Prof. Dr. Manfred Sailer

Manfred Sailer is Professor of Linguistics and the Institute of English and American Studies. His main areas of research are the syntax-semantics interface, the semantics-pragmatics interface, negation, formal phraseology, a formal theory of social meaning, and the interplay of regularity and irregularity in language. He works within the constraint-based grammar framework Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.