Here you can find my CV (updated 05/2025).
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 particular the semantics of (German) adjectives that must be negated by the prefix -un, such as unaufhörlich ('incessant')/*aufhörlich ('*cessant'). In this research, I currently 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.
During my PhD, 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 events/characteristic activities. I currently conduct a series of experiments on this topic together with Carla Spellerberg (UMass).
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 (to be 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
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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