apl. Prof. Dr. Carla Umbach
 

Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Berlin
 

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I (IDSL 1)
Universität zu Köln



I am a semanticist with a cognitive science background. Current topics of my research are
comparison, similarity and sameness, evaluative expressions and expressive speech acts.

Recent uploads

• Equatives in Turkish – two cognitive strategies across categories, poster SPE11, Barcelona, Dec 2018
   
• Concepts, kinds and types, talk at OASIS satellite workshop, Paris, Nov 2018
   
• 'wie'-complements (with Stefan Hinterwimmer and Helmar Gust, draft version Sept 2018
• Grading Similarity (with Helmar Gust, draft version June 2018)
   
• Workshop "Records, frames and attribute spaces" ZAS Berlin, 13./14. March 2018
• Seminar "Evaluative und Exklamative im Diskurs", Universität Köln, SoSe 2018
• The meaning of German wie in equative comparison, DFG project 'Similarity II'