University of Göttingen

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Göttingen*

Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface

EditorMarco Coniglio, Kalle Müller & Markus Steinbach

Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 292] 2026. | edited volume

Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and supersentential phenomena

Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio & Chiara De Bastiani

Subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] 2022. | edited volume

Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities

Edited by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson & Markus Egg

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

[Figurative Thought and Language, 5] 2020. | edited volume

Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy: Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 6:1 (2016)

Edited by Paul Sopčák, Massimo Salgaro & J. Berenike Herrmann

Subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Scientific Study of Literature, 6:1] 2016. | special issue

Nonmanuals in Sign Language

Edited by Annika Herrmann & Markus Steinbach

Subjects Gesture Studies | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Benjamins Current Topics, 53] 2013. v, 197 pp. | edited volume

Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages

Edited by Sascha Gaglia & Marc-Olivier Hinzelin

Subjects Morphology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 186] 2012. vii, 400 pp. | edited volume

Nonmanuals in Sign Language: Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 14:1 (2011)

Edited by Annika Herrmann & Markus Steinbach

Subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Sign Language & Linguistics, 14:1] 2011. | special issue

Pontbriand, Prudence de 2026 Non-coordinated null objects in Medieval French: A diachronic study

Keywords: null arguments | null objects | clitic omission | syntax | medieval French

In: Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology, Herbeck, Peter & Natascha Pomino (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] pp. 251–282

Alexeyenko, Sascha 2026 On the arguments for analyzing adverbs as PPs

Keywords: adverbs | lexical categories | affixes | roots | PPs

In: Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface, Coniglio, Marco, Kalle Müller & Markus Steinbach (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 292] pp. 260–277

González Villar, Alejandro & Mailyn Lübke 2026 “Qué lengua más avasalladora, oiga…”: El caso de oiga y sus correspondencias alemanas

Keywords: oiga | discourse marker | pragmatics | contrastive study Spanish-German | fictive orality

Revue Romane 61:2 pp. 196–227 | article | open access

Romero Muñoz, Eloy & Andreas Wirag 2025 Exploring the integration of Cognitive Linguistics in EFL classrooms: A case study in Belgium

Keywords: Cognitive Linguistics | foreign language teaching | pedagogical change | research-pedagogy interface

Pedagogical Linguistics | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article

Klimenkowa, Alla 2025 Naming creole varieties on the Cape Verde Islands and in Upper Guinea from the perspective of language ideologies

Keywords: creole languages | crioulo | linguistic ideologies | the Cape Verde Islands | Upper Guinea | Luso-Africans

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1 p. 81 | article

Blümel, Andreas 2025 Revisiting diachronic change in the nominal domain from Latin to modern Romance

Keywords: Left Branch Extraction | Left Branch Condition | determiners | articles | noun phrase | labeling | weak vs. strong

Linguistic Variation | Online First Publication, 32 pp. | article | open access

Goncharov, Julie 2025 Subject obviation and self-locating knowledge

Keywords: subject obviation | subjunctive | reference | non-triviality | pragmatics

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:1 p. 8 | article | open access

Coniglio, Marco 2025 The middle-field restriction of Germanic modal particles: A historical-comparative solution to Abraham’s paradox

Keywords: Germanic modal particles | middle-field | Abraham’s paradox | syntax | grammaticalization

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 7:1/2 pp. 191–207 | article | open access

Kulshreshtha, Neha 2025 Interrogatives in Indian Sign Language

Sign Language & Linguistics 28:2 pp. 309–321 | abstract

Ladewig, Silva H. & Dorothea Horst 2024 Media as processes of doing and perceiving: How a yoga pose in an online tutorial takes on meaning as felt sensation

Keywords: mediality | semiosis | meaning-making | multimodal metaphor | audiovisuals | embodied experience

In: Media as Procedures of Communication, Luginbühl, Martin & Jan Georg Schneider (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 348] pp. 158–187

Vollbrecht, Melanie 2024 Early modern manuscripts containing Old English dictionaries in England and northern Germany: From John Joscelyn to Dietrich von Stade

Keywords: Early Modern Europe | antiquarianism | Beginning of Old English Studies | Old English-Latin dictionaries | John Joscelyn / John Parker | Friedrich Lindenbrog | Abraham Hinckelmann | Johann Georg von Eckhart | Dietrich von Stade | peritextual markings

In: Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL, Porck, Thijs, Moragh S. Gordon & Luisella Caon (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 363] pp. 166–190

Wang, Nanfei & Yin Yu 2024 Family language policy and the design of homescape in transnational families: Initiating children’s Chinese literacy development

Keywords: Family language policy | homescape | home literacy environment | Chinese transnational families

Linguistic Landscape 11:1 pp. 47–75 | article

Kellert, Olga 2024 Geographic variation of voseo and tuteo on X (Twitter) with a consideration of mixing cases (vos puedes)

Keywords: voseo | tuteo | geographic distribution | mixing agreement | cities | methodological discussion

Revue Romane 59:2 pp. 321–335 | article

Antomo, Mailin, Nathalie Staratschek & Sonja Taigel 2026 Pragmatic writing in contemporary German: Toward a typology of context-sensitive written devices

Keywords: written language | pragmatics | punctuation | emojis | expressive meaning | politeness | text structuring

Written Language & Literacy 27:2 pp. 178–217 | article | open access

Wienholz, Anne, Derya Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan, Nivedita Mani, Annika Herrmann, Edgar Onea & Markus Steinbach 2023 Neurophysiological evidence for the first mention effect during pronominal reference resolution in German Sign Language

Keywords: German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebaerdensprache: DGS) | event-related potentials | referential processing | first mention effect | N400

Sign Language & Linguistics 26:1 pp. 117–138 | brief report

Yu, Yidong 2023 Optionality, variation and categorial properties: The case of plural marking in Yucatec Maya

Keywords: semantics | number | plural marking | optionality | Mayan languages | Yucatec | pseudopartitive operator

In: Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches, Kopf, Kristin & Thilo Weber (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 234] pp. 284–314 | open access

Hendriks, Lieke 2023 Finding a geographical basis for split noun phrases in the Netherlands and Belgium

Keywords: Split NPs | syntax | microvariation | Dutch dialects

Linguistics in the Netherlands 40 pp. 69–87 | article | open access

Paul, Katharina, Maik Thalmann, Markus Steinbach & Marco Coniglio 2022  Gehen as a new auxiliary in German

In: Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and supersentential phenomena, Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio & Chiara De Bastiani (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] pp. 165–188

Coniglio, Marco 2022 On the adverbial origin of German modal particles

Keywords: adverbial | grammaticalization | modal particle | sentence adverb

In: Discourse Particles: Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects, Artiagoitia, Xabier, Arantzazu Elordieta & Sergio Monforte (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 276] pp. 13–40

Wirag, Andreas, Yunong Li & Bin Zhang 2022 Applying cognitive linguistics to foreign language teaching and learning: Addressing current research challenges

Keywords: cognitive linguistics | applied cognitive linguistics | empirical research | communicative language teaching | present-practice-produce

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:2 pp. 185–201 | article

Stifter, David, Fangzhe Qiu, Marco A. Aquino-López, Bernhard Bauer, Elliott Lash & Nora White 2022 Strategies in tracing linguistic variation in a corpus of Old Irish texts (CorPH)

Keywords: Old Irish | diachronic variation | Chronologicon Hibernicum | Bayesian statistics | variation tagging

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 pp. 529–553 | article | open access

Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio & Chiara De Bastiani 2022 Interface phenomena and language change: Where we are and where we are going

In: Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and supersentential phenomena, Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio & Chiara De Bastiani (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] pp. 1–32

Mensching, Guido & Franziska Werner 2021 On another apparent violation of the subject-island constraint in French

Keywords: French | long distance dependencies | wh-extraction | subject-island constraint | subject condition | generative grammar | minimalist program

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru & Adina Dragomirescu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] pp. 277–296

Düwel, Klaus 2020 Inschriften auf Goldbrakteaten und Goldsolidi

NOWELE 73:1 pp. 44–68 | article

Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla & Markus Egg 2020 Drawing Attention to Metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities

In: Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla & Markus Egg (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 5]

Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla & Markus Egg 2020 Drawing attention to metaphor: An introduction to the debate

In: Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla & Markus Egg (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 5] pp. 1–14

Wienholz, Anne, Derya Nuhbalaoglu, Markus Steinbach, Annika Herrmann & Nivedita Mani 2020 Phonological priming in German Sign Language: An eye tracking study using the Visual World Paradigm

Keywords: German Sign Language | eye tracking | Visual World Paradigm | sentence processing | phonological priming

Sign Language & Linguistics 24:1 p. 4 | article

Hübl, Annika, Emar Maier & Markus Steinbach 2020 To shift or not to shift: Indexical attraction in role shift in German Sign Language

Keywords: role shift | quotation | indexicals | attraction | demonstration | shift together

Sign Language & Linguistics 22:2 pp. 171–209 | article

Schramm, Michael 2020 Freundschaft und Liebe bei Platon und Plotin

Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 22:1 pp. 51–74 | article

Wolf, Göran 2019 Studying dialect spelling in its own right: Suggestions from a case study

Keywords: dialect graphy | spelling conventions | written and spoken dialect | dialect (il)literacy | Ulster Scots

In: Norms and conventions in the history of English, Bös, Birte & Claudia Claridge (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 347] pp. 191–212

Pendzich, Nina-Kristin 2018 Lexical nonmanuals in German Sign Language (DGS): An empirical and theoretical investigation

Sign Language & Linguistics 21:1 pp. 163–171 | abstract

Loos, Cornelia 2018 The syntax and semantics of resultative constructions in Deutsche Gebärdensprache (DGS) and American Sign Language (ASL)

Sign Language & Linguistics 20:2 pp. 296–303 | abstract

Bobb, Susan C., Laila Y.D. Nauck, Nicole Altvater-Mackensen, Katie Von Holzen & Nivedita Mani 2016 Chapter 2. Listening with your cohort: Do bilingual toddlers co-activate cohorts from both languages when hearing words in one language alone?

In: Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism, Schwieter, John W. (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 2] pp. 47–70

Mensching, Guido 2016 Yes/no interrogatives and focus in Sardinian

Keywords: clause typing | FocP | focus | interrogative particles | IntP | optionality | Sardinian | special questions | yes/no questions

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon, Carrilho, Ernestina, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo & Sandra Pereira (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 10] pp. 139–170

Sopčák, Paul, Massimo Salgaro & J. Berenike Herrmann 2016 Transdisciplinary approaches to literature and empathy: A special issue

Scientific Study of Literature 6:1 pp. 2–5 | article

Steinbach, Markus 2017 Mouthing and demonstrating in bimodal contexts

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:6 pp. 828–833 | article commentary

Pfau, Roland & Markus Steinbach 2015 PERSON climbing up a tree: (and other adventures in sign language grammaticalization)

In: Signs and Structures: Formal Approaches to Sign Language Syntax, Rutkowski, Paweł (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 71] p. 71

Struckmeier, Volker & Joost Kremers 2014 On the properties of attributive phrases in Germanic (and beyond)

In: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance, Sleeman, Petra, Freek Van de Velde & Harry Perridon (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 212] pp. 149–170

Zeijlstra, Hedde 2014 On the uninterpretability of interpretable features

In: Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces, Kosta, Peter, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork & Lilia Schürcks (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 11] pp. 109–128

Lauer, Gerhard 2013 Review of Author representations in literary reading by E. Claassen (2012)

Scientific Study of Literature 3:1 pp. 154–157 | book review

Hosemann, Jana 2013 Eye gaze and verb agreement in German Sign Language: A first glance

In: Nonmanuals in Sign Language, Herrmann, Annika & Markus Steinbach (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 53] pp. 73–90

Herrmann, Annika & Markus Steinbach 2013 Nonmanuals in sign languages

In: Nonmanuals in Sign Language, Herrmann, Annika & Markus Steinbach (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 53] pp. 1–6

Pfau, Roland & Markus Steinbach 2013 person climbing up a tree: (and other adventures in sign language grammaticalization)

Keywords: grammaticalization | Generative Grammar | causative | agreement | agreement auxiliary

Sign Language & Linguistics 16:2 pp. 189–220 | article

Herrmann, Annika & Markus Steinbach 2012 Quotation in sign languages: A visible context shift

In: Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives, Buchstaller, Isabelle & Ingrid van Alphen (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 15] pp. 203–228

Eckardt, Regine 2012 The many careers of negative polarity items

In: Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections, Davidse, Kristin, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems, Tanja Mortelmans, Bert Cornillie, Hubert Cuyckens & Torsten Leuschner (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 130] pp. 299–326

Klauk, Tobias, Tilmann Köppe & Edgar Onea 2013 Internally focalized narration from a linguistic point of view

Keywords: narrative perspective | focalization | fiction | shifted indexicals | indexicals

Scientific Study of Literature 2:2 pp. 218–242 | article

Hosemann, Jana 2011 Eye gaze and verb agreement in German Sign Language: A first glance

Keywords: eye-tracking | scope of eye gaze | verb agreement | German Sign Language (DGS) | eye gaze

Sign Language & Linguistics 14:1 pp. 76–93 | article

Herrmann, Annika & Markus Steinbach 2011 Nonmanuals in sign languages

Sign Language & Linguistics 14:1 pp. 3–8 | article

Axel-Tober, Katrin & Helmut Weiß 2010 What changed where?: A plea for the re-evaluation of dialectal evidence

In: Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts & David Willis (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159] pp. 13–34

Herrmann, Annika 2010 The interaction of eye blinks and other prosodic cues in German Sign Language

Keywords: prosody | nonmanual features | intonation | German Sign Language (DGS) | eye blinks

Sign Language & Linguistics 13:1 pp. 3–39 | article

Holler, Anke 2008 12. A discourse-relational approach to continuation

In: Constraints in Discourse, Benz, Anton & Peter Kühnlein (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 172] pp. 249–265

Sailer, Manfred 2007 Review of Variantenwörterbuch des Deutschen by Ulrich Ammon (2004)

Language Problems and Language Planning 31:1 pp. 87–91 | book review

Kuhlmann, Peter 2005  Latin Translation in the Renaissance: The theory and practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti, and Desiderius Erasmus. Von Paul Botley

Historiographia Linguistica 32:1/2 pp. 189–196 | book review

Kammerzell, Frank & Carsten Peust 2008 13. Reported speech in Egyptian: Forms, types and history

In: Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom & Manfred von Roncador (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 52] pp. 289–322

Bartens, Angela 1997 Review of O crioulo português da Guiné-Bissau by Hildo Honório do Couto (1994)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:1 pp. 153–158 | book review

Graeber, Wilhelm 1993 Das Ende deutscher Romanübersetzungen aus zweiter Hand

Target 5:2 pp. 215–228 | article

Essmann, Helga & Armin Paul Frank 1991 Translation Anthologies: An Invitation to the Curious and a Case Study

Target 3:1 pp. 65–90 | article

Callanan, Christopher K. 1989 Die Fragmente zur Dialektik der Stoiker. Neue Sammlung der Texte mit deutscher Übersetzung und Kommentaren by Karlheinz Hülser

Historiographia Linguistica 16:3 pp. 393–402 | book review

Ineichen, Gustav 1987 Historisches zum begriff des Monosyllabismus im Chinesischen

Historiographia Linguistica 14:3 pp. 265–282 | article

Janssen, Hero 1986 Review of Syntaktische und semantische Studien zum frei verwendeten Infinitiv by Norbert Fries (1983)Review of Kontroil-Problème in infiniten Komplementkon-struktionen by Gesa Maren Siebert-Ott (1983)

Studies in Language 10:1 pp. 247–256 | book review

Ax, Wolfram 1986 Quadripertita Ratio: Bemerkungen zur Geschichte eines aktuellen Kategoriensystems (Adiectio – Detractio – Transmutatio – Immutatio)

Historiographia Linguistica 13:2/3 pp. 191–214 | article

Best, Karl-Heinz 1976  Language Typology: A historical and analytic overview. By Joseph Greenberg

Historiographia Linguistica 3:2 pp. 235–247 | book review

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.