Malte Zimmermann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Malte Zimmermann plays a role.
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2020. (Non-)exhaustivity in focus partitioning across languages. Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference, Hegedűs, Veronika and Irene Vogel (eds.), pp. 207–230
We present novel experimental evidence on the availability and the status of exhaustivity inferences with focus partitioning in German, English, and Hungarian. Results suggest that German and English focus-background clefts and Hungarian focus share important properties, (É. Kiss 1998, 1999;… read more | Chapter
2013. Cleft partitionings in Japanese, Burmese and Chinese. Cleft Structures, Hartmann, Katharina and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 285–318
The article presents the first comparative overview and analysis of clefting and related focusing strategies involving clauses with nominalizers in three (South) East Asian languages: Japanese, Burmese, and Mandarin Chinese. The three languages exhibit parametric variation as to whether focusing… read more | Article
2008. Variation in the expression of universal quantification and free choice: The case of Hausa koo-wh expressions. Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2008, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 179–232
I argue that the interpretation of expressions consisting of disjunction marker and wh-element (wh-disj expressions), which varies across languages, constitutes a case of semantic variation. In Hausa, these expressions denote universal generalized quantifiers, which give rise to free choice effects… read more | Article
2007. In place — out of place? Focus strategies in Hausa. On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across languages, Schwabe, Kerstin and Susanne Winkler (eds.), pp. 365–403
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2002. ‘Binominal each-constructions’ (BECs) in German and English. Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000), Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 343–371
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1999. Case-Assignment and the Syntactic Distribution of the Adnominal Quantifier paljon in Finnish. Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999, Bezooijen, Renée van and René Kager (eds.), pp. 217–231
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