Ralf Naumann

✉ nauman@phil.hhu.de

Fields of interest

• Formal semantics, in particular tense, aspect and modality,
• Dynamic approaches to natural language semantics,
• Formal approaches to lexical decomposition of verbs,
• Quantification,
• Application of logical and mathematical tools in linguistics, e.g. Dependence Logic,
• Serial verb constructions,
• Relation between language and cognition, in particular the question of how formal theories can be combined with the results from neuroscience.

Selected publications and submissions

• Naumann, R. (2011): Relating ERP-effects to theories of belief update and combining systems. In M. Aloni et. al. (Eds.): Proceedings of the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 160-169. Springer. [PDF]
• Naumann, R. (2013): An outline of a dynamic theory of frames. In: Bezhanishvili, G.; Löbner, S.; Marra, V. & Richter, F. (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language Logic and Computation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7758, pp. 73-93. Springer. Heidelberg. [PDF]
• Naumann, R. and Petersen, W. (2013): An Analysis of Quantifier Scope Restrictions in Dependence Logic. In: Aloni, M.; Franke, M. & Roelofsen, F. (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium. pp. 163-170. [PDF]
• Naumann, R. (2014): Phase quantification and frame theory. In D. Gerland, C. Horn, A. Latrouite, and A. Ortmann (Eds.): Meaning and Grammar of Nouns and Verbs, Studies in language and cognition, pp.237-265. Düsseldorf UP. [PDF]
• Naumann, R. and Petersen, W. (2015): Frame theory, dependence logic and strategies. In: Proceedings of 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, vol. 8984 LNCS, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. [PDF]
• Naumann, R. (2016): Dynamics in the brain and dynamic frame theory for action verbs. In: L. Ströbel (Ed.): Sensory-Motor Concepts - at the Crossroads between Language and Cognition. Düsseldorf UP. [PDF]
• Naumann, R. (2017): Dependencies, semantic constraints and conceptual closeness in a dynamic frame theory. In: Kata Balogh et al. (Eds.): Bridging formal and conceptual semantics, selected papers of BRIDGE-14, Düsseldorf UP. [PDF]
• Naumann, R. and Petersen, W. (2017): Semantic predictions in natural language processing, default reasoning and belief revision. In Proceedings of 11th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation LNCS, pp. 118-145. Berlin,Heidelberg: Springer. [PDF]
• Naumann, R. and Gamerschlag, T. (2018): Serial Verb Constructions and Covert Coordinations in Edo - An Analysis in Type Logical Grammar. submitted to Journal of Language Modelling. [PDF]
• Naumann, R., Petersen, W. and Gamerschlag, T. (2018): Underspecified changes: a dynamic, probabilistic frame theory for verbs. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. [PDF]
• Naumann, R. and Petersen, W. (2018a): Bridging inferences in a dynamic frame theory. submitted to: Proceedings of 12th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation. [PDF]
• Naumann, R. and Petersen, W. (2018b): A formal theory of frames with an application to plural quantification and cross-sentential anaphora. submitted [PDF]