Goethe University Frankfurt

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

Children’s Literature Across Media: Concepts and perspectives of transmedia narratives

EditorNina Christensen, Ute Dettmar & Sarah Mygind

Subjects Narrative Studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 21] 2026. | edited volume

The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement

Johannes Mursell

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 268] 2021. | monograph

Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond

Edited by Robert Crellin & Thomas Jügel

Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] 2020. | edited volume

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt

Edited by Ingo Feldhausen, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt & Mareike Neuhaus

Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 15] 2019. | edited volume

Variation in C: Comparative approaches to the Complementizer Phrase. Special issue of Linguistic Variation 18:2 (2018)

Edited by Jacopo Garzonio & Silvia Rossi

Subjects Generative linguistics | Typology

[Linguistic Variation, 18:2] 2019. | special issue

Imperatives and Directive Strategies

Edited by Daniël Van Olmen & Simone Heinold

Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 184] 2017.  | edited volume

Gender Across Languages: Volume 4

Edited by Marlis Hellinger & Heiko Motschenbacher

Subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 36] 2015. xv, 415 pp. | course book

Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax

Edited by Günther Grewendorf & Helmut Weiß

Subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 220] 2014. vi, 339 pp. |

Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon

Leah S. Bauke

Subjects English linguistics | Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 216] 2014. xi, 304 pp. |

New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca

Heiko Motschenbacher

Subjects Applied linguistics | English linguistics | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

2013. xi, 249 pp. | monograph

Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective

Edited by Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer & Heike Walker

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] 2013. viii, 476 pp. | edited volume

An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality (2000–2011)

Heiko Motschenbacher

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Language policy | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Sociology

2012. vii, 294 pp. | reference work

The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change. In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel

Edited by Esther Rinke & Tanja Kupisch

Subjects Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 11] 2011. viii, 414 pp. | edited volume

Language, Gender and Sexual Identity: Poststructuralist perspectives

Heiko Motschenbacher

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 29] 2010. xi, 209 pp. | monograph

History of German Negation

Agnes Jäger

Subjects Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 118] 2008. ix, 350 pp. | monograph

Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction

Edited by Gisella Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach

Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 302] 2008. xvii, 219 pp. | edited volume

Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations

Edited by Carolina Plaza-Pust & Esperanza Morales-López

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Bilingualism, 38] 2008. xvi, 389 pp. | edited volume

Unique Focus: Languages without multiple wh-questions

Marina Stoyanova

Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 123] 2008. xi, 184 pp. | monograph

Variational Pragmatics: A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages

Edited by Klaus P. Schneider & Anne Barron

Subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 178] 2008. vii, 371 pp. | edited volume

Political Discourse in the Media: Cross-cultural perspectives

Edited by Anita Fetzer & Gerda Eva Lauerbach

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 160] 2007. viii, 379 pp. | edited volume

Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles

Edited by Susanne Mühleisen & Bettina Migge

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Varieties of English Around the World, G34] 2005. viii, 293 pp. | edited volume

The Rise of Agreement: A formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection

Eric Fuß

Subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 81] 2005. xii, 336 pp. | monograph

Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar

Edited by Eric Fuß & Carola Trips

Subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 72] 2004. viii, 228 pp. | edited volume

Creole Formation as Language Contact: The case of the Suriname Creoles

Bettina Migge

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Creole Language Library, 25] 2003. xii, 151 pp. | monograph

Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 3

Edited by Marlis Hellinger & Hadumod Bußmann

Subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 11] 2003. xiv, 391 pp. | course book

Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Edited by Erin Shay & Uwe Seibert

Subjects Typology

[Typological Studies in Language, 56] 2003. xvi, 305 pp. | edited volume

Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles

Susanne Mühleisen

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Creole Language Library, 24] 2002. xiv, 332 pp. | monograph

Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 2

Edited by Marlis Hellinger & Hadumod Bußmann

Subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 10] 2002. xiv, 349 pp. | course book

Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1

Edited by Marlis Hellinger & Hadumod Bußmann

Subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 9] 2001. xiv, 328 pp. | course book

Particle Verbs and Local Domains

Jochen Zeller

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 41] 2001. xii, 325 pp. | monograph

Right Node Raising and Gapping: Interface conditions on prosodic deletion

Katharina Hartmann

Subjects Generative linguistics | Phonology | Semantics | Syntax

2001. xiv, 190 pp. | monograph

Bardají, Maria, Rowena Garcia, Christoph Bracks & Evan Kidd 2026 The acquisition of symmetrical voice systems: Comparative notes on Tagalog, Indonesian, and Totoli

Keywords: symmetrical voice | child language documentation | child-directed speech | Tagalog | Totoli | Indonesian | western Austronesian

In: The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl & Birgit Hellwig (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 240] pp. 610–641 | open access

Kerezova, Nelli 2026 Comparing null subjects and null objects: The role of syntactic function, sentential domain and animacy

Keywords: null objects | corpus study | animacy | syntactic function | sentential domain | European Portuguese

In: Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology, Herbeck, Peter & Natascha Pomino (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] pp. 283–307

Mursell, Johannes & Anke Himmelreich 2026 Constraints on information-structural marking in the DP: The view from Mabia languages

Keywords: nominal domain | information structure | focus | West-African languages

Linguistic Variation | Online First Publication, 38 pp. | article | open access

Rinke, Esther 2025 Animacy restrictions on null objects in European Portuguese

Keywords: null objects | clitics | animacy | European Portuguese | differential object marking

In: Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective, Barbosa, Pilar & Cristina Flores (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 19] pp. 114–140

Glaser, Karen & Stefanie Frisch 2025 Early language education in instructed contexts: An introduction

In: Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school, Frisch, Stefanie & Karen Glaser (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 62] p. 2 | open access

Listanti, Andrea & Jacopo Torregrossa 2025 Aligning learning and teaching sequences: Insights from L2 acquisition of Italian word order for didactic interventions

Keywords: word order | end-weight principle | end-focus principle | Input Processing model | Italian

In: Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages, Tyne, Henry & Stefania Spina (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 122] pp. 229–255

König, Christa & Bernd Heine 2025 The grammar of interactives in !Xun (Namibia)

Keywords: argument structure | folktale | interactive | speaker-hearer interaction | !Xun

In: The Grammar of Interaction: Epistemicity, information management and discourse in language use, Rodríguez Rosique, Susana & Jordi M. Antolí Martínez (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 46] pp. 212–242 | open access

Buendgens-Kosten, Jules & Carolyn Blume 2025 Of barriers and bias: Diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) in technology-mediated ISLA

Keywords: diversity | equity | inclusion | justice | bias | disability | neurodiversity | multilingualism | open educational resources (OER) | accessibility | access

In: Technology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Connecting research and pedagogy, Loewen, Shawn, Frederick J. Poole, Hyun-Bin Hwang & Matthew D. Coss (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 63] pp. 45–67

Barbosa, Pilar, Cristina Flores & Esther Rinke 2025 Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective

In: Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective, Barbosa, Pilar & Cristina Flores (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 19] pp. 1–26

Poletto, Cecilia, Pierre Larrivée, Francesco Pinzin & Mathieu Goux 2025 A long farewell: What the loss of V2 made briefly visible

Keywords: verb second | language change | fronting | Medieval Romance | French | Venetian

Diachronica 42:5 pp. 594–645 | article | open access

Rinke, Esther, Daniel M. K. Weingärtner, Cristina Flores, Mercedes Martinez Bruera, Andrea Listanti, Juliana Novo Gomes & Sol Lago 2025 Are heritage speakers one step ahead in ongoing processes of diachronic change?: Comparing heritage speakers with speakers of two varieties of Portuguese in their comprehension of null object constructions

Keywords: heritage speakers | diachronic change | Portuguese | null objects | comprehension

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:3 pp. 369–395 | article | open access

Weiß, Helmut 2025 Neg-words: What they are and what they are not and what follows from this

Keywords: neg-words | NCI | negative quantifier | NC | DN | *nall

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory | Online First Publication, 27 pp. | article | open access

Pinzin, Francesco & Cecilia Poletto 2025 On postverbal subjects in Old Venetian

Keywords: subjects | Verb Second | medieval Romance | Venetian | Italian Dialects

Linguistic Variation 26:1 pp. 132–152 | article | open access

Makrodimitris, Christos & Petra Schulz 2025 Age of onset does not matter for bilingual children’s understanding of late-acquired phenomena: The case of temporal connectives

Keywords: age of onset | late-acquired | temporal connectives | bilingual children | timing hypothesis

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:3 pp. 278–306 | article | open access

Torregrossa, Jacopo, Christiane Bongartz & Sonja Eisenbeiß 2025 Does ‘translanguaging’ equal ‘reasoning in multiple languages?’: Back to the basics of translanguaging as a way forward

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:1 pp. 92–97 | article commentary | open access

Salhi, Mohamed 2025 Surprises, symbols, and mainstreaming: Symbolic politics in AfD’s European elections campaign

Keywords: AfD | European Elections | Radical Right | Visual Populism | Symbolic Politics | Mainstreaming

Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 23 pp. | article | open access

Schuhmann, Roland 2025 Zu althochdeutsch tegal und tegil: Aus der Arbeit am Etymologischen Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen

Keywords: Old High German | historical linguistics | etymology | loanword | word formation | dictionary

NOWELE 78:1 pp. 83–96 | article | open access

Rinke, Esther & Aldona Sopata 2025 The other side of the coin: Linguistic complexity as a potential cause for selective reinforcement in the heritage language of returnee speakers

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 pp. 68–72 | article commentary | open access

Di Domenico, Elisa, Diletta Comunello & Ioli Baroncini 2024 Extending the Decreased Activation Hypothesis

Keywords: overt subject pronouns in Italian | near-natives | topicality | active referents | L1 Serbian | L1 Greek

In: Current Perspectives on Generative SLA – Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Velnić, Marta, Anne Dahl & Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 70] pp. 37–62

Seel, Laura & Nico Nassenstein 2024 “Show your feelings!”: On the expression of emotions in Rabai (Midzichenda)

Keywords: emotion | Rabai | body part metaphors | color terms | shame

In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell & Nico Nassenstein (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 331–366 | open access

Vingron, Naomi, Lea Alexandra Müller Karoza, Nancy Azevedo, Aaron Johnson, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Panagiotis Bamidis, Melissa Võ & Eva Kehayia 2025 How words can guide our eyes: Increasing engagement with art through audio-guided visual search in young and older adults

Keywords: visual search | eye movements | museum | audio-guide

The Mental Lexicon 19:1 pp. 78–89 | article | open access

Sopata, Aldona, Esther Rinke & Cristina Flores 2023 How unique is the linguistic situation of endangered language speakers?

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 pp. 100–105 | article commentary

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

Grimm, Angela & Ulrike Domahs 2023 The acquisition of consonant clusters and word stress by early second language learners of German: Evidence for cross-linguistic influence?

Keywords: child second language learners | production of word stress | cross-linguistic interaction | German | production of consonant clusters

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:2 pp. 212–242 | article

Baeskow, Heike 2023 The competition between noun-verb conversion and -ize derivation: Contrastive analyses of two productive English verb-formation processes

Keywords: noun-verb conversion in English | -ize derivation | Lexical Conceptual Structures | selectional restrictions | metonymy | metaphor

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:1 pp. 258–288 | article

Dettmar, Ute 2023 Collecting, translating and adapting: Late eighteenth-century transfer between Christian Felix Weiße’s Der Kinderfreund, Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Kleine Kinderbibliothek, and Arnaud Berquin’s L’Ami des Enfans

In: Transnational Books for Children 1750–1900: Producers, consumers, encounters, Appel, Charlotte, Nina Christensen & M. O. Grenby (eds.) [Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 15] pp. 135–156

Bader, Markus 2023 How free is the position of German object pronouns?

Keywords: word order | object pronouns | German | magnitude estimation | language production

In: Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches, Kopf, Kristin & Thilo Weber (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 234] pp. 22–47 | open access

Abubakari, Hasiyatu, Samuel Alhassan Issah, Samuel Owoahene Acheampong, Moses Dramani Luri & John Naporo Napari 2023 Mabia languages and cultures expressed through personal names

Keywords: personal names | Mabia languages | anthroponyms | semantics | ethnopragmatics

International Journal of Language and Culture 10:1 p. 87 | article

Erll, Astrid & William Hirst 2022 Flashbulb memories: An interdisciplinary research programme

Keywords: flashbulb memories | interdisciplinarity | narrative dynamics | collective memories | traveling memories | media history | generational memories | social identity | agency of the aesthetic | Memory Studies

Narrative Inquiry 33:2 pp. 398–420 | article

Kentner, Gerrit 2022  do not repeat : Repetition and reduplication in German revisited

Keywords: reduplication | repetition | German

In: Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology, Eitelmann, Matthias & Dagmar Haumann (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 223] pp. 181–206

Rath, Amanda Katherine 2022 Constructions of ‘Indonesian-ness’ in modern art and artistic identity in a politically fraught terrain during the 1950s

Keywords: Modern art | Indonesia | artistic subjectivity | postcoloniality | LEKRA | Seni journal | 현대미술 | 인도네시아 | 예술적 주관성 | 탈식민성 | 레크라 | 세니 저널

InContext 2:1 pp. 141–166 | article | open access

Rossi, Silvia & Cecilia Poletto 2022 Bare quantifiers and Verb Second: The view from Old Italian

In: Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and supersentential phenomena, Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio & Chiara De Bastiani (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] p. 95

Jumabay, Uldanay, Irina Nevskaya & Saule Tazhibayeva 2023 Numeral classifiers in Kazakh

Keywords: numeral classifiers | Kazakh | classification | features | usage

Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 pp. 300–330 | article

Nijhawan, Subin 2022 Translanguaging… or trans-foreign-languaging?: A comprehensive Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) teaching model with judicious and principled L1 use

Keywords: CLIL | translanguaging | trans-foreign-languaging | bilingual dynamism | thick description

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 8:2 pp. 143–185 | article

Schulz, Petra 2021 Heterogeneity in bilingualism and autism: Two of a kind?

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 pp. 76–81 | article commentary

Dahl, Eystein 2021 Introduction: Aspects of Alignment Change

Diachronica 38:3 pp. 303–313 | introduction

Torregrossa, Jacopo, Christiane Bongartz & Ianthi Maria Tsimpli 2021 Bilingual reference production: A cognitive-computational account

Keywords: reference production | activation | under- and over-specific referring expressions

In: Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children, Fernandez, Leigh, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz & Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 117] pp. 67–97

Wichers Schreur, Jesse 2021 Nominal borrowings in Tsova-Tush (Nakh-Daghestanian, Georgia) and their gender assignment

Keywords: Tsova-Tush | Georgia | gender | language contact

In: Language contact in the territory of the former Soviet Union, Forker, Diana & Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] pp. 15–34

Weiß, Helmut 2021 Darwinian language evolution: Remarks on Haider’s Grammar change

Keywords: UG | grammaticalization | language change | Darwinian selection

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:1 pp. 73–82 | article commentary

Martínez Vera, Gabriel 2021 On wh-extraction in de+que constructions in Spanish

Keywords: wh-extraction | islands | phases | incorporation | Spanish

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. 263–276

Graf, Arndt 2021 New grounds for malay: Intercultural implications of Malaysia’s emerging role as Hub for international Higher Education and Industry 4.0

Keywords: Malaysia | international student mobility | Industry 4.0 | Africa | Malaysia | internationale Studierendenmobilität | Industrie 4.0 | Afrika

InContext 1:1 pp. 142–160 | article | open access

Rossi, Silvia & Cecilia Poletto 2021  Very …. extracted: On old Italian molto

Keywords: degree words | old Italian | modifier extraction | left periphery

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht, Drijkoningen, Frank, Sergio Baauw & Luisa Meroni (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 357] pp. 249–262

Konca, Maxim, Alexander Mehler, Daniel Baumartz & Wahed Hemati 2021 From distinguishability to informativity: A quantitative text model for detecting random texts

Keywords: random text | quantitative text characteristics | text classification | BERT

In: Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton & George Mikros (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 356] pp. 145–162

Dahl, Eystein 2021 Pathways to split ergativity: The rise of ergative alignment in Anatolian and Indo-Aryan

Keywords: alignment change | case marking | agreement | Indo-European | Anatolian | Indo-Aryan

Diachronica 38:3 pp. 413–456 | article

Grimm, Angela & Petra Schulz 2021 Phonology and sentential semantics: Markers of SLI in bilingual children at age 6?

Keywords: consonant clusters | exhaustive wh-questions | simultaneous-bilingual | early second language learners | subtypes of SLI

In: Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe, Armon-Lotem, Sharon & Kleanthes K. Grohmann (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 29] pp. 263–300

Nuhbalaoglu, Derya 2020 

Sign Language & Linguistics 23:1/2 pp. 280–285 | book review

Jügel, Thomas 2020 The perfect in Middle and New Iranian languages

Keywords: Middle and New Iranian | perfect | diachronic path | tense | aspect

In: Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond, Crellin, Robert & Thomas Jügel (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] pp. 279–310

Crellin, Robert & Thomas Jügel 2020 Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond

In: Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond, Crellin, Robert & Thomas Jügel (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] p.  ff.

Cristante, Valentina 2020 Sentence imitations in monolingual and early second language learners and the implications for grammar teaching

Keywords: sentence imitation | errors | implicit knowledge | early second language learners | grammar teaching

Pedagogical Linguistics 1:2 pp. 149–183 | article

Cristante, Valentina & Sarah Schimke 2020 The processing of passive sentences in German: Evidence from an eye-tracking study with seven- and ten-year-olds and adults

Keywords: passive sentences | sentence processing | morphosyntax | eye-tracking | primary school children | phrases passives | traitement de phrases | morphosyntaxe | suivi oculaire | élèves du primaire

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 11:2 pp. 163–195 | article

Weiß, Helmut 2020 Where do complementizers come from and how did they come about?: A re-evaluation of the parataxis-to-hypotaxis hypothesis

Keywords: complementizer | grammaticalization | parataxis-to-hypotaxis hypothesis | parataxis | hypotaxis

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:1 pp. 30–55 | article

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

Flores, Cristina, Esther Rinke & Claudia Wagner 2020 To hón ich imma insistieat: Syntactic stability in heritage Hunsrückisch German spoken in Brazil

Keywords: Hunsrückisch | language island | Heritage German | verb placement | syntactic stability

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:3 pp. 251–279 | article

Böhm, Manuela & Ulrich Mehlem 2021 What is a word?: Word segmentation in multilingual writers writing French and Moroccan Arabic

Keywords: word segmentation | spelling | orthography | clitics | primary students | dictations | French | Arabic | German | Breton

Written Language & Literacy 23:2 pp. 154–179 | article

Rizea, Monica-Mihaela & Manfred Sailer 2020 A constraint-based modeling of negative polarity items in result clause constructions in Romanian

Keywords: Lexical Resource Semantics | negative polarity item | projective meaning | result clause semantics | Romanian

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:1 pp. 129–168 | article

Destruel, Emilie & Caroline Féry 2019 Compression in French: Effect of length and information status on the prosody of post-verbal sequences

Keywords: post-focal compression | givenness | French | syntax-phonology interface

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt & Mareike Neuhaus (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 15] pp. 157–176

Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt & Mareike Neuhaus 2019 Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 30, Frankfurt

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt & Mareike Neuhaus (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 15] p.  ff.

Weicker, Merle & Petra Schulz 2019  Red train, big train, broken train: Semantic aspects of adjectives in child language

Keywords: adjectives | order of acquisition | complexity | gradability | intersectivity | subsectivity | spontaneous speech | German

In: Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania & Matthew Rispoli (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 63] pp. 203–221

Nuhbalaoglu, Derya 2020 Comprehension and production of referential expressions in German Sign Language (DGS) and Turkish Sign Language (TİD): An empirical approach

Sign Language & Linguistics 22:2 pp. 282–290 | abstract

Poletto, Cecilia 2019 More than one way out: On the factors influencing the loss of V to C movement

Keywords: verb second | split left periphery | null subjects | null topics | Old Romance

Linguistic Variation 19:1 pp. 47–81 | article

Weiß, Helmut 2019 Rebracketing (Gliederungsverschiebung) and the Early Merge Principle

Keywords: syntactic change | rebracketing | reanalysis | evolution of complementizers | conditions on rebracketing | Early Merge Principle | Principle of Feature Economy

Diachronica 36:4 pp. 509–545 | article

Garzonio, Jacopo & Silvia Rossi 2019 Can structural deficiency be parametrized?: Oblique pronouns in old Tuscan varieties

Keywords: oblique pronouns | deficient pronouns | old Tuscan | parametric variation | V2 syntax

In: Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces, Cruschina, Silvio, Adam Ledgeway & Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 251] pp. 113–130

Garzonio, Jacopo & Silvia Rossi 2019 Complementizers and variation in the CP

Linguistic Variation 18:2 pp. 205–214 | article

Poletto, Cecilia & Emanuela Sanfelici 2019 On relative complementizers and relative pronouns

Keywords: syntax of relative clauses | Romance varieties | status of complementizers

Linguistic Variation 18:2 pp. 265–298 | article

Skopeteas, Stavros, Caroline Féry & Rusudan Asatiani 2018 Prosodic separation of postverbal material in Georgian: A corpus study on syntax-phonology interface

In: Information structure in lesser-described languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude & Martine Vanhove (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] pp. 17–50

Van Olmen, Daniël & Simone Heinold 2017 Imperatives and directive strategies from a functional-typological perspective: An introduction

In: Imperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël & Simone Heinold (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 184] pp. 1–50

Maeder-Qian, Jingyue 2017 Linguistic identity changes of Chinese international students in Germany: A pilot study

Keywords: linguistic identity | English as a lingua franca | multilingual | Chinese in Germany | international students

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 2:2 pp. 240–262 | article

Heine, Bernd, Christa König & Karsten Legere 2016 Reacting to language endangerment: The Akie of north-central Tanzania

Keywords: African | Akie | defensive culture | language purism | language transmission | Maasai | quadrilingualism | Swahili

In: Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, Filipović, Luna & Martin Pütz (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 42] pp. 313–333 | open access

Feldhausen, Ingo 2016 The Relation between Prosody and Syntax: The case of different types of Left-Dislocations in Spanish

Keywords: Clitic Left-Dislocation | edge tones | Hanging Topic Left-Dislocation | intonation | prosodic phrasing | Spanish

In: Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen & Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6] pp. 153–180

Poletto, Cecilia 2016 Which clues for which V2: A contribution to the typology of V2 on the basis of Old Italian

Keywords: Old Romance | parallel phases | scrambling | syntax | verb second

In: Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation, Bidese, Ermenegildo, Federica Cognola & Manuela Caterina Moroni (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234] pp. 237–258

Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen, Emilia Ellsiepen & Barbara Hemforth 2016 Why are distributive readings dispreferred?

Keywords: collective and distributive interpretations | competition | complexity | floated each | Plurality | VP pluralization

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] p. 83

Motschenbacher, Heiko 2017 Inclusion and foreign language education: What linguistics can contribute

Keywords: inclusion | applied linguistics | learners with special needs | ethnicity | gender | foreign language education | linguistics | English as a lingua franca | theorisation | sexuality | non-nativeness | English as a foreign language | methodology

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 167:2 pp. 159–189 | article

Smith, Peter W. 2017 Lexical plurals in Telugu: Mass nouns in disguise

Keywords: Telugu | mass/count distinction | inherent features | allomorphy

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:2 pp. 234–252 | article

Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann 2015 Gender across languages: The linguistic representation of women and men

In: Gender Across Languages: Volume 4, Hellinger, Marlis & Heiko Motschenbacher (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 36] pp. 1–25

Garzonio, Jacopo & Cecilia Poletto 2015 On polarity particles in Italian varieties

In: Discourse-oriented Syntax, Bayer, Josef, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 226] pp. 211–228

Elsig, Martin 2015 The (non-)grammaticalization of possession in Guatemalan Spanish

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013, Aboh, Enoch O., Jeannette Schaeffer & Petra Sleeman (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 8] pp. 239–260

Zaretsky, Eugen & Benjamin P. Lange 2015 Ob Italienisch Deutsch fördert: Warum Italienisch sprechende Kinder schneller Deutsch erwerben als einige andere Migrantengruppen in Deutschland

Keywords: gesture | pro-drop languages | Turkish | Discourse | reference tracking

Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 4:1 pp. 122–140 | article

Nevskaya, Irina 2014 Chapter 12. Innovations and archaisms in Siberian Turkic spatial case paradigms: A Transeurasian historical and areal perspective

In: Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Robbeets, Martine & Walter Bisang (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 161] pp. 257–286

Rind-Pawlowski, Monika 2014 Evidentiality in Dzungar Tuvan

Keywords: direct perception | Dzungar Tuvan | explicit evidentiality marking | inference | reported information | text type dependent speaker’s perspective | Turkic

In: On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko & Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 164] pp. 339–378

Petrova, Svetlana & Esther Rinke 2014 Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French

In: Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin & Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213] pp. 271–294

Grewendorf, Günther 2014 Gaps and parasitic gaps in Bavarian

In: Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax, Grewendorf, Günther & Helmut Weiß (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 220] pp. 145–182

Motschenbacher, Heiko 2014 Language, normativity and power: The discursive construction of objectophilia

In: The Expression of Inequality in Interaction: Power, dominance, and status, Pishwa, Hanna & Rainer Schulze (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 248] pp. 239–264

Nevskaya, Irina 2014 Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language

Keywords: biverbal constructions | Chalkan | directional relations | grammaticalization | locational | South Siberian Turkic | tense-aspect-mood

In: On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko & Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 164] pp. 67–90

Weiß, Helmut 2014 Really weird subjects. The syntax of family names in Bavarian.

In: Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax, Grewendorf, Günther & Helmut Weiß (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 220] pp. 203–222

Pankau, Andreas 2014 Wh-copying in German as replacement

In: Dependency Linguistics: Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures, Gerdes, Kim, Eva Hajičová & Leo Wanner (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 215] pp. 299–324

Bader, Markus, Jana Häussler & Tanja Schmid 2013 Constraints on intra- and extraposition

In: Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective, Webelhuth, Gert, Manfred Sailer & Heike Walker (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] pp. 63–98

Walker, Heike 2013 Constraints on relative clause extraposition 
in English: An experimental investigation

In: Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective, Webelhuth, Gert, Manfred Sailer & Heike Walker (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] pp. 145–172

Wratil, Melani 2013 Double agreement in the Alpine languages: An intermediate stage in the development of inflectional morphemes

In: Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri & Piera Molinelli (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] pp. 201–236

Bader, Markus & Jana Häussler 2013 How much bekommen is there in the German bekommen passive?

In: Non-Canonical Passives, Alexiadou, Artemis & Florian Schäfer (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 205] pp. 115–140

Schulz, Petra 2012  Why and how individual differences matter for linguistic theory and experimental research but not for UG

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:3 pp. 298–303 | article commentary

Jäger, Agnes & Doris Penka 2012 Development of sentential negation in the history of German

In: Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 191] pp. 199–222

Elsig, Martin 2012 Subject-verb inversion in 13th century German and French: A comparative view

In: Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt & Christoph Gabriel (eds.) [Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 13] pp. 223–240

Weiß, Helmut 2012 The rise of DP-internal possessors: On the relationship of dialectal synchrony to diachrony

In: The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change, De Vogelaer, Gunther & Guido Seiler (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 128] pp. 271–294

Motschenbacher, Heiko 2012 'I think Houston wants a kiss right?': Linguistic constructions of heterosexualities at Eurovision Song Contest press conferences

Keywords: heterosexualities | Queer Linguistics | heteronormativity | Europeanness | ethnographic discourse analysis | media discourse | transnationality | sexual desire | sexual identity

Journal of Language and Sexuality 1:2 pp. 127–150 | article

Grewendorf, Günther & Cecilia Poletto 2011 Hidden verb second: The case of Cimbrian

In: Studies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 123] pp. 301–346

Becker, Annette 2011 Modality and ENGAGEMENT in British and German political interviews

Keywords: appraisal theory | engagement | English/German | media discourse | modality | political discourse

In: Contrastive Pragmatics, Aijmer, Karin (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 30] p. 5

Müller, Anja, Petra Schulz & Barbara Höhle 2011 Pragmatic children: How German children interpret sentences with and without the focus particle only

In: Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Meibauer, Jörg & Markus Steinbach (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 175] p. 79

Ishihara, Shinichiro & Barbara Ürögdi 2011 The syntax-prosody interface and sentential complementation in Hungarian

In: Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference, Laczkó, Tibor, Catherine O. Ringen & György Rákosi (eds.) [Approaches to Hungarian, 12] pp. 63–84

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

Jungraithmayr, Herrmann 2008 Erosion in Chadic

In: In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming, Bengtson, John D. (ed.)  pp. 161–167

Kambartel, Friedrich 2008 Meaning, justification, and truth

Keywords: Constitutive norm | constructivism | correspondence | inferentialism | institutional order | justification | meaning | propositional content | radical pragmatism | truth

In: The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit, Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 15] p. 99

Plaza-Pust, Carolina & Esperanza Morales-López 2008 Sign bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations

In: Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations, Plaza-Pust, Carolina & Esperanza Morales-López (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 38] pp. 333–379

Ferraresi, Gisella & Maria Goldbach 2008 Syntactic reconstruction: Methods and new insights

In: Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction, Ferraresi, Gisella & Maria Goldbach (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 302] pp. 1–26

Plaza-Pust, Carolina 2008 Why variation matters: On language contact in the development of L2 written German

Keywords: language contact | language mixing | learner grammars | sign bilingualism | variation | written language development

In: Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations, Plaza-Pust, Carolina & Esperanza Morales-López (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 38] p. 73

Jäger, Agnes 2008 'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scope of negation

In: Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss & Werner Abraham (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 89] pp. 141–170

Becker, Annette 2008 The appropriateness of questions

In: Context and Appropriateness: Micro meets macro, Fetzer, Anita (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 162] pp. 147–166

König, Christa 2008 Case in Africa: On categorial misbehavior

In: Studies in African Linguistic Typology, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 64] pp. 195–207

Deppermann, Arnulf 2008 Conversational interpretation of lexical items and conversational contrasting

In: Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction, Hakulinen, Auli & Margret Selting (eds.) [Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 17] pp. 289–317

Mühleisen, Susanne 2008 Forms of address in English-lexicon Creoles: The presentation of selves and others in the Caribbean context

In: Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles, Mühleisen, Susanne & Bettina Migge (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G34] pp. 195–223

Migge, Bettina & Susanne Mühleisen 2008 Politeness and face in Caribbean Creoles: An overview

In: Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles, Mühleisen, Susanne & Bettina Migge (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G34] pp. 1–19

Migge, Bettina 2008 13. The speech event kuutu in the Eastern Maroon community

In: Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève & Armin Schwegler (eds.) [Creole Language Library, 27] pp. 285–306

Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann 2008 Gender across languages: The linguistic representation of women and men

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 3, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 11] pp. 1–25

Bußmann, Hadumod & Marlis Hellinger 2008 German. Engendering female visibility in German

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 3, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 11] pp. 141–174

Beck, Rose Marie 2008 Swahili. Perceptions of gender in Swahili language and society

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 3, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 11] pp. 311–337

Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann 2008 Gender across languages: The linguistic representation of women and men

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 2, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 10] pp. 1–25

Migge, Bettina 2008 Eastern Maroon Creole. Communicating gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 9] p. 85

Hellinger, Marlis 2008 English. Gender in a global language

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 9] pp. 105–112

Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann 2008 Gender across languages: The linguistic representation of women and men

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 9] pp. 1–25

Lauerbach, Gerda Eva 2008 Implicit communication in political interviews: Negotiating the agenda

In: Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, Weigand, Edda & Marcelo Dascal (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 214] pp. 197–214

Sabel, Joachim 2011 Partial Wh-Movement and the Typology of Wh-Questions

In: Wh-Scope Marking, Lutz, Uli, Gereon Müller & Arnim von Stechow (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 37] pp. 409–446

Sommer, Gabriele 1996 Review of Multilingualism and Nation Building by Gerda Mansour (1993)

Language Problems and Language Planning 20:1 pp. 65–66 | book review

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