🧑‍🔬 Uli Sauerland

🏛️ Affiliations

🔬Leibniz-Centre General LinguisticsBerlin · Germany2001–2026 · 71 papersEmployment since 2005 · Coordinator, Semantics & Pragmatics Groupcurrent🎓University of TübingenTübingen · Germany1999–2015 · 8 papers🎓Harvard UniversityCambridge · United States2013–2021 · 7 papers🏥Ziekenhuis aan de StroomAntwerp · Belgium2015–2024 · 4 papers🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States1993–2004 · 3 papersEducation 1993–1998 · Ph.D., Linguistics and Philosophy🎓Hokkaido UniversitySapporo · Japan2013–2015 · 2 papers🎓Keio UniversityTokyo · Japan2013–2015 · 2 papers🎓The University of OsakaOsaka · Japan2013–2015 · 2 papers🎓Tohoku UniversitySendai · Japan2013–2015 · 2 papers🎓Universidade Federal do ParanáCuritiba · Brazil2013–2015 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 11 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Presuppositional exhaustification (2021 · 27 citations)
   Grammatical theories of scalar implicatures (SIs) place a silent operator, exh, in Logical Form. Exh asserts its prejacent together with the denial of relevant excludable alternatives. Bassi, Del Pinal and Sauerland propose replacing it with pex. Pex keeps the prejacent as asserted content but makes the negated…
2. Embedded Implicatures and Experimental Constraints: A Reply to Geurts & Pouscoulous and Chemla (2010 · 17 citations)
   Sauerland responds to two experimental studies on embedded implicatures, Geurts & Pouscoulous (2009a, "G&P") and Chemla (2009b, "C").
3. Free choice and presuppositional exhaustification (2024 · 7 citations)
   The paper tackles free choice (FC): why Olivia can take Logic or Algebra is understood as granting both options, even though classical modal logic only yields a disjunction of possibilities.

All works

5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. ABA and the combinatorics of morphological features ↗Glossa: a journal of general linguistics · no summary yetJonathan David Bobaljik, Uli Sauerland2018 · 68 citations
2. Presuppositional exhaustificationSemantics and PragmaticsItai Bassi, Guillermo Del Pinal, Uli Sauerland2021 · 27 citations
3. Embedded Implicatures and Experimental Constraints: A Reply to Geurts & Pouscoulous and ChemlaSemantics and PragmaticsUli Sauerland2010 · 17 citations
4. Free choice and presuppositional exhaustificationSemantics and PragmaticsGuillermo Del Pinal, Itai Bassi, Uli Sauerland2024 · 7 citations
5. The Plural is Unmarked: Evidence from Turkish, Hungarian and German ↗Glossa: a journal of general linguistics · no summary yetKazuko Yatsushiro et al.2023

🤝 Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Guillermo Del Pinal ×2
• Itai Bassi ×2

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Semantics and Pragmatics ×3: Semantics and Pragmatics 2024, Semantics and Pragmatics 2021, Semantics and Pragmatics 2010
• Glossa: a journal of general linguistics ×2

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 16 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 4 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 30 October 2026

↑ back to top

This page in Markdown → https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/uli-sauerland/