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Cornelia Ebert

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert

Coordinator, Steering Committee Member, Principal Investigator

Cornelia Ebert is a professor of linguistics/semantics at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She received her Ph.D. in lingusitics at Potsdam University in 2006. Her thesis was titled »Quantificational topics. A scopal treatment of exceptional wide scope phenomena«. She was a lecturer and a researcher at Osnabrück University, Stuttgart University and the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft in Berlin. Since 2021 she carries out a British-German cooperative research project entitled »Interactions between Dynamic Effects and Alternative-Based Inferences in the Study of Meaning« (IDEALISM). And since 2022 she is one of the coordinators of the DFG Priority Programme 2392 Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives (ViCom). 2020-24 she is Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften.

About

Goethe University Frankfurt
ebert@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

Selected Publications

Barnes, K. R., Ebert, C., Hörnig, R., & Stender, T. (2022). The at-issue status of ideophones in German: An experimental approach. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics7(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5827

Ebert, C., Ebert, C., & Hörnig, R. (2020). Demonstratives as dimension shifters. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 161-178 Pages. https://doi.org/10.18148/SUB/2020.V24I1.859

Ebert, C. (2018). A comparison of sign language with speech plus gesture. Theoretical Linguistics44(3–4), 239–249. https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2018-0016

Ebert, C., Ebert, C., & Hinterwimmer, S. (2014). A unified analysis of conditionals as topics. Linguistics and Philosophy37(5), 353–408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-014-9158-4

Ebert, C. (2009). Quantificational topics: A scopal treatment of exceptional wide scope phenomena (Vol. 86). Springer Science & Business Media.