The Research Training Group on Nominal Modification at the Goethe University Frankfurt
RTG ‘Nominal Modification’ offers a doctoral researcher position (E13 TV-GU, 65%), with the focus on language acquisition. Duration of the funding is 12 months. Application due date is November 22, 2022. For further information and requirements please check out the job announcement here.
42nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will take place between May 6-8, 2022 (online). Our doctoral researcher Dimitrios Kotopoulis, will present his recent research on “Greek genitives: A dependent case approach” on May 7th. The program could be found here.
Our doctoral researcher Emine Sahingöz gave an interview to the popular newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine on Ossetian language and the attempts to document and rescue this endangered language. To read the whole article in German please click here.
The Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Modern Language of Modern Languages of Goethe University Frankfurt offers full funding for 1 position as Doctoral Researcher (E13 TV-GU, 65%-part-time) as a part of RTG ‘Nominal Modification‘. Due date for applications is November 3, 2022. For the details of application and requirements please click here.
The Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Modern Language of Modern Languages of Goethe University Frankfurt offers full funding for 1 position as Doctoral Researcher (E13 TV-GU, 65%-part-time) as a part of RTG ‘Nominal Modification‘. Due date for applications is October 31, 2020. For the details of application and requirements please click here.
On Tuesday, June 2nd virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting talks by Fenna Bergsma entitled ‘Case competition in headless relatives: a Germanic typology‘ and Ruby Sleeman entitled ‘Modifying superlatives: German ordinal-compounding vs. the Dutch exceptive op…na‘. See below for the abstracts. When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pmWhere: Online via Zoom(please send an e-mail to to get access link) Case competition in headless Continue Reading
On Tuesday, May 26th virtual GK Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Astrid Gößwein entitled ‘Double center embedding of prenominal participle constructions and relative clauses in German’. See below for the abstract. When: 4:15 pm-6:00 pmWhere: Online via Zoom(please send an e-mail to to get access link) Double center embedding of prenominal participle constructions and relative clauses in German Center embedded structures Continue Reading
An extended version of the GK Research Program is online and can be seen by clicking here!