster presented at The Creative Power of Metaphors, Oxford.
  poster

• February 2: REEL Day Digital Data in English Lingustics. Joint Mainz-Frankfurt student conference, co-organized with Dr. Ulrike Schneider (Mainz).

• January 24 & 25: Jamie Y. Findlay, Sascha Bargmann & Manfred Sailer. Why the butterflies in your stomach can have big wings: combining formal and cognitive theories to explain productive extensions of idioms. Talk presented at Europhras 2019, Santiago de Compostella.
  slides

• January 7 - March 31: Host for a DAAD-sponsored research visit by Dr. Monica-Mihaela Rizea (Bucharest) in Frankfurt.

2018

• October 22 - December 4: Host for the research visit by Dr. Monica-Mihaela Rizea (Bucharest) in Frankfurt. Inlcuding: December 4, joint talk on: Intensifier readings of result clauses containing emphatic NPIs in Romanian, research colloquium, Frankfurt a.M.

• August 3 & 4: Jamie Y. Finday, Sascha Bargmann & Manfred Sailer. Pulling a pretence rabbit out of the hat. Presentation at the workshop on Form-Meaning Mismatches in Natural Languages at the University of Göttingen.

• June 1&2, 2018: 5th European Workshop on HPSG, Frankfurt.
  Local organization and presentation:
  Doug Arnold, Sascha Bargmann & Manfred Sailer. Update constraints on idioms in non-restrictive relative clauses

• March 7-9, 2018: Participation in the workshop One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics (organized by Berthold Crysmann) at the 40th annual meeting of the German Lingusitic Society (DGfS), Stuttgart.
  Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer. Negation marking in conjuncts: A one-to-many relation?
  Read a short report on the event.

2017

• December 5: Manfred Sailer (joint work with Assif Am-David): The meaning and marking of definite noun phrases. Invited talk, University of Stuttgart.

• October 24: Manfred Sailer: Marking definitness and proper names. Colloquium talk, Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.

• October 23: Manfred Sailer (joint work with Assif Am-David): Marking Definitness. Invited talk, University of Düsseldorf.

• September 7-10: Poschmann Claudia, Sascha Bargmann, Christopher Götze, Anke Holler, Manfred Sailer, Gert Webelhuth and T. Ede Zimmermann: Split-antecedent relative clauses and the symmetry of predicates. Poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Berlin & Potsdam.
  Abstract

• May 4-6: Participation in the Concluding Workshop of the Research Unit "Relative Clauses", Frankfurt a.M., Germany.
  • Sascha Bargmann, Manfred Sailer, Doug Arnold, Christopher Götze, Anke Holler, Gert Webelhuth: Idioms in Non-restrictive Relative Clauses. Project presentation.

  • Claudia Poschmann, Sascha Bargmann, Christopher Götze, Anke Holler, Manfred Sailer, Gert Webelhuth and Th.Ede Zimmermann: Split-Antecedent Relative Clauses and the Symmetry of Predicates. Poster presentation.

• March 24-29: Meeting of colleagues from IEAS/Linguistics, Franfurt a.M. and from the Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, Paris in Paris as part of the Procope exchange programm One-to-Many, including:
  March 24&25: European Workshop on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar

• January 20: "The Meaning of `Meaningless´ Idiom Parts" (joint work with Sascha Bargmann). Invited talk at the workshop The Syntax of Idioms, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  (slides)

• March 7: End of the COST Action IC 1207 PARSEME: PARSing Multi-word Expressions: Towards linguistic precision and computational efficiency in natural language processing.

• March 24&25: Paris-Frankfurt HPSG co-operation, Paris.

2016

• December 8 & 9: A multi-dimensional semantic analysis of the literal and the idiomatic meaning of kinegrams. Invited talk at the workshop Current Trends in Figurative Language Research, Tübingen.
  (slides)

• September 26-27: 7th Gerenal Meeting of the COST Action 1207 PARSEME, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

• July 24-29: Participation and talk at HeadLex 16: Joint 2016 Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  (slides, video, proceedings)

• May 10: Manfred Sailer: Doing the devil: Deriving the PPI-hood of a negation-expressing multidimensional German idioms. Talk at the Linguistikkolloquium, Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.

• April 7-8: 6th General Meeting of the COST Action 1207 PARSEME, Struga, FYR Macedonia.
  • Manfred Sailer & Stella Markantonatou: Affectees in MWEs: German and Modern Greek. Poster presentation.
    Poster

• February 1-4: Research visit at Belgrade University to cooperate with Cvetana Krstev, Duško Vitas, and Vojin Nedeljković.
  Short report on www.english-linguistics.de

2015

• November 15 & 17: Manfred Sailer: Possive marking in idioms. Talk at the 3rd European HPSG Workshop, Frankfurt a.M.
  Slides

• October 20-30: Research visit at Institute for Language and Speach Processing, Athens. Financed as a Short Term Scientific Mission by COST Action 1207 PARSEME.
  • Manfred Sailer: The flexibility of idioms and language-specific constraints on syntactic operations. Invited talk ILSP, Athens.
    Handout
  • Short report on www.english-linguistics.de
  • Final report

• September 21-24: Parseme meetings in Iaşi, Romania
  • September 21 & 22: Hands-on workshop on lexical encoding of MWEs of Working Group 1
  • September 23 & 24: 5th General Meeting meeting of the COST Action 1207 PARSEME.

• September 16-19: Assif Am David and Manfred Sailer: Determined reference as a CI component in the meaning of definites. Talk at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe Eighth Colloquium, Cambridge, UK.

• June 4-6: Manfred Sailer: Possessive (non-)alternations in idioms. Invited talk at BCGL 8: The Grammar of Idioms, Brussels.

• March 19 & 20: Spring meeting of the COST Action 1207 PARSEME. Malta.
  • Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer: The syntactic flexibility of non-decomposable idioms. Poster presentation.
    (abstract, poster)

• March 4-6: Manfred Sailer: Doing the Devil: An Unrescuable PPI. Talk at the workshop AG 9: Varieties of Positive Polarity Items at the 37. Jahrestagung der DGfS.

• February 20-23: Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer: Syntactic Flexibility of Non-decomposable Idioms. Talk at the 16th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, Poland.

• February 5: Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer: The syntactic flexibility of non-decomposable idioms. Invited talk at the University of Düsseldorf.

• January 19-23: Shuly Wintner and Manfred Sailer: Linguistic properties and lexical representation of MWEs. Course on the 1st Parseme Training School, Prague.

• January 8: The linguistic representation of multiword expressions. Invited talk in the seminar Detecting and classifying multi-word expressions, University of Stuttgart.

2014

• December: End of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics 2, funded by the eLearning Förderfond of the Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.

• November 17 & 18: Presentations at the Second European Workshop on HPSG, Paris Diderot.
  • Assif Am-David and Manfred Sailer: An LRS Encoding of a Semantic Typology of Definiteness
  • Manfred Sailer: Inverse linking as Complex Quantifier Formation

• October 2014: Start of the Graduate School "Nominal Modification" (DFG GRK 2016/1), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  

• September 15-17: Manfred Sailer: Inverse Linking and Telescoping as Polyadic Quantification, at Sinn und Bedeutung 19, Göttingen.
  Proceedings

• September 8-10: Fall meeting of the COST Action IC 1207 PARSEME. Haifa, Israel.

• September 1: Start of the second phase of the Research Unit Relative Clauses, funded by the DFG.

• July 8: Assif Am David and Manfred Sailer: "Safety helmets must be worn" - Mehrdeutigkeit als sprachwissenschaftlicher Untersuchungsgegenstand (Ambiguity as a linguistic research topic). One-day workshop at the Schülercampus, Frankfurt (July 6-12, 2014).

  
  

• May 23-24: Manfred Sailer: Zur Vererbung von Quantoreneigenschaften innerhalb definiter Nominalphrasen (On the inheritance of quantifier properties within definite noun phrases, in German). Presentation at Semantik und Pragmatik im Südwesten (SPSW) 2014, Bielefeld.

• March 10-11: Spring meeting of the COST Action 1207 PARSEME. Athens, Greece.
  • Manfred Sailer, Frank Richter and Beata Trawiński: Expressions with Bound Words. Linguistic Resource and Relevance for PARSEME. Poster presentation.

• February 7: Manfred Sailer: A Syntax-Semantics Interface in the Light of Ambiguity, Discontinuity, Redundancy, and Disjoint Marking. Invited talk, University of Göttingen.
  Slides

• January 23: Manfred Sailer: Zur vermeintlichen Satzgebundenheit von Quantoren (On the alleged clause boundedness of quantifiers). Invited talk at the University Düsseldorf.
  

2013

• December 9: Manfred Sailer: e-Learning Resources for Semantics. Presentation at 8. eLearning-Netzwerktag.
  Slides (in German)

• October: Start of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics 2, funded by the eLearning Förderfond of the Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.

• September 16-18: COST Action IC1207 PARSEME meeting, 16-18 September 2013, Warsaw

• September 2-5: Manfred Sailer and Suzanne Smith: e-Learning Resources for Semantics (eLRS). Blended Learning Szenario für die Semantiklehre. Poster at GMW 13, the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft.

• August 5-16: Bob Levine and Manfred Sailer: Lexical Resource Semantics: Where empirical grounding meets computational tractability in the syntax/semantics interface. One-week introductory course in Language and Computation at the European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information 2013, Düsseldorf.

• July 8: Assif Am David and Manfred Sailer: "Safety helmets must be worn" - Mehrdeutigkeit als sprachwissenschaftlicher Untersuchungsgegenstand (Ambiguity as a linguistic research topic). One-day workshop at the Schülercampus Geisteswissenschaften, Frankfurt (July 7-13, 2013).

  
  Short press report on the Schülercampus.

• June 27: Meeting of the Steering Committee of the COST Action IC 1207 PARSEME: PARSing Multi-word Expressions: Towards linguistic precision and computational efficiency in natural language processing. Marne la Vallée, France.

• June 23-28: Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer and Sascha Bargmann:The Linguistic Status of Idioms. Course at the Minerva Non-Compositionality Summerschool, Jerusalem.

• May 31: End of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (October 2012-May 2013).

• March 7: Start of the COST Action IC 1207 PARSEME: PARSing Multi-word Expressions: Towards linguistic precision and computational efficiency in natural language processing.
  Homepage of the project: http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/
  Overview page of the project at COST: 35. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwisschenschaft, Potsdam.

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2012

• November 21: Approval of the COST Action IC 1207 PARSEME: PARSing Multi-word Expressions: Towards linguistic precision and computational efficiency in natural language processing.

• October 15: Start of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (October 2012-May 2013). Funded by the Förderfond Lehre of the Goethe Unversity Frankfurt

• October 12: The blog www.english-linguistics.de and the Wiki on Lexical Resource Semantics are online!

• September 18-21: Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer and Beata Trawiński: Ein Forschungsportal an der Grammatik-Lexikon-Schnittstelle. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Erlangen. Symposium: Grammatik in Wörterbüchern: Die Rolle der Konstruktion.
  Slides (.pdf)

• July 5: Manfred Sailer and Sascha Bargmann: The green green garden. Sprachliche Varietäten des Englischen (Liguistic varieties of English). One-day workshop at the Schülercampus Geisteswissenschaften, Frankfurt (July 1-8, 2012).

  

• 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.

• 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.
  Pictures from the workshop

• April 1: Professor for English linguistics at the Abteilung Linguistik of the Institut für England- und Amerikastudien.

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

2011

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

• October 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.

• 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, Düsseldorf.

• 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-dependent Licensing of Strong Negative Polarity Items. At Sinn und Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart.
  Proceedings

• 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, Spain.
  Book of Abstracts

• 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.

• 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, Morocco.
  Workshop proceedings

• March 5-6: Manfred Sailer, Mariele Stollenwerk and Torsten Brinkhol: Kollokationsfenster. Talk at the 9. Norddeutsche Linguistische Kolloquium (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, The Netherlands.
  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.

• 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, Spain.
  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, Bremen.
  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.
  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, France.
  Abstract

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

• 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.

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 at EUROPHRAS 2004, Basel, Switzerland.

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

• 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.
  Paper in ESSI5

• 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.
  Proceedings

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

• 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, The Netherlands.

• 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. Tübingen.

• 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, Canada.

• 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, Helsinki, Finland.

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

• 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, The Netherlands.

• October 11. Manfred Sailer: Idiomatic Expressions in Head-Driven Phrase Structure 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.

• November 3-4: Manfred Sailer: Idiomatic Expressions in Non-constructional HPSG. at the International Workshop on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Tübingen.

Earlier

• May 13, 1999: Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Negative Concord in French as Constraints on Logical Forms. Presentation at Generative Grammatiker des Südens 1999, Stuttgart.

• December 19-21, 1996: Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: PTQ, LF, TFL - zum theoretischen Status einer "Übersetzung in eine formale Semantiksprache". Presentation at Sinn und Bedeutung 1, Tübingen.

• October 3, 1996: Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Issues in a German Core Grammar in HPSG. Presentation at the International Congress on Interfaces of Grammar: Theoretical and Computational Aspects, Tübingen.

• September 20, 1996: Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Regions and Word Order. Presentation at the International Center Workshop on Computational Linguistics, Tübingen.

• June 21, 1995: Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Word Order in HPSG. Presentation at the International Workshop on HPSG, Tübingen.