Projects and Ressources

Upcoming Projects

Current Projects

April 2024-December 2027: Collaborative Research Center "Negation in Language and Beyond" (NegLaB, CRC 1629),
funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Spokesperson: Cecilia Poletto
Role: Co-PI in

A04: Resolving the Neg-Raising puzzle (together with Hedde Zeijlstra)
B05: Negative polarity items in non-negative contexts (together with Frank Richter)
INF: Scientific services and data management (together with Sol Lago and Alexander Mehler)

since 2022: Informal research network "The Dynamics of Asymmetric Language Contact".
Together with Hiwa Asadpour (Frankfurt a.M.) and Carolina Plaza-Pust (Frankfurt a.M.)
Role: Co-coordinator

Past Projects

April 1, 2019-September 30,2023 Graduate School "Nominal Modification" (DFG GRK 2016/1, second phase), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Spokesperson: Esther Rinke (Frankfurt a.M.) Role: principal investigator
October 1, 2014-March 31,2019 Graduate School "Nominal Modification" (DFG GRK 2016/1), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Spokesperson: Caroline Féry (Frankfurt a.M.) Role: principal investigator
October 1, 2018-March 31,2019 Teaching project Digital Data in English Linguistics, funded by Gutenberg Lehrkolleg (Mainz) and Förderfonds Lehre (Frankfurt a.M.) Project lecturers: Ulrike Schneider (Mainz) & Manfred Sailer (Frankfurt a.M.)
January 1, 2017-December 31, 2018 One-to-Many Correspondencs in Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. DAAD program Programme des projektbezogenen Personenaustauschs. Project coordinators: Berthold Crysmann (Paris), Manfred Sailer (Frankfurt a.M.) Role: coordinator of the activities from the German side
October 1, 2014-September 30,2017 Constrained-based Analysis of Relative Clauses in English and German. Part of the Research Unit 1783 Relative Clauses, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Spokesperson: Th. Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt a.M.) Role: project leader together with Anke Holler (Göttingen) and Gert Webelhuth (Frankfurt a.M.)
March 8, 2013-March 7, 2017 PARSEME: PARSing and Multi-word Expressions. Towards linguistic precision and computational efficiency in natural language processing. COST Action. Project coordinators: Yannick Parmentier (Orléans), Agnieszka Patejuk (Warsaw), Adam Przepiórkowski (Warsaw), Agata Savary (Tours) Role: coordinator of Working Group 1 (Lexicon-Grammar Interface) Poster with summarizing information on the network Project page at COST.
October 2013-July 2014 e-Learning Resources for Semantics 2 (e-LRS 2). Funded by the eLearning Förderfond of the Goethe University Frankfurt Project leader: Manfred Sailer
October 2012-May 2013 e-Learning Resources for Semantics (e-LRS). Funded by the Förderfond Lehre of the Goethe University Frankfurt Project leader: Manfred Sailer
2009-2012 Negative Polarity Items: Between syntactic and pragmatic licensing. Founded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as part of the Individual Grants Programme. Project leaders: Regine Eckardt, Manfred Sailer
2007-2008 English Language and Linguistics Online (ELLO) Project coordinator: Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück) Role: coordinator of the Göttingen module Syntax
2005 - 2007 Constraint-basierte Grammatik: Empirie, Theorie und Implementierung (CoGETI). Scientific Network on Constraint-based Grammar. Project coordinator: Anke Holler (now: Göttingen) Role: network participant
2002 - 2004: Project A5 "Distribtionsidiosynkrasien. Korpuslinguistische Erfassung und grammatiktheoretische Deutung" of the Sonderforschungsbereich 441 ("Linguistische Datenstrukturen: Theoretische und empirische Grundlagen der Grammatikforschung") Project leader: Frank Richter (Tübingen) Role: researcher Bound Words Bibliography Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items
2000 - 2001: Project A1 "Repräsentation und Erschließung linguistischer Daten" of the Sonderforschungsbereich 441 ("Linguistische Datenstrukturen: Theoretische und empirische Grundlagen der Grammatikforschung") Project leader: Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen) Role: researcher
1995 - 1997: Project B8 im SFB 340 ("Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen für die Computerlinguistik") Project leader: Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen) Role: researcher

Resources

Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items
This ressource provides a linguistic documentation of bound words in German and English and various types of polarity items for German, English, and Romanian.
The e-learning platform of the project English Language and Linguistics Online (ELLO).

Co-operation partners

Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück): e-Learning (project: English Language and Linguistics Online)
Berthold Crysman (Paris): Interfaces
Eva Csipak (Vancouver): Negative polarity items
Regine Eckardt (Konstanz): Negative polarity items
Jack Hoeksema (Groningen): Negative polarity items; multiword expressions.
Nicolas Lamoure (Frankfurt a.M.): Negation; negative polarity items; corpus research
Robert D. Levine (Columbus): Syntax-semantics interface (Lexical Resource Semantics)
Mingya Liu (HU Berlin): 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; ...
Monica Mihaela Rizea (Bucharest): Negation; negative polarity items; Romanian.
Agata Savary (Paris-Saclay): Multiword expressions.
Ulrike Schneider (Mainz): Teaching projects; e-learning resources; corpus linguistics
Jan-Phillipp Soehn (Pons Stuttgart): Multiword expressions
Beata Trawiński (Mannheim): Multiword expressions, neg raising
Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen): Negation; neg raising

Manfred Sailer's homepage

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