Teaching
News for Students
I do not have a regular office hour during the term breaks. Please contact me by
e-mail with any
question.
Information for the summer term 2024
I will be on a sabbatical between untill October 2024.
Please contact me by e-mail for office hour appointments or other concerns.
Homepages of my co-teachers
In the past I have enjoyed teaching courses with a number of colleagues. Their names appear in connection with the relevant courses. Here I have compiled their current homepages as far as possible.
- Sascha Bargmann (Goethe-University,
Frankfurt a.M.)
- Jules
Bündgens-Kosten (Goethe-University, Frankfurt a.M.)
-
Saloumeh Gholami (Goethe-University, Frankfurt a.M.)
- Howard Gregory (Live Language Kazakhstan, Almaty)
- Katharina Hartmann (Goethe-University, Frankfurt a.M.)
- Götz
Keydana (Georg August University Göttingen)
- Joost Kremers
(Georg August University Göttingen)
- Robert D. Levine
(Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
- Mingya Liu
(Humboldt University Berlin)
- Detmar Meurers
(Eberhard Karl University, Tübingen)
- Janina
Radó (Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.)
- Frank Richter
(Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.)
- Roland Schäfer
(FU Berlin)
- Ulrike
Schneider (Gutenberg University Mainz)
- Petra Schulz (Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.)
- Gert
Webelhuth (Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.)
- Shuly
Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)
Current and future teaching
Summer Term 2024
Sabbatical - no classes
Winter Term 2024/25 (planned)
Goethe-University, Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Monday, 12-2pm
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Tuesday, 8-10am
- Seminar Digital Data in English Linguistics
Wednesday, 8-10am
- Seminar Constraint-based Semantics 2
Wednesday, 10am-12pm
Teaching in previous years
Winter Term 2023/24
Sabbatical - no classes
Summer Term 2023
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Monday, 12-2pm
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Tuesday, 8-10am
- Seminar Language and identity in (post-)colonial contact situations (with Saloumeh Gholami)
Tuesday, 10am-12pm
- Seminar Semantics 1
Wednesday, 8-10am
Winter Term 2022/23
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Monday, 12-2pm.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Tuesday, 8-10am.
- Seminar Constraint-based Semantics 2
Wednesday, 8-10am
- Seminar Digital Data in English Linguistics
Tuesday, 10am-12pm.
Summer Term 2022
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics 2 (BA)
Tuesday, 12-2pm.
- Seminar The linguistic situation in Hawaiʻi
Monday, 12-2pm.
- Seminar: Constraint-based Semantics 2: Quantifiers and negation
Wednesday, 8-10am.
- Oberseminar Syntax and Semantics
Monday, 4-6pm, IG 3.201.
Winter Term 2021/22
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Monday, 12am-2pm, online
- Seminar Pragmatics
Tuesday 8-10amm, online
- Seminar The linguistic situation in Hawaiʻi
Tuesday, 10am-12pm, online
- Seminar Digital Data in English Linguistics: Language in Politics
Wednesday, 8-10am, online.
Summer Term 2021
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Monday, 10am-12pm
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am
- Seminar Placeholder Expressions
Tuesday, 10am-12pm
- Hauptseminar Constraint-based Semantics 2: Interpreting Negation
Wednesday, 8-10am
Winter Term 2020/21
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Tuesday, 12-2pm.
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am
Material on the semantics wiki.
- Seminar Digital Data in English Linguistics
Wednesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
Course website.
- Oberseminar Syntax and Semantics
Monday 4-6pm, IG 3.201
Summer Term 2020
Sabbatical
Winter Term 2019/20
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Tuesday, 10am-12pm, IG 411
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics 1 (BA)
Monday, 12-2pm, HZ 13
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am, IG 251
Material on the semantics wiki.
- Seminar Digital Data in English Linguistics: Language in Politics
Wednesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
Course website.
- Seminar Constraint-based Analysis
Monday 2-4pm, IG 3.201
Summer Term 2019
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Constraint-based semantics 2
Wednesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201
- Prosemiar Introduction to Linguistics 2 (BA)
Wednesday, 10am-12pm, SH 5.106
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am, IG 254
- Oberseminar Syntax and Sematnics
Monday, 4-6pm, IG 3.201
Winter Term 2018/19
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Tuesday, 10am-12pm
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics 1 (BA)
Monday, 12-2pm
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am
Material on the semantics wiki.
- Seminar Digital Data in English Linguistics: Lexical and Functional Uses of Verbs
Wednesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
Course website.
Summer Term 2018
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Wednesday, 10am-12pm.
- Prosemiar Introduction to Linguistics 2 (BA)
Monday, 12-2pm.
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am.
- Hauptseminar Semantics 2 (LING-CON-CORE B)
Wednesday, 8-10am.
Winter Term 2017/18
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Wednesday, 8-10am, NG 2.731.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics 1 (BA)
Monday, 12-2pm, NG 2.701.
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201
Material on the semantics wiki.
- Oberseminar Syntax and Semantics
Monday, 4-6pm, IG 3.201.
Course program on english-linguistics.de
Summer Term 2017
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics 2 (BA)
Monday, 12-2pm, CAS 8.112.
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am, SH 1.109.
Material on the wiki
- Hauptseminar Semantics 2
Wednesday, 8-10am, IG 3.214.
- Hauptseminar From Klingon Morphology to English Syntax:
Using Conlangs in Teaching Contexts (with J.
Bügens Kosten)
Wednesday, 10am-12pm, SP 0.001.
- Hauptseminar Recent Trends in Linguistic Research (with
Petra Schulz)
Tuesday, 2-4pm, IG 0.254.
Course program on www.english-linguistics.de
Winter Term 2016/17
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics 1 (BA)
Monday, 12-2pm, NG 2.731.
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
Material on the wiki
- Hauptseminar Semantics 2
Tuesday, 10am-12pm, IG 3.201.
Material on the wiki
- Hauptseminar Syntax-Semantics Interface
Wednesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
Summer Term 2016/SoSe 2016
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (Lehramt)
Monday, 12-2pm, NG 2.731.
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
Material on the wiki
- Hauptseminar Semantics 2: Semantic Phenomena in Creole Languages
Wednesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
Material on the wiki
- Oberseminar Syntax and Semantics
Monday, 4-6pm, IG 3.201.
Course program on www.english-linguistics.de
Winter term 2015/2016
Sabbatical
SoSe 2015
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics 2 (BA)
Monday, 2-4pm, HZ 13.
Find the course in OLAT!
- Seminar Semantics 1
Wednesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
- Hauptseminar Semantics 2: Modification
Tuesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
Winter term/ WiSe 2014/15
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics 1 (BA)
Monday, 2-4pm, SP 1.03.
- Seminar Semantics 1
Tuesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
- Hauptseminar Semantics 2: Quanitfiers
Wednesday, 8-10am, IG 3.201.
Parseme Training School
Summer term/ SoSe 2014
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics 2
Tuesday, 10-12, SP 1.03.
- Seminar Semantics 1
Wednesday, 10-12, IG 3.201.
- Oberseminar Syntax and Semantics
Monday, 2-4pm, IG 3.201.
Winter term/ WiSe 2013/14
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics 1
Monday, 2-4 pm, HZ 13.
- Proseminar New Englishes
Wednesday, 10-12, IG 0.254.
- Hauptseminar Semantics 2
Tuesday, 10-12, IG 3.201.
ESSLLI 2013, Düsseldorf
Minverva Non-Compositionality Summerschool, Jerusalem
-
Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer and Sascha Bargmann: The Linguistic Status of
Idioms. Course at the Minerva Non-Compositionality
Summerschool, Jerusalem. 23.-28.6.2013.
Summer term/ SoSe 2013
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics (for BA students only!)
Tuesday, 12-2pm<
- Seminar Introduction to Semantics
Wednesday, 10am-12pm
- Hauptseminar Ambiguities
Tuesday, 10am-12pm
- together with Gert Webelhuth and Sascha Bargmann:
Hauptseminar Idioms
Monday, 2-4pm
- together with Gert
Webelhuth:
Oberseminar Syntax
Monday, 4-6pm
Winter term/ WiSe 2012/13
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics
Tuesday, 12-2pm
- Seminar Introduction to Semantics
Wednesday, 10am-12pm
- Hauptseminar New Media in Teaching Semantics
Tuesday, 10am-12pm
- Oberseminar Syntax and Semantics
Monday, 4-6pm
Summer term/ SoSe 2012
Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
- Proseminar Introduction to Linguistics
Group 1: Monday, 2-4pm
Group 2: Tuesday, 12-2pm
- Seminar Introduction to Semantics
Wednesday, 10am-12pm
- Hauptseminar Negative Polarity Items
Tuesday, 10am-12pm
Winter term/ WiSe 2011/12
Universität Göttingen
-
Seminar Introduction to Modern Linguistics
Monday, 6pm-8pm.
Tuesday, 2pm-4pm.
- Seminar Syntax: Syntactic Theory
Monday, 4pm-6pm
- Seminar Syntax: Analysis and Application
Wednesday, 12pm-2pm.
- Seminar Semantics: Lab Class
Tuesday, 8am-10am.
- Hauptseminar An Empirically Grounded Approach to the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Wednesday, 8am-10am.
Summer term/ SoSe 2011
Universität Göttingen
- Seminar Syntax: Syntactic Theory
Tuesday, 2pm-4pm.
- Seminar Syntax: Analysis and Application
Wednesday, 4pm-6pm.
Thursday, 8am-10am.
- Seminar Modelling the Phonology Interface in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (with Joost Kremers)
Thrusday, 12pm-2pm.
- Hauptseminar Negative Polarity Items
Wednesday, 8am-10am.
Winter term/ WiSe 2010/11
Universität Göttingen
- Seminar Introduction to Modern Linguistics
Wednesday, 2pm-4pm. (Group 4, with Mingya Liu)
Wednesday, 6pm-8pm. (Group 5)
- Seminar Syntax: Syntactic Theory
Tuesday, 2pm-4pm
- Seminar Syntax: Analysis and Application
Thursday, 12pm-2pm.
- Seminar Semantics: Lab Class
Thrusday, 8am-10am.
- Hauptseminar Binding Theory
Summer term/ SoSe 2010
Universität Göttingen
- Seminar Syntax: Syntactic Theory
Tuesday, 2pm-4pm.
- Seminar Syntax: Analysis and Application
Thursday, 8am-10am.
- Seminar Semantics: Lab Class
Thrusday, 8am-10am.
- Seminar Using Corpora for the Study of English
Wednesday, 8am-10am.
- Hauptseminar Exploring New Englishes
Wednesday, 2pm-4pm.
Winter term/WiSe 2009/10
Universität Göttingen
- Seminar Introduction to Modern Linguistics
Tuesday, 2pm-4pm.
- Seminar Syntax: Syntactic Theory
Wednesday, 4pm-6pm.
- Seminar Syntax: Analysis and Application
Wednesday, 8am-10am.
- Hauptseminar The Syntax and Semantics of English Relative Clause Constructions
Thursday, 12pm-2pm.
- Oberseminar Recent Developments in Modern Linguistics
Tuesday, 4pm-6pm.
Summer term/SoSe 2009
Universität Göttingen
- Seminar Syntax I: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Tuesday, 2pm-4pm.
- Seminar Syntax I: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Thursday, 8am-10am.
- Seminar Semantics and Pragmatics II: Negative Polarity Items
Wednesday, 8am-10am.
- Seminar Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Research on English Modal Constructions
Wednesday, 4pm-6pm.
- Hauptseminar Recent Developments in HPSG
Thursday, 12pm-2pm.
Winter term/WiSe 2008/09
Ruhr-Universität Bochum:
- Lecture Linguistics I,1
Group A: Wednesday, 10am-11am.
Group B: Wednesday, 1pm-2pm.
- Lecture Construction Grammar
Tuesday, 12pm-2pm
- Seminar (M.A., M.Ed.) The Syntax and Semantics of English Relative Clause Constructions
Wednesday, 2pm-4pm.
- Seminar (M.A., M.Ed.) Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Sign Languages
Tuesday, 4pm-6pm.
ESSLLI 2008, Hamburg
Summer term/SoSe 2008
- Seminar Syntax I: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Wednesday, 4pm-6pm.
- Seminar Syntax I: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Thursday, 8am-10am.
- Seminar Semantics and Pragmatics II: Ambiguity, Vagueness and Underspecification
Wednesday, 12pm-2pm.
- Hauptseminar Development of an E-Learning Module "Syntactic Theory"
Thursday, 12pm-2pm.
- Oberseminar Recent Studies in Syntax and Semantics
Tuesday, 4pm-6pm
Winter term/ WiSe 2007/08
Universität Bielefeld:
- Vorlesung: Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie
- Seminar: Repräsentation sprachlichen Wissens
- Seminar: Praktische Korpuslinguistik
- Seminar: HPSG und Grammatikimplementierung
Summer term/ SoSe 2007
- Semantics and Pragmatics I
Wednesday, 4pm-6pm, T04.
- Semantics and Pragmatics II: Quantifiers)
Wednesday, 12pm-2pm, VG109.
- Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Sign Languages
Thursday, 8am-10am, VG211.
- Hauptseminar: Constructions and Phraseological Patterns
Thursday, 12pm-2pm, VG110.
Winter term/ WiSe 2006/07
- Introduction to Modern Linguistics (Einführendes
Proseminar)
Thursday, 10am-12pm, T06.
- Introduction to Modern Linguistics (Einführendes
Proseminar)
Thursday, 12pm-2pm, OEC4.
- Syntax II (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar)
(ZP-Seminar)
Wednesday, 10am-12pm, VG415.
-
Hauptseminar: Recent Developments in Head-Driven Phrase Structure
Grammar
-
Linguistisches Kolloquium (together with Götz Keydana)
Wednesday, 6pm-8pm, Seminar für Englische Philologie,
Medienraum.
Summer term/ SoSe 2006
- Introduction to Modern Linguistics (Einführendes
Proseminar)
Tuesday, 2pm-4pm, VG 210.
- Syntax I (Traditional Grammar)
Thursday, 11am-1pm, ERZ N716.
- Syntax II (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar)
(ZP-Seminar)
Wednesday, 11am-1pm, R 111 (Düker Weg 5).
-
Oberseminar: Negative Polarity Items
Tuesday, 4pm - 6pm,
R 183 (Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre
Sprachforschung).
-
Linguistisches Kolloquium (together with Götz Keydana)
Wednesday, 6pm-8pm, Romanisches Seminar, PH20.
Winter term/ WiSe 2005/06
- Introduction to Modern Linguistics (Einführendes
Proseminar).
Thursday 11am - 1pm, T05.
- Syntax I: Traditional Grammar (Proseminar)
Tuesday, 2pm - 4pm, VG 315.
- Syntax II (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar)
(ZP-Seminar)
Wednesday, 11am - 1pm, T 03.
- together with Roland
Schäfer:
Formal Approaches to the Syntax-Semantics
Interface (Hauptseminar)
Wednesday, 2pm - 4pm, R. 183,
Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar.
- together with Howard
Gregory:
Vorbereitung auf die mündliche
Prüfung (Kolloquium)
Thursday, 1pm - 3pm, VG 109.
- together with Götz Keydana:
Linguistisches Kolloquium
Wednesday, 6pm-8pm, Romanisches
Seminar, PH20.
Summer term/ SoSe 2005
- Introduction to Modern Linguistics (Einführendes
Proseminar).
Thursday 11am - 1pm, SEP, Medienraum
- Introduction to English Phonology (Seminar)
Wednesday, 11am - 1pm, VG 210.
- Syntax II (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar)
(ZP-Seminar)
Thursday, 2 - 4pm, Düker-Weg 5, room 111.
- Vorbereitung auf die Fachklausur
Tuesday, 2 - 4 pm,
Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar, Seminarraum 189.
Winter term/ WiSe 2004/05
- Introduction to Modern Linguistics (Einführendes Proseminar)
Group A: Wednesday 11am - 1pm, VG 211.
Group B: Friday 11am - 1pm, Seminarraum, von-Sieboldt-Str. 2
- First Steps in Semantics (Proseminar)
Wednesday 4pm - 6pm, room T03
- Hauptseminar Syntax: Idioms
Wednesday 2pm - 4pm,
room T06
The further information on this course and some course
material might still be available at StudIP.
ESSLLI 2003, Vienna
- Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Constraint-based
Combinatorial Semantics. Introductory course at ESSLLI 2003, Vienna. August 18-22, 2003.
German-Israeli
Minerva School in Computational Linguistics
Winter term/ WiSe 2001/02
Winter term/ WiSe 1999/2000
- Detmar Meurers and Manfred Sailer:
Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft (WS 1999/2000)
Summer term/ SoSe 1999
Winter term/ WiSe 1998/99
- Manfred Sailer:
Einführung in die Funktionale Grammatik (WS 1998/99)
Summer term/ SoSe 1998
Winter term/ WiSe 1997/98
- Detmar Meurers, Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer:
Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft (WS 1997/98)
Advising
Finished doctoral theses
- Sascha Bargman: Chopping Up Idioms: Towards a Combinatorial Analysis. Frankfurt a.M. (primary advisor)
Defense: 30.10.2019
- Dirk Buschbom: Counterfactuals in Context. Göttingen. (second advisor; primary
advisor: Regine Eckardt, Göttingen). Defense: May 2013.
The dissertation has appeared as:
Buschbom, Dirk. 2014. Counterfactuals in
Context. Göttingen.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5E3D-9
- Pia Gerhard: Translating from English to
German: Structural and Stylistic
Preferences. Frankfurt. (second advisor; primary
advisor: Gert Webelhuth, Frankfurt).
Defense: February 2016.
The dissertation has appeared as:
Gerhard, Pia. 2017. Translating from English to German: Structural and Stylistic Preferences. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.
URL: https://hds.hebis.de/ubffm/Record/HEB416240909
- Shene Hassan: Syntactic and semantic aspects of supplementary relative clauses in English and Sōrānī Kurdish.. Frankfurt a.M. (primary advisor).
The dissertation has appeared as:
Hassan, Shene. 2021. Syntactic and semantic aspects of supplementary relative clauses in English and Sōrānī Kurdish. Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M. URL: https://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61371
- Jan Köpping: The individual parameter. Frankfurt. (second advisor; primary advisor: Th. Ede Zimmermann, Frankfurt)
- David Lahm: Explorations in non-local lexical semantics. The case of "different" and plural arguments. Frankfurt. (primary
advisor)
- Mingya
Liu: The Truth-conditional Semantics of Evaluative
Adverbs. Göttingen. (second advisor; primary advisor:
Regine Eckardt, Göttingen). Defense: December 2011.
The dissertation has appeared as:
Liu, Mingya. 2012. Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative
Adverbs. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
-
Heike
Walker: The
Syntax and Semantics of Relative Clause
Attachment. Frankfurt a.M.. (second advisor; primary
advisor: Gert Webelhuth, Frankfurt). Defense: July 2014.
The disseration has appeared as:
Walker, Heike. 2017. The Syntax and Semantics of Relative Clause
Attachment. Doctoral dissertation. Goethe-Unversity Frankfurt
a.M.
URL: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42757
Current doctoral theses
