Nicolás Stindt

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
Humboldt University Berlin
mailto:nicolas_stindt@yahoo.com
DAAD Stipendium

Ph.D. Project "Production and Comprehension of Referring Expressions in Chilean Spanish"

Standard generative theories have difficulties explaining asymmetries between production and comprehension during language acquisition. These can be better explained within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT), which conceives grammar as a set of violable constraints. The project attempts to give an OT account of possible asymmetries in the production and comprehension of Spanish subject referring expressions in discourse.

Supervisor: Reinhard Blutner

Links

Tandem Workshop on Optimality in Language and Geometric Approaches to Cognition