| Position |
 | Akademische Oberrätin (Lecturer) |
| Interests |
| Ontology |
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- Formal theories of basic properties and relations
- Mereology (formal theory of the part-of relation and its
conceptual relatives overlap, disjointness and sum (fusion))
- Mereotopology (formalization of topologic structures on the
basis of mereology) and similar accounts for modelling being a
whole and concepts of integrity
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| Language |
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- Semantics of natural language (lexical semantics and
compositionality)
- Syntax and semantics of count phrases and measure phrases
(three liters of wine, three head of cattle, three herds of
cattle, length of twenty meters)
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| Space |
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- Formalisation of spatial concepts
- Frames of reference in natural language and their
formalisations
- Representation of spacial dynamics and trajectories of
movement
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| Projects |
| International Research Training Group CINACS |
| Discourse and Event Structure |
| Formal, artificial and natural ontology |
| Linguistic and multimodal routes description |
| Axiomatics of Spatial Concepts |
