Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka

Geb. 1956, Berlin, Deutschland

Sprachwissenschaft (Fachgebiet) - Linguistik (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

HU-Berlin - HU-Berlin Institut für deutsche Literatur - Unter den Linden 6 - 10099 Berlin

Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Pariser Str. 1, 10719 Berlin

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Forschungsgebiete

Besondere Forschungsgebiete Sprachtypologie, Semantik, Pragmatik, Austronesische Sprachen

Monographien

Krifka, Manfred. 2017. Punen ne ot Yurop (Stories of Europe). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.; Krifka, Manfred. 2017. Daa ne Daakie kevene: Daakie Dictionary. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
Krifka, Manfred & Abel Taho. 2013. Daa konkon se timaleh ngyee. Kinderbibel in Daakie, Ambrym, Vanuatu. Seattle: CreateSpace.
Krifka, Manfred. 2013. Punen ngyee lan dolot. Stories in Daakie, Ambrym, Vanuatu. Seattle: CreateSpace.
Krifka, Manfred & John Taso. 2013. Dyep sesóró lan Daakie. Let's talk Daakie. A children's book in Daakie, Ambrym, Vanuatu. Seattle: CreateSpace.
Nominalreferenz und Zeitkonstitution. Zur Semantik von Massentermen, Pluraltermen und Aspektklassen. München: Fink 1989
(mit Bernd Gregor): Computerfibel für die Geisteswissenschaften. Einsatzmöglichkeiten des Personal Computers und Beispiele aus der Praxis. München: C.H. Beck 1986, 1987.
Zur semantischen und pragmatischen Motivation syntaktischer Regularitäten. Eine Studie zur Wortstellung und Wortstellungsveränderung im Swahili. München: Fink 1983.

Aufsätze und Beiträge

Max Joseph, Das Magazin der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Spielzeit 2013-2014, Heft 3. 32-34.
Krifka, Manfred / Modarresi, Fereshteh: Anaphoric potential of bare nominals, incorporated objects and weak definites in German. Experimental results and theoretical modeling. In: Gardelle, Laure / Vincent-Durroux, Laurence / Vinckel, Hélène (Hrsg.): Reference. From conventions to pragmatics. Amsterdam;Philadelphia 2023 (= Studies in language companion series volume 228), S. 27-51
Prince, Kilu von / Krajinović, Ana / Krifka, Manfred: Irrealis is real. In: Zielsprache Deutsch 98, 2022, S. 221-249
Individuating matter over time. In: Filip, Hana (Hrsg.): Countability in natural language. Cambridge, United Kingdom 2021, S. 121-144
Krifka, Manfred & Fereshteh Modaressi. 2019. Persian ezafe and proportional quantifiers. In Nicolae, Andreea C., Patrick D. Elliot & Yasutata Sudo (eds.), Snippets 37. Special issue in honor of Uli Sauerland, 56-58.
Krifka, Manfred. 2019. Indicative and subjunctive conditionals in commitment spaces. Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, 248-258.
Krifka, Manfred. 2019. Honorific and affiliative uses of dual and paucal number in Daakie / Port Vato (Ambrym, Vanuatu). SIL Language and Culture Documentation and Description. Proceedings of the Conference on Oceanic Languages (COOL 10), 62-76.
Claus, Berry, A. Marlijn Meijer, Sophie Repp & Manfred Krifka. 2019. Puzzling response particles: An experimental study on the German answering system. Semantics & Pragmatics 10, Art. 19.
Krifka, Manfred. 2019. Commitments and beyond. Theoretical Linguistics 45(1-2), 73–91.
Fuchs, Susanne, Egor Savin, Stephanie Solt, Cornelia Ebert & Manfred Krifka. 2019. Antonym adjective pairs and prosodic iconicity: evidence from letter replications in an English blogger corpus. Linguistics Vanguard 5(1), Article 20180017.
Krifka, Manfred. 2019. A direct compositionality approach to condition C effects under reconstruction and their exceptions. In Schenner, Mathias & Manfred Krifka (eds.). Reconstruction effects in relative clauses. Studia grammatica 75, 35-86. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Krifka, Manfred & Frank Seifart. 2019. Sprachenvielfalt erforschen, dokumentieren und archivieren. Bericht über das Forschungsjahr 2018 : ZAS ; Impressionen, 63-72.
Krifka, Manfred. 2018. Flunkern. Übel und Notwendigkeit einer sprachlichen Normverletzung. In Fröhlich, Konstanze, Martin Grötschel & Wolfgang Klein (eds.). Abecedarium der Sprache, 69-76. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos.
Krifka, Manfred. 2018. Response particles: The mysteries of "yes" and "no". Proceedings of the 2018 5th NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS), 60-65.
Stoltmann, Katarzyna, Susanne Fuchs & Manfred Krifka. 2018. The Influence of Animacy and Spatial Relation Complexity on the Choice of Frame of Reference in German. In Creem-Regehr, Sarah, Johannes Schöning & Alexander Klippel (eds.). Spatial Cognition XI. 11th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2018, Tübingen, Germany, September 5-8, 2018, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 11034, 119-133. Cham: Springer.
Krifka, Manfred. 2018. Das Lexikon in der formalen Semantik. In Engelberg, Stefan, Heidrun Kämper & Petra Storjohann (eds.). Wortschatz: Theorie, Empirie, Dokumentation. Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft um 2020 ; 2, 9-30. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Czypionka, Anna, Katharina Spalek, Isabell Wartenburger & Manfred Krifka. 2017. On the interplay of object animacy and verb type during sentence comprehension in German: ERP evidence from the processing of transitive dative and accusative constructions. Linguistics 55(6), 1383-1433.; Krifka, Manfred. 2017. Negated polarity questions as denegations of assertions. In Lee, Chungmin, Ferenc Kiefer & Manfred Krifka (eds.). Contrastiveness in information structure, alternatives and scalar implicatures, 359-398. Cham: Springer.
Champollion, Lucas & Manfred Krifka. 2016. Mereology. In Aloni, Maria (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics, 369-388. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Krifka, Manfred. 2016. Quantification and information structure. In Féry, Caroline & Shinichiro Ishihara (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, 251-269. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Krifka, Manfred & Fereshteh Modarresi. 2016. Number neutrality and anaphoric update of pseudo-incorporated nominals in Persian (and weak definites in English). In Moroney, Mary, Carol-Rose Little, Jacob Collard & Dan Burgdorf (eds.). Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 26), 874-891. Washington DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Krifka, Manfred. 2016. Realis and non-realis modalities in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu). In Moroney, Mary, Carol-Rose Little, Jacob Collard & Dan Burgdorf (eds.). Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 26), 566-583. Washington DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Hamlaoui, Fatima & Manfred Krifka. 2016. Je suis Charlie - Ein Lehrstück für die Informationsstruktur. Bericht über das Forschungsjahr 2015 : ZAS ; Reflexionen, 99-105.
Meijer, Anna Marlijn, Berry Claus, Sophie Repp & Manfred Krifka. 2015. Particle responses to negated assertions: Preference patterns for German ja und nein. In Brochhagen, Thomas, Floris Roelofsen & Nadine Theiler (eds.). Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, 286-295. Amsterdam: ILLC.
Krifka, Manfred. 2015. Bias in Commitment Space Semantics: Declarative questions, negated questions, and question tags. In D'Antonio, Sarah, Mary Moroney & Carol Rose Little (eds.). Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 25), 328-345. Washington DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Krifka, Manfred. 2015. Fünfzig Jahre Satzsemantik - am Beispiel der Negation. In Eichinger, Ludwig (ed.). Sprachwissenschaft im Fokus. Positionsbestimmungen und Perspektiven., 247-275. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Krifka, Manfred. 2014. A new type of informative tautology: Für Unbefugte Betreten Verboten!. In Gutzmann, Daniel, Jan Kopping & Cécile Meier (eds.). Approaches to meaning: composition, values and interpretation, 341-343. Leiden: Brill.
Krifka, Manfred. 2014. Ja, nein, doch als sententiale Anaphern und deren pragmatische Optimierung. In Machicao y Priemer, Antonio, Andreas Nolda & Athina Sioupi (eds.). Zwischen Kern und Peripherie. Untersuchungen zu Randbereichen in Sprache und Grammatik, 41-68. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Krifka, Manfred. 2014. Embedding illocutionary acts. In Roeper, Tom & Margaret Speas (eds.). Recursion, Complexity in Cognition (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 43), 59-87. Berlin: Springer.
Cohen, Arik & Manfred Krifka. 2014. Superlative quantifiers and meta speech acts. Linguistics and Philosophy 37(1), 41-90.
Krifka, Manfred. 2013. Response particles as propositional anaphors. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 23), 1-18 (DOI-Dokument 2676).
Krifka, Manfred. 2012. Some remarks on event structure, conceptual spaces and the semantics of verbs. Theoretical Linguistics 38, 223-236.
Krifka, Manfred & Renate Musan. 2012. Information structure: Overview and linguistic issues. In Manfred Krifka & Renate Musan (eds.). The expression of information structure, 1-44. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Krifka, Manfred. 2012. Definitional generics. In Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade & Fabio Del Prete (eds.). Genericity, 372-389. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jessen, Anna, Kathrin Pusch & Manfred Krifka. 2012. Diurnal variation of language processing in shift workers. In Katharina Spalek & Juliane Domke (eds.). Sprachliche Variationen, Varietäten und Kontexte. Beiträge zu psycholinguistischen Schnittstellen. Festschrift für Rainer Dietrich, 203-219. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Adolphs, Peter, Anton Benz, Núria Bertomeu Castelló, Xiwen Cheng, Tina Klüwer, Manfred Krifka, Alexandra Strekalova, Hans Uszkoreit & Feiyu Xu. 2011. Conversational Agents in a Virtual World. In Josha Bach & Stefan Edelkamp (eds.). KI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 34th Annual German Conference on AI Proceedings, 38-49. Berlin: Springer.
Krifka, Manfred. 2011. In defense of idealizations. A commentary to Stokhof & van Lambalgen. Theoretical Linguistics 37, 51-62.
Cohen, Ariel & Manfred Krifka. 2011. Superlative quantifiers as meta-speech acts. The Baltic Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 6, 1-28.
Krifka, Manfred. 2011. Varieties of semantic evidence. In Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger & Paul Portner (eds.). Semantics. An international handbook of natural language meaning, 242-267. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Krifka, Manfred. 2011. Questions. In Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn & Paul Portner (eds.). Semantics. An international handbook of natural language meaning, Vol. 2, 1742-1758. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Krifka, Manfred. 2011. Notes on Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu): Sounds and modality. In Lauren Eby Clemens, Gregory Scontras & Maria Polinsky (eds.). Proceedings of AFLA 18 (= Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association), 46-65. Cambridge: Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association.
Krifka, Manfred. 2010. Before' and 'after' without cooercion. Comment on the paper by Cleo Condoravdi. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28, 911-929.
Krifka, Manfred. 2010. A note on the asymmetry in the hedonic implicatures of olfactory and gustatory terms. In Susanne Fuchs, Phil Hoole, Christine Mooshammer & Marzena Zygis (eds.). Between the regular and the particular in speech and language, 235-245. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang.
Approximate interpretations of number words: A case for strategic communication. In E. Hinrichs & J. Nerbonne (eds.), Theory and Evidence in Semantics, Stanford: CSLI Publications 2009, 109-132.
"Case syncretism in German Feminines: Typological, functional and structural aspects". In Patrick Steinkrüger & Manfred Krifka (ed.), On Inflection, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 2009, 141-172.
(mit Caroline Féry) Information structure. Notional distinctions, ways of expression. In Piet van Sterkenburg (ed.), Unity and diversity of languages, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008, 123-136. (mit Alexander Grosu) The gifted mathematician that you claim to be. Equational intensional 'reconstruction' relatives. Linguistics and Philosophy 30, 2008, 445-485.
Structural features of language and language use. In: Dietrich, Rainer / Childress, Traci Michelle (Hrsg.): Group interaction in high risk environments. Aldershot [u.a.\ 2008, S. 141-164
Krifka, Manfred / Fiedler, Ines / Schwarz, Anne: Informationsstruktur. Die sprachlichen Mittel der Gliederung von Äußerung, Satz und Text. In: Humboldt-Spektrum 2008, S. 42-48
Basic notions of information structure. In: Acta linguistica Hungarica 2008, S. 243-276
Negated antonyms: Creating and filling the gap. In Uli Sauerland and Penka Stateva (eds.), Presupposition and implicature in compositional semantics, Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 163-177.
Basic notions of information structure. In: Féry, Caroline (Hrsg.): The notions of information structure. Potsdam 2007 (= Interdisciplinary studies on information structure 6), S. 13-55, https:/ / nbn-resolving. org/ html/ urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112151
Dietrich, Rainer / Meer, Elke van der / Leser, Ulf / Krifka, Manfred / Sommer, Werner / Wartenburger, Isabell / Kühn, Katja / Kiecker, Guido: Sprachliche Bedeutung. Interdisziplinäres Zentrum der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In: Humboldt-Spektrum 2006, S. 12-17
"Bare NPs: Kind-referring, Indefinites, Both, or Neither?". Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XIII, University of Washington, Seattle. Edited R. B. Young & Y. Zhou, CLC Publications, Cornell, 2004.
Focus and/or context. A second look at the second occurence expressions. In: Kamp, Hans / Partee, Barbara H. (Hrsg.): Context-dependence in the analysis of linguistic meaning. Amsterdam [u.a.\ 2004 (= Current research in the semantics, pragmatics interface 11), S. 187-207
Replies to Rooth, Bartels, Asher and Peregrin. In: Kamp, Hans / Partee, Barbara H. (Hrsg.): Context-dependence in the analysis of linguistic meaning. Amsterdam [u.a.\ 2004 (= Current research in the semantics, pragmatics interface 11), S. 549-551
A compositional semantics for multiple focus constructions. In: Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier (Hrsg.): Semantics. Critical concepts in linguistics. 6 ; Discourse and dynamics. London 2003 (= Critical concepts in linguistics), S. 33-72
"Be brief and vague"! And how bidirectional optimality theory allows for verbosity and precision. In: Restle, David / Zaefferer, Dietmar (Hrsg.): Sounds and systems. Studies in structure and change ; a festschrift for Theo Venneman. Berlin [u.a.\ 2002 (= Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 141), S. 439-458
# "For a structured meaning account of questions and answers" (revised version), in C. Fery & W. Sternefeld (eds.), Audiatur Vox Sapientia. A Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow, Akademie Verlag (= studia grammatica 52), Berlin 2001, 287-319.
"Quantifiying into question acts" Natural Language Semantics 9: 1-40, 2001.
"Non-novel indefinites in adverbial quantification". In C. Condoravdi & G. Renardel de Lavalette, Logical Perspectives on Language and Information", CSLI Publications, Stanford 2001, 1-40.
Alternatives for aspectual particles. Semantics of "still" and "already". In: Proceedings of the ... annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 2000, S. 401-412
Manner in dative alternation. In: Bird, Sonya / Carnie, Andrew / Haugen, Jason D. / Norquest, Peter (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville 1999, S. 260-271
The origins of telicity. In: Rothstein, Susan Deborah (Hrsg.): Events and grammar. Dordrecht [u.a.\ 1998 (= Studies in linguistics and philosophy 70), S. 197-235
Scope inversion under the rise-fall contour in German. In: Linguistic inquiry 1998, S. 75-112
"Verkyul, Henk J.: A theory of aspectuality. The interaction between temporal and atemporal structure". (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 64), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 393 pages. In: Studies in language <Amsterdam> 1996, S. 443-454
Parametrized sum individuals for plural anaphora. In: Linguistics and philosophy 1996, S. 555-598
The semantics and pragmatics of polarity items. In: Linguistic analysis 1995, S. 209-257
Focus and presupposition in dynamic interpretation. In: Journal of semantics 1993, S. 269-300
A compositional semantics for multiple focus constructions. In: Jacobs, Joachim (Hrsg.): Informationsstruktur und Grammatik. Opladen 1992 (= Linguistische Berichte. Sonderheft 4), S. 17-53
A framework for focus-sensitive quantification. In: Working papers in linguistics 1992, S. 215-236
Definite NP's aren't quantifiers. In: Linguistic inquiry 1992, S. 156-163
Massennomina. In: Stechow, Arnim von / Wunderlich, Dieter (Hrsg.): Semantik. Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung = Semantics. Berlin [u.a.\ 1991 (= Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / hrsg. von Herbert Ernst Wiegand ... 6), S. 399-417
How to get rid of groups, using DRT. A case for discourse-oriented semantics. In: Texas linguistic forum 1991, S. 71-109
A compositional semantics for multiple focus constructions. In: Cornell working papers in linguistics 1991, S. 127-158
Four thousand ships passed through the lock. Object-induced measure functions on events. In: Linguistics and philosophy 1990, S. 487-520
Krifka, Manfred / Wenger, Karsten: Graduierung und Dimension. Eine Diskussion von "Grammatische und konzeptuelle Aspekte von Dimensionsadjektiven. Herausgegeben von Manfred Bierwisch und Ewald Lang. Akademie-Verlag (Studia grammatica XXVI + XXVII). Berlin, 1987. 707 S.". In: Linguistische Berichte 1990, S. 478-504
Nominal reference, temporal constitution and quantification in event semantics. In: Bartsch, Renate / Benthem, Johan van / Emde Boas, Peter van (Hrsg.): Semantics and contextual expression. Dordrecht [u.a.\ 1989 (= Groningen-Amsterdam studies in semantics 11), S. 75-115
Timothy Shopen (ed.), Language typology and syntactic description. Vol. I: Clause structure. Vol. II: Complex constructions. Vol. III: Grammatical categories and the lexicon. Cambridge: University Press 1985. 399; 317; 427 S. In: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 1988, S. 412-416, https:/ / doi. org/ 10. 1515/ bgsl
Gerhard Heyer: Generische Kennzeichnungen. Zur Logik und Ontologie generischer Bedeutungen. Muenchen, Wien: Philosophia Verlag, 1987. Pp. 289. In: Journal of semantics 1988, S. 161-168
Holly, Werner / Kindt, Walther / Klein, Wolfgang / Krifka, Manfred / Maibauer, Jörg / Speck, Agnes: Sprache und Handeln. 8. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft, Heidelberg, 26.-28. Februar 1986. In: Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 1986, S. 362-372, https:/ / doi. org/ 10. 1515/ zfgl
Harmony or consistency? Review of John A. Hawkins, Word Order Universals. In: Theoretical linguistics 1985, S. 73-96, https:/ / doi. org/ 10. 1515/ thli

Dissertation (Titel) Nominalreferenz und Zeitkonstitution. Zur Semantik von Massentermen, Pluraltermen und Aspektklassen

Dissertation - Jahr der Publikation 1989

Herausgebertätigkeit

Wöllstein, Angelika, Peter Gallmann, Mechthild Habermann & Manfred Krifka (eds.). 2018. Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik. Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft um 2020 ; 1. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Krifka, Manfred & Mathias Schenner (eds.). 2019. Reconstruction effects in relative clauses. Studia grammatica 75. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Lee, Chungmin, Ferenc Kiefer & Manfred Krifka (eds.). 2017. Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 91. Cham: Springer. Krifka, Manfred, Joanna Blaszczak, Annette Leßmöllmann, André Meinunger, Barbara Stiebels, Rosemarie Tracy & Hubert Truckenbrodt (eds.). 2014. Das mehrsprachige Klassenzimmer: Über die Muttersprachen unserer Schüler. Berlin: Springer.
Krifka, Manfred & Renate Musan (eds.). 2012. The expression of information structure. The expression of cognitive categories. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Studia Grammatica, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag (Herausgeber, mit Manfred Bierwisch, since 2008)
# Linguistics & Philosophy. Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Editorial Board since 1994, Editor-in-Chief 1997 - 2003)
(mit Patrick Steinkrüger) On Inflection. Trends in Linguistics 184. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2009. Theoretical Linguistics. An open peer review journal. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. Editor-in-Chief seit 2002.

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte

Speaker's choices in creole contexts: Bislama and Morisien (SFB Register A02); SPAGAD: Speech Acts in Grammar and Discourse. ERC, 2019-2023
MelaTAMP: Tense, Aspect, Modality and Polarity in Languages of Melanesia. Mit Kilu von Prince
Der pragmatische Status von ikonischer Bedeutung in gesprochener Kommunikation: Gestik, Ideophone, prosodische Modulationen (PSIMS). DFG, mit Cornelia Ebert, Susanne Fuchs
Quality - Established: Erprobung und Anwendung von Kurationskriterien und Qualitätsstand

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft Linguistic Society of America Academia Europaea

Weitere Angaben zu Forschungs-, Verwaltungs- und Lehrtätigkeiten Direktor, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin

Stipendien Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford

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