We develop a dynamic account of what if questions on which they re-pose questions inside
local contexts introduced by their if-clauses subject to the felicity constraint that the resulting …

This paper argues that language makes a distinction among individual count nouns
between class nouns (eg, man) and role nouns (eg, judge). This is reflected in the effects of …

The paper discusses the internal and external syntax of comparison constructions in the light
of diachronic as well as dialectal German data. As far as the syntactic position of comparison …

This paper addresses the question of how to account for the semantic variability of weak free
adjuncts. Weak free adjuncts are non-clausal adjuncts that associate with an argument of …

This paper investigates the causal interpretation of free adjuncts. These are non-clausal
adjuncts that associate with an individual denoted by an argument of the main verb and …

This is the first part of a larger project that aims to develop a cross-categorical semantic
account of a broad range of as if constructions in English. In this paper, we focus on …

Starting from the observation that weak adjuncts can be interpreted as restricting co-
occurring temporal and modal quantifiers, I show by the example of non-clausal, structurally …

Die vorliegende Untersuchung entstand während meiner Tätigkeit als wissenschaftliche
Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Frankfurt am Main und als Juniorprofessorin an der …