Sascha Bargmann

Linguist

Welcome to my page!My name is Sascha Bargmann, and I'm a linguist. More specifically, I'm a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Linguistics Department of the Institute of English and American Studies (IEAS) at the University of Frankfurt and, together with Markus Bader and Gert Webelhuth,
a principal investigator (PI) in Project B01 "Negation at the interfaces: Negation and existential quantification in German" within the SFB 1629 "Negation in Language and Beyond" (NegLaB).I did my PhD with the title "Chopping up Idioms – Towards a Combinatorial Analysis" under the supervision of Manfred Sailer and Gert Webelhuth at the University of Frankfurt after having been a doctoral researcher within the project “Constraint-based Analysis of Restrictive Relative Clauses in English and German” (CON) – led by Anke Holler, Gert Webelhuth, and Manfred Sailer – within the
Research Unit 1783 "Relative Clauses".Before that, I received an MA in English and Romance Philology from the University of Göttingen. My final thesis was on "The Future Progressive and Politeness", supervised by Regine Eckardt and Markus Steinbach.Currently, I'm focusing on clausal negation in connection with
existential quantification, negative polarity items, idioms,
and inverse scope in German.If you need or would like to contact me, don't hesitate to do so:Dr. Sascha Bargmann
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Institut für England- und Amerikastudien
Abteilung Linguistik
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60629 Frankfurt a.M.[email protected]

Projects

since 2024"Negation at the interfaces:
Negation and existential quantification in German"
within the DFG-funded CRC/SFB 1629
"Negation in Language and Beyond" (NegLaB)

2011-2017“Constraint-based Analysis of
Restrictive Relative Clauses in English and German” (CON)
within the DFG-funded Research Unit 1783
"Relative Clauses"

Publications

Bargmann, Sascha, Berit Gehrke & Frank Richter. 2021.
Modification of literal meanings in semantically non-decomposable idioms. In: Berthold Crysmann & Manfred Sailer (eds). One-to-Many relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics. 245-279. Berlin: LSP.Sailer, Manfred & Sascha Bargmann. 2021.
Gluing idioms back together: A phraseo-combinatorial analysis.
In: Stefan Müller & Nurit Melnik (eds). Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. 186-204.Webelhuth, Gert, Sascha Bargmann & Christopher Götze. 2019.
Idioms as evidence for the proper analysis of relative clauses.
In: Manfred Krifka & Mathias Schenner (eds). Reconstruction effects in relative clauses. 225-262. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.Bargmann, Sascha. 2019.
Chopping up idioms – towards a combinatorial analysis.
Frankfurt: Goethe University dissertation.Bargmann, Sascha & Manfred Sailer. 2018.
The syntactic flexibility of semantically non-decomposable idioms.
In: Manfred Sailer & Stella Markantonatou (eds). Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective. 1-29. Berlin: LSP.Poschmann, Claudia, Sascha Bargmann, Christopher Götze, Anke Holler, Manfred Sailer, Gert Webelhuth & T. Ede Zimmermann. 2018.
Split-antecedent relative clauses and the symmetry of predicates.
In: Uli Sauerland & Stephanie Solt (eds). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, vol. 2, ZASPiL 61. 253-270. Berlin: ZAS.Webelhuth, Gert, Sascha Bargmann & Christopher Götze. 2017.
More evidence against the raising analysis of relative clauses.
In: Claire Halpert, Hadas Kotek & Coppe van Urk (eds). A pesky set: Papers for David Pesetsky. MITWPL 80. Cambridge: MIT.Losnegaard, Gyri Smørdal, Federico Sangati, Carla Parra Escartin, Agata Savary, Sascha Bargmann & Johanna Monti. 2016.
PARSEME Survey on MWE Resources. In: Nicoletta Calzolari et al. (eds). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16). 2299-2306. Portoroz, Slovenia: ELRA.

Selection of Talks

December 2024
Negation at the interfaces: Negation and existential quantification in German. Presentation with Markus Bader, Janina Jordan, Fenja Plate & Gert Webelhuth. Goethe University (GU).October 2023
Complex Idiom Modification. International Conference on Advances in Education, Humanities and Language (ICEL).September 2023
Negation at the interfaces: Negation and existential quantification in German. Poster with Markus Bader & Gert Webelhuth.
Goethe University (GU).September 2021
Negation and Displacement. With Manfred Sailer & Gert Webelhuth.
GU.July 2021
A phraseo-lexical analysis of idioms. With Manfred Sailer.
28th International Conference on HPSG. GU.March 2019
Extended idioms as metaphors. Poster with Jamie Findlay & Manfred Sailer. The Creative Power of Metaphors. University of Oxford.January 2019
Why the butterflies in your stomach can have big wings: Combining formal and cognitive theories to explain productive extensions of idioms. With Jamie Findlay & Manfred Sailer. EUROPHRAS 2019 Productive Patterns in Phraseology. University of Santiago de Compostela.August 2018
Pulling a pretence rabbit out of the hat. With Jamie Findlay & Manfred Sailer. Workshop on Form-Meaning Mismatches in Natural Language (FMM2018). University of Göttingen.June 2018
Update constraints on idioms in non-restrictive relative clauses.
With Doug Arnold & Manfred Sailer. 5th European Workshop on
Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (EW-HPSG 2018). GU.March 2018
How to modify idioms. With Berit Gehrke & Frank Richter.
40th Annual DGfS Meeting. University of Stuttgart.November 2017
How frozen are frozen idioms? Recent Trends in Linguistic Research Colloquium. GU.September 2017
Split-antecedent relative clauses and the symmetry of predicates.
Poster with Claudia Poschmann, Christopher Götze, Anke Holler, Manfred Sailer, Gert Webelhuth & T. Ede Zimmermann. Sinn und Bedeutung 22. Berlin & Potsdam.May 2017
Idioms and non-restrictive relative clauses. With Manfred Sailer,
Doug Arnold, Christopher Götze, Gert Webelhuth & Anke Holler.
Closing Workshop of the DFG Research Unit 1783 Relative Clauses.
GU.January 2017
The meaning of ‘meaningless’ idiom parts. Invited talk with Manfred Sailer. The Syntax of Idioms. University of Utrecht.September 2016
Idiom licensing in non-restrictive relative clauses.
Poster with Doug Arnold. PARSEME 7th General Meeting.
Centre for Advanced Academic Studies in Dubrovnik, Croatia.November 2015
Syntactically flexible VP-idioms and the N-after-N construction.
3rd European Workshop on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
(EW-HPSG 2015). GU.September 2015
Syntactically flexible VP-idioms and the N-after-N construction.
Poster. PARSEME 5th General Meeting. Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania.March 2015
About bear services and flabbergasted building blocks – applying Söhn’s idiom theory to English data. 16th Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK). University of Hanover.The syntactic flexibility of non-decomposable idioms.
Poster with Manfred Sailer. PARSEME 4th General Meeting.
University of Malta.February 2015
The syntactic flexibility of non-decomposable idioms.
Invited talk with Manfred Sailer. University of Düsseldorf.November 2014
About bear services and flabbergasted building blocks – applying Söhn’s idiom theory to English data. Tel Aviv - Goethe University (TAU-GU) Workshop. GU.Approaching idioms less syntactically: The semantic representation theory. TAU-GU Workshop. GU.May 2014
Some (more) beans on the morphosyntactic flexibility of English
VP-idioms. 40th Generative Grammatik des Südens.
University of Constance.March 2014
Towards a formal analysis of idiomatic expressions. 15th NLK.
University of Osnabrück.Accounting for the differences in the syntactic flexibility of idioms. Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle. University of Paris VII.What can experiments tell us about the syntactic analysis of relative clauses? With Christopher Götze, Anke Holler, Gert Webelhuth & Thomas Weskott. 36th Annual DGfS Meeting. University of Marburg.February 2014
About pulling strings, ??spilling beans, and *kicking buckets.
15th Szklarska Poreba Workshop. Szrenica, Poland.A logical form account of syntactically flexible idiomatic expressions. DFG Research Unit 1783 Relative Clauses. GU.April 2013
Binding-theoretic reconstruction effects in restrictive relative clauses of German. With Christopher Götze, Thomas Weskott, Anke Holler &
Gert Webelhuth. Linguistic Evidence – Berlin Special.January 2012
A constraint-based analysis of restrictive relative clauses.
With Anke Holler, Gert Webelhuth & Christopher Götze.
DFG Research Unit 1783 Relative Clauses. GU.

Classes at Frankfurt University

Introduction to Linguistics (15x)
The Variability of Idioms (6x)
Syntax: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (5x)
Survey of English Grammar (3x)
Morphology (2x)
Semantics (2x)
Negation (2x)
Syntax: Minimalism (1x)
Reconstruction (1x)
(In)Definites (1x)

Tutorials at Göttingen University

Syntax: Government and Binding Theory (4x)
Introduction to Linguistics (2x)
Syntax: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (1x)
Semantics: Tense & Aspect (1x)
How to write a term paper (1x)
The Variability of Idioms (1x)
Psycholinguistics (1x)
Grammar (1x)

Classes at the IBK

IBK = Institute of International Education and Communication in Göttingen
(does not exist anymore)

September 2006 - September 2009
Grammar: Tense & Aspect (5 lessons/week)May 2006 - January 2009
English classes for the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) exam (2 lessons/week)

Short CV

Degrees

November 2011 - October 2019
Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in English Linguistics
Institute of English and American Studies
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Title: Chopping up Idioms – Towards a Combinatorial Analysis
Supervisors: Manfred Sailer & Gert WebelhuthApril 2006 - November 2011
M.A. (Magister Artium) in English and Romance Philology
Georg August University Göttingen, Germany
Final thesis: The Future Progressive and Politeness
Supervisors: Regine Eckardt & Markus SteinbachFebruary 2003 - July 2004
B.A. (Hons) in Management, Business and Administration
New College Durham / Open University, EnglandSeptember 1999 - September 2002
Advanced Diploma in International Administration and Management
+ Translator and Interpreter for English
Institut für Internationale Bildung und Kommunikation, Göttingen
European Schools for Higher Education in Administration and Management

Academic Positions

November 2019 - present
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer of Linguistics
Institute of English and American Studies (IEAS)
Goethe University (GU)November 2017 - October 2019
Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer of Linguistics, IEAS, GUNovember 2011 - October 2017
Doctoral Researcher within the project “Constraint-based Analysis of Restrictive Relative Clauses in English and German” (CON) as part of the DFG research unit 1783 Relative Clauses, IEAS, GU

Grants

March 2017
Grant from the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service) for a short-term stay in the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF) at the University of Paris VIIFebruary 2017
Grant from the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
within the IC1207 COST Action PARSing and Multi-word Expressions (PARSEME) for a two-week Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM)
in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of EssexFebruary 2016
Grant from COST within the IC1207 COST Action PARSEME for a
two-week STSM in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of EssexJanuary 2015
Grant from COST for the 1st PARSEME Training School at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the Charles University in PragueMarch 2014 - April 2014
Grant from COST for a six-week STSM in the LLF at the University of Paris VIIJuly 2008 - November 2011
Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
(German National Academic Foundation)December 2009
Scholarship from the German Ministry for Science and CultureSeptember 2009 - October 2009
Scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
for a French class at the language school Eurocentres in La Rochelle, France. Proficiency level C1+ (proficient speaker) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)September 2000
2nd place in the Bundeswettbewerb Fremdsprachen
(German National Foreign Language Competition)June 1997 - August 1997
Scholarship to attend Phillips-Exeter-Academy Summer School in Exeter, NH, USA

Reviews

May 2025
Review for GlossaAugust 2020
Review for the Poznan Studies in Contemporary LinguisticsFebruary - May 2015
Referee reports for the Journal of Linguistics

Committee Work

June 2020 - May 2021
Teaching staff representative in the Admissions Panel for the MA in Linguistics at the University of FrankfurtOctober 2010 - November 2011
Student representative (SR) in the appointments committee for a
W2 professorship in English Linguistics (Göttingen)July 2010 - November 2011
SR in the M.A. admissions panel of the English Department (Göttingen)February 2010 - March 2010
SR in the selection panel for a lecturer in American English (Göttingen)August 2009 - January 2010
SR in the appointments committee for a W2 professorship in American Studies (Göttingen)August 2007 - September 2007
SR in the selection panel for a lecturer in American English (Göttingen)

Commitments

September 2014
Co-organized and co-conducted the Frankfurt Workshop on Multi-word Expressions, co-hosting the PARSEME 3rd General Meeting (Frankfurt)July 2012
Co-developed and co-taught (with Manfred Sailer) the Schülercampus (university campus for high school students) workshop “The green green garden – Sprachliche Varietäten des Englischen” (Frankfurt)October 2006 - November 2011
Student representative of the English Department: organized orientation and information events for freshmen and high school students (Göttingen)February 2010
Co-developed and co-taught (with Manfred Sailer) the Kinder-Uni (children’s university) course “Pfeif mich, ich glaub’ mein Schwein kneift
– von Versprechern und wie sie zustande kommen” (Göttingen)July 2009
Co-organized and co-conducted the 16th International HPSG Conference (Göttingen)February 2009
Co-developed and co-taught (with Manfred Sailer & Christoph Hesse)
the Kinder-Uni course “Elbisch, Europanto, Klingonisch – erfinde eine Geheimsprache” (Göttingen)October 2006 - September 2008
Organized and chaired The English Stammtisch, a weekly get-together
to speak English (Göttingen)April 2006 - September 2007
Co-founded, co-organized, and co-chaired (with Jana Eyssel)
La soirée française, a weekly get-together to speak French (Göttingen)April 2007 - July 2007
Founded, organized and chaired a linguistic colloquium for students (Göttingen)March 2007
Co-organized and co-conducted the 8th Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK) (Göttingen)

Student Jobs at Göttingen University

December 2010 - November 2011
Junior research group “Theoretical Linguistics” at the CRC Text Structures: conducted experiments on the difference between the German Perfekt and Präteritum for Edgar Onea (25 hours/month)Winter Term 2008/09 - Summer Term 2009
Psycholinguistic Lab of the German Department: developed test and filler items to analyze scope ambiguities in sentences with subject and object quantifiers for Regine Eckardt & Anke Holler (25 hours/month)Winter Term 2007/08 - Summer Term 2008
Modern Linguistics Division of the English Department: assisted in preparing and teaching linguistic lectures and seminars for Regine Eckardt & Gert Webelhuth (25 hours/month)Winter Term 2007/08
American Studies Division of the English Department: researched, selected, and compiled primary and secondary literature for two lectures for Philipp Schweighauser (25 hours/month)

Long CV

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