Johannes Gerwien

List of John Benjamins publications for which Johannes Gerwien plays a role.

Articles

Lambert, Monique, Christiane von Stutterheim, Mary Carroll and Johannes Gerwien 2022 Under the surface: A survey of principles of language use in advanced L2 speakersLanguage, Interaction and Acquisition 13:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
Through a survey of crosslinguistic empirical studies on narratives and in the domain of motion events, we argue that the principles of language use pose a hurdle for second language acquisition, an issue that has not been given adequate attention in earlier research. These principles are part… read more
Gerwien, Johannes and Martha Rudka 2019 Chapter 8. Expectation changes over time: How long it takes to process focus imposed by German sogarEmpirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse, Loureda, Óscar, Inés Recio Fernández, Laura Nadal and Adriana Cruz (eds.), pp. 229–252 | Chapter
Focus-sensitive particles (FP) are assumed to guide comprehenders’ attention by focalizing constituents and contrasting them to a set of alternatives (Blakemore 2002). However, here we show that the effect the German FP sogar asserts is not uniform across different sentences. We then present… read more