Research

Research interests:

Broad:

syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface
language families: Germanic, Slavic, Uralic, Bantu

Narrow:

coreference and binding
reconstruction
information structure (focus, association with focus, focus-sensitive particles)
negation and negative concord
(in)definiteness
(privative) adjectives
monsters and indexicals
phraseology and paremiology
experimental methods in linguistics

Publications

Spellerberg, Carla. 2022. Proverbial markers and their significance for linguistic proverb definitions: an experimental investigation. Yearbook of Phraseology 13, 109-132.

Unpublished manuscripts

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* indicates equal contribution

Spellerberg, Carla. 2022. An experimental approach to Principle C in German. Unpublished M.A. thesis.

Spellerberg, Carla* & Ramona Hiller*. 2021. Alleged privative adjectives in German: a corpus-based study. Unpublished paper.

Spellerberg, Carla. 2019. Towards a feature-based definition of proverbs. State exam thesis, partially published in Yearbook of Phraseology in 2022.

Conference presentations

5/26/2023: with Ramona Hiller: ““Is this gun cake or fake?” – A corpus-based study of German privative adjectives” at 73. StuTS, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

2/24/2023: “A Discourse Prominence Theory-based account of unexpected Principle C violations in German”. Poster at ConSOLE 31, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

11/4/2022: “The influence of context on Principle C in German” at 72. StuTS, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

10/21/2022: “Towards an adverbial-only analysis of Bulgarian focus-sensitive particles” at the 18th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WoSSP) (online)

10/6/2022: “Towards an adverbial-only analysis of Bulgarian focus-sensitive particles” at Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 15), Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

9/22/2022: “Towards an adverbial-only analysis of Bulgarian focus-sensitive particles” at SinFonĲA 15, Università degli studi di Udine, Udine, Italy

5/27/2022: “An experimental approach to Principle C in German” at 71. StuTS + 31. TaCoS, University of Groningen/Campus Fryslân, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

9/8/2021: “Proverbial markers and their impact on proverb perception in German: an experimental investigation” at Europhras 2021 (online)