Alexander Turtureanu

I am a PhD researcher in natural language semantics at Humboldt University Berlin. From 2020 to 2024, my research project “Foundations of a Mental Representation Theory of Linguistic Meaning” was funded by the Leibniz Centre General Linguistics, Berlin. In 2024, I was awarded a short-term fellowship at the CRC “Negation in Language and Beyond” at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Current contact details : turtureanu at leibniz-zas dot de

 

 

Presentations

date

Title

institution, event

11.02.2025

A short introduction to MRT

U of Edinburgh, Cognitive Linguistics Research Group

30.01.2025

Homogeneity from an MRT perspective

U Frankfurt, Dept. of Linguistics, Semantics Colloquium

27.01.2025

“Inverse surface scope” in negation from an MRT perspective

U Frankfurt, Dept. of English Linguistics, Oberseminar Syntax & Semantics

12.12.2024

Existenzielle Präsupposition negativer Quantoren-Subjekte und Negative Konkordanz

Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, MaTüBe 2024

26.11.2024

A mental representation approach to the analysis of negation

U Frankfurt, NegLaB Research Colloquium

22.06.2024

Denken Sie NICHT an einen rosa Elefanten!

Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Geschäftsstelle), Berlin, N8 – Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2024

07.12.2023

Konzepte vs. Konstrukte: zur Bivalenz indefiniter Nominalphrasen

Leibniz Centre General Linguistics, Berlin, MaTüBe 2023

21.11.2023

A cognitive approach to reference and negation – and how it finds support in Gaelic

U of Edinburgh, Meaning and Grammar Research Group

08.06.2023

Existence vs. reference: a semantic riddle

Leibniz Centre General Linguistics, Berlin, “Brown Bag Lunch” (staff talk)

 

Empirical research

date

place/ collaborators

topic

funding

18.02.2025-
28.02.2025

Isle of Lewis and Harris, Scotland/ An Taigh Ceilidh, The North Harris Trust

Study on aspects of the cognitive grammar of Scottish Gaelic (details after publication)

Humboldt U, Berlin, PhD travel grant

29.07.2024-
12.08.2024

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Scotland/ An Taigh Ceilidh

Study on aspects of the cognitive grammar of Scottish Gaelic (details after publication)

Leibniz Centre General Linguistics, Berlin