General
Citizenship: German (permanent resident of the US)
Address:
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Office:
613 Williams Hall
Phone: (215) 898-8183 Fax: (215) 573-2091
Email: florians[the-’at’-sign]ling.upenn.edu
Homepage: http://florianschwarz.net
Employment
July 2009 - June 2010: Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, UPenn
starting July 2010: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, UPenn
Education
9/2009 PhD, Department of Linguistics, UMass Amherst.
Title of Dissertation: Two Types of Definites in Natural Language. Chair: Angelika Kratzer.
7/2003: Magister Artium with excellence (grade: 1.0) in German Linguistics and Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin. Thesis: Focus Marking in Kikuyu (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka)
6/1997: Abitur (German high school diploma) at the Georg-Büchner-Oberschule (Gymnasium)
Publications
2009. Two Types of Definites in Natural Language, PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst. (Chair: Angelika Kratzer)
2009 [to appear]. The pragmatics of expressive content: Evidence from large corpora. [Noah Constant, Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Florian Schwarz]. To appear in Sprache und Datenverarbeitung.
2009 [to appear]. Maximize Presupposition and Two Types of Definite Competitors. [Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Paula Menendez-Benito and Florian Schwarz] In Proceedigs of NELS 39, Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2009 [to appear]. Strengthening ‘or’: Effects of Focus and Downward Entailing Contexts on Scalar Implicatures. [Florian Schwarz, Charles Clifton, Jr. and Lyn Frazier] In: Anderssen, Moulton, Schwarz & Ussery (eds.) UMOP 37: Semantic Processing. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2008. Exclamatives and heightened emotion: Extracting pragmatic generalizations from large corpora. [Chris Potts and Florian Schwarz] Manuscript.
2007: Processing Presupposed Content. Journal of Semantics 24(4): 373-416; doi:10.1093/jos/ffm011 (full paper available for free from journal website if you click here)
2007: Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu. To appear in Aboh, Hartmann, Zimmermann (eds.) Focus Strategies in African Languages: The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic, Berlin: Mouton. (draft)
2006. On NEEDING propositions and LOOKING FOR properties. In: M. Gibson, J. Howell (eds), SALT XVI 259-276, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. (Click here for online version of Proceedings from SALT XVI)
2006: Presuppositions in Processing - a case study of German ‘auch’. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 10. Christian Ebert and Cornelia Endriss (eds.), 301-315.
2004: Linguistic factors, Manfred Krifka, Silka Martens, and Florian Schwarz: in Rainer Dietrich & Traci Michelle Childress (eds), Group Interaction in High Risk Environments, Ashgate Publishing, 75 - 86, 2004.
2004: The Better the Team, the Safer the World. Golden Rules of Group Interaction in High Risk Environments: Evidence based suggestions for improving performance. J. Bryan Sexton (ed.) Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation and Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue [Contributing author].
2003: Focus Marking in Kikuyu. In Questions and Focus. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 30, Regine Eckardt (ed.)
2003: Krifka, Manfred, S. Martens, F. Schwarz: Group Interaction in the Cockpit: Some Linguistic Factors. In Communication in High Risk Environment. (Linguistische Berichte: Sonderheft 12), Rainer Dietrich (ed.).
Talks and Posters
2009. Exclamatives and heightened emotion: Extracting pragmatic generalizations from large corpora. [Chris Potts and Florian Schwarz] Talk presented at the Invited Session: Computational Linguistics: Implementation of Analyses against Data at the 2009 LSA meeting, San Francisco, Jan. 10th 2009.
2008. Maximize Presupposition and Two Types of Definite Competitors. [Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Paula Menendez-Benito and Florian Schwarz]. Poster presented at NELS 39 at Cornell, and Talk presented at a workshop at MIT in honor of Angelika Kratzer’s birthday, Dec. 6th, 2008.
2008. Expressives in The Wild: Extracting Pragmatic Generalizations from Large Corpora. [Chris Potts and Florian Schwarz] UCSC Alumni Conference, September 12th 2008.
2008. Two Types of Bridging with Two Types of Definites.
- Job talk at the University of Pennsylvania, February 14th 2008.
- Linguistics Colloquium (job talk) at Stanford University, February 26th 2008.
2008. Bridging with Two Types of Definites in German - Relational Anaphora and Situational Uniqueness. Linguistics Colloquium (job talk) at UC Santa Cruz, January 9th 2008.
2008. Two Types of Definites - Bridging, Situational Uniqueness, and Anaphoricity. Talk presented at 2008 LSA meeting in Chicago. [See newer, extended version of handout above]
10/2006: `A morphological distinction between bound and free definites.’ Poster presented at the OSU workshop on Presupposition Accommodation.
6/2006: `A proposition for NEED (and a property for LOOK FOR). Talk presented at the Milan Meeting 2006, University of Milan.
3/2006: `On NEEDING propositions and LOOKING FOR properties.’ Talk presented at SALT 16, Tokyo University, Tokyo.
10/2005: `Presuppositions in Processing - a case study of German ‘auch’.’ Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 10, Humboldt University, Berlin.
12/2004: `Kikuyu Focus Constructions - Syntactic and Semantic Issues.’ Talk presented at the workshop Topic and Focus: Information Structure and Grammar in African Languages, Dec. 3rd & 4th, University of Amsterdam, and at the Semantics Circle on Dec. 6th at the ZAS Berlin
11/2004: `Comments on Paul Portner’s ‘Instructions for Interpretation as Separate Performatives’.’ Christopher Potts, Florian Schwarz, and Shigeto Kawahara:, Presented at the Workshop on Indexicals, Speech Reports, and Logophors, Harvard University.
7/2003: `Fokusmarkierung im Kikuyu.’ Talk presented at the Syntax Circle at the ZAS (Berlin).
4/2003: `Focus Marking in Kikuyu.’ Talk presented at the workshop Bantu Grammar: Description and Theory held at SOAS (London).
Research Experience
6/2008 - 5/2009: Research Assistant for Chris Potts (NSF-grant Expressive content and the semantics of context).
Fall 2007: Research Assistant for Chris Potts (NSF-grant Expressive content and the semantics of context).
Fall 2006: Research Assistant for Barbara Partee and Vladimir Borschev (NSF-grant).
Summer 2006: Research Assistant in the Language Processing Lab of Charles Clifton and Lyn Frazier.
Fall 2005: Research Assistant for Barbara Partee and Vladimir Borschev (NSF-grant).
7/2004 - 6/2005: Research Assistant in the Language Processing Lab of Charles Clifton and Lyn Frazier.
7/2004 - 5/2007: Personal Research Assistant for Barbara Partee.
4/2003 - 7/2003: Student Assistant at the Center for General Linguistics (ZAS). Assistant to Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka in the project P11 on the syntax and semantics of questions.
4/2001 - 3/2003: Student Assistant in the GIHRE project, sponsored by the Gottlieb Daimler- and Karl Benz-Foundation. Assistant in the Linguistic Factors subproject. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka.
Teaching
Fall 2009: Ling 106 - Introduction to Formal Linguistics (UPenn)
Fall 2009: Ling 553 - Formal Semantics I (UPenn)
Spring 2008: Teaching assistant for Angelika Kratzer’s Linguistics 510: Introduction to Semantics.
Fall 2007: Teaching assistant for Chris Potts’ Linguistics 390A: Controlling the Discourse.
Spring 2007: Guest Lecture on intensional transitive verbs in Valentine Hacquard’s Linguistics 510: Introduction to Semantics.
Spring 2007: Teaching Linguistics 201: Introduction to Linguistic Theory.
Winter 2007: Teaching the continuing eduaction online version of Linguistics 101: People and their Language.
Spring 2006: Teaching assistant for Prof. John McCarthy’s Linguistics 101: People and their Language. Conducted weekly discussion sections.
Spring 2006: 2 guest lectures in Linguistics 620 (taught by Angelika Kratzer) on intensional transitive verbs.
Spring 2006: Guest lecture in Linguistics 201 (taught by Jan Anderssen) on German sentence structure.
Spring 2006: Co-organized and taught (with Helen Majewski) a Statistics Primer Session (an introduction to basic concepts of Analyses of Variance) to members of the linguistics department.
Fall 2005: Substituted 5 classes for Barbara Partee’s Linguistics 409: Formal Foundations of Linguistic Theory (Topics covered included set theoretical equalities, relations, functions, properties of relations, and orders)
Fellowships and Awards
2007: Nominated for a Junior Fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.
10/2006: Travel Grant from the Ohio State University Pragmatics Initiative to attend the short course and workshop on Presupposition Accommodation.
Fall 2005: Graduate school travel grant for attending and presenting at Sinn und Bedeutung 10 in Berlin.
2005: LSA-Fellowship to attend the LSA Summer Institute at M.I.T. and Harvard.
2003-2004: Graduate School Fellowship for Ph.D. studies in Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
2002: DGfS-scholarship for housing and tuition for the First Special Summer Program in Linguistics: Formal and Functional Linguistics, a summerschool held by the DGfS and the LSA at the Heinrich Heine Universität in Düsseldorf.
Service
2009 - present: Member of Editorial Board, Semantics & Pragmatics
2007-present: Reviewing for Natural Language Semantics, Semantics & Pragmatics, NELS, Sinn und Bedeutung
2007: UMass Linguistics colloquium organizer
2007: Student Member on the semantics search committee
10/2005: Co-organizer of NELS 36 (with Jan Anderssen, Shigeto Kawahara, Helen Stickney, and Anne-Michelle Tessier).
2005-2006: GLSA conference sales representative
2004-2007: Co-organizer of the semantics reading group (with Jan Anderssen).
2004: Student Representative (representing students at faculty meetings).
2003-2004: Graduate Student Senate representative for the department of linguistics.
Professional Skills
Statistics: R , SPSS (2 semester graduate statistics class in Psychology at UMass)
Psycholinguistics: E-Prime (self paced reading software) Eye-tracking (DPI Gen 6, Eyelink 1000)
Languages
German: native
English: fluent
Spanish: conversational
French: basic knowledge
Latin: basic reading knowledge
Fieldwork
2002-2003: Kikuyu (Berlin)
2005: Kono (Amherst, MA)
