Project Details
Projekt
Coercion as a creative mechanism in compositional interpretation (B01)
Subject Area
Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 512393437
The primary research question in project B01 is whether flexible adjustment in meaning during incremental, compositional interpretation (more specifically: complement coercion) should be viewed as an integral part of composition or whether it constitutes a creative repair mechanism that augments linguistic productivity. The project will use large-scale (citizen science) and small-scale experiments to collect offline data and develop a formal model of complement coercion that will be tested in a number of online processing experiments and also take into account the larger discourse context.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Subproject of
SFB 1646:
Linguistic Creativity in Communication
Applicant Institution
Universität Bielefeld
