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Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany Germany

Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. Main

Education

Empirical methods for investigation and processing of discourse phenomena: In order to capture linguistic variation beyond syntax and semantics, I propose a notion of salience as a general concept covering different pragmatic, cognitive, and contextual factors. These factors are crucial to the salience-based modelling of coding preferences for the assignment of grammatical roles, word order preferences and the form of referring expressions. My theory builds on the assumption that there are two independent dimensions of discourse salience. Technically, these are prepresented as the weighted sum of different contextual factors and associated with corresponding coding perferences. This ap...