Werner Abraham

is author/editor of the following titles:

Thetics and Categoricals

Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 262] 2020. vii, 390 pp.

Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar

Edited by Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 149] 2014. vi, 511 pp.

Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.

Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions

Edited by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

[Typological Studies in Language, 79] 2008. xxiv, 422 pp.

Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence

Edited by Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 89] 2007. viii, 370 pp.

Datives and Other Cases: Between argument structure and event structure

Edited by Daniel Hole, André Meinunger and Werner Abraham

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 75] 2006. viii, 385 pp.

Passivization and Typology: Form and function

Edited by Werner Abraham and Larisa Leisiö

[Typological Studies in Language, 68] 2006. x, 553 pp.

The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse

Edited by Alice G.B. ter Meulen and Werner Abraham

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 255] 2004. vi, 232 pp.

Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology

Edited by Werner Abraham and C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 45] 2002. xviii, 336 pp.

Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)

Edited by C. Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] 2002. xiv, 407 pp.

Präteritumschwund und Diskursgrammatik: Präteritumschwund in gesamteuropäischen Bezügen: areale Ausbreitung, heterogene Entstehung, Parsing sowie diskursgrammatische Grundlagen und Zusammenhänge

Werner Abraham und C. Jac Conradie

[Not in series, 103] 2001. xiv, 148 pp.

Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity: Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov

Edited by Werner Abraham and Leonid Kulikov

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 50] 1999. xxxiv, 359 pp.

Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework

Edited by Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 12] 1996. xii, 364 pp.

Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar

Edited by Werner Abraham, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 27] 1995. xx, 352 pp.

Discourse Particles: Descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German

Edited by Werner Abraham

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 12] 1991. viii, 338 pp.

Topic, Focus and Configurationality: Papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984

Edited by Werner Abraham and Sjaak de Meij

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 4] 1986. v, 349 pp.

On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania: Papers from the 3rd Groningen Grammar Talks (3e Groninger Grammatikgespräche), Groningen, January 1981

Edited by Werner Abraham

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 3] 1983. vi, 242 pp.

Studien zur Modernen Deutschen Lexikographie: Auswahl aus den Lexikographischen Arbeiten. Erweitert um drei Beiträge von Helene Malige-Klappenbach

Ruth Klappenbach (1911–1977)

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 1] 1980. xxiii, 313 pp.

Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relations: Workshop studies prepared for the 12th International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, August 29th to September 3rd, 1977

Edited by Werner Abraham

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 1] 1978. xiv, 729 pp.

Ut videam: Contributions to an understanding of linguistics. For Pieter Verburg on the occasion of his 70th birthday

Edited by Werner Abraham

[Not in series - Grüner, 123] 1975. 300 pp. + 1 photo.

is editor/board member of the following book series:

Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS)

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA)

is editor/board member of the following journal:

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory (ELT)

is author of the following articles:

Abraham, Werner. 2020. “Chapter 8. Discourse particles in thetic judgments, in dependent sentences, and in non-finite phrases”. In Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles, 195–222

Abraham, Werner. 2020. “From philosophical logic to linguistics”. In Thetics and Categoricals, 225–282

Abraham, Werner. 2020. “Introduction ”. In Thetics and Categoricals, 1–10

Abraham, Werner. 2019. “What are the guiding principles in the evolution of language: Paradigmatics or syntagmatics?”. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 1:2, 109–142

Abraham, Werner. 2020. “Chapter 1. Mood alternations in the history of German”. In Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais, 33–66

Abraham, Werner. 2017. “Chapter 6. Modal particles and Verum focus”. In Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives, 171–202

Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss. 2017. “Multiple case binding – The principled underspecification of case exponency”. In Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, 27–82

Abraham, Werner. 2014. “Certainty”. In Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, 29–45

Abraham, Werner. 2014. “The Upper German differential”. In Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax, 305–336

Abraham, Werner and Jadwiga Piskorz. 2014. “A rare case of covert modality”. In Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, 409–456

Leiss, Elisabeth and Werner Abraham. 2014. “Introduction”. In Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, 1–16

Abraham, Werner. 2013. “The developmental logic of the analytic past in German and Polish”. In In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque, 175–194

Abraham, Werner. 2011. “Spoken syntax in Cimbrian of the linguistic islands in Northern Italy- and what they (do not) betray about language universals and change under areal contact with Italo-Romance”. In Studies on German-Language Islands, 233–278

Abraham, Werner. 2011. “Preface”. In Theory of Language: The representational function of language, xiii–xlvii

Abraham, Werner. 2011. “Verbs of motion”. In Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, 91–126

Abraham, Werner. 2010. “Types of transitivity, intransitive objects, and untransitivity – and the logic of their structural designs”. In Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, 15–68

Abraham, Werner. 2010. “Unaccusative verbs in Chinese”. In Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, 1–12

Abraham, Werner. 2008. “On the logic of generalizations about cross-linguistic aspect-modality links”. In Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, 3–13

Abraham, Werner. 2008. “Review of Davis (2006): Comparative syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic ”. Studies in Language 32:4, 997–999

Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss. 2008. “Introduction: Aspect-modality interfaces and interchanges across languages”. In Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, xi–xxiv

Abraham, Werner. 2007. “Discourse binding: DP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and English”. In Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, 21–47

Abraham, Werner. 2007. “The discourse-functional crystallization of DP from the original demonstrative”. In Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, 241–256

Abraham, Werner. 2007. “Kristin Melum Eide. 2005. Norwegian modals [Studies in Generative Grammar 74]”. Studies in Language 31:4, 911–914

Abraham, Werner. 2007. “Topic, focus and default vs. contrastive accent”. In On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across languages, 183–203

Abraham, Werner, Elisabeth Stark and Elisabeth Leiss. 2007. “ Introduction ”. In Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, 1–20

Abraham, Werner. 2006. “Bare and prepositional differential case marking”. In Case, Valency and Transitivity, 115–145

Abraham, Werner. 2006. “Introduction: Passivization and typology”. In Passivization and Typology: Form and function, 1–27

Abraham, Werner. 2006. “The compositional nature of the passive”. In Passivization and Typology: Form and function, 462–501

Abraham, Werner. 2006. “Datives”. In Datives and Other Cases: Between argument structure and event structure, 3–46

Abraham, Werner. 2006. “Dialect and typology”. In Types of Variation: Diachronic, dialectal and typological interfaces, 243–267

Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss. 2006. “The impersonal passive”. In Passivization and Typology: Form and function, 502–517

Abraham, Werner. 2005. “

Dimova, Ana & Herbert-Ernst Wiegand (eds.) 2003. Wort und Grammatik. Festschrift für Pavel Petkov anläßlich seiner Emeritierung

”. Studies in Language 29:2, 549

Abraham, Werner. 2005. “

Clausia Maienborn (ed.) 2003. (A)Symmetrien – (A)Symmetries. Beiträge zu Ehren von Ewald Lang – Papers in Honor of Ewald Lang

”. Studies in Language 29:2, 549–551

Abraham, Werner. 2004. “VP-internal subjects as ‘unaccusatives’”. In The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse, 83

Meulen, Alice G.B. ter and Werner Abraham. 2004. “The composition of meaning”. In The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse, 1

Abraham, Werner. 2003. “The myth of doubly governing prepositions in German”. In Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier, 19–38

Abraham, Werner. 2001. “12. SVOV in German and Dutch”. In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, 155–167

Abraham, Werner. 2002. “Introduction”. In Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology, ix

Abraham, Werner. 2002. “Book notice: “The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics” by R. L. Trask”. Studies in Language 26:3, 736–737

Abraham, Werner. 2002. “Modal verbs”. In Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System, 19–50

Abraham, Werner and László Molnárfi. 2002. “German clause structure under discourse functional weight”. In Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology, 1–43

Abraham, Werner. 2001. “How far does semantic bleaching go”. In Grammatical Relations in Change, 15–63

Abraham, Werner. 2000. “The Aspect-case Typology Correlation”. In Arguments and Case: Explaining Burzio’s Generalization, 131–193

Abraham, Werner. 2000. “The structural and lexical space between reflexive binding and logophorics”. In Reflexives: Forms and functions, 75

Abraham, Werner. 1999. “Discussant Paper Referring to the Syntax Position Papers by Howard Lasnik and Mickey Noonan”. In Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers, 55

Abraham, Werner. 1999. “Marga Petter. Getting PRO under control A syntactic analysis of the nature and distirbution of unexpressed subjects in non-finite and verbless clauses ”. Studies in Language 23:2, 465–466

Abraham, Werner. 1999. “How descending is ascending German? On the deep interrelations between tense, aspect, pronominality, and ergativity”. In Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity: Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov, 253

Abraham, Werner. 1998. “Klaus Eggensperger Modale Nebenverben im Jiddischen. Eine korpusgestützte Untersuchung zu woln und soln ”. Studies in Language 22:3, 741–742

Abraham, Werner. 1998. “Anatole V. Lyovin, An introduction to the languages of the world ”. Studies in Language 22:3, 742–743

Abraham, Werner. 1998. “Dodd, B.; Eckhard-Black, Chr.; Klapper, J.; Whittle, R. 1997. Modern German grammar ”. Studies in Language 22:2, 521–522

Abraham, Werner. 1998. “R.L. Trask. Historical Linguistics ”. Studies in Language 22:2, 522–523

Abraham, Werner. 1997. “Per Baerentzen (ed.). Aspekte der Sprachbeschreibung. Akten des 29. Linguistichen Kolloquiums, Aarhus 1994 ”. Studies in Language 21:3, 714–715

Abraham, Werner. 1997. “Review of König & Van der Auwera (1994): The Germanic Languages ”. Studies in Language 21:2, 428–433

Abraham, Werner. 1997. “Dixon, R.M.W. Ergativity ”. Studies in Language 21:1, 237–240

Abraham, Werner. 1997. “ Dictionary of European Proverbs. Collected by Emanuel Strauss”. Studies in Language 21:1, 243–244

Abraham, Werner. 1996. “German standard pronouns and non-standard pronominal clitics Typological corollaries”. In Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and diachronic, 1

Abraham, Werner. 1996. “"Ersatzinfinitiv" und Verbanhebung in der Westgermania”. In NOWELE Volume 28/29 (August 1996): A Frisian and Germanic Miscellany, 273–295

Abraham, Werner. 1996. “The Discourse-referential and Typological Motivation of Pronominal Procliticization vs. Encliticization”. In Studies in Anaphora, 1

Abraham, Werner. 1995. “Wolfgang Reumuth and Otto Winkelmann: Praktische Grammatik der französischen Sprache; Maria Grazia Chiaro and Wolfgang Reumuth Unterrichlssprache Deutsch - Italienisch ”. Studies in Language 19:2, 597–598

Abraham, Werner. 1995. “Structural Properties of Information Packaging in German and in Universal Grammar”. In Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série, 125

Abraham, Werner. 1995. “Diathesis”. In Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar, 3

Abraham, Werner. 1993. “Hermann Paul. Deutsches Wörterbuch ”. Studies in Language 17:2, 513

Abraham, Werner. 1992. “Olaf Thynen and Michael Clark (eds). The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionay ”. Studies in Language 16:1, 260–261

Abraham, Werner. 1992. “Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German”. In Explanation in Historical Linguistics, 1

Abraham, Werner. 1991. “Discourse particles in German”. In Discourse Particles: Descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German, 203

Abraham, Werner. 1991. “How Much of the German Tense System is "Aspect" and "Aktionsart"?”. In Perspectives on Aspect and Aktionsart, 133–150

Abraham, Werner. 1991. “The grammaticization of the German modal particles”. In Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, 331

Abraham, Werner. 1990. “Review of Weydt (1989): Sprechen mit Partikeln ”. Studies in Language 14:1, 225–234

Abraham, Werner. 1989. “Verbal Substantives in German”. In Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences, 79–98

Abraham, Werner. 1989. “Language Universals”. In Universals of Language, 9–25

Abraham, Werner. 1986. “Word Order in the Middle Field of the German Sentence”. In Topic, Focus and Configurationality: Papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984, 15

Abraham, Werner, Laci Marácz, Sjaak de Mey and Wim Scherpenisse. 1986. “Introduction”. In Topic, Focus and Configurationality: Papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984, 1

Abraham, Werner. 1983. “The Control Relation in German”. In On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania: Papers from the 3rd Groningen Grammar Talks (3e Groninger Grammatikgespräche), Groningen, January 1981, 217

Abraham, Werner. 1980. “The Synchronic and Diachronic Semantics of German Temporal noch and schon, With Aspects of English still, yet, and already ”. Studies in Language 4:1, 3–24

Abraham, Werner. 1979. “Methodische Übungen zu Kafka-Interpretationen”. In Integrale Linguistik: Festschrift für Helmut Gipper, 379–404

Abraham, Werner. 1978. “Valence and case”. In Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relations: Workshop studies prepared for the 12th International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, August 29th to September 3rd, 1977, 695