Kategorie: Semantik

The Semantics team was represented with three talks at the 30th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2026 – LuffDial), held at Loughborough University. Lennart Fritzsche gave a talk titled “Intensified response particles and polarity opposition”. Sebastian Walter gave a talk titled “Investigating contrastive inference generation across speech and gesture” and, together with Jonas Hartke, presented a second talk titled “When are speakers committed to their gestures? Insights from deceptive communication”. We are very happy to see the Semantics team represented with three contributions at SemDial 2026....

The Semantics team was represented with three posters at Sinn und Bedeutung 31 (SuB 31), held in Nantes. The book of abstracts is available online. Cornelia Ebert presented a poster titled “Exceptional wide scope readings as implicit private pointing gestures”. Lennart Fritzsche presented a poster titled “Is commitment ever really shared?”. Sebastian Walter, together with Lyn Tieu, Natalia Liu, and Selina Zheng, presented a poster titled “Investigating depictive and symbolic uses of emoji through contrastive inferences”. We are very happy to see the Semantics team represented so strongly at SuB 31. Cornelia Ebert presenting her poster. Lennart Fritzsche presenting his poster. Sebastian Walter presenting his poster....

After many years at Goethe University, Carolin Reinert has left the Institute of Linguistics. Carolin has been a highly valued colleague and an important part of our academic community, and we will miss having her here very much. We wish her all the very best for the future and her new position at Ruhr University Bochum!...

On 26 August 2026, seven members of the Institute of Linguistics took part in this year’s Goethe Run as the Linguistic Owl-Stars. The 5.8-kilometer after-work run brought together members of the Rhine-Main Universities and connected Goethe University’s Ginnheim and Westend campuses. Many thanks to Tristan Nagel for organizing our team—and congratulations to all our runners!...

We are delighted to announce that the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 30, which took place in Frankfurt in September 2025, have now been published! The volume, featuring the wonderful contributions presented at SuB30, is available here. We are very happy to see the proceedings out—just in time for Sinn und Bedeutung 31 in Nantes! We are very grateful to everyone who contributed to SuB30 and to bringing this volume together....