Empirical, Theoretical, and Experimental Investigations of Negation, Negative Polar Questions, and Negative Dependencies in German and Korean: Implications for Large Language Models

Local organization

Date

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Location

PEG – PEG 1.G 131

Local contact

Manfred Sailer: sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Funding

The workshop is part of the network “Empirical, Theoretical, and Experimental Investigations of Negation, Negative Polar Questions, and Negative Dependencies in German and Korean: Implications for Large Language Models”, funded by the Kora-Germany R&D Network Program.

Program

9.00-9.15 Welcome

9.15-10.00
Rok Sim (Kyung Hee Univ.), Okgi Kim (Gyeongkuk National Univ.), Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee Univ.): Scope Ambiguities with Negation in Korean: Human Judgments vs. LLM Capabilities

10.00-10.45
Yunseong Choi (Handong Global University), Charmgil Hong (Handong Global Univ.), Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee Univ.), Seulkee Park (Kyung Hee Univ.): Probing Monotonic Reasoning and Negation Processing in Korean Natural Language Inference

10.45-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.00
Yunju Nam (Hanyang Univ.), Sumin Cho (Hanyang Univ.), and Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee Univ.): A Multi-Methodological Approach to Korean NPQ Processing: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Neurophysiological Evidence

12.00-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.15
Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer (GU Frankfurt): “Anything but”-Negation in German: Data and documentation

14.15-15.00
Gert Webelhuth (GU Frankfurt): Inverse scope readings in German

15.00-15.30 Coffee

15.30-16.15
Manfred Sailer (GU Frankfurt), Verginica Barbu Mititelu (RACAI Bucharest), Mihaela Cristescu (Univ. of Bucharest),  Nicolas Lamoure (GU Frankfurt) and Pascal Hohmann (GU Frankfurt): Neg-Words in Non-negative Clauses in Romanian: Long-distance Negative Concord

16.15-17.15
Discussion and closing

18:30 Workshop dinner
 

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