PROCEEDINGS PAPER [forthcoming, together with Helmut Weiß and Cécile Meier] "Ohne Negation undenklich: Verbklassen und Adjektivmorphologie. Eine Untersuchung zur Systematik von negativen Adjektiven ohne positive Basis", contribution to the proceedings of the conference "Verbklassen: Semantik, Grammatik und ihre Interdependenzen" (to appear as part of the series "Linguistik - Impulse und Tendenzen", de Gruyter).
PROCEEDINGS PAPER [in preparation, together with Carla Spellerberg] "Telling world knowledge and linguistic knowledge apart: experimental evidence for a meaning-based perspective on nominal event arguments", to appear in the proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 36.
EDITED PROCEEDINGS [in preparation, as editor together with Farbod Khouzani] "Approaches to NPIs and their licensing conditions: Anything new?", Workshop proceedings to appear as a Special Issue of the Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft.
LEXICON ENTRY "Gradsemantik", invited lexicon entry for Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online, Band: Semantik und Pragmatik, edited by Daniel Gutzmann, Katharina Turgay and Ede Zimmermann, De Gruyter Brill.
PROCEEDINGS PAPER [together with Carla Spellerberg] "On nominal event arguments: experimental evidence for a meaning-based perspective", Proceedings of "Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 47", pp. 1-14.
PROCEEDINGS PAPER Leon Lukas Hammerla, Andy Lücking, Carolin Reinert, and Alexander Mehler. 2025. "D-Neg: Syntax-Aware Graph Reasoning for Negation Detection." In: Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL-Findings), pages 1432–1454, Mumbai, India. The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing and The Association for Computational Linguistics.
LEXICON ENTRY "Vergleichsklasse", "Vergleichsstandard", "Intersektivität", "Subsektivität", "nicht-lokale Lesart", short lexicon entries for Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online, Band: Semantik und Pragmatik, edited by Daniel Gutzmann, Katharina Turgay and Ede Zimmermann, De Gruyter Brill.
LEXICON ENTRY [together with Merle Weicker] "Adjektiv", lexicon entry for Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online, Band: Semantik und Pragmatik, edited by Daniel Gutzmann, Katharina Turgay and Ede Zimmermann, De Gruyter Brill.
DISSERTATION "The Compositionality of Adjective Noun Constructions", Dissertation, Goethe University Frankfurt, available at https://doi.org/10.21248/gups.88057.
(Please see the thesis section of this website to learn more about my PhD thesis.)
JOURNAL ARTICLE [together with Tim Hirschberg, Anna Roth and Caroline Féry] "Relative Clauses in Colloquial and Literary German: A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study", Linguistische Berichte 240, pp. 405 – 445.
JOURNAL ARTICLE "Linguistische Aspekte der (Schwer-)Verständlichkeit von Vertragstexten" Linguistische Berichte 231, pp. 317 – 346. (slightly shortened version of my Bachelor's thesis)
Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 2014 (unpublished)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ede Zimmermann
Supervisor: Dr. Cécile Meier
Relative constructions are a popular field of linguistic studies and recently have attracted attention again, as there still are a number of puzzles left to be solved. And sometimes, new empirical findings give rise to questions that challenge theory in a special way. For instance, it had always been a common assumption that nonrestrictive relative clauses attached to a quantifying head in subject position cannot refer to the set of individuals established by forming the intersection of restrictor and scope of quantification, because the predicate, representing the scope of quantification, will be processed after the relative clause (Nouwen 2007, for instance). Surprisingly, the belief that the so-called intersection set reading is therefore not available in such constructions has turned out to be wrong. A recent study on German non-restrictive relative clauses (Poschmann 2013) has shown that the intersection set reading indeed is available in such cases, at least if any other reading is excluded by a given context. Current semantic theory cannot offer a formal framework capable of accounting for this finding, but there is one that presents itself as a promising starting point to develop a solution for the problem at hand. In this thesis, the formal system of Plural Compositional Discourse Representation Theory (PCDRT), presented by Adrian Brasoveanu (2007, 2008, 2010), will be slightly modified and extended to provide an analysis of constructions with non-restrictive relative clauses that takes (discourse) semantic as well as syntactic aspects into account and eventually will also be able to capture the newly attested intersection set reading of non-restrictive relative clauses attached to a quantifying head in subject position.
BACHELOR'S THESIS "Linguistische Aspekte der (Schwer-)Verständlichkeit von Vertragstexten"
Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 2011 (shortened version published 2012 in Linguistische Berichte, see above)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Günther Grewendorf
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ede Zimmermann
At a first glance, the topic of "comprehensibility" appears to be a rather simple one: Some texts succeed in presenting a content in a comprehensible way, others do not. Then, why is it that there is still no adequate theory of comprehensibility? As matters stand, this seems to be a case of praxis preceding its own theory. The present thesis aims at filtering out some characteristics of comprehensible texts from the work of the Swiss law editorial department. In the end, these characteristics turn out to be an effective means to enhance particularly the structure of an insurance contract.