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Manfred Sailer

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​Manfred Sailer

Manfred Sailer

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Prof. Dr. Manfred Sailer 
Institut für England- und Amerikastudien 
Abteilung Linguistik
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
Germany 

Institutional homepage: Manfred Sailer at the IEAS
Tel.: +49 - (0)69 - 798 32526
Fax: +49 - (0)69 - 798 32509 
E-Mail: sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Office: IG 3.214

News for students

Office hour: Wednesday, 10-11am, IG 3.214

Please contact me by e-mail with any question.


Areas of teaching

  • Introductory level: Introduction to linguistics,
        both BA and Lehramt
  • Seminar level: Semantics 1, Syntax 1, New
        Englishes    , ...
  • Hauptseminar level (advanced BA and MA):
       Semantics 2    , Pragmatics, Ambiguity, Idioms, Negative
       Polarity Items    , Constructed languages, ...
  • Colloquium: Oberseminar: Syntax and Semantics

Areas of research

  • Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Syntax
  • Syntax-semantics interface
  • Constructions and collocations
  • Negative polarity items
  • Idioms
  • Definiteness
  • Corpus linguistics

Selected recent publications

  • Crysmann, Berthold & Manfred Sailer (eds). 2021. One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Syntax and Morphology). Berlin: Language Science Press.
    URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/262. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4638824
    Including a joint paper with Frank Richter on Negative Conjuncts and Negative Concord Across the Board.
  • Rizea, Monica-Mihaela & Manfred Sailer. 2020. A constraint-based modeling of negative polarity items in result clause constructions in Romanian. Linguisticae Investigationes 43(1). 129-168. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/li.00042.r

    • Recent projects

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