Coercion as a creative mechanism in compositional interpretation (B01)

• Subject Area: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics ; General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 512393437

The primary research question in project B01 is whether flexible adjustment in meaning during incremental, compositional interpretation (more specifically: complement coercion) should be viewed as an integral part of composition or whether it constitutes a creative repair mechanism that augments linguistic productivity. The project will use large-scale (citizen science) and small-scale experiments to collect offline data and develop a formal model of complement coercion that will be tested in a number of online processing experiments and also take into account the larger discourse context.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1646: Linguistic Creativity in Communication
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bielefeld
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Oliver Bott; Professor Dr. Jens Michaelis; Dr. Torgrim Solstad, Ph.D.