About me
I am currently the Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded project "Logic across languages: Expressing and interpreting connectives cross-linguistically" (CrossConn), hosted by the Leibniz-Center of General Linguistics in Berlin (ZAS). I am also an associated member of the LeibnizDream Generator Group at ZAS.
Previously I was a research associate at ZAS, a post-doc on a project entitled "Strength of Scalar Implicatures" with Dr. Uli Sauerland, and a lecturer at Harvard University teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in semantics and syntax.
In May 2013, I received my Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation entitled "Any questions? Polarity as a window into the structure of questions".
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.
Contact
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
SchĂĽtzenstr. 18, room 411, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
nicolae(at)leibniz-zas.de andreea.nicolae(at)gmail.com
Recent papers
Additive free choice items. [with A. Falaus] Natural Language Semantics.
Who and what do "who" and "what" range over cross-linguistically? [with P. Elliott and U. Sauerland] To appear in Journal of Semantics
Negative polarity additive particles. TLLM 2020: Monotonicity in Logic and Languages, pp 166-182.
Not eating kein veggies: Negative concord in child German. [with K. Yatsushiro] Linguistic Evidence 2020.
Quantity implicatures. [with U. Sauerland] The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics. 2020.
Recent presentations
The polarity of additive particles. GLOW 43, SuB 25, TLLM2020
Functional multiple wh-relatives. NELS 41
When children interpret disjunction exclusively. [with K. Yatsushiro, M. Asano, Y. Miyamoto, S. Otani] BUCLD 45