CRC 1646

BO1: Coercion as creative mechanism in compositional interpretation

B01 is concerned with the flexible adjustment of meaning in compositional interpretation. In particular, we're interested in potential compositional mismatches as they can be observed for complement coercion, where, for instance, begin a book is interpreted as reading or writing a book: Does the incremental interpretation of such mismatches constitute ordinary compositional processes or do they involve creative repair mechanisms? The project combines experimental semantic/pragmatic research with formal modelling of lexical semantics in composition, using large-scale, citizen-science offline data and online data from eyetracking during reading.