SFB 833, Projekt C1

Variation in the Interpretation Component of the Grammar

01/07/2009 to 30/06/2021

https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/10542

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 interaction between meaning composition and context.