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The project studies interpretive adaptation processes employed by language users in order to ensure communicative success (felicity, truth) in the face of difficulties in discourse. In a series of offline experiments, we will identify variability and consistency in the interpretation of relative scope, bare SG object NPs, definite descriptions and counterfactuals across individual utterances, speakers, and languages (German, English, Akan). The focus lies on identifying adaptation processes that (i.) are systematically blocked across speakers and trials; (ii.) require structural reanalysis; and/or (iii.) show cross-linguistic variability. Such cases shed light on the underlying linguistic systems of individual languages and the workings of the syntax-semantics interface.
PI C02
Saarland University
Saarbrücken Campus
C 7.2, Room 2.02
66123 Saarbrücken
PI C02
Campus Golm
Department Linguistics
House 14, Room 3.25
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25
14476 Potsdam
Campus Golm
Department Linguistics
House 14, Room 3.22/3.23
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25
14476 Potsdam
Campus Golm
Department Linguistics
House 14, Room 3.22
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25
14476 Potsdam
Authors | Year | Titel | Where | Project | Link |
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Bombi, C. & De Veaugh-Geiss, J. | 2018 | Quantitative data in the field: Two case studies on Akan. | Poster presented at the Linguistic Evidence 2018 - Experimental data drives linguistic theory, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. 15 February. | C02 | |
De Veaugh-Geiss, J., & Destruel, E. | 2017 | (Non-)Exhaustivity in French c'est Clefts. | Paper presented at the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP), Paris, France. 25 November. | C02 | |
De Veaugh-Geiss, J. & Philipp, M. | 2018 | Fictional contexts for shifting (i) perspectives and (ii) evaluational worlds: Two case studies. | Invited talk at the Workshop on "Reflections on Methodology: Empiricism and Fiction", Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. 12 October. | C02 |