Semantics and pragmatics
Research in the field of semantics is concerned with the meaning of words or morphemes (lexical semantics) and how the meaning of such simple elements together contribute to the meaning of phrases and sentences (compositional semantics). Pragmatics refers to the meaning of linguistic elements in context, i.e. how interlocutors use their knowledge of the world to shape and interpret meaning in language.
Jennifer Brunner (Institute for Linguistics):
- Interactives
- Animal Communication
Maya Cortez Espinoza (Institute for German Studies):
- compositional semantics
- Formal semantics and pragmatics
- Semantics/pragmatics of modal particles
- Pragmatics of questions
Simon Dampfhofer (Institute for German Studies):
- Formal Semantics
- Semantics and pragmatics of pronouns
Dina El Zarka (Institute for Linguistics):
Information Structure
Katharina Gerhalter (Institute for Romance Studies):
- Semantics-pragmatics-syntax interface of adverbs in Romance languages
- Pragmatics and information structure of topicalised infinitives in Romance languages
Steffen Heidinger (Institute for Romance Studies):
- Information structure
- Animatedness
Sabine Heinemann (Institute for Romance Studies):
- Cognitive Semantics
- mono- and multimodal metaphors
Martin Hummel (Institute for Romance Studies):
- Semantics of constructions
- Theory of signs
Zi Huang (Institute for Linguistics):
- Ontology of Natural Language
- Referentiality
- genericity
Gianina Iordachioaia (Institute for Linguistics):
- lexical semantics
- Syntax-semantics interface
- Aspect and action type
- plurality
- quantification
- negation
Gunther Kaltenböck (Institute for English Studies):
- Discourse markers
- information packaging constructions
Veronika Mattes (Institute for Linguistics):
Pragmatic acquisition (register variation in L1 acquisition)
Aleksandra Milosavljević (Institute for Slavic Studies):
- Formal semantics and pragmatics
- information structure
Stefan Milosavljević (Institute for Slavic Studies):
Situation Semantics
Sergei Monakhov (Institute for Linguistics):
- Distributional Semantics
- Word embedding
- Distributional models
Ozan Mustafa (Institute for English Studies):
- discourse markers
- epistemic/evidential markers
- negation
Edgar Onea (Institute for German Studies):
Formal Semantics of German
Hermine Penz (Institute for English Studies):
- Pragmatics and Society
- Intercultural communication (communication strategies)
- pragmatic aspects of English as a lingua franca
- Analysis of environmental discourses
Daria Seres (Institute for Slavic Studies):
- (In)definiteness
- genericity
- referentiality
Vesela Simeonova (Institute for Slavic Studies):
- decompositional semantics
- impoliteness
Elnora ten Wolde (Institute for English Studies):
- Modification and Classification in the Nominal Phrase
- Adverbial clauses
Anna Volodina (Institute for Linguistics):
- Pragmatics-semantics interface
- Semantics of connectors and discourse markers in German
- speech act-related causality and conditionality