معرفی
Dr. Stephanie Solt is a Senior Researcher in the Research Area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics' at the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin. She leads the DFG-funded project A05 Modeling meaning-driven register variation within the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1412 'Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation'. Her work focuses on the semantics and pragmatics of quantity and degree expressions, including scale structure, polarity items, and experimental semantics.
- Education: PhD in Linguistics from the City University of New York (CUNY), advised by William McClure.
- Positions: Principal Investigator (DFG Project A05), Senior Researcher (ZAS Berlin), and part-time Lecturer (SUNY New Paltz).
Her research explores understatement in polarity items, approximation strategies, and the interplay between pragmatic reasoning and social meaning. Notable projects include studies on equative markers in Japanese and German, and the social perception of precision in language use.
Dr. Solt has authored/co-authored over 50 publications, including works in Semantics and Linguistic Theory, Proceedings of ELM, and edited volumes. She serves on the editorial board of Semantics and Pragmatics and is a board member of the CRC1412.
