Variation in the Interpretation Component of the Grammar (C01)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2009 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 75650358

C1 aims at contributing to a theory of crosslinguistic variation. In the new project phase, we will put our focus on variation at the semantics/pragmatics interface, which has received little attention in the research literature so far. The three major research areas will be (i) quantification over alternatives and its crosslinguistic and diachronic relationship to other forms of quantification, (ii) intervention effects, which will give us a better understanding of how alternative-evaluating operators interact with each other and (iii) the interaction of speech act operators with adverbials and particles crosslinguistically. By addressing these topics, the project contributes significantly to the understanding of the interac-tion between meaning composition and context.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 833: Emergence of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Sigrid Beck