Research
Here is a list of topics that I am currently working on or have worked on in the past, with a list of publications, unpublished manuscripts and invited/conference presentations on each topic.
As should be evident from this list, I enjoy collaborative research! In all the co-authored papers listed below, the authors are listed alphabetically unless indicated otherwise.
Formal pragmatics [back to top]
Pragmatic constraints on imprecision [back to top]
| Manuscript | 2024 | Imprecision, structural complexity and the Gricean Maxim of Manner. [manuscript] To appear in: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28. |
| Presentations | 2024 | Structural asymmetries between precise and imprecise expressions: How pragmatics can constrain morphosyntax. Invited talk presented at the Theoretical Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Vienna and the MorphoSynSem Colloquium at the University of Potsdam. |
| 2024 | Using complexity asymmetries to uncover preferences among contextually equivalent meanings. Talk presented at the ZAS Semantics Circle and online at the NYU Semantics Group. |
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| 2023 | Imprecision, structural complexity and the Gricean Maxim of Manner. Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. |
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| 2023 | Imprecision, structural complexity and the Gricean Maxim of Manner. Invited talk, Bochum Language Colloquium, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. |
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| 2023 | Imprecision/complexity trade-offs in semantics. Invited talk, The Ad Hoc Reading Group, Institut Jean Nicod (ENS/PSL), Paris. |
Exhaustification and implicatures [back to top]
| Presentations | 2024 | Homogeneity and exhaustification under embedding. Invited talk, LLING SynSem Seminar, Nantes Université. |
| 2023 | Unifying homogeneity and implicatures: The road less traveled. Invited talk, LINGUAE Seminar, Institut Jean Nicod (ENS/PSL), Paris. |
Imprecision in degree predication (joint work with Mathieu Paillé) [back to top]
| Paper | 2023 | Comparing contextual shifts in total/partial predication and plural non-maximality. [paper] In Maria Onoeva, Anna Staňková and Radek Šimík (eds.): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27, 272–290. |
| Presentation | 2022 | Comparing contextual shifts in total/partial predication and plural non-maximality. Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 27, Prague |
Acceptable redundancy [back to top]
| Presentation | 2024 | Context and linear order in redundant coordinations. Invited talk, BerlinBrnoVienna student workshop, Masaryk University in Brno. |
Plural semantics [back to top]
Context-dependency in plural predication: Non-maximality and cumulativity [back to top]
| Paper | 2022 | Contextual restrictions on cumulativity. [paper] In Nicole Dreier, Chloe Kwon, Thomas Darnell and John Starr (eds.): Proceedings of SALT 2021, 283-303. |
| Presentations | 2022 | Revisiting cumulative interpretations from the perspective of non-maximality. Invited talk, Semantics Group, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. |
| 2022 | Contextual constraints on ‘weak’ plural predication: A unified perspective on cumulativity and non-maximality. Invited talk at the online workshop Part-whole structures in natural language, Masaryk University in Brno |
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| 2021 | Plurals as scalar predicates: Evidence from contextual restrictions on cumulativity.
Poster presentation at SALT 31, Brown University. [presented online due to the pandemic] |
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| 2021 | Cumulativity as global non-maximality: A non-lexical underspecification approach. Invited talk, LF Reading Group, MIT [presented online due to the pandemic] |
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| 2021 | Plurals as higher-order scalar predicates: Unifying cumulativity and non-maximality.
Online talk at the SemPrE Colloquium, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf [presented online due to the pandemic] |
Typology of universal D-quantification (joint work with Alain Hien, Emil Eva Rosina, Viola Schmitt and Valerie Wurm) [back to top]
| Presentation | 2022 | A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universals across languages. Poster presented at SinFonIJA 15, Udine. |
Vagueness in plural predication [back to top]
| Paper | 2022 | Non-maximality and vagueness: Revisiting the plural Sorites paradox. [paper] In John R. Starr, Juhyae Kim and Burak Öney (eds.): Proceedings of SALT 32, 63-82. |
| Presentations | 2022 | Non-maximality and vagueness: Revisiting the plural Sorites paradox. Talk at SALT 32, El Colegio de Mexico/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. [presented online due to the pandemic] |
| 2022 | Non-maximality and vagueness: Revisiting the plural Sorites paradox. Invited talk, LINGUAE Seminar, Institut Jean Nicod (ENS/PSL), Paris. |
Cumulative readings of quantifiers (joint work with Viola Schmitt) [back to top]
| Papers | 2022 | Syntactic conditions on cumulative readings of German jeder ‘every’ DPs. [paper] Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 25, 115–168. |
| 2020 | Cumulative readings of modified numerals: A plural projection approach. [paper] In Michael Franke, Nikola Kompa, Mingya Liu, Jutta L. Mueller and Juliane Schwab (eds.): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, 323-340. |
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| 2018 | Scope-related cumulativity asymmetries and cumulative composition. [paper] In Sireemas Maspong, Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir, Katherine Blake and Forrest Davis (eds.): Proceedings of SALT 28, 197-216. |
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| Manuscript | 2020 | Asymmetrically distributive items and plural projection. [manuscript] Unpublished manuscript, Vienna/Göttingen/Graz. |
| Presentations | 2019 | Cumulative readings of modified numerals: A plural projection approach. Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück University. |
| 2019 | Cumulative readings of modified numerals: A plural projection approach. Talk presented at the 20th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poręba, Poland. |
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| 2019 | Cumulative readings of modified numerals: A plural projection approach. Invited talk, SemPrE Colloquium, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
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| 2018 | Universal quantification and conjunction: Cumulativity asymmetries. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages, Masaryk University in Brno |
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| 2018 | Scope-related cumulativity asymmetries and cumulative composition. Talk presented at SALT 28, MIT. |
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| 2018 | Asymmetries in cumulative construals of non-referential DPs. Talk presented at the ‘RTANJ Linguistics 2’ workshop, Rtanj, Serbia. |
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| 2018 | Cumulativity asymmetries and composition. Talk presented at the 19th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poręba, Poland. |
Cross-linguistic semantics of conjunction (joint work with various collaborators within the FWF project “Conjunction and Disjunction from a Typological Perspective”) [back to top]
| Manuscript | 2020 | A plural analysis of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from two cross-linguistic asymmetries. [manuscript] Unpublished manuscript, Göttingen/Vienna/Graz. |
| Papers | 2021 | Cumulation cross-linguistically. [book] In Marcin Wągiel and Mojmír Dočekal (eds.): Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond, pp. 220-249. Berlin: Language Science Press. |
| 2017 | Cross-linguistic evidence for a non-distributive lexical meaning of conjunction. [proceedings volume] In Alexandre Cremers, Thom van Gessel and Floris Roelofsen (eds.): Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, 255-264. |
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| Presentations | 2021 | Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from Czech and German. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 26, University of Cologne. [presented online due to the pandemic] |
| 2019 | The plural core of distributive conjunction: Cross-linguistic support for a non-classical meaning. Talk presented at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 11, University of Warsaw. |
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| 2019 | A plural analysis of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from two cross-linguistic asymmetries. Talk presented at SinFonIJA 12, Masaryk University in Brno. |
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| 2018 | Distributive vs. non-distributive conjunction: A cross-linguistic view. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages, Masaryk University in Brno. |
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| 2018 | Cross-linguistic evidence for predicate-level distributivity operators. Talk presented at Journées (Co-)Distributivité 2018, Paris. |
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| 2017 | Cross-linguistic evidence for a non-distributive lexical meaning of conjunction. Talk presented at the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium. |
Intensional semantics [back to top]
| MA thesis | 2019 | Quantificational DP arguments of opaque predicates in German. [thesis] |
Intensional transitive verbs and “specificity” [back to top]
| Presentations | 2019 | Opaque complements in German: Disentangling intensionality, unspecificity and higher types. Poster presented at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 11, University of Warsaw. |
| 2019 | Unspecific indefinites do not have a uniform semantic type: Evidence from German. Talk presented at SinFonIJA 12, Masaryk University in Brno. |
DP semantics in intensional contexts; especially identity and distinctness of 'belief objects' (joint work with Viola Schmitt) [back to top]
| Papers | 2021 | Counterfactual attitude contents and the semantics of plurals in belief contexts. [paper] In Patrick Georg Grosz, Luisa Martí, Hazel Pearson, Yasutada Sudo and Sarah Zobel (eds.): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, 394-411. |
| 2021 | Distinguishing belief objects. [book] In Marcin Wągiel and Mojmír Dočekal (eds.): Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond, pp. 252-274. Berlin: Language Science Press. |
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| Presentations | 2020 | Identity and distinctness of belief objects: Cumulative belief and Hob-Nob sentences. Invited talk, LingORG Colloquium, University of Oslo [presented online due to the pandemic] |
| 2020 | Identity and distinctness of belief objects. Invited talk, Athens Semantics Group, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens [presented online due to the pandemic] |
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| 2020 | When do intentional objects count as distinct? Evidence from cumulative sentences. Talk presented at the 21st Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poręba, Poland. |
Higher-type DPs and context-dependency [back to top]
| Paper | 2020 |
Individuating beliefs: DP objects of attitude verbs and their domains of quantification. [paper] In Michael Franke, Nikola Kompa, Mingya Liu, Jutta L. Mueller and Juliane Schwab (eds.): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, 305-322. |
| Presentations | 2019 | Individuating beliefs: DP objects of attitude verbs and their domains of quantification. Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück University. |
| 2018 | Quantificational arguments of opaque verbs in German: Disentangling monotonicity and context dependency. Invited talk, Semantics Colloquium, Goethe University Frankfurt |
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| 2019 | Quantificational DP arguments of opaque predicates: How domain restriction constrains monotonicity. Talk presented at the 20th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poręba, Poland. |
Counterfactuals in attitude contexts (joint work with Viola Schmitt) [back to top]
| Paper | 2022 | What embedded counterfactuals tell us about the semantics of attitudes. [paper] In Mingya Liu (ed.): Natural Language Conditionals and Conditional Reasoning Volume 2, pp. 469-478. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. |
| Presentation | 2021 | What embedded counterfactuals tell us about the semantics of attitudes. Talk at the DGfS workshop “The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives”, Freiburg University. [presented online due to the pandemic] |
Other topics [back to top]
| Squibs | 2019 | Strengthened disjunction or non-classical conjunction? [paper] Snippets 37 (Special issue in honor of Uli Sauerland), 43-45. |
| 2017 | Acquisition of semantic type flexibility: The case of conjunction. [paper] In Clemens Mayr and Edwin Williams (eds.), 11-11-17. Festschrift für Martin Prinzhorn (= Wiener Linguistische Gazette 82). 109-118. |
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| 2017 | Stressed non-Boolean und (and) in German. [paper] Snippets 31, 13-14. |
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| Presentations | 2016 | Issues in the syntax and semantics of Expletive Negation in German. Invited talk, Syntax/Semantics Oberseminar of the English Department, Göttingen. |