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The RTG had the privilege of hosting Professor Jóhanna Barðdal from Ghent University for an engaging lecture titled "Dependent-Marked Anticausatives in Old Norse-Icelandic: Modeling Productive and Unproductive Alternations." The event attracted a diverse audience of students, faculty members, and r...

Dr. Evelina Fedorenko, a cognitive neuroscientist at MIT, paid a visit to the RTG Dimensions of Constructional Space in November 2025. Her work established that the human brain contains a constellation of regions in the left-hemisphere frontal and temporal cortex that are highly selective for langu...

Language and thought in humans and machines "I seek to understand how humans understand and produce language, and how language relates to, and works together with, the rest of human cognition. I will discuss the ‘core’ language network, which includes left-hemisphere frontal and temporal areas, and...

The RTG Dimensions of Constructional Space would like to invite you to a series of workshops about Fluid Construction Grammar, Frame Semantics, ConstructiCon and contrastive Construction Grammar. The programme can be found here. All workshops will take place in room 00.3, Philosophisches Semi...

The DFG-funded Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is looking for 13 doctoral researchers for a duration of three years to work on a variety of projects within the Construction Grammar framework. The ...

Constructicography is what it's all about The Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space hosted Prof. Dr. Alexander Ziem from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf on January 24th. His engaging presentation highlighted key developments at the intersection of frame semantics, const...

Construction Networks and Network Relations: A Constructionist Perspective The RTG is thrilled to have had Prof. Dr. Benjamin Lyngfelt from the University of Gothenburg visit the Research Training Group "Dimensions of Constructional Space" on Wednesday, January 15th. In the course of his talk...