sven lauer

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room Y-121
zukunftskolleg, box 216
university of konstanz
78457 konstanz
germany
sven at sven-lauer dot net

Sven Lauer is the director of the Emmy Noether group What is it to ask a question? A formal pragmatic investigation of interrogative force at the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. Sven is a member of the Konstanz semantics & pragmatics community.

Sven’s main research interests are in formal approaches to the study of pragmatics and discourse (in particular: the form-force mapping, clause types, implicatures and other pragmatic inferences) and formal semantics (in particular: imperatives, interrogatives, exclamatives, non-truth-conditional meaning, modality, conditionals, tense, causatives, free-choice). More details are available in his CV (pdf) and his Google Scholar profile.


Recent papers & manuscripts

  1. Lauer, Sven and Prerna Nadathur (to appear): Causal necessity, causal sufficiency, and the implications of causative verbs. Accepted (with minor revisions) at Glossa.
  2. Lauer, Sven and Prerna Nadathur (ms.) Sufficiency causatives, in revision.

    These two papers are companion pieces: Causal necessity … presents the basic English data and lays out our analysis in an informal (and hopefully accessible) way. Sufficiency causatives is a more techically-oriented paper that presents the formal analysis in detail and adds discussion of the German causative lassen.

  3. Lauer, Sven (2017): ‘I believe’ in a ranking-theoretic analysis of ‘believe’. Proceedings of the Twenty-first Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  4. Condoravdi, Cleo and Sven Lauer (2017): Conditional imperatives and endorsement, Proceedings of NELS 47, pages 185–204.

More publications, manuscripts and handouts/slides can be found on this page.