apl. Prof. Dr. Carla Umbach
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 exclamative speech acts.
Recent
- Carla Umbach & Britta Stolterfoht (forthcoming) Ad-hoc kind individuation by similarity. In P. Sutton and M. Krifka (eds.) Beyond objects: Kinds, eventualities, undifferentiated stuff, and abstract things. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. (final draft)
- Structural Grammar, Semantic Universals and Arbitrarity. A conversation with Manfred Bierwisch
see also
Manfred Bierwisch (2026) Linguistics in Germany: A Fresh Start After a Great Tradition—and New Enigmas, Annual Review of Linguistics Vol. 12, pp. 17–38
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031125-054905