General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne
Tel: +49-221-470-7063
Fax: +49-221-470-5947
Office hours: Wednesday 4–6 pm
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Research Interest
My general focus of interest
- Semantics & pragmatics
Leitmotifs of my research
- Cross-linguistic & cross-cultural diversity
- Ambiguity
- Methodology
Topics I'm currently working on
- Irony
- Metadiscourse
- Stance
- Evidentiality/modality
- Argumentation theory
- Intercultural communication
Some topics of earlier research I'm still interested in
- Lexicon-grammar interaction
- Systematic alternations
- Categorization (word classes, mass/count distinction, aspect/aktionsart)
- Genericity
- Reciprocity