Here you can find my CV (last updated 01/2026).
My research interests:
I am interested in formal semantics, and also the semantics-pragmatics-interface.
My current research within the CRC NegLab comprises adjectival negation. In the first working package of the project, I focus on the semantics of (German) adjectives that must be negated by the prefix -un, such as unaufhörlich ('incessant')/*aufhörlich ('*cessant'). I investigate the role of the (mostly) verbal roots of these adjectives, the interaction of negation and modality contributed by the suffix -lich, and the historical development of these adjectives. This research involves extensive work with historical and present-day corpora of German. In the second working package, I focus on (German) negative polar adjectives that are negated by the prefix -un, such as untraurig ('unsad'). This research involves all aspects of experimental work (design, implementation, analysis).
In my PhD thesis, I worked on adjectival modification, focusing on compositionality and context dependence. In my thesis, I argue for a predicate analysis of adnominal adjectives. Please see the thesis section of this website to learn more about my thesis.
I am also interested in the semantics of nouns, in particular the relation of nouns and characteristic activities, and the question which individual denoting nouns have event arguments. I currently conduct a series of experiments on this topic together with Carla Spellerberg (UMass), where we take a meaning-based perspective and follow the hypothesis that not only deverbal nouns (e.g. dancer), but also certain non-deverbal nouns (e.g. ballerina) have an event argument.
During my B.A., I also studied forensic linguistics (e.g. the (in)comprehensibility of legal language and authorship identification).
Service and Organization:
Reviewing
For conferences: GLOW, Sinn & Bedeutung
For journals: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
Conference Organization
Member of the Organization and Scientific Committee of Sinn&Bedeutung 30 (held at Goethe University Frankfurt in September 2025)
Workshop Organization
“Approaches to NPIs and their licensing conditions – Anything new?”: 'Arbeitsgruppe' co-organized with Farbod Khouzani as part of the Annual Conference of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) to be held at Trier University in February 2026
Thesis Evaluations
Hagedorn, Ramona. Reference to kinds by German definite noun phrases. An empirical approach. MA Thesis, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2025.
Committees
Member of the Steering Committee of CRC NegLaB
Group Leading
Leading the Reading Group on R/Statistics @NegLaB (since 01/2025)
Leading the AI Working Group @NegLaB (since 11/2025)
Administrative tasks
Coordinator for the distribution of student advising requests within the Department of Linguistics at Goethe University (11/2024 – 10/2025)
Open science: Frankfurt Semantics Lab at OSF.
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