According to the dominant neo-Carlsonian approach to bare NP semantics, bare NPs start out their lives as properties and can be shifted – as needed – to kinds, individuals, or existential quantifiers. This approach has proved to be too powerful...

am 18.06.2019, 16:00

Der Vortrag befasst sich mit der Frage, welche Rolle Kompositumsmuster sowohl bei der Bildung als auch bei der Interpretation neologischer Komposita spielen. Dem liegt die Auffassung zugrunde, dass insbesondere syntagmatisch komplexe Einheiten des...

am 29.10.2019, 16:00

In recent years, we have witnessed ever-more complex neural models frequently breaking records in various domains, among them natural language processing (NLP). These state-of-the-art (SOTA) models, however, became less explainable. It was almost...

am 12.11.2019, 16:00

Languages are complex-adaptive systems par excellence. Like animal flocks, economic markets or ecosystems, languages are ultimately driven and shaped by the intentional actions of speakers. Linguistic conventions such as words, constructions or rules...

am 26.11.2019, 16:00

This talk presents what is commonly the called the Behavioural Profile Approach. This approach is a simple methodology that grew out of early research in Cognitive Linguistics in Europe the 1980s and 1990s (Dirven et al. 1982; Rudzka-Ostyn 1989, 1995;...

am 28.01.2020, 16:00