Common Ground Make-Up: Attitudes and Types of Propositional Information (A03)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 538184825

Project A3 engages experimental off-line methods like rating studies as well as corpus studies to explore the use of different types of information, particularly non-factual information and their consequences for a model of common ground. Through four work packages, we will scrutinize how speakers negotiate information type for entry into the common ground, and how it affects their subsequent beliefs about information in the common ground. Furthermore, we will investigate how information type interacts with discourse and information structuring strategies. Ultimately, our goal is to devise a formal linguistic model for different attitudes and types of propositional information in the common ground.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1718: Common Ground: Cognition - Grammar - Communication
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Head: Dr. Kalle Müller