Mentoring and Supervision

Former Assistants

Dissertations reviewed:

• Paul McNamara. University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1990. Title of dissertation: The Deontic Quadecagon [committee member] D P
• David Forster. University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1990. Title of dissertation: The Generation of Temporal Expressions in Natural Language [committee member] D C
• Reinhard Blutner. Humboldt-Universität Berlin 1995. Title of dissertation: Standardannahmen, Informationsveränderung und Flexibilität ['Default assumptions, information change, and flexibility']. [external reviewer] H L
• Bart Geurts. Universität Stuttgart 1995. Title of dissertation: Presupposing. [second opinion] D L
• Regine Eckardt. Universität Stuttgart 1996. Title of dissertation: Events, Adverbs and Other Things. [supervisor] D L
• Heike Wiese. Humboldt-Universität Berlin 1997. Title of dissertation: Zahl und Numerale [Number and numeral]. [external reviewer] D L
• Friederike Moltmann. Universität Stuttgart 1997. [second opinion] Cumulative H L
• Anette Frank. Universität Stuttgart 1997. Title of dissertation: Context Dependence in Modal Constructions.[second opinion] D L
• Robert van Rooy. Universität Stuttgart 1997. Title of dissertation: Attitudes and Changing Contexts. [supervisor] D L
• Joachim Sabel . GoetheUniversität Frankfurt 1999. Title of dissertation: Principles and Parameters of Wh-Movement. [external reviewer] H L
• Jochen Zeller. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 1999. Title of dissertation: Particle Verbs, Local Domains, and a Theory of Lexical Licensing . [third opinion] D L
• Peter Krause. Universität Stuttgart 2001. Title of dissertation: Topics in Presupposition Theory. [second opinion] D L
• Ágnes Bende-Farkas. Universität Stuttgart 2002. Title of dissertation: Verb-Object Dependencies in Hungarian and English. [second opinion] D L
• Ron Artstein. Rutgers University, New Brunswick (New Jersey) 2002. Title of dissertation: Phonological Decomposition. [external committee member] D L
• Malte Zimmermann. Universiteit van Amsterdam 2002. Title of dissertation: Boys Buying Two Sausages Each. [Copromotor] D L
• Sigrid Beck. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2003. [primary reviewer] Cumulative H L
• Eric Fuß. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2005. Title of dissertation: The Rise of Agreement. [third opinion] D L
• Philippe Schlenker. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) 2005. [external reviewer] Cumulative H P
• Veerle Van Geenhoven. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2005. [primary reviewer] Cumulative H L
• Bartosz Wieckowski. Universität Tübingen 2006. Title of dissertation: Modality without Reference. [second opinion] D P
• Magdalena Schwager. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2006. Title of dissertation: Interpreting Imperatives. D L[supervisor]
• Jiro Inaba. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2006. Title of dissertation: Die Syntax der Satzkomplementierung. Zur Struktur des Nachfeldes im Deutschen. [second opinion] D L
• Emar Maier. Universität Nijmegen 2006. Title of dissertation: Belief in Context. [external reviewer] D P
• Verena Mayer. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2006. Title of dissertation: On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Explicit Performatives. [supervisor] D L
• Cornelia Endriss. Universität Potsdam 2007. Title of dissertation: Quantificational Topics. [external reviewer] D L
• Magdalena Roguska. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 2007. Title of dissertation: Exklamation und Negation. [second opinion] D L
• Andreas Runkel. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2007. Title of dissertation: Explicit Performatives. [second opinion] D L
• Andreas Haida. Humboldt-Universität Berlin 2008. Title of dissertation: The Indefiniteness and Focusing of Wh-Words. [second opinion] D L
• Stefan Enzinger. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2008. Title of dissertation: Kausative und perzeptive Infinitivkonstruktionen: Syntaktische Variation und semantischer Aspekt. [second opinion] D L
• Eric Fuß. Habilitation Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2009. Titel der Habilitationsschrift: Word Order and Language Change. [third opinion] H L
• Claudia Poschmann. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 2010. Title of dissertation: Echo-Fragen. Eine fokusbasierte Metarepräsentations-Analyse. [second opinion] D L
• Jasper Liptow. Habilitation Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2010. Title of dissertation: Begriffe im Denken. Grundlagen einer philosophischen Begriffstheorie. [reviewer] H P
• Peter Öhl. Habilitation Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2010. [reviewer] CXumulative H L
• Hong Zhou. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2011. Title of dissertation: Laws and Skills - An Inferential Diagnosis and Defense. [supervisor] D P
• Daniel Gutzmann. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2013. Title of dissertation: Use-conditional Meaning. Studies in Multidimensional Semantics. [supervisor] D L*)
• Viola Schmitt. Universität Wien 2013. Title of dissertation: More Pluralities. [second opinion] D L
• Andrew Withy. University of Auckland (NZ) 2014. Titel der Dissertation: Assertibility and Disjunction [external reviewer] D P
• Edgar Onea. Universität Göttingen 2014. Title of dissertation: Potential Questions in Discourse and Grammar. [external reviewer] D L
• Hanna de Vries. Universität Utrecht 2015. Title of dissertation: Shifting Sets, Hidden Atoms: the semantics of distributivity, plurality and animacy. [external reviewer] D L
• Dominik Kauss. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2015. Title of dissertation: Conceivability, Existence, and Logic. [third opinion] D P
• Manuel Križ. Universität Wien 2015. Title of dissertation: Aspects of Homogeneity in the Semantics of Natural Language. [second opinion] D L**)
• Dolf Rami. Universität Göttingen 2015. Titel der Habilitationsschrift: Names in Context. [external reviewer] H P
• Corinna Trabandt. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2016. Title of dissertation: On the acquisition of restrictive and appositive relative clauses. [co-supervisor] D L
• Jerra Busch. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2016. Title of dissertation: Anankastic Relatives. [supervisor] D L
• Ali Esmi. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2018. Title of dissertation: Knowability, Possible Knowledge, and the Church-Fitch Paradox. [second opinion] D P
• Daniel Gutzmann. Universität zu Köln 2018. Title of dissertation: The Grammar of Expressivity. [external reviewer] H L
• Jan Köpping. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2019. Title of dissertation: The individual parameter. [supervisor] D L
• Merle Weicker. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2019. Title of dissertation: The Role of Semantic Complexity for the Acquisition of Adjectives. [second opinion] D L***)
• David Lahm. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2020. Title of dissertation: Explorations in non-lexical semantics. [second opinion] D L
• Mia Windhearn. Cornell University 2021. Title of dissertation: Alternatives, Exclusivity, and Underspecification. [external committee member] D L
• Carolin Reinert. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 2024. Title of dissertation: The Compositionality of Adjective Noun Constructions. [supervisor] D L
• Jonathan Mai. Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2025. Title of dissertation: Impossibilites in Action. [external reviewer] D P

*) Awarded with the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize 2014 of the German Society of Linguistics for the best linguistics dissertation of the year; Gutzmann subsequently received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the DFG (2016).

**) Awarded with the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize 2016 of the German Society of Linguistics for the best linguistics dissertation of the year.

***) Awarded with the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize 2020 of the German Society of Linguistics for the best linguistics dissertation of the year.