Petra Hendriks' Research
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means
just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different
things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
Affiliation
My research is carried out within the Syntax and Semantics Group of the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen
(CLCG).
The CLCG participates in the School of Behavioral and Cognitive
Neurosciences Groningen (BCN).
My research is also associated with the
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (Landelijke Onderzoekschool
Taalwetenschap).
Publications
Click here for a list of recent publications.
Main research interests
- Formal models of interpretation, such as bidirectional Optimality Theory
- Language acquisition, in particular the acquisition of sentence meaning
- The relation between language and cognition
- Ellipsis, anaphora, quantification, and implicatures
Current and past PhD students
Current and past projects
- Asymmetries in Grammar
NWO/Vici, June 2007 - June 2012
Principal Investigator: Petra Hendriks
See also the websites of
the Eye Lab Groningen and the University of Groningen
Language Acquisition Lab
- The interplay between the speaker's
and the hearer's perspective
NWO/Internationalisation in the Humanities, Sept. 2007 - Sept. 2009
Principal Investigators: Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen), Helen de Hoop (Radboud University Nijmegen), Henriëtte de Swart (Utrecht University), Reinhard Blutner (University of Amsterdam), Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam), Manfred Krifka (ZAS Berlin), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin), Hans-Martin Gärtner (ZAS Berlin)
- Optimization in Coordination
NWO/Aspasia, Sept. 2002 - Sept. 2007
Principal Investigator: Petra Hendriks
- Conflicts in Interpretation
NWO/Cognition, Sept. 2002 - Sept. 2006
Principal Investigators: Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen), Helen de Hoop (Radboud University Nijmegen), Henriëtte de Swart (Utrecht University)
Past events
- Child Language & Eye-tracking: Analyses and Rationale (CLEAR), September 10, 2010, University of Groningen.
- Relating Asymmetries between Speech and
Comprehension in the Acquisition of Language (RASCAL), January 24-25, 2009, University of Groningen.
- Third Workshop
on Optimality Theory and Interpretation, November 7, 2008, University of Groningen.
- Interactive website Bent u een goed verstaander?
-
Speaker and hearer perspectives on word order, February 22, 2008, University of Groningen.
- Temporary exhibition Bent u een goed verstaander?, September 2006 - January 2007, University Museum Utrecht, and January 2007 - September 2007, University Museum Groningen.
- ESSLLI Workshop on Cross-modular Approaches to Ellipsis,
August 8-12, 2005, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
- KNAW Academy Colloquium Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation,
October 27-28, 2004, KNAW, Amsterdam.
- KNAW Masterclass Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation,
October 29, 2004, KNAW, Amsterdam.
- Conference on Optimal Interpretations of Words and Constituents,
August 30-31, 2000, Utrecht University.
- Conference on the Optimization
of Interpretation, January 4-5, 2000, Utrecht University.
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