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

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 Unpublished.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 Unpublished.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 Unpublished.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

2016

  • 15-16 December 2016: Two presentations at International Workshop on Non-Prototypical Clefts [archived 2021-03-02], KU Leuven, Belgium:
      (i) "An Experimental Study on Number-based Implicatures in German es-Clefts and Definite Pseudoclefts", Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, Swantje Tönnis, Malte Zimmermann, and Edgar Onea.
      (ii) "Exhaustivity in it-Clefts with Collective and Distributive Predicates: An Experimental Study", Agata Renans and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss.
  • 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

2012–2014

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