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 "at" em "dot" uni-frankfurt "dot" 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 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

• April 2024 - December 2027: CRC 1629 NegLab (Negation in Language and Beyond)
  • A04: Resolving the neg raising paradox (Sailer & Zeijlstra)
  • B05: Negative polarity items in non-negative contexts (Richter & Sailer)
  • INF: Scientific services and data management (Lago, Mehler & Sailer)
• October 2025 - March 2026: #SciComm4Teachers:Science communication for teachers: Future teachers as science communicators in linguistics and TEFL (ABL Lehrfonds) Joint project with Jan-Erik Leonhardt (Braunschweig)
• October 2014 - September 2023: Graduate School "Nominal Modification" (DFG GRK 2016). Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Overview over all projects

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