Angelika Port

I am a PhD student (promovendus) at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. My supervisor is Maria Aloni.

I'm working on marked indefinites, especially on so called epistemic indefinites. My main interests are the semantics and pragmatics of indefinites, the use and functions of discourse particles and in general modality. Furthermore, I'm interested in diachronic studies and the development of certain expressions over time.

Since February 2013, I'm a lecturer for the course Logic, Information flow and argumentation, at the Amsterdam University College (AUC).

Contact information

E-mail:

angelika.port[at]gmail[dot]com

Mailing Address:

Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
ILLC
Universiteit van Amsterdam
P.O. Box 94242
1090 GE AMSTERDAM

• Since February 2013, I'm a lecturer for the course Logic, Information flow and argumentation, at the Amsterdam University College (AUC)

• January 2006 – March 2008 Humboldt-University of Berlin, Department for German Language and Linguistics:

  Contract Teacher [Lehrbeauftragte] teaching several courses :

  - Introduction to Linguistics (Erasmus)

  - Introduction to Linguistics (modul semantics and pragmatics)

  - Introduction to Semantics 

• December 2014 Epistemic indefinites and beyond, guest lecture at AUC, Amsterdam
• September 2011 Irgend-indefinites: contrastive and diachronic, Spain

• May 2011 Irgend-indefinites and their various readings. PALMYR, Paris

• February 2011 (with A. Aguilar et al.): Semantics and pragmatics of indefinites: methodology for a synchronic and diachronic corpus study, DGfS conference, Goettingen

• October 2010 (with Maria Aloni): Epistemic Indefinites cross-linguistically, NELS 41, Philadelphia, USA

• May 2010 Irgend-indefinites and Specificity (invited talk), Workshop on Determiners: reference and degrees of knowledge, University of Paris,

• February 2010 (with A. Aguilar et al.): Free choice items as fossils, DGfS conference, Berlin

• February 2010 Epistemic specificity and knowledge , DGfS conference, Berlin

• April 2009 (with Maria Aloni): Indefinites as fossils, University of Utrecht

• March 2009 Irgend-indefinites and beyond , University of Goettingen

• February 2009 Irgend-indefinites- a corpus study LEGO, ILLC, UvA

• Maria Aloni and Angelika Port. Modal inferences in marked indefinites: the case of German irgend-indefinites. Forthcoming in A. Aguilar-Guevara, B. Le Bruyn, and J. Zwarts (eds) Weak Referentiality. John Benjamins.
• Maria Aloni and Angelika Port. Epistemic indefinites and methods of identifications. Forthcoming in Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menendez-Benito (eds) Epistemic Indefinites. Oxford University Press
• Maria Aloni and Angelika Port. Epistemic indefinites crosslinguistically. NELS, 2010
• Ana Aguilar Guevara, Maria Aloni, Angelika Port, Radek Simik, Machteld de Vos and Hedde Zeijlstra. Semantics and pragmatics of indefinites: methodology for a synchronic and diachronic corpus study. In the proceedings of Beyond Semantics - Corpus-based investigations of pragmatic and discourse phenomena as a special issue of BLA (Bochumer Linguistische Arbeiten). A longer version of this article is downloadable here