Stefan Kaufmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 801976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Kaufmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaufmann |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFMANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7065-2301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Selecting dominant or rare tree species as habitat trees: Consequences for epiphyte diversity in temperate mountain forests
The retention of habitat trees, defined as large old trees saved from logging, is a key strategy for biodiversity conservation in production forests. Epiphytic bryophytes and lichens, which rely on the diverse microhabitats provided by large old trees, are expected to benefit significantly from this practice. The selection of habitat trees has become mandatory in some governmental biodiversity conservation strategies. While broadleaved trees are …
Iffy Endorsements
Theories of imperatives differ in how they aim to derive the distributional and functional properties of this clause type. One point of divergence is how to capture the fact that imperative utterances convey the speaker’s endorsement for the course of events described. Condoravdi & Lauer (2017) observe that conditionals with imperative consequents (conditionalized imperatives, CIs) are infelicitous as motivations of advice against doing something…
Namensregister
The Limit Assumption
In the literature on modality and conditionals, the Limit Assumption is routinely invoked to ensure that a simple definition of necessity (truth at all minimal worlds) can safely be substituted for a more complicated one (cf. Lewis’s and Kratzer’s definitions involving multiple layers of quantification). The Limit Assumption itself was formulated by David Lewis in 1973 and 1981, and while its plausibility has at times been debated on philosophica…
Soziologie der Landschaft
Erster Weltkrieg: Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch
Erster Weltkrieg
Der Erste Weltkrieg: einschneidende Modernisierungs- und Krisenerfahrung. Das Handbuch verfolgt die Entwicklungen und Veränderungen in Politik, Gesellschaft, Technik und Mentalitäten bis in die 1920er
Epistemic particles and perfomativity
The German discourse particles ‘ja’ and ‘doch’ both mark the information expressed by their host sentence as somehow given, obvious, or uncontroversial (McCready & Zimmermann 2011 call them ‘epistemic particles’). Two things are puzzling: (i) despite its ‘epistemic’ nature, ‘doch’ can appear in imperatives and with performative modals; (ii) despite their similarity, ‘ja’ is unacceptable in imperatives and forces a descriptive reading of modal ver…
Language and Ideology in Congress
Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm – Support Vector Machines (SVM) – allows the extraction of terms that are most indicative of conservative and liberal positions in legislative speeches and the prediction of senators’ ideological positions, with a 92 per cent level of accuracy. Feature analysis identifies the terms …
On the temporal interpretation of Japanese temporal clause
Zivile Sicherheit: Gesellschaftliche Dimensionen gegenwärtiger Sicherheitspolitiken
Terrorismus, Kriminalität oder Katastrophen - Gefährdungen, Bedrohungen und Risiken heterogener Herkunft werden zunehmend ›auf einer Linie‹ gedacht. Diese unter dem Schlagwort »Zivile Sicherheit« firmierende Rationalität ist zu einem Kernkonzept sicherheitspolitischer Strategie avanciert. Der Band nimmt Fragen nach den Voraussetzungen, Bedeutungen und Folgen dieser Sicherheitsstrategie auf. Aus unterschiedlichen disziplinären Perspektiven werden …
Soziologische Theorien: -
Die Soziologie hat in den nur rund 100 Jahren ihres Bestehens zahlreiche Theorien hervorgebracht. Dieses Buch gliedert die bis heute verwendeten Ansätze systematisch, ohne die „klassischen“ Autoren aus den Augen zu verlieren. Vier Paradigmen – Handlungstheorien, Systemtheorien, Kritische Theorien und Verbindungstheorien – geben dem Lehrbuch seinen Rahmen. Innerhalb dieser Theorieblöcke kommen die Großen der Soziologie von Weber bis Giddens zur Sp…
Modality and Evidentiality
Linguistic expressions of modality and evidentiality have been the object of much active and exciting research for many years, but continue to pose challenges in all areas of semantic theory. Key aspects of their behaviour at the syntax–semantics interface, such as interactions with quantifiers and other operators or the calculation of modal implicatures triggered in embedding contexts, are not yet fully understood. Likewise, both the semantic in…
Classifying Party Affiliation from Political Speech
In this article, we discuss the design of party classifiers for Congressional speech data. We then examine these party classifiers' person-dependency and time-dependency. We found that party classifiers trained on 2005 House speeches can be generalized to the Senate speeches of the same year, but not vice versa. The classifiers trained on 2005 House speeches performed better on Senate speeches from recent years than on older ones, which indicates…
Evidence for Phonological Constraints on Nuclear Accent Placement
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: \nEvidence for phonological constraints on nuclear accent placement* JAMES GERMAN JANET PIERREHUMBERT STEFAN KAUFMANN Northwestern University Northwestern University Northwestern University 1
Soziologie der Landschaft
Conditional Truth and Future Reference
This paper proposes a compositional model-theoretic account of the way the interpretation of indicative conditionals is determined and constrained by the temporal and modal expressions in their constituents. The main claim is that the tenses in both the antecedent and the consequent of an indicative conditional are interpreted in the same way as in isolation. This is controversial for the antecedents of predictive conditionals like ‘If he arrives…
On the Lumping Semantics of Counterfactuals
Kratzer (1981) discussed a naïve premise semantics of counterfactual conditionals, pointed to an empirical inadequacy of this interpretation, and presented a modification—partition semantics—which Lewis (1981) proved equivalent to Pollock's (1976) version of his ordering semantics. Subsequently, Kratzer (1989) proposed lumping semantics, a different modification of premise semantics, and argued it remedies empirical failings of ordering semantics…
Modality and Temporality
The present collection addresses a number of issues in the semantic interpretation of modal and temporal expressions. Despite the variety the papers exhibit both in the selection of topics and the choice of formal frameworks, they are interconnected through several overarching themes that are at the centre of much ongoing research. The purpose of this brief introduction is to put the papers into context and draw the reader's attention to some of …
Language and Ideology in Congress
Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm – Support Vector Machines (SVM) – allows the extraction of terms that are most indicative of conservative and liberal positions in legislative speeches and the prediction of senators’ ideological positions, with a 92 per cent level of accuracy. Feature analysis identifies the terms …
Classifying Party Affiliation from Political Speech
In this article, we discuss the design of party classifiers for Congressional speech data. We then examine these party classifiers' person-dependency and time-dependency. We found that party classifiers trained on 2005 House speeches can be generalized to the Senate speeches of the same year, but not vice versa. The classifiers trained on 2005 House speeches performed better on Senate speeches from recent years than on older ones, which indicates…
Evidence for Phonological Constraints on Nuclear Accent Placement
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: \nEvidence for phonological constraints on nuclear accent placement* JAMES GERMAN JANET PIERREHUMBERT STEFAN KAUFMANN Northwestern University Northwestern University Northwestern University 1
Soziologische Theorien: -
Die Soziologie hat in den nur rund 100 Jahren ihres Bestehens zahlreiche Theorien hervorgebracht. Dieses Buch gliedert die bis heute verwendeten Ansätze systematisch, ohne die „klassischen“ Autoren aus den Augen zu verlieren. Vier Paradigmen – Handlungstheorien, Systemtheorien, Kritische Theorien und Verbindungstheorien – geben dem Lehrbuch seinen Rahmen. Innerhalb dieser Theorieblöcke kommen die Großen der Soziologie von Weber bis Giddens zur Sp…
Soziologie der Landschaft
Conditional Truth and Future Reference
This paper proposes a compositional model-theoretic account of the way the interpretation of indicative conditionals is determined and constrained by the temporal and modal expressions in their constituents. The main claim is that the tenses in both the antecedent and the consequent of an indicative conditional are interpreted in the same way as in isolation. This is controversial for the antecedents of predictive conditionals like ‘If he arrives…
On the Lumping Semantics of Counterfactuals
Kratzer (1981) discussed a naïve premise semantics of counterfactual conditionals, pointed to an empirical inadequacy of this interpretation, and presented a modification—partition semantics—which Lewis (1981) proved equivalent to Pollock's (1976) version of his ordering semantics. Subsequently, Kratzer (1989) proposed lumping semantics, a different modification of premise semantics, and argued it remedies empirical failings of ordering semantics…
Modality and Temporality
The present collection addresses a number of issues in the semantic interpretation of modal and temporal expressions. Despite the variety the papers exhibit both in the selection of topics and the choice of formal frameworks, they are interconnected through several overarching themes that are at the centre of much ongoing research. The purpose of this brief introduction is to put the papers into context and draw the reader's attention to some of …
Evidence for Phonological Constraints on Nuclear Accent Placement
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: \nEvidence for phonological constraints on nuclear accent placement* JAMES GERMAN JANET PIERREHUMBERT STEFAN KAUFMANN Northwestern University Northwestern University Northwestern University 1
Modality and Evidentiality
Linguistic expressions of modality and evidentiality have been the object of much active and exciting research for many years, but continue to pose challenges in all areas of semantic theory. Key aspects of their behaviour at the syntax–semantics interface, such as interactions with quantifiers and other operators or the calculation of modal implicatures triggered in embedding contexts, are not yet fully understood. Likewise, both the semantic in…
Classifying Party Affiliation from Political Speech
In this article, we discuss the design of party classifiers for Congressional speech data. We then examine these party classifiers' person-dependency and time-dependency. We found that party classifiers trained on 2005 House speeches can be generalized to the Senate speeches of the same year, but not vice versa. The classifiers trained on 2005 House speeches performed better on Senate speeches from recent years than on older ones, which indicates…
Soziologische Theorien: -
Die Soziologie hat in den nur rund 100 Jahren ihres Bestehens zahlreiche Theorien hervorgebracht. Dieses Buch gliedert die bis heute verwendeten Ansätze systematisch, ohne die „klassischen“ Autoren aus den Augen zu verlieren. Vier Paradigmen – Handlungstheorien, Systemtheorien, Kritische Theorien und Verbindungstheorien – geben dem Lehrbuch seinen Rahmen. Innerhalb dieser Theorieblöcke kommen die Großen der Soziologie von Weber bis Giddens zur Sp…
On the temporal interpretation of Japanese temporal clause
Zivile Sicherheit: Gesellschaftliche Dimensionen gegenwärtiger Sicherheitspolitiken
Terrorismus, Kriminalität oder Katastrophen - Gefährdungen, Bedrohungen und Risiken heterogener Herkunft werden zunehmend ›auf einer Linie‹ gedacht. Diese unter dem Schlagwort »Zivile Sicherheit« firmierende Rationalität ist zu einem Kernkonzept sicherheitspolitischer Strategie avanciert. Der Band nimmt Fragen nach den Voraussetzungen, Bedeutungen und Folgen dieser Sicherheitsstrategie auf. Aus unterschiedlichen disziplinären Perspektiven werden …
Epistemic particles and perfomativity
The German discourse particles ‘ja’ and ‘doch’ both mark the information expressed by their host sentence as somehow given, obvious, or uncontroversial (McCready & Zimmermann 2011 call them ‘epistemic particles’). Two things are puzzling: (i) despite its ‘epistemic’ nature, ‘doch’ can appear in imperatives and with performative modals; (ii) despite their similarity, ‘ja’ is unacceptable in imperatives and forces a descriptive reading of modal ver…
Language and Ideology in Congress
Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm – Support Vector Machines (SVM) – allows the extraction of terms that are most indicative of conservative and liberal positions in legislative speeches and the prediction of senators’ ideological positions, with a 92 per cent level of accuracy. Feature analysis identifies the terms …
Erster Weltkrieg: Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch
Erster Weltkrieg
Der Erste Weltkrieg: einschneidende Modernisierungs- und Krisenerfahrung. Das Handbuch verfolgt die Entwicklungen und Veränderungen in Politik, Gesellschaft, Technik und Mentalitäten bis in die 1920er
Soziologie der Landschaft
The Limit Assumption
In the literature on modality and conditionals, the Limit Assumption is routinely invoked to ensure that a simple definition of necessity (truth at all minimal worlds) can safely be substituted for a more complicated one (cf. Lewis’s and Kratzer’s definitions involving multiple layers of quantification). The Limit Assumption itself was formulated by David Lewis in 1973 and 1981, and while its plausibility has at times been debated on philosophica…
Namensregister
Iffy Endorsements
Theories of imperatives differ in how they aim to derive the distributional and functional properties of this clause type. One point of divergence is how to capture the fact that imperative utterances convey the speaker’s endorsement for the course of events described. Condoravdi & Lauer (2017) observe that conditionals with imperative consequents (conditionalized imperatives, CIs) are infelicitous as motivations of advice against doing something…
Selecting dominant or rare tree species as habitat trees: Consequences for epiphyte diversity in temperate mountain forests
The retention of habitat trees, defined as large old trees saved from logging, is a key strategy for biodiversity conservation in production forests. Epiphytic bryophytes and lichens, which rely on the diverse microhabitats provided by large old trees, are expected to benefit significantly from this practice. The selection of habitat trees has become mandatory in some governmental biodiversity conservation strategies. While broadleaved trees are …
Philosophy (13 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)