skip to content

Prominence in Language

C04 - Conceptual and referential activation in discourse

In this project, we study the prominence and accessibility of discourse entities in a discourse. Comparing referential chains (a blue car – it) and conceptual chains (a blue car – a red one), we test how the prominence of discourse entities is affected by subsequent linguistic material, with a specific focus on how syntactically subordinated vs coordinated clauses and discourse-structurally subordinated vs coordinated clauses affect the accessibility of referents and concepts. 

See list of publications

Team

Name

Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Speaker of the CRC, Principal Investigator B04, C04 and Z

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.116 and CRC, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.09
E-mail: klaus.vonheusinger(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4884 (Philosophikum) and -89900 (CRC)
Web: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Name

Frederike Weeber

Doctoral student C04 (on parental leave)

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.05
E-mail: fweeber1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89902
Web: Frederike Weeber

Publications

To appear

  • Hoek, Jet, Merel C. J. Scholman & Ted J. M. Sanders. To appear. Is there less agreement when the discourse is underspecified? Annotation of coherence relations in TED talks. Proceedings of the DiscAnn Workshop.
  • Konuk, Gökben & Klaus von Heusinger. To appear. Discourse prominence in Turkish: The interaction of grammatical function and semantic role. In Irina Khomchenkova, Yulia Sinitsyna & Sergei Tatevosov (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 15). Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. preprint: pdf
  • Riester, Arndt, Amalia Canes Nápoles & Jet Hoek. To appear. Combined discourse representations: Coherence relations and questions under discussion. Proceedings of the DiscAnn Workshop.

2021

  • von Heusinger, Klaus & Umut Özge. 2021. Inferable and partitive indefinites in topic position. In Anke Holler, Katja Suckow & Israel de la Fuente (eds.), Information structuring in discourse, 112–140. Leiden: Brill.

2020

2019

2018

2017