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Education
Dissertation
| Title: | Aktionsart und
Kompositionalität. Zur kompositionellen Ableitung der Aktionsart
komplexer Kategorien. (Aktionsart and compositionality. On the
compositional derivation of the aktionsart of complex categories.)
[distributed in the series ‘studia grammatica’, Akademie-Verlag
Berlin, 1995] |
| Supervisors: | A. v. Stechow (Tübingen) and P. Pause (Konstanz) |
| Grade: | ‘summa cum laude’ |
| Award: | (Unshared) dissertation award
‘Award of the City of Konstanz for the promotion of junior academics
at the University of Konstanz’ (prize for the best dissertation of
the year 1993 in Language and Literature)
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| Summary: | On the basis of an aspectual
classification that divides verbal expressions that denote states of
affairs with
inherent boundaries (often dubbed ‘event predicates’) into two
groups (depending on whether they introduce a change of state or
not), I show how the aspect of complex phrases like to sing a
song vs. to sing songs or to go into the garden
vs. to look into the garden can be derived compositionally. |
Habilitation
| Title: | Flexible semantic
construction: the case of reinterpretation. [distributed under the
title Flexible semantics for reinterpretation phenomena in the
series ‘CSLI Studies in Computational Linguistics’, CSLI
Publications, Stanford, 2005] |
| Committee: | Manfred Pinkal, Matt
Crocker, Hans Uszkoreit (Universität des Saarlandes), Stephen
Pulman (Somerville College, Oxford) |
| Summary: | I present a unified - and computationally feasible -
approach to semantic construction for cases of reinterpretation (aspectual type coercion
and metonymy). The semantic representations are derived on the basis of
an HPSG syntax analysis. The approach is cast in a suitable
underspecification formalism for the description of all kinds of
structural ambiguity, which means that the interaction of type
coercion/metonymy with phenomena like scope can be captured. |
Professional experience
| since 2007 | Acting head of the department of
Communication Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. |
| since 2005 | Universitair Hoofddocent (Associate Professor) at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. |
| 2001-2003 | Deputy for several chairs at the Universities
of Bielefeld, Leipzig, and Jena. |
| 1997-2004 | Researcher in the
Sonderforschungsbereich ‘Ressourcenadaptive kognitive Prozesse’ in the
project ‘Constraint-based higher-order representations for underspecified
semantics (CHORUS)’ at the Universität des Saarlandes. |
| 1994-1996 | Member (1994) and head
(1995-96) of the sections ‘Semantic Construction’ and ‘Semantic
Evaluation’ of the German ‘Verbmobil’ project (machine translation of
spoken language) for IBM Germany. |
| 1994-1996 | Researcher in the
Sonderforschungsbereich 340 Stuttgart-Tübingen-Heidelberg
‘Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen für die Computerlinguistik’ in the
research project ‘Wissensquellen für die Interpretation von
Modifikationsstrukturen’. |
| 1989-1993 | Researcher in the
research project ‘Theory of the Lexicon’ at the University of
Konstanz. |
| 1988-1990 | Research Assistant in the research
project ‘The Dual Number’ at the University of Konstanz. |
Scholarships
Membership in professional organisations
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