We discuss a grammar engineering account of non-constituent coordination in the clausal syntax of German as it occurs in real corpus data, generalizing the approach of Forst and Rohrer (2009) to right node raising cases not captured so far. We compare our account to the unimplemented metagrammatical technique by Maxwell and Manning (1996) and point out that many of their ideas can be captured u...

We show how to turn a large-scale syntactic dictionary into a dependency-based unification grammar where each piece of lexical information calls a separate rule, yielding a super granular grammar. Subcategorization, raising and control verbs, auxiliaries and copula, passivization, and tough-movement are discussed. We focus on the semantics-syntax interface and offer a new perspective on syntact...

This paper explores the application of conceptual metonymy (Lakoff, 1987; Ruiz de Mendoza, 2000; Langacker, 2009; Panther, Thornburg and Barcelona, 2013) in development pedagogical resources for teaching Spanish verbal system to L2/FL learners. To this end, a description is given advantages introducing inferential reasoning using based on certain principles taken from Cognitive Grammar model (L...

In this essay we argue that one way to combat the depressing creep of neoliberal university is recuperate and re-use consciousness raising (CR) in teaching, administration, research, engagement. Consciousness-raising can be roughly characterised as first, an apprehending one’s place a system, second, feeling inspired do something about system. We propose CR especially helpful think our work con...