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Project A02 at the CRC 1629

• How does negation interact with word meanings? Especially interesting are baseless negative derived adjectives (BNDAs). Check this out on instagram [thanks to Cecilia Poletto].
• 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

2025

Meier: Force Variablity and Aspect in German Adjectival Suffixes. Sorbonne Université, Paris [pdf]

Reinert, Hammerla, Meier, Weiß, Lücking, Mehler: Identifying NPI licensers in corpus data: Analyzing the contexts of positive bases of BNDAs [poster]

2024

Reinert/Meier/Weiß: Verbklassen und Adjektivmorphologie. Universität Passau [pdf]

2023

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

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

Other activities —> see our personal websites below

Manuscripts

2025