Current projects
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Propositionalismus |
Negation in Language and Beyond (DFG Collaborative Research Centre: Poletto, since 2024):The CRT is a research association made up of several researchers, institutes and universities. The Institute of Linguistics is involved in many projects at the RCT. Further information and an overview of all projects can be found here. |
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Projects with participation by the institute of linguistics:
- Negation and cancellation Semantics (project in the RCT: Ebert/Fuhrmann, since 2024)
- Negative adjectives in language change Historical Linguistics (project in the RCT: Meier/Weiß, since 2024)
- A comparative approach to the mysteries of the Jespersen cycle (project in the RCT: Poletto/Weiß, since 2024)
- Negation at the interfaces: Negation and existential quantification in German (project in the RCT: Bader/Bargmann/Webelhuth, since 2024)
- Syntactic and morphological interactions of negation – a cross-linguistic study (project in the RCT: Hartmann/Mursell, since 2024)
- Negative scope mismatches in coordination Comparative Linguistics (project in the RCT: Hartmann/Zeijlstra, since 2024)
- The prosody of negation and its interpretation in sentence comprehension (project in the RCT: Bader/Kügler, since 2024)
- The role of non-linguistic cognitive abilities in children’s negation processing (project in the RCT: Grimm/Kaup/Portele, since 2024)
Visual Communication (DFG priority program: Ebert, since 2022):The priority program is a research collaboration made up of several researchers, institutes and universities. The Institute of Linguistics is involved in two projects and the coordination of the entire priority program is under the responsibility of Prof. Cornelia Ebert. You can find further information and an overview of all projects here. |
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Projects with participation by the institute of linguistics:
- Co-speech gestures and prosody as multimodal markers of information structure (project in the DFG priority program: Kügler/Prieto Vives, since 2022)
- Visual and Non-visual Means of Perspective Taking in Language (project in the DFG priority program: Ebert/Hinterwimmer, since 2022)
The VP-periphery in Mabia languages (DFG research grant: Hartmann, since 2021) |
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Nominal Modification (DFG Research Training Group: Rinke, since 2014) |
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Propositionalismus (Reinhart Kosselleck Project: Zimmermann, since 2017)
Previous externally funded projects:
- A General Theory of Multivaluation (DFG research grant: Smith, Hartmann)
- Interactions between dynamic effects and alternative-based inferences (AHRC-DFG research grant: Ebert)
- The Pragmatic Status of Iconic Meaning in Spoken Communication (Part of XPrag.de: Ebert)
- App-based vocabulary learning: combination effects of prior knowledge activating and gesture-based learning strategies (Initial funding by IDeA: Ebert)
- Graduiertenkolleg Satzarten (DFG research training group)
- Relativsätze (DFG research unit)
- Syntax hessischer Dialekte (SyHD: Weiß)