The focus “LexikoGrammar” comprises central aspects of linguistic research at the FAU.
Its subject matter comprises diverse aspects of the analysis of lexical and grammatical phenomena of the languages represented at the faculty.
Description focuses on several key aspects: on the one hand, it deals with the description of different units of language (i.e. word-formation, collocations, connectors) and the further development of methods relating to corpus linguistics which help identify and analyze such units; on the other hand, it includes the description of units of language in grammars, textbooks, and dictionaries with a focus on practical and theoretical lexicography.
The research emphasis is also concerned with the analysis of variation and alteration as well as aspects of cognition, which covers questions of mental and neuronal representation and language acquisition.