A05
Modeling meaning-driven register variation
A05 investigates situationally and functionally driven intra-individual variation involving alternatives that differ in their core logical or truth-conditional content. The project pursues two complementary perspectives, one bottom-up, building multi-factorial models of specific domains of variation, and one top-down, looking for generalizations across domains. For the former, the initial empirical domain of investigation is numerical (im)precision, for the latter, German indefinite expressions. Then general properties of meaning-driven variation will be identified, exploring two initial hypotheses: (i) A basic dichotomy exists between meaning-driven and form-driven variation, namely, when differences in logical meaning among alternatives exist, this must drive the variation. (ii) The semantic relationship between two register alternatives is constrained to subset relations.
Members
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Uli Sauerland
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Members
Dr. E. Cameron Wilson
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Dr. Roland Mühlenbernd
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Dr. Mihaela Popa-Wyatt
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Student assistant
Alexandra Fossa
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Doctoral fellows
Antonina Jamrozik
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Publications & Presentations
Mühlenbernd, Roland; Wacewicz, Slawomir; Zywiczyński, Przemyslaw (2022) The Evolution of Ambiguity in Sender—Receiver Signaling Games In: Games [DOI] [ViVo] Umbach, Carla; Solt, Stephanie (2021) Comparison via 'eher' In: Journal of Semantics [DOI] [ViVo] Mühlenbernd, Roland; Wacewicz, Slawomir; Zywiczyński, Przemyslaw (2021) Politeness and reputation in cultural evolution In: Linguistics and Philosophy [DOI] [ViVo] Sauerland, Uli; Alexiadou, Artemis (2020) Generative Grammar: A Meaning First Approach In: Frontiers in Psychology [DOI] [ViVo]
Publications
2022
2021
2020
Contact
+49 30 20192 570
sauerland@leibniz-zas.de