Sarah Zobel

I am a linguist at the Department of German Studies and Linguistics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, specializing in formal semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces, as well as experimental and corpus linguistic methods in these areas.

• CV (PDF)
• OSF profile and talks
• Papers on semanticsarchive.net

Research interests

My current research interests in theoretical semantics and pragmatics:

• impersonal pronouns and non-referential uses of personal pronouns in connection with genericity
• predicative German als-phrases an English as-phrases & other non-clausal expressions with propositional content
• discourse particles and their contributions inside questions and antecedents of conditionals
• morphosyntax and semantics of the Bavarian verbal prefix der-

In addition to my theoretical work, I am interested in corpus linguistic and experimental methods and how they can be applied fruitfully to semantic and pragmatic research and how they can inform theoretical considerations. A further interest of mine is regional and dialectal variation, which I aim to integrate in my theoretical and empirical investigations.