Formal linguistics

Formal linguistics attempts to describe the composition and meaning of linguistic expressions (words, phrases, sentences) as precisely as possible. To this end, logic and other mathematical methods are used to construct a model that clearly explains how the form and meaning of complex linguistic expressions are formed from the form and meaning of their parts and what relationships take place between the parts. Natural language is often very ambiguous and opaque in this context, which is why formal languages such as logic are of great use in formal linguistics.

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Svitlana Antonyuk (Institute for German Studies & Institute for Slavic Studies):

  • Syntax
  • syntax-semantics interface
  • morphosyntax
  • Distributed Morphology

Boban Arsenijević (Institute for Slavic Studies):

  • formal semantics
  • distributed morphology
  • nanosyntax

Maya Cortez Espinoza (Institute for German Studies):

Formal Semantics

Yanis da Cunha (Institute for Romance Studies):

  • Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG)
  • Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
  • Optimality Theory (OT)

Simon Dampfhofer (Institute for German Studies):

Formal Semantics

Zi Huang (Institute for Linguistics):

  • Formal Semantics
  • Discourse representation theory

Gianina Iordachioaia (Institute for Linguistics):

  • Distributed Morphology
  • Minimalism
  • Theory of generalised quantifiers
  • Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Aleksandra Milosavljević (Institute for Slavic Studies):

Formal Semantics.

Stefan Milosavljević (Institute for Slavic Studies):

  • Exo-Skeletal approach
  • Distributed Morphology
  • cartography
  • formal semantics

Edgar Onea (Institute for German Studies):

Formal Semantics

Daria Seres (Institute for Slavic Studies):

Formal Semantics

Vesela Simeonova (Institute for Slavic Studies):

  • decompositional semantics
  • syntax

Marko Simonovic (Institute for Slavic Studies):

  • Optimality Theory
  • Distributed Morphology
  • Government Phonology
  • Nanosyntax

Jelena Stojkovic (Institute for Slavic Studies):

  • Optimality theory
  • autosegmental phonology
  • minimalism

Joeri Vinke (Institute for Slavic Studies):

  • Minimalism
  • distributed morphology
  • formal semantics