Principal Investigator
Stefan Hinterwimmer’s research interests lie in the realms of semantics, pragmatics, the syntax-semantics interface, information structure and text linguistics. He has worked on adverbial quantification, free relative clauses, conditionals, topicality, specificity, pronoun resolution, the contrast between definite and demonstrative DPs and perspective taking. He received his PhD in 2006 from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is currently Akademischer Professor for German linguistics at the Department of German language and literature at the University of Hamburg.
About
University of Hamburg
stefan.hinterwimmer@uni-hamburg.de
Selected Publications
Hinterwimmer, Stefan & Umesh Patil. 2022. The Interpretative options of anaphoric complex demonstratives. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1), 1–30.
Hinterwimmer, Stefan, Umesh Patil & Cornelia Ebert. 2021. On the interaction of gestural and linguistic perspective taking. Frontiers in Communication 6. 625757.
Hinterwimmer, Stefan. 2017. Two kinds of perspective taking in narrative texts. In D. Burgdorf, J. Collard, S. Maspong & B. Stefánsdóttir (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 27, 282-301.
Hinterwimmer, Stefan & David Schueler. 2015. Requantification, underquantification and partial focus in indefinites. Journal of Semantics 32, 749-797.
Ebert, Christian, Cornelia Ebert & Stefan Hinterwimmer. 2014. A unified analysis of conditionals as topics. Linguistics and Philosophy 37(5). 353–408