Uni-Tübingen

A1

Combinatory Meaning Adaptions at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

A1 addressed combinatory meaning adaptions within sentence composition. The main research focus lay on underspecification and coercion involved in the interpretation of modificational structures. The results from the first two funding periods pointed towards a prominent role of the lexicon in combinatory meaning adaptions. These insights were developed further into a dynamic approach to lexical semantics. This is achieved by including adaptive mechanisms in the lexical setup which become active in the course of composition and are sensitive to both compositionally and contextually supplied information. In particular, we explored the benefits of this approach for an analysis of phenomena that are standardly conceived of as challenges for compositionality.

Publications

  • Bücking, S. & Scheifele, E. (2021). On tropes, states, and the combinatorics of the copula werden in German. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25.
  • Bücking, S. (2020). Unabhängige Kriterien zur Valenz- vs. Konstruktionsbindung? – Fallbeispiel DP-und-Präd-Strukturen. In L. von Neuhaus, R. Külpmann & V. Symanczyk Joppe (Eds.), Variation in der Argumentstruktur des Deutschen (pp. 179-210). Hamburg: Buske.
  • Lukassek, J. (2020). Lexikalische Semantik und Kombinatorik stativ-eventiv-ambiger Verben. Studien zur deutschen Grammatik 98. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
  • Maienborn, C. (2020). Revisiting Olga, the beautiful dancer: An intersective A-analysis. Proceedings of SALT 30. Cornell University.
  • Maienborn, C. (2020). Wider die Klammerparadoxie: Kombinatorische Illusionen beim Adjektivbezug auf NN-Komposita. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 39(2), 149-200.
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  • Schäfer, M. (2020). Distributional profiling and the semantics of modifier classes. In C. Pinon & L. Roussarie (Eds.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 13 (EISS 13) (pp. 139-166). Paris: CSSP.
  • Schäfer, M. (2020). From quick to quick-to-infinitival: On what is lexeme specific across paradigmatic and syntagmatic distributions. English Language and Linguistics, 1-31.
    DOI:10.1017/S1360674320000167
  • Bade, N. & Buscher, F. (2019). An experimental comparison of two reinterpretation strategies: Benefits and challenges of using fictional contexts in experimental studies. In A. Gattnar, R. Hörnig, M. Störzer & S. Featherston (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory (pp. 166-186). Tübingen: University of Tübingen.
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  • Bücking, S. (2019). Modification. In M. Aronoff (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0095
  • Bücking, S. (2019). Accompaniment by participation: The interpretation of mit as a free particle in German. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4(1):76, 1-41.
    DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.734
  • Bücking, S. & Maienborn, C. (2019). Coercion by modification - The adaptive capacities of event-sensitive modifiers. Semantics and Pragmatics 12.
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  • Maienborn, C. (2019). Events and states. In Robert Truswell (Ed.), Handbook of Event Structure (pp. 50-89). Oxford University Press.
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  • Maienborn, C. (2019). Flexible Bedeutungszuordnung im Lexikon: Polysemie – Unterbestimmtheit – Uminterpretation. In Y. Fujinawa & J. Inaba (Eds.), Wie entsteht Bedeutung? Semantik zwischen Grammatik, Kognition und Kontext (pp. 11-44). Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik. München: Iudicium Verlag.
  • Bücking, S. (2018). The compositional semantics of modification. In M. Aronoff (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 
    DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.354
  • Bücking, S. (2018). Zur Komposition von insofern als im Deutschen. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 37(1), 1-53. 
    DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2018-0001
  • Bücking, S. (2018). Painting cows from a type-logical perspective. In U. Saulerland & S. Solt (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22 (pp. 277-294). Berlin: ZAS Papers in Linguistics.
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  • Buscher, F. (2018). Kompositionalität und ihre Freiräume. Zur flexiblen Interpretation von Einstellungsadverbialen. Studien zur deutschen Grammatik 95. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
  • Buscher, F. (2018). How do compositional semantics and conceptual structures interact? A case study on German mental attitude adverbials. Proceedings of SALT 28 (pp. 669-689).
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  • Dudschig, C., Mackenzie, I., Maienborn, C., Kaup, B. & Leuthold, H. (2018). Negation and the N400: Investigating temporal dynamics of negation integration using semantic and world-knowledge violations. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 34, 309-319.
  • Lukassek, J. & Spalek, A. A. (2018). Distinguishing coercion and underspecification in Type Composition Logic. In U. Sauerland & S. Solt (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 2 (pp. 71-87). Berlin: ZAS Papers in Linguistics. 
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  • Bücking, S. (2017). Composing wie wenn – the semantics of hypothetical comparison clauses in German. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 35, 979-1025.
    DOI: 10.1007/s11049-017-9364-1
  • Bücking, S. (2017). Rezension zu "Hagen Hirschmann. 2015. Modifikatoren im Deutschen. Ihre Klassifizierung und varietätenspezifische Verwendung. Tübingen: Stauffenburg". Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft (online first).
    DOI: 10.1515/zrs-2017-0034
  • Dima, C., Ma, J., Bücking, S., Buscher, F., Herdtfelder, J., Lukassek, J., Prysłopska, A., Hinrichs, E., De Kok, D. & Maienborn, C. (2017). A corpus-based model of semantic plausibility for German bracketing paradoxes. Proceedings of Corpora in the Digital Humanities (CDH), Bloomington, IN.
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  • Lukassek, J., Prysłopska, A., Hörnig, R. & Maienborn, C. (2017). The semantic processing of motion verbs: Coercion or underspecification? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 46(4), 805-825.
    DOI 10.1007/s10936-016-9466-7
  • Maienborn, C. (2017). Konzeptuelle Semantik. In S. Staffeldt & J. Hagemann (Eds.), Semantiktheorien. Lexikalische Analysen im Vergleich (pp. 151-188). Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
  • Maienborn, C. & Herdtfelder, J. (2017). Eventive vs. stative causation: The case of German causal von-modifiers. Linguistics and Philosophy.
    DOI 10.1007/s10988-016-9201-8
  • Dudschig, C., Maienborn, C. & Kaup, B. (2016). These lemons are sour: Investigating the influence of demonstrative determiners on the N400 complex. Neuroscience Letters 630, 141-146.
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  • Dudschig, C., Maienborn, C. & Kaup, B. (2016). Is there a difference between stripy journeys and stripy ladybirds? The N400 response to semantic and world-knowledge violations during sentence processing. Brain and Cognition 103, 38-49.
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  • Prysłopska, A., Lukassek, J. & Maienborn, C. (draft). Eye-tracking study of motion verbs: Coercion or underspecification? Manuskript. Universität Tübingen.
  • Maienborn, C., Gese, H. & Stolterfoht, B. (2016). Adverbial modifiers in adjectival passives. Journal of Semantics 33, 299-358. 
  • Zobel, S. (2016). Adjectival 'as'-phrases as intensional secondary predicates. Proceedings of SALT 26.
  • Bücking, S. (2015). Zur Bedeutung nominalisierter Perfekt-Infinitive im Deutschen. In C. Fortmann, A. Lübbe & I. Rapp (Eds.), Situationsargumente im Nominalbereich (pp. 93-132). Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • Bücking, S. (2015). Zur Syntax hypothetischer Vergleichssätze im Deutschen. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 43, 261-305.
  • Bücking, S. & Buscher, F. (2015). Stative locative alternations as type coercion. In U. Steindl et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 92-102). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
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  • Herdtfelder, J. & Maienborn, C. (2015). Causal modification of adjectival predicates: Insights from a corpus study on German causal von (‘from’). In N. Melnik (Ed.), Proceedings of IATL 30. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
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  • Lukassek, J. (2015). A single-event analysis for German eventive mit-modifiers. In E. Csipak & H. Zeijlstra (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19 (pp. 375-392).
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  • Maienborn, C. (to appear). Events and states. In R. Truswell (Ed.), Handbook of Event Structure. Oxford: University Press.
  • Maienborn, C. & Herdtfelder, J. (2015). A compositional account of the eventive/stative ambiguity of German causal von-modifiers. Proceedings of SALT 25.
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  • Bücking, S. (2014). Elaborating on events by means of English by and German indem. In C. Piñón (Ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 10.
  • Berndt, E. & Maienborn, C. (2013). The sucking subject: Structural ambiguities of Goethe's Auf dem See in literary and linguistic perspective. The Goethe Yearbook 20(1), 91-115.
  • Buscher, F. (2013). Im Spannungsfeld von Semantik und Pragmatik: Zur Bedeutungskonstitution von Ein­stellungsadverbialen. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 32(2), 135-179.
  • Gese, H. (2013). Pragmatic enrichment in adjectival passives: The case of the post state reading. In F. Liedtke & C. Schulze (Eds.), Beyond Words. Content, Context and Inference (pp. 207-230). Berlin: De Gruyter (Mouton Series in Pragmatics).
  • Gese, H. (2013). Another passive that isn't one: On the semantics of German haben-passives. In A. Alexiadou & F. Schäfer (Eds.), Non-Canonical Passives (pp. 163-184). Amsterdam, PA: John Benjamins.
  • Maienborn, C. & Geldermann, S. (2013). Expertengeprüft und vom Experten geprüft: Zur Semantik von Nomen-Partizip II-Komposita und ihren präpositionalen Partnern. In H. Härtl (Ed.), Interfaces of Morphology. A Festschrift for Susan Olsen (pp. 127-160). Studia Grammatica 74. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
  • Bücking, S. (2012). The semantics of frequency adjectives. Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 48 (pp. 93-107).
  • Bücking, S. (2012). Müdigkeit und Müde-Sein: Zur Semantik adjektivbasierter Zustandsnominalisierungen. Linguistische Berichte 232, 361-397.
  • Bücking, S. (2012). Kompositional flexibel. Partizipanten und Modifikatoren in der Nominaldomäne. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
  • Gese, H. & Hohaus, V. (2012). Building gradable adjectival passives. In A. Chernilovskaya, A. Aguilar & R. Nouwen et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 16 (pp. 146-165). MIT Working Papers in Linguistic (MITWPL).
  • Gese, H. & Hohaus, V. (2012). Der Stadtring ist befahrener als die Autobahn. Bemerkungen zur Gradierbarkeit beim Zustandspassiv. In B. Rothstein (Ed.), Nicht-flektierende Wortarten (pp. 275-299). Berlin: De Gruyter.
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  • Maienborn, C., von Heusinger, K. & Portner, P. (2012) (Eds.). Semantics. An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Vol. 3 (HSK 33.3). Berlin/New York, NY: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Gese, H. (2011). Events in adjectival passives. In I. Reich et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 15 (pp. 259-273). Saarbrücken: Saarland University Press.
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  • Gese, H., Maienborn, C. & Stolterfoht, B. (2011). Adjectival conversion of unaccusatives in German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 23(2), 101-140.
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  • von Heusinger, K., Maienborn, C. & Portner, P. (2011) (Eds.). Semantics. An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Vol. 2 (HSK 33.2), Berlin/New York, NY: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Lang, E. & Maienborn, C. (2011). Two-level semantics: Semantic form and conceptual structure. In HSK 33.1 (pp. 709-740).
  • Maienborn, C. (2011). Strukturausbau am Rande der Wörter: Adverbiale Modifikatoren beim Zustandspassiv. In S. Engelberg, A. Holler & K. Proost (Eds.), Sprachliches Wissen zwischen Lexikon und Grammatik (pp. 317-343). Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Jahrbuch 2010. Berlin/New York, NY: de Gruyter.
  • Maienborn, C. (2011). Event semantics. In HSK 33.1 (pp. 802-829).
  • Maienborn, C. & Schäfer, M. (2011). Adverbs and adverbials. In HSK 33.2 (pp. 1390-1420).
  • Maienborn, C., von Heusinger, K. & Portner, P. (2011). Meaning in linguistics. In HSK 33.1 (pp. 1-10).
  • Maienborn, C., von Heusinger, K. & Portner, P. (2011) (Eds.). Semantics. An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Vol. 1 (HSK 33.1). Berlin/New York, NY: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Bücking, S. (2010). Zur Interpretation adnominaler Genitive bei nominalisierten Infinitiven im Deutschen. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 29(1), 39-77.
  • Bücking, S. (2010). German nominal compounds as underspecified names for kinds. In S. Olsen (Ed.), New Trends in Morphology (Linguistische Berichte, Sonderheft 17) (pp. 253-281). Hamburg: Helmut Buske.
  • Kaup, B., Lüdtke, J. & Maienborn, C. (2010). The drawer is still closed: Simulating past and future actions when processing sentences that describe a state. Brain and Language 112(3), 159-166.
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  • Stolterfoht, B., Gese, H. & Maienborn, C. (2010). Word category conversion causes processing costs: Evidence from adjectival passives. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 17(5), 651-656.
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  • Bücking, S. (2009). How do phrasal and lexical modification differ? - Contrasting adjective-noun combinations in German. Word Structure 2(2), 184-204.
  • Bücking, S. (2009). Modifying event nominals: Syntactic surface meets semantic transparency. In A. Riester & T. Solstad (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13 (pp. 93-107), Stuttgart.
  • Gese, H., Stolterfoht, B. & Maienborn, C. (2009). Context effects in the formation of adjectival resultatives. In S. Winkler & S. Featherston (Eds.), The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics, Vol 2: Product (pp. 125-155).
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  • Maienborn, C. (2009). Building event-based ad hoc properties: On the interpretation of adjectival passives. In A. Riester & T. Solstad (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13 (pp. 35-49), Stuttgart.
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