My research interest is in natural language semantics and pragmatics, and in cognitive aspects of language use.
Current topics are "Comparison and Similarity", "Evaluative predicates", "Natural Language Ontology", and "Discourse Managment".
See also the research page of the Computational Linguistics Group
Intensifiers and measure phrases combined with verbs.
Workshop Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
April 2011(extended abstract)
Similarity-based classification. (with Helmar Gust)
KogWis 2010 – 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science. University of Potsdam, October 3 – 6 2010 (abstract)
Workshop "Concepts & Feature Spaces", University of Osnabrück, June 2011 (slides)
Evaluative predicates and the attitude of 'finden'.
Colloquium of the SFB 673 Alignment in Communication, University of Bielefeld, January 2011.
(slides)
Grading by 'gewiss'. (with Cornelia Ebert)
Workshop “Specificity from theoretical and empirical points of view”, University of Stuttgart, September 2010
(abstract, slides)
Subjective Judgments in Dialog.
Jahrestagung der DGfS, Berlin, February 2010 (slides)
Another additive particle under stress: German additive 'noch'.
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin, January 2010 (slides)
(part of these ideas can be found in the proceedings paper of LoLa10, Balatonszemes, Hungary, Aug 2009)
Comparatives combined with additive particles.
Sinn & Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart, Oct 2008.
(paper)
German demonstrative 'so' – intensifying and hedging effects.
ESSLLI workshop 'Formal and experimental approaches to discourse particles and modal adverbs',
Hamburg 2008. (draft version of the proceedings paper)
German 'wie' phrases in equative comparison.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, June 2008 (handout)
Facts as Proofs.
Workshop on Reference to Abstract Objects in Natural Language, March 2008, Barcelona (abstract, slides)
The role of 'so' in German equative comparison.
Syntax and Semantics Conference CSSP, Paris,
October 2007, (handout)
Anaphoric Reference to Gradable Adjectives.
International Conference on Adjectives, Lille, September 2007, (handout)
Das auch so: Anaphoric reference to event predicates and event predicate modifiers.
(with Graham Katz). Sinn und Bedeutung 11, September 2006, Barcelona (handout)
Similarity-based Classification in Compositional Semantics
Cognitive Science group, Lund University, September 2005. (slides)
German Demonstrative 'so' - Poster presented at the IKW poster session, February 2008
