Horst J. Simon

List of John Benjamins publications in which Horst J. Simon is involved.

Book series

Topics in Address Research

Edited by Horst J. Simon, Bettina Kluge, John Hajek, María Irene Moyna and Víctor Fernández-Mallat

ISSN 2405-9269

“You can say you to me”: Address in German

Edited by Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Horst J. Simon and Christa Dürscheid

The forms of address in German and their usage have been debated for centuries, and the discussion is ongoing both in academia and in the wider public. This collection is a showcase of the current and emerging research for an international audience. The scope of topics in this volume covers German… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 7] 2026. vi, 273 pp. + index | open access

It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research

Edited by Bettina Kluge and María Irene Moyna

The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives. The present edited collection is the inaugural volume of Topics in Address Research, a series that aims to reflect that growing interest. The volume… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 1] 2019. vi, 447 pp.

Germanic Genitives

Edited by Tanja Ackermann, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer

The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms – the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example, to examine… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 193] 2018. vi, 327 pp.

Pronouns – Grammar and Representation

Edited by Horst J. Simon and Heike Wiese

The contributions of this thematic collection center around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 52] 2002. xii, 294 pp.

Kretzenbacher, Heinz L., Horst J. Simon and Christa Dürscheid 2026 Chapter 1. Du, Sie, and beyond: German addressing practices “You can say you to me”: Address in German, Kretzenbacher, Heinz L., Horst J. Simon and Christa Dürscheid (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter

Moyna, María Irene, Bettina Kluge and Horst J. Simon 2019 Address and address research: Here’s looking at you, kid It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research, Kluge, Bettina and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter

Zimmer, Christian, Horst J. Simon and Tanja Ackermann 2018 Genitives in Germanic Germanic Genitives, Ackermann, Tanja, Horst J. Simon and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 3–12 | Chapter

Simon, Horst J. 2007 The Relevance of Variation: Remarks on Weiß’s Standard-Dialect-Problem What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 209–213 | Article

Simon, Horst J. 2005 Only you ? Philological investigations into the alleged inclusive-exclusive distinction in the second person plural Clusivity: Typology and case studies of the inclusive–exclusive distinction, Filimonova, Elena (ed.), pp. 113–150 | Chapter

Simon, Horst J. 2004 The Relevance of Variation: Remarks on Weiß’s Standard-Dialect-Problem What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 675–679 | Article

Simon, Horst J. 2003 5. From pragmatics to grammar: Tracing the development of respect in the history of the German pronouns of address Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems, Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 85–123 | Article

Wiese, Heike and Horst J. Simon 2002 Grammatical properties of pronouns and their representation: An exposition Pronouns – Grammar and Representation, Simon, Horst J. and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Article