Markus Bader
List of John Benjamins publications for which Markus Bader plays a role.
2023 Chapter 2. How free is the position of German object pronouns? Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches, Kopf, Kristin and Thilo Weber (eds.), pp. 22–47 | Chapter
Corpus studies show that weak object pronouns in German directly precede or follow the subject, depending on properties of the subject, including weight, animacy and thematic role. Whether the same factors also affect the acceptability of sentences with object pronouns was investigated in three… read more
2013 How much bekommen is there in the German bekommen passive? Non-Canonical Passives, Alexiadou, Artemis and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 115–140 | Article
We present an experiment and a corpus study jointly examining possible semantic constraints on the formation of the bekommen passive in German. In particular, we address the question of whether the recipient role that the lexical verb bekommen (‘get’) assigns to its external argument still… read more
2013 Constraints on intra- and extraposition Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective, Webelhuth, Gert, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker (eds.), pp. 63–98 | Article
Complement clauses in German are subject to two conflicting requirements. First, the grammar requires complements to precede the clause-final verb. Second, considerations of parsing complexity require clausal complements to move rightward to a position following the clause-final verb, thereby… read more
2005 Clause Union and Clausal Position The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories, Dikken, Marcel den and Christina Tortora (eds.), pp. 79–113 | Article