CRC Project C08/DFG Project
'The semantics of derivational morphology'
Funding period as CRC project:
01.07.2015 – 30.06.2020
Funding period as independent project:
01.07.2020-30.09.2025
Project C08 deals with the polysemy of derivational processes and the compositionality of word-formation processes. The project aims at describing and modeling the interpretations of derived words, addressing questions such as: What kinds of interpretation are principally possible given the meaning of the base and the affix? Is there a restricted set of semantic mechanisms that can account for derivational readings? What is the role of world knowledge in a theory of derivational semantics?