Projects and Resources

Upcoming Projects

Current Projects

• April 2024-December 2027: Collaborative Research Center 1629 "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: Dynamics of Asymmetric Language Contact(DALC)
  Informal research network "The Dynamics of Asymmetric Language Contact".
  Role: Co-coordinator (together with Hiwa Asadpour (Frankfurt a.M.) and Carolina Plaza-Pust (Frankfurt a.M.)

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     English Language and Linguistics Online
• 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
  Project resoureces:
  • 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

• The NPI Bank
• 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.
• Bound Words Bibliography
• No longer availabel: 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)
• Dirk Buschbom (Vienna): Negative Polarity Itmes, database
• Mihaela Cristescu (Bucharest): Romanian, Negative Polarity Items
• 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