Goethe-Universität

Overview of projects

Project	Title	Research areas	Project leaders, institutes, locations
Domain A: Negation marking and interpretation
A01	Negation and cancellation	Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of language	Prof. Cornelia Ebert Dep. of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt Prof. André Fuhrmann Dep. of Philosophy, GU Frankfurt
A02	Negative adjectives in language change	Historical Linguistics, Morphosyntax, Semantics	Dr. Cécile Meier Dep. of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt Prof. Helmut Weiß Dep. of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt
A03	A comparative approach to the mysteries of the Jespersen cycle	Comparative Linguistics, Historical linguistics, Syntax	Prof. Cecilia Poletto Dep. of Romance Languages and Literatures, GU Frankfurt Prof. Helmut Weiß Department of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt
A04	Resolving the Neg-raising paradox	Comparative linguistics, Semantics Syntax	Prof. Manfred Sailer Dep. of English and American Studies, GU Frankfurt Prof. Hedde Zeijlstra Seminar for English Philology, Univ. of Göttingen
Domain B: Negation and other grammatical categories
B01	Negation at the interfaces: Negation and existential quantification in German	German Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax	Prof. Markus Bader Department of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt Dr. Sascha Bargmann Dep. of English and American Studies, GU Frankfurt Prof. Gert Webelhuth Dep. of English and American Studies, GU Frankfurt
B02	Negative Concord in adult L2 acquisition	L2 acquisition, Syntax	Dr. Irene Caloi Dep. of Romance Languages and Literatures, GU Frankfurt Prof. Cecilia Poletto Dep. of Romance Languages and Literatures, GU Frankfurt Prof. Jacopo Torregrossa Dep. of Romance Languages and Literatures, GU Frankfurt
B03	Syntactic and morphological interactions of negation – a cross-linguistic study	Comparative Linguistics, Syntax, Morphology	Prof. Katharina Hartmann Department of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt Dr. Johannes Mursell Department of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt
B04	Negative scope mismatches in coordination	Comparative Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics	Prof. Katharina Hartmann Department of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt Prof. Hedde Zeijlstra Seminar for English Philology, Univ. of Göttingen
B05	Negative Polarity Items in non-negative contexts	Comparative Linguistics, Semantics	Apl. Prof. Frank Richter Dep. of English and American Studies, GU Frankfurt Prof. Manfred Sailer Dep. of English and American Studies, GU Frankfurt
Domain C: Processing and acquisition of negation
C01	The prosody of negation and its interpretation in sentence comprehension	Psycholinguistics, Prosody	Prof. Markus Bader Department of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt Prof. Frank Kügler Department of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt
C02	Influences of negation on behavior, memory, and attitude	Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Cognition	Dr. Carolin Dudschig Dep. of Psychology, University of Tübingen Prof. Barbara Kaup Dep. of Psychology, University of Tübingen
C03	Negation beyond language: interactions between verbal and non-verbal negation	Multimodality, Co-verbal communication	Dr. Carolin Dudschig Dep. of Psychology, University of Tübingen Dr. Merle Weicker Dep. of Psycholinguistics and the Didactics of German, GU Frankfurt
C04	The role of non-linguistic cognitive abilities in children’s negation processing	L1 acquisition, Cognition, Language Processing	Prof. Angela Grimm Dep. of Psycholinguistics and the Didactics of German, GU Frankfurt Prof. Barbara Kaup Dep. of Psychology, University of Tübingen Dr. Yvonne Portele Department of Linguistics, GU Frankfurt
C05	Discourse matters? The role of discourse relations and type of events in child production and comprehension of sentence negation	Pragmatics, L1 acquisition	Prof. Angela Grimm Dep. of Psycholinguistics and the Didactics of German, GU Frankfurt Prof. Jacopo Torregrossa Dep. of Romance Languages and Literatures, GU Frankfurt
C06	Comprehension of negation in child and adult speakers of Spanish and German	L1 acquisition, Syntax, Language Processing	Prof. Sol Lago Dep. of Psycholinguistics and the Didactics of German, GU Frankfurt Prof. Esther Rinke Dep. of Romance Languages and Literatures, GU Frankfurt Prof. Petra Schulz Dep. of Psycholinguistics and the Didactics of German, GU Frankfurt
Central Projects
INF	Scientific services and data management		Prof. Sol Lago Dep. of Romance Languages and Literatures, GU Frankfurt Prof. Alexander Mehler Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, GU Frankfurt Prof. Manfred Sailer Dep. of English and American Studies, GU Frankfurt
MGK	Integrated research training group		Prof. Esther Rinke Dep. of Romance Languages and Literatures, GU Frankfurt
Z	Central services		Prof. Cecilia Poletto Dep. of Romance Languages and Literatures, GU Frankfurt