contact

[email] joshi [at] leibniz [hyphen] zas [dot] de

[address] Leibniz Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Pariser Str. 1, 10719 Berlin

about #

[profile] I am a PhD student based at ZAS Berlin. My research is in semantics & pragmatics, i.e. I like thinking about meaning and how we coordinate on it, within and beyond what is explicitly uttered. I’m especially captivated by phenomena concerning degrees, not-at-issue meaning, and negation. I use mainly formal and experimental methods, and try to computate sometimes.

[projects] In my doctoral project, I am investigating metalinguistic negation under the supervision of Uli Sauerland here at ZAS and Michael Franke at the University of Tübingen. At ZAS, I am part of the LMBayes project which focuses on developing probabilistic models of meaning. I also enjoy puzzling over the “depth-charge” illusion, which was the topic of my MSc thesis and continues to be a source of delight.

[background] I completed my masters at the University of Potsdam, focusing mainly on semantics and psycholinguistics. While studying, I also worked as an RA both at ZAS (with Aron Hirsch, and later Andreea C. Nicolae) and at Potsdam (first in Gisbert Fanselow’s project on word order, and then in Malte Zimmermann’s group). Before coming to linguistics proper, I studied languages & literature as well as applied linguistics.

[hobbies] Outside of work, most of my thoughts are probably about cats. Check mine out here. I amuse myself with the usual homebody stuff: books (fiction!), puzzles, board games, and a ton of music. Recommendations are always welcome!

[name] I go by and write as Ari, which is my nickname.
My legal name, which I do not use outside of official documents, is Aarati Joshi, pronounced [​​a​​ɾt̪​​i​ ​d͡z​​o​​ɕ​i​​] (often germanised to [jo​​ʃ​i]). (And in some places you may find Aarti, which is closer to how it is pronounced than the legal spelling…)