About me
I am a senior researcher at the Leibniz-Centre of General Linguistics in Berlin (ZAS), currently working in the LeibnizDream ERC project. Previously I was the PI of the DFG-funded project "Logic across languages: Expressing and interpreting connectives cross-linguistically" (CrossConn), which ran from 2020 till 2024. I am also an associated member of The acquisition of disjunction in Romanian group at the University of Bucharest.
My research is focused on semantics, pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface. I am especially interested in polarity phenomena, the array of variation in the interpretation of connective particles cross-linguistically, the grammatical encoding of implicature calculation and interrogative constructions. I approach these questions from a theoretical perspective, informed by strongly grounded experimental work, with adults as well as children.
I have recently co-organized two workshops:
Does semantics have a `too-many-tools' problem?
SuB29 workshop in Sicily co-organized with Dr. Sauerland.Free choice inferences: theoretical and experimental approaches.
An online workshop co-organized with Dr. Bleotu's group.
Recent papers
Any vs. or and indefinites vs. modals. [with S. Alxatib] To appear in Alternatives: Theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Exclusivity and exhaustivity of disjunction(s): A cross-linguistic study. [with Marty et al.] To appear in SuB28 Proceedings.
On the conjunctive interpretation of the disjunction fie...fie in child Romanian. [with Bleotu et al.] To appear in SuB28 Proceedings .
Does relevance without explicit alternatives boost exclusivity implicatures of disjunction? [with Bleotu et al.] To appear in WCCFL42 Proceedings.
On the Role of Alternatives and QUD in Implicatures with Disjunction in Child Romanian. [with Bleotu et al.] In BUCLD48 Proceedings, 2024.
Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian
[with Bleotu et al.] Isogloss 2024.
Recent & upcoming presentations
FC with discourse referents: the curious case of ‘any’. [with S. Alxatib] SuB 29
The role of incompatible disjuncts in the acquisition of disjunction: Insights from studies involving actual and missing logical words in child Romanian. [with Bleotu et al] SuB 29
Exceptives under negation: strengthening the case for pex. [with A. Hirsch and A. Fălăuș] SALT 34
Experimentally investigating the strengthening properties of disjunction in French: When exclusivity meets free choice and ad hoc implicatures. [with Tieu et al.] ELM 3
Does merely hearing "and" boost implicatures with disjunction, or is relevance also needed? [with Bleotu et al.] WCCFL42