Uli Sauerland, personal website
Hi there. I am theoretical linguist. You find more information about me on my institutional page here.
Current news (March 2025)
one new preprint out at Open Research Europe: Higher-Order Logical Reasoning in Preschool Children: Evidence from Intonation and Quantifier Scope doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.18312.1
a proceedings paper on Child vs. machine language learning doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.17304
in April, the LMBayes project is hosting the online workshop Statistical modelling of pragmatic meaning in contexts with large meaning spaces
my next upcoming conferences attendance is ICSO VII: Trends in Semantics and Pragmatics in Buenos Aires, May 21–23
in June and July, ZAS SemPrag group is hosting first on June 30-July 2 a workshop “Asymmetries in presupposition projection and the nature of meaning” (no website yet) organized jointly with Jacopo Romoli’s project group and then on July 17-19: XPRAG FEST 2025 organized jointly with Nicole Gotzner and her group
and I’m looking forward to a writing retreat at the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies in November 2025
Older news (October 2024)
Looking forward to visiting the CNRS lab CLLE in Toulouse from October 21 to 26 and the CNRS lab BCL in Nice from October 29 to November 1st as part of my activities as fellow-ambassador for the humanities & social sciences.
In December, I will give an invited talk at the SAFAL-2024 conference at IIT Bombay in Mumbai.
two new papers out in Language Acquisition: The cum-sine pattern in German child language: An argument for antonym decomposition and Kein subjects are hard
also out in Semantics and Pragmatics: Free choice and presuppositional exhaustification. A kind of technical appendix with some further explorations is on lingbuzz.