Main research topics
Main research topics
- Pragmatics and semantics (Neo-Gricean pragmatics; interaction; pragmatics/semantics interface; formal and empirical approaches)
- Philosophy of language
- Language change (grammaticalization; conventionalization of conversational implicatures; TAM auxiliarization)
- Comparative Romance linguistics
- Tense, mood and aspect
- Avertive and proximative
- Prominence/salience
- Corpus linguistics (synchronic and diachronic corpora): Catalan, French, Galician, Italian, Occitan, (Brazilian and European) Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Sardinian, Spanish
Workshops
- "Avertive and Proximative", 27.07.2012, University of Cologne (with Bernd Heine), program
Awards, prizes and funding
- 2022 Jacob L. Mey and Hartmut Haberland Early Career Award
- 10/2021-02/2022 Funding for a teaching substitute from the Women Professors’ Program III of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- 04/2021-07/2021 Funding for a teaching substitute from the Women Professors’ Program III of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- 2020 Offermann-Hergarten Prize
- 05/2019-01/2020 Funding for a student assistant from the Women Professors’ Program II of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- 2017 Elise-Richter Prize