Project A02 at the CRC 1629

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.

Presentations

2023

Meier/Weiß: Deverbal Adjectives and Negatability Patterns [pdf]

Meier: Contrary Negation as a Combination of Degree Negation and a Positive Operator [pdf]

2024

Reinert et al. Verbklassen und Adjektivmorphologie. Universität Passau

Manuscripts

2022

Meier: Negation and Antonymy [Skript]

Contact

Personal site: Cécile Meier

Personal site: Helmut Weiß

Personal site: Carolin Reinert

Project Assistent: Son Dao

Part of the CRC 1629, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and hosted by GU Frankfurt.