Negation and cancellation (A01)

• Subject Area: Prehistory and World Archaeology ; General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 509468465

The project investigates the relationship between negation and cancellation by (i) taking a close and fresh look at the logical foundations of analyzing negation as a complement mapping operator as opposed to cancellation as a content cancelling operator, and (ii) investigating linguistic cancellation phenomena. The overarching aim of our project is to clarify the relationship of negation to cancellation and its relation to well-known discourse moves such as denial, refusal, and correction, as well as to develop a concise theory of the common ground dynamics that can handle the cases of cancellation that we observe in human discourse.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1629: Negation in language and beyond (NegLaB)
• Applicant Institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Cornelia Ebert, since 1/2024; Professor Dr. André Fuhrmann, since 1/2024