Dr. Stephanie Solt is a senior resarcher in the Research Area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics'. She is also Principal Investigator of the DFG project A05 Modeling meaning-driven register variation within the framework of the CRC 1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation.

Dr. Solt’s research interests center around the semantics and pragmatics of quantity and degree expressions, including in particular scale structure, degree modification, and the expression of vagueness and approximation, as well as experimental semantics.  Her current project investigates a little-studied class of polarity items which are characterized by their understating or attenuating effect.