Past events in the Winter Semester 2023-2024

A summary of the main events organized by the RTG Dimensions of Constructional Space.

  • 12.10.2023 Talk by Prof. Dr. Hans Boas (The University of Texas at Austin): What Do Construction Grammarians Think About Construction Grammar?
  • 18.10.2023 Talk by Dr. Elodie Winckel: Constructicon
  • 25.10.2023 PhD presentations by Bastian Führer, Vania De la Garza, Tan Arda Gedik, and Sara Fernandez Santos
  • 06.11.2023 Talk by Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Creativity and Construction Grammar
  • 22.11.2023 PhD presentations by Tan Arda Gedik (The importance of literacy) & Florian Kessler (A Classic as a Linguistic Norm? The Nine Chapters on Mathematical Methods and the Corpus of Chinese Mathematics)
  • 27.11.2023 PhD presentation by Chiara Trombetta (Patterns beyond the sentence)
  • 06.12.2023 PhD presentations by Malin Patel (Distributional Semantics) & Sara Fernández Santos (Predictive processing can alter phonetic perceptions in Spanish object relatives)
  • 13.12.2023 PhD presentations by Aria Rastegar & Veronika Stampfer
  • 10.01.2023 PhD presentations by Dongeun Lee (Defining Prepositional Constructions), Hassane Kissane, & Pegah Ramezani (Discovering Linguistic Levels Representation in Neural Language Models)
  • 17.01.2024 PhD presentations by Iryna Fokashchuk: From Spatial to Abstract: A Cross-Linguistic Examination of German Prepositions and Their Equivalents & Vania de la Garza
  • 24.01.2024 PhD presentations by Anne Sherley Legouté & Hendrik Kligge
  • 31.01.2024 Talk by Prof. Dr. Jenny Audring (Leiden University): Construction Morphology: Implications, opportunities, consequences
  • 07.02.2024 Talk by Prof. Dr. Thomas Herbst: Towards a constructionist analysis of English and (?) German
  • 21-22.03.2024: Bootcamp
    1. Investigating cognition through corpora (Anatol Stefanowitsch,  Freie Universität Berlin)
    2. Tapping into memory systems: using a split-attention paradigm to determine memory signatures for grammar and lexicon across proficiency levels (Dagmar Divjak, University of Birmingham)
    3. Workshop “Getting into Print” (Dagmar Divjak, University of Birmingham)
    4. Causative constructions in L1 and L2 English: From corpus extraction to teaching intervention Gaetanelle Gilquin (Université Catholique de Louvain)
    5. Discussion “Women in Academia” (Dagmar Divjak, University of Birmingham)