Communication verbs as indicators of situational context:
Usage-based indexicality in corpus analysis and speaker knowledge (IndeKS)
FWF-Research project | 01.09.2025 – 31.08.2028 | Institute of German Studies | University of Innsbruck
The project investigates the assumptions of usage-based language models and their methodological implementation through corpus linguistic analysis, focusing on the phenomenon of indexicality.
News
The project started on September 1, 2025.
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On December 7, 2025, the IndeKS project was presented at the “Third Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics” during the 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference (ÖLT) at the University of Klagenfurt. The talk provided an overview of key questions, the theoretical framework, and initial insights from the first project year.
Team
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Cordula Meißner (Principal Investigator)
Anna-Lena Randermann, B.A. M.Ed. (Doctoral researcher, subproject A)
Janina Deilke, B.A. M.Sc. (Doctoral researcher, subproject B)