About me
I am a senior researcher at the Leibniz-Centre of General Linguistics in Berlin (ZAS), currently working in the LeibnizDream ERC project, as well as the PI of the DFG-funded project "Logic across languages: Expressing and interpreting connectives cross-linguistically" (CrossConn). 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 am co-organizing two upcoming 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
On the role of alternatives and QUD in implicatures with disjunctions in child Romanian.
[with Bleotu et al.] BUCLD 48 Proceedings.
An algebra of thought that predicts key aspects of language structure.
[with Sauerland et al.] SuB27 Proceedings 2023.
Lack of access to alternatives can feed distributive inferences.
SuB27 Proceedings 2023.
Not all complex disjunctions are alike: On inclusive and conjunctive interpretations in child Romanian.
[with Bleotu et al.] CogSci Proceedings 2023.
Additive free choice items.
[with A. Falaus] Natural Language Semantics 2022.
Recent & upcoming presentations
Exceptives under negation: strengthening the case for p-Exh. [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
A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction. [with Bleotu et al.] ELM3, Ling Evidence 2024
Varieties of disjunctions. invited talk at the NihiL workshop in Amsterdam.