Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss

Teaching

From 2002 to 2017 I taught theoretical linguistics, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and academic writing in various capacities:

2017 (SoSe), Universität Potsdam, Einführung in die Semantik undergraduate course.
2012-2013 (WiSe), Universität Potsdam, Einführung in die Syntax undergraduate course.
2011 (SoSe), Universität Potsdam, Tutorium: Einführung in die Semantik.
2009-2010, Berlitz Language Schools, EFL teacher at summer camps for children.
2006-2008, Via Lingua Teacher Training Center, Program Director and EFL teaching-skills instructor.
2005-2008, American Language Center, EFL teacher for adults (all levels).
2004-2005, UNC-Asheville, Classics tutorial (Latin & Ancient Greek) for undergraduate students.
2002-2005, UNC-Asheville, Writing tutor for undergraduate students.

For courses taught on digitization and society, please see here.

Publications

De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. (2021). "nà-Cleft (non-)exhaustivity: Variability in Akan". Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1). 1–41. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5698 [archived 2022-03-15].
De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. (2020). "Cleft exhaustivity: A unified approach to inter-speaker and cross-linguistic variability". Dr. phil. Dissertation. Universität Potsdam, 1–243. https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-44642 [archived 2021-03-02].
Zimmermann, Malte, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, Swantje Tönnis, Edgar Onea (2020). "(Non-)Exhaustivity in Focus Partitioning: A cross-linguistic investigation on exhaustivity". In Veronika Hegedűs and Irene Vogel (eds.), Approaches to Hungarian. Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference, 208–230. https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.16.10zim [archived 2021-03-02].
Renans, Agata & Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss (2019). "Experimental Studies on it-Clefts and Predicate Interpretation". Semantics and Pragmatics 12. Early Access. https://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.12.11 [archived 2021-03-02]. Authors listed in reverse alphabetical order.
Destruel, Emilie & Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss (2019). "(Non-)Exhaustivity in French c’est-Clefts". In Christopher Pinon (ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 12 (EISS 12). Paris: CSSP, 91–120. http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/eiss12/ [archived 2021-03-02]. SHA-224 = a21a694cc1a404d914c4ba711fd2742c54a6b88a6314ef34d62aeaf2. Authors listed in alphabetical order.
Destruel, Emilie & Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss (2018). "On the interpretation and processing of exhaustivity: Evidence of variation in English and French clefts". Journal of Pragmatics 138. 1–16. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.09.009 [archived 2021-03-02]. Second author was published under the name: DeVeaugh-Geiss.
De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P., Swantje Tönnis, Edgar Onea & Malte Zimmermann (2018). "That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in clefts". Semantics and Pragmatics 11. Early Access. https://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.11.3 [archived 2021-03-02].
De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P., Swantje Tönnis, Edgar Onea, and Malte Zimmermann (2018). "An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in es-clefts". In Robert Truswell, Chris Cummins, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern, and Hannah Rohde (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21, 347–365. https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/DRjNjViN/DeVeaughGeissToennisOneaZimmermann.pdf [archived 2021-03-02]
Agata Renans, Nadine Bade & Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss (2017). "Universals In Pragmatics: Maximize Presupposition And Obligatory Implicatures". In Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (Ed.), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI - Volume 2, 147–161. https://glowlinguistics.org/asia11/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/11/v2-renans-etal.pdf [archived 2022-06-18]
De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P., Malte Zimmermann, Edgar Onea, and Anna-Christina Boell (2015). "Contradicting (Not-)At-Issueness in Exclusives and Clefts: An Empirical Study". Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 25, 373–393. https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/25.373 [archived 2021-03-02]. First author was published under the name: DeVeaugh-Geiss.

Theses

De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. (2014). "Wohl And The Semantics Of Assumptions". MSc Thesis. Universität Potsdam. Unpublished.
De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. (2011). "The Syntax And Semantics Of The Italian Focus Particles Solo And Soltanto". BSc Thesis. Universität Potsdam. Unpublished.
De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. (2005). "The Pragmatics of Constituent Order: Cicero and First Position". BA Thesis. University of North Carolina at Asheville. Unpublished.

Conferences & Workshops

If you would be interested in any of the following presentations, posters, handouts, etc. (with the LaTeX source code upon request), please contact me.

2018

12 October 2018: Presentation at Workshop: Reflections on Methodology: Empiricism and Fiction; Title: "Fictional Contexts for Shifting (i) Perspectives and (ii) Evaluation Worlds: Two Case Studies", Universität Tübingen. Mareike Philipp and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss.
15-17 February 2018: Poster at Linguistic Evidence [archived 2018-02-05]; Title: "Quantitative Data In The Field: Two Case Studies on Akan", Carla Bombi and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss.

2017

23-25 November 2017: Presentation at Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP) 2017 [archived 2018-02-05]; Title: "(Non-)Exhaustivity in French c'est-Clefts", Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss and Emilie Destruel.
29-30 June 2017: Presentation at 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian ICSH [archived 2017-08-11], Budapest; Title: "On the (non-) exhaustivity of focus partitioning: A cross-linguistic investigation of exhaustivity in Hungarian focus and clefts", Malte Zimmermann (invited speaker), Joseph De Veaugh-Geiss, Swantje Tönnis, and Edgar Onea.
8-10 March 2017: Presentation at Workshop: Secondary Information & Linguistic Encoding [archived 2017-01-23] as part of the 39th Annual Meeting of the DGfS [archived 2017-03-12] (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft); Title: "Presupposition triggers in a cross-linguistic perspective: Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures in Ga (Kwa)", Nadine Bade, Agata Renans, and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss.
3-5 March 2017: Two presentations at Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions Workshop [archived 2016-12-16], Genoa, Italy:
20-22 February 2017: Presentation at GLOW in Asia 2017 [archived], National University of Singapore; Title: "Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatics: Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures in Ga (Kwa)", Nadine Bade, Agata Renans, and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss.
25-27 January 2017: Presentation at Cross-linguistic Pragmatics Workshop [archived 2017-01-23], Berlin, Germany; Title: "Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatics: Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures in Ga (Kwa)", Nadine Bade, Agata Renans, and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss.

2016

15-16 December 2016: Two presentations at International Workshop on Non-Prototypical Clefts [archived 2021-03-02], KU Leuven, Belgium:
4-6 September 2016: Sinn und Bedeutung 2016 [archived 2020-10-20], University of Edinburgh, Scotland, as part of the ExCl [archived 2020-11-27] research group in XPrag.de; Title: "That's Not Quite It: An Experimental Investigation Of (Non-)Exhaustivity In it-Clefts" (with Swantje Tönnis presenting).

2015

2-5 September 2015: Experimental Pragmatics workshop at the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) [archived 2015-10-09] conference in Leiden, Holland, as part of the ExCl [archived 2020-11-27] research group in XPrag.de.
3-7 August 2015: Experimental Approaches to Semantics [archived 2015-03-01] at ESSLLI 2015 [archived 2015-04-20] in Barcelona, Spain, as part of the ExCl [archived 2020-11-27] research group in XPrag.de.
16-18 July 2015: Poster (presented by Edgar Onea) at Experimental Pragmatics 2015 [archived 2016-03-04], University of Chicago, as part of the ExCl [archived 2020-11-27] research group in XPrag.de.
15-17 May 2015: Poster (presented together with Malte Zimmermann) at SALT 25 [archived 2018-06-14], Stanford University, as part of the ExCl [archived 2020-11-27] research group in XPrag.de. Title: "Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: An empirical study."

2012–2014

18-20 Sept. 2014: Questions in Discourse [archived 2016-09-14], Universität Göttingen, as part of the ExCl [archived 2020-11-27] research group in XPrag.de (presentation together with Anna-Christina Boell).

4-7 January 2012: ConSOLE XX [archived 2021-03-02], Leipzig, Germany; Title: "Syntax And Semantics Of The Italian Focus Particles Solo and Soltanto."