Manfred Sailer
Institut für England- und Amerikastudien
N-Wollheim-Platz 1
Raum 3.214
60629 Frankfurt a.M.
e-mail

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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

Links

Memberships

I am a member of the following associations:

• Deutscher Anglistenverband
• DGfS: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
• Deutscher Hochschulverband
• Europhras: Europäische Gesellschaft für Phraseologie
• GIL: Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik
• FLaRN: Formulaic Language Research Network
• ISLE: International Society for the Linguistics of English

English Linguistics in Germany

in Hessen:

• Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.: Abteilung Linguistik am Institut für England- und Amerikastudien
  People: Manfred Sailer, Gert Webelhuth

• Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen: English Language and Linguistics at the Department of English/Institut für Anglistik
  People: Susanne Göpferich (applied Engl. linguistics), Magnus Huber (historical Engl. linguistics), Joybrato Mukherjee (modern English)

• Universtität Kassel: Fachgebiet Linguistik at the Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik
  People: Holden Härtl (cognitive linguistics), Winfried Nöth (semiotics), Josef Wallmannsberger (computational philology)

• Marburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
  People: Jürgen Handke, Rolf Kreyer

in other parts of Germany (selected)

• Humboldt-Universität Berlin: English Linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies
  People: Artemis Alexiadou (syntax, morphology), Markus Egg (semantics), Sophie Repp

• Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt: Englische Sprachwissenschaft.
  People: Thomas Hoffmann

• Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Abteilung für Neuere Englische Sprache of the Seminar für Englische Philologie
  People:Hedde Zeijlstra (syntax and semantics)

• Gutenberg Universität Mainz: English Linguistics at the Department of English and Linguistics
  People: Britta Mondorf (English linguistics)

• Universität Osnabrück: Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik
  People: Alexander Bergs

• Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen: Linguistik des Englischen at the Englisches Seminar
  People: Sigrid Beck (descriptive and theoretical linguistics), Susanne Winkler (English linguistics), Andrea Weber (applied Engl. linguistics)

• Universität Stuttgart: Institut für Linguistik: Anglistik.

General Linguistics

• Linguist List

Phraseology, Constructions, Collocations

• CoDII: The Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items


• Negative Polarity Items Project Wiki

Useful Resources

Corpora

• corpus.byu.edu: Mark Davies' corpus interface of the Brigham Young University.
  This resource includes the British National Corpus, the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and 5 other corpora.

• Cosmas II, Corpus Search, Management and Analysis System: Corpus interface of the Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim.

• Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English: Corpus Interface of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoke English

Semantics

• The Penn Lambda Calculator: An interactive, graphical, pedagogical computer program that helps students of formal semantics practice the typed lambda calculus.

Others

• MutliMo: The database of multiple modals in English.

Co-operation partners

Here you find a number of people with whom I have cooperated in projects and publications. I have listed the areas in which we cooperated. Of course, they all are active in many other research areas - check their homepages to find out!

• Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück): e-Learning (Project: English Language and Linguistics Online).
• Eva Csipak (Göttingen): Negative polarity items.
• Regine Eckardt (Konstanz): Negative polarity items.
• Jack Hoeksema (Groningen): Negative polarity items; multiword expressions.
• Robert D. Levine (Columbus): Syntax-semantics interface (Lexical Resource Semantics).
• Mingya Liu (Osnabrück): Negative polarity items.
• Gerald Penn (Toronto): Implementation of Lexical Resource Semantics.
• Frank Richter (Frankfurt a.M.): Syntax-semantics interface (Lexical Resource Semantics); multiword expressions; logical fundations of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar; implementation of HPSG; ...
• Agata Savary (Blois): Multiword expressions.
• Jan-Phillipp Soehn (Pons Stuttgart): Multiword expressions.
• Beata Trawiński (Mannheim): Multiword expressions.