Cory Bill

Cory Bill is a senior researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, specializing in semantic and pragmatic theory within the ERC project 'Realizing Leibniz's Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind'. His work bridges theoretical linguistics and experimental approaches to meaning.

Research Focus: Examines how children and adults derive meaning from linguistic structures, with emphasis on scalar inferences, presuppositions, and free choice phenomena. Recent work investigates cross-linguistic patterns in negation and conjunction acquisition.

Methodology: Combines corpus analysis, experimental paradigms, and formal semantic modeling to study language processing and acquisition across German, English, Georgian and Hungarian.