Leibniz Zentrum fur Algemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin

de Swart, H. (Visiting researcher)

ILS - Language, logic and information

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Description

The Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) is a non-university research institute of the federal state of Berlin that is jointly funded by the federal and state governments. It is sponsored by the Verein Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin (GWZ e.V.) . At the ZAS, the human faculty of language and its expression in individual languages is explored, with the aim to better understand this central human ability and its biological, cognitive and social factors. Knowledge gained on how language is structured, acquired and processed can be applied elsewhere, e.g. in the field of speech diagnostics or speech technology.

Period	1 Nov 2021 → 31 Mar 2022
Visiting	Leibniz Zentrum fur Algemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

semantics
pragmatics
parallel corpora
tense and aspect
register
speech acts

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Prof. Dr. Henriette de Swart (Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University) will join ZAS as a fellow from November 2021 to April 2022. She works as a full professor in French linguistics and semantics at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). She is particularly interested in cross-linguistic variation in the domain of tense and aspect, nominal structure (reference, indefinites, bare nominals) and negation. The collaboration with ZAS will focus on shared interests in the domain of register, speech acts, compositional semantics and parallel corpus research.