Principal Investigator
Andy Lücking’s research contributes to a linguistic theory of human communication, that is, face-to-face interaction beyond single sentences. This involves the adaptation of dynamic dialogue semantics, the development of multimodal grammar extensions, occasionally the revision of traditional linguistic theories (e.g., quantification or pointing), the use of corpora and computational methods (as in the ViCom project GeMDiS), and taking an overarching cognitive perspective. Andy Lücking received a PhD in linguistics (Dr. phil.) in 2011 at Bielefeld University on iconicity and iconic gestures. He defended his habilitation in 2022 on “Aspects of multimodal communication” at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF) at the Université Paris Cité.
About
Goethe University Frankfurt
luecking@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Project
Selected Publications
On the broader picture of multimodal communication:
Andy Lücking and Jonathan Ginzburg. “Leading voices: Dialogue semantics, cognitive science, and the polyphonic structure of multimodal interaction”. Language and Cognition , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 2023 , pp. 148–172, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2022.30
A dialogue- and gesture-friendly theory of quantification:
Andy Lücking and Jonathan Ginzburg. “Referential transparency as the proper treatment of quantification”. In: Semantics and Pragmatics 15, 4 (2022). doi: 10.3765/sp.15.4. (Early access: https://semprag.org/index.php/sp/article/view/sp.15.4)
A condensed, computational piece on how to assign meanings to (some kinds of) co-verbal gestures and integrate them in grammar:
Andy Lücking. “Modeling Co-verbal Gesture Perception in Type Theory with Records”. In: Proceedings of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems. Hrsg. von Maria Ganzha, Leszek Maciaszek und Marcin Paprzycki. Vol. 8. Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems. IEEE, Sep. 2016, pp. 383–392. doi: 10.15439/2016F83. (Available at: https://annals-csis.org/proceedings/2016/drp/83.html)
Pointing gestures as search instructions:
Andy Lücking. “Witness-loaded and Witness-free Demonstratives”. In: Atypical Demonstratives. Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. Hrsg. von Marco Coniglio, Andrew Murphy, Eva Schlachter und Tonjes Veenstra. Linguistische Arbeiten 568. Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter, 2018, pp. 255–284. ISBN: 978-3-11-056029-9.(Preprint: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303667514_Witness-loaded_and_Witness-free_Demonstratives)