Events

Are you an early-career researcher working on questions related to negation, language, or cognition? The Collaborative Research Centre 1629 “Negation in language and beyond” (NegLaB) at Goethe University Frankfurt is offering three 4-month fellowships for international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Fellows will pursue their own research project within a vibrant interdisciplinary community and collaborate with […]

Prof. Repp will hold a talk at NegLaB’s research seminar. Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

The next MGK Colloquium will host a workshop on AI as Research Infrastructure offered by Frank Richter. For Zoom link please contact MGK Coordinator Dr. Derya Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan via E-mail: Nuhbalaoglu@em.uni-frankfurt.de Abstract: AI as Research Infrastructure: LLMs, Coding Agents and Linguistics "The talk asks a practical question: what role can current AI tools play in academic […]

Our upcoming research seminar, Project A03 from the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1629) will present its current work. Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

Our upcoming research seminar, Project C06 from the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1629) will present its current work. Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

Next MGK guest Shumian Ye will be visiting NegLab between June 15-June 19, 2026. Prof. Ye will give a talk as a part of talk as a part of the MGK Colloquium, entitled "Perspective anchoring and speaker-oriented adverbs in Mandarin Chinese". For Zoom link please contact MGK Coordinator Dr. Derya Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan via E-mail: Nuhbalaoglu@em.uni-frankfurt.de Date & Time: June 17, […]

Dr. Ye will hold a talk at NegLaB’s research seminar. Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

Dr. Rankin will hold a talk at NegLaB’s research seminar. Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

Prof. Geurts will hold a talk at NegLaB’s research seminar, "Commitments and speech acts". Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de). Please find the abstract below: In a normative pragmatics, speech-act […]

Alexandru Nicolae will hold a talk at NegLaB’s research seminar. Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

Prof. Shanley Allen will be offering a Writing Workshop for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. The workshop is open for all members of NegLab and GRADE Center Language. Registration: grade-language@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Our upcoming research seminar, Project B04 from the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1629) will present its current work entitled:“When they go low, we go high” The session will take place on january 27 at 14:00–16:00 in Room NG 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please […]

In collaboration with RTG 2636: Form-meaning mismatches (University of Göttingen), MGK will organise a collaborative two-day workshop. The aim of the workshop, for the young researchers to present their current work, to network and to start potential collaboration. The details can be seen below. 22.01.2026, 14:00-18:30; 23.01.2026, 09:00-16:00

In collaboration with RTG 2636: Form-meaning mismatches (University of Göttingen), MGK will organise a collaborative two-day workshop. The aim of the workshop, for the young researchers to present their current work, to network and to start potential collaboration. The details can be seen below. 22.01.2026, 14:00-18:30; 23.01.2026, 09:00-16:00

Ana Maria Martins invited by Project C06 will hold a talk at NegLaB’s research seminar about : “Negation and the indefinite algum/alguno/alcuno/aucun in a comparative and diachronic perspective.” Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out […]

Valeria Gradimondo who is visiting MGK between 12.01-16.01.2026, will be giving a talk on ‘Discovering Expletive Negation: From Italian to Your Language(s)’. To receive the zoom link please contact the MGK-project coordinator Dr. Derya Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan (Nuhbalaoglu@em.uni-frankfurt.de)

Roman Feiman invited by Project C03 will hold a talk at NegLaB’s research seminar about “The Development of Negation in Language and Thought.”. Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

Cleo Condoravdi will hold a talk at NegLaB’s research seminar. Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

As a part of the MGK workshop series, Dr. Kyle Parrish (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) will offer an online Workshop on ‘Peer Reviews’.

Prof. Maribel Romero will hold a talk at NegLaB’s research seminar. Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

The NegLaB II Workshop aims to advance our understanding of how the expression of negation is cross-linguistically associated with grammatical and non-linguistic cognitive operations. We aim at determining whether the set of operations observed in negative utterances is part of negation itself or, rather, arises as an effect of the grammatical system and cognitive functions. […]

Our upcoming research seminar, Project C05 from the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1629) will present its current work entitled: “Not so fast? – The effects of Givenness and Explicitness on negation in self-paced reading.” The session will take place on november 25 at 14:00–16:00 in Room NG 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt  

Prof. Dr. Aine Ito will hold a talk at NegLaB’s research seminar. Our research seminar is held in room NG. 1.741b, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

This session, two projects from the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1629) will present their current work on negation processing. Project C04 will discuss “Activation of plausible alternatives in German-speaking adults during negation processing.” Project C06 will present “Do different grammatical properties of languages shape the processing of negation?” The seminar will take place from 14:00 […]

In collaboration with GRADE Center Language, the  Integrated Research Training Group (MGK) will organise a three day workshop on Bayesian Statistics and Poisson Regression offered by Prof. Dr. Bodo Winter. The details of the workshop can be seen below: Date(s) and time(s): October 7-8-9, 2025 (Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday); 10:00-17:00 Location:Goethe University Frankfurt:  Campus Westend, IG Building,  NG 2.701   […]

Special Session Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Negation (PhilLingNeg) at Sinn und Bedeutung 30

This workshop provides a tutorial to the coding and interpretation of contrasts in (mixed-effects) regression models with and without interactions. At the end of the workshop, participants will have acquired a comprehensive understanding of contrast coding, and they should be able to define and employ the regression contrasts that are best suited to their own […]

The workshop introduces ethical regulations that needs to be taken in account for empirical research in Germany. Offered by: Prof. Dr. Angela (C04) Grimm & Dr. Chiara Boila (C04) When: Wednesday, 5 May 2025, 10:00 – 12:00 (MGK Colloquium) Where: Online via Zoom  To get the access link please contact the MGK coordinator Dr. Derya Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan: Nuhbalaoglu@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Prof. Viola Schmitt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will give a talk at NegLaB's research seminar. The seminar is held in room IG 457, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

When: Thursday–Friday, 6–7 February 2025, 9:00–16:00; Thursday, 14 February 2025, 9:00–16:00 Where: Feb 6, 2025: Cas. 1.802; Feb 7. & Feb 14, 2025: SH 5.106 Instructors: João Veríssimo

Prof. Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh) will hold a talk at NegLaB's research seminar. This talk will be online only. To participate via zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

Angeliek von Hout (University of Groningen) will hold a talk on Acquiring implied negation: children's acquisition of the non-additive inference of focus particles ONLY and NOT EVEN. The research seminar will be held in room IG 457, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and will be streamed on zoom. To participate via zoom, please reach out […]

Where: IG 1.314 (Eisenhower-Raum) Instructors: Sol Lago

When: 9:00 - 12:00; 15 january,22 January Where: IG 4.301 Instructors: Nasimeh Bahmanian

Prof. Anne Breitbarth (Ghent University) will hold a talk at NegLaB's research seminar. Our research seminar is held in room IG 457, Camous Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and is streamed online on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

The Collaborative Research Centre 1629, “Negation in Language and Beyond,” is pleased to announce NegLaB I, its first annual workshop. This workshop brings together scholars from various linguistic subfields—including semantics, syntax, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition—to delve into the topic of negation. It offers a valuable platform for meaningful scientific exchange and collaboration on the topic. […]

The workshop is organized by our C05 project "Discourse matters? The role of discourse relations and type of events in child production and comprehension of sentence negation ". For any questions you can get in touch with Prof. Jacopo Torregrossa (torregrossa@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de) Read the full program here.

This session will feature presentations from two NegLaB projects: Zahra Mirrazi (A04), Resolving the Neg-raising Paradox Adelaide Banafo, Kwaka Ofosu Sasu, Johannes Mursell and Katharina Hartmann (B03), Syntactic and morphological interactions of negation - a cross-linguistic study The talks will be held in room IG 457 Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and will be streamed […]

The 2024 MGK Fellows Sumrah Arshad, Alexandrine Dunlap and Alexander Turtureanu will each give short presentations on their work during this joint session. The seminar will be held in room IG 457, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and will also be streamed on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

Dr. Andy Lücking (INF and Text Technology Lab at Goethe University Frankfurt) will give a talk at NegLaB's research seminar. Title: Negation semantics for natural language use The talk will be held in room IG 457, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and will also be streamed on zoom. To participate via zoom, please reach out […]

Ali Raza is a new member of  NegLaB. He has recently joined the INF project and will be presenting the initial results of his work. Our research seminar will be held in room IG 457, Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and will also be streamed online. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia […]

This workshop introduces key concepts in research data management, such as the data lifecycle, data management plans, metadata, and registries. Participants will: (a) understand the theory behind research data management; (b) propose an inventory of metadata entries for their CRC project data; (c) submit a data management plan using the Research Data Management Organizer tool […]

Prof. Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk at NegLaB's research seminar. Our research seminar will be held in room IG 457 and will also be streamed on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

Hagen Hirschmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will hold a talk on Perspectives for the Corpus-Based Annotation and Analysis of Negation at NegLaB's research seminar. The talk will be held online only. To participate via Zoom, please reach out to Silvia Schaefer (si.schaefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

When: October 10–11, 2024 Where: IG 3.401 & SH 5.102 Instructors: Jonathan P. Batten (SR-Research)

On the Human Diachronic Simulation Paradigm

Rejecting and affirming discourse referents in dialogue

Universal paradigmatic gaps

Modal negation: A diachronic, corpus-based exploration of attraction patterns

The timing of relative scope of quantifiers and negation: Evidence for global interpretation from eyetracking during reading