Kategorie: Semantik

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. ← See all Semantics News...

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!   ← See all Semantics News...

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! ← See all Semantics News...

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. ← See all Semantics News...

From July 29-31, 2026, Carolin Reinert attended the 36th Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) conference at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she presented a joint poster with her co-author Carla Spellerberg (University of Massachusetts Amherst). The poster, entitled "Telling World Knowledge and Linguistic Knowledge Apart: Experimental Evidence for a Meaning-Based Perspective on Nominal Event Arguments", presented new experimental evidence on how lexical meaning and world knowledge interact in the interpretation of adjective-noun combinations. Combining theoretical semantics with psycholinguistic experimentation, the project investigates which nouns encode typical activities as part of their linguistic meaning. The results of a maze experiment support a meaning-based account according to which both deverbal and certain non-deverbal nouns are associated with event arguments, contributing to our understanding of how linguistic knowledge differs from general conceptual knowledge. The conference offered an inspiring environment for scientific exchange, with talks and poster sessions covering a wide range of topics in formal semantics. Presenting the poster sparked engaging discussions with...