Clemens Steiner-Mayr

(publishes as Mayr)

Professor of Semantics and Pragmatics

Teaching at the University of Göttingen since 2017.

Academic Qualification:

  • Habilitation at the department of German language and linguistics, Humbold-Universität zu Berlin, 2017
  • Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics, Harvard University, 2010
  • Mag. phil. in General Linguistics and Russian, University of Vienna, 2005


Previous Positions:

  • Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (04/2016 - )
    PI in the project "Semantic constraints on interrogative embedding"
  • Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (04/2013 - 03/2016)
    PI in the project "Questions and entailment"
  • Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (10/2012 - 03/2013)
    Emmy Noether Group "Interpretation of quantifiers"
  • University of Potsdam (04/2012 - 09/2012)
    Replacement of professor position in semantics
  • Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (07/2010 - 09/2012)
    Emmy Noether Group "Interpretation of quantifiers"



Publications

Edited Volumes:

  • 2017 (w. Edwin Williams). 11-11-17. Festschrift für Martin Prinzhorn. Vienna: Wiener Linguistische Gazette



Peer-Reviewed Publications:



Proceedings Publications:

  • 2018 Predicting polar question embedding, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21(2), 863-880. 21. R. Truswell (ed.). University of Edinburgh
  • 2016 (w. Jacopo Romoli) Satisfied or exhaustifed: An ambiguity account of the proviso-problem. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26. M. Moroney, C.-R. Little, J. Collard & D. Burgdorf (eds.). Ithaca, NY: CLS Publications
  • 2015 (w. Uli Sauerland) Accommodation and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis. Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, T. Brochhagen, F. Roelofsen & Nadine Theiler (eds.), 276-285. Amsterdam: ILLC
  • 2015 Plural definite NPs presuppose multiplicity via embedded exhaustification, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 25, S. D'Antonio & M. Wiegand (eds.), 204-224. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications
  • 2015 (w. Karolina Zuchewicz) Exhaustification of Polish disjunctive questions, Proceedings of NELS 45, T. Bui & Ozıldız (eds.), 179-192. Amherst, MA: GLSA
  • 2013 Downward monotonicity in questions, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17, E. Chemla, V. Homer & Grégoire Winterstein (eds.), 345-362. Paris: ENS
  • 2011 (w. Benjamin Spector) Not Too Strong! Generalizing the Scope Economy condition, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14, M. Prinzhorn, V. Schmitt & S. Zobel (eds.), 305-321
  • 2010 Contrastive salient alternatives: focus on bound pronouns, Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20, N. Li and D. Lutz (eds.), 161-178. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications
  • 2009 Stylistic Inversion, Symmetry, and In-situ Subjects, in Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 43/2 2007, 185-199
  • 2008 (with Viola Schmitt) On Extending the Application Domain of the CSC, in Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, eds. Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 318-325
  • 2008 On the lack of subject-object asymmetries, in Proceedings of PLC 31, eds. Josh Tauberer, Aviad Eilam, and Laurel MacKenzie, 283-296