Publications (TBA)
How does negation interact with word meanings? And does this interaction change when language changes? Is negation of words different form negation of sentences? These are three of the questions that we investigate in our project on affixation within the CRC 1629 ‘Negation in Language and beyond’ (NegLab). We look at phenomena from Standard German (using empirical methods like picture matching tasks) and its earlier stages more closely (using corpus linguistic methods). One goal is to get a better understanding of why negative expressions have a higher processing load than non-negative ones.
2024
Reinert et al. Verbklassen und Adjektivmorphologie. Universität Passau
2023
Meier/Weiß: Deverbal Adjectives and Negatability Patterns [pdf]
Meier: Contrary Negation as a Combination of Degree Negation and a Positive Operator [pdf]
2024
Meier: Antonymy and Adjectival Horn Scales [Paper]
2022
Meier: Negation and Antonymy [Skript]
Personal site: Cécile Meier
Personal site: Helmut Weiß