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Semantics

Research Focus

Our research focuses on the compositional derivation of sentence meanings from their atomic parts, adopting an explicit cross-linguistic perspective:

Next to the semantics of well-researched Indo-European languages (German, English), a special focus lies on the semantics of West African languages (Kwa, Chadic, Grassfield Bantu) and Vietnamese. Among the phenomena investigated are: Compositional Mechanisms, Information Structure, Question Semantics, Quantification, Tense and Aspect, Discourse Particles, Exhaustivity, (In)Definiteness.

 

Staff

NameTelRoomE-Mail
Rebecca Ponick
Secretary
0331/977-2016II.14.217rebecca.ponickuni-potsdamde
Carla Bombi0331/977-2399II.14.322carla.bombiuni-potsdamde
Jeanne Lecavelier0331/977-2399II.14.322jeanne.lecavelieruni-potsdamde

Third Party Funded Staff

NameTelRoomE-Mail
Giuliano Armenante0331/977-2979II.14.322giuliano.armenanteuni-potsdamde
Anna Struck0331/977-2610II.14.322anna.struckuni-potsdamde

 

Affiliated Staff

NameTelRoomE-Mail
Rebecca Jarvis0331/977-2979II.14.322jarvisberkeleyedu
Nadine Bade0331/977-6373II.14.326nadine.badeuni-potsdamde