New publications and research at the department (
= Open Access)
New publication by Helmut Weiß:
New publication by Helmut Weiß:
Weiß, H. (2024). Eine kurze Geschichte des Genus im Deutschen und sein allmähliches Verschwinden aus dem Plural. In: Ewa Trutkowski und André Meinunger (Hrsg.): Gendern – auf Teufel*in komm raus? Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 96-107. https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007009
Weiß, H. (2024b). How to explain linguistic variation and its role in language change. In: Strobel, Thomas (eds.): How to explain linguistic variation and its role in language change. Special issue of Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 43(1): 19–40. https://doi-org.proxy.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/10.1515/zfs-2024-2008
New publication by Janek Guerrini:
Guerrini, J. (2024). Keeping fake simple. Journal of Semantics, 41(2), 175-210. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffae010
New publication by Kurt Erbach:
Erbach, K. & Gergel, R. (2025). Direct pseudo-partitives in US English. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0098
New publication by Markus Bader:
Bader, M., & Koukoulioti, V. (2024). Long extraction in German – banned, but still alive. Journal of Comparative Germanic Syntax , 27 , 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-024-09156-8
New publication by Markus Bader:
Bahmanian, N., Bader, M., & Lago, S. (2024). Argument structure affects relative clause extraposition: corpus evidence from Persian. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.5070/G60113849
New publication by Yvonne Portele and Markus Bader:
Portele, Y., & Bader, M. (2024). Choosing referential expressions and their order: Accessibility or Uniform Information Density? In R. Lemke, L. Schäfer, & I. Reich (Eds.), Information structure and information theory (pp. 87–116). Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13383789
New publication by Nele Ots
Ots, N. (2024). PLoS ONE 19(10): e0311125. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311125
New publication by Cornelia Ebert
Ebert, C. (2024). Semantics of Gesture. Annual Review of Linguistics, 10. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-022421-063057
New publication by Kathryn Barnes and Cornelia Ebert
Barnes, K., & Ebert, C. (2023). The information status of iconic enrichments: modelling gradient at-issueness. Theoretical Linguistics, 49(3-4), 167-223. https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2023-2009
Barnes, K., & Ebert, C. (2023). Iconicity and gradient at-issueness: insights and future avenues. Theoretical Linguistics, 49(3-4), 305-318. https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2023-2016
Festschrift “To the left, to the right, and much in between – A Festschrift for Katharina Hartmann”
The festschrift ist an open-access online publication. It can be downloaded here on the institute’s website:
https://www.linguistik-in-frankfurt.de/festschrift-in-honour-of-katharina-hartmanns-60th-birthday/
New research center “Negation in Language and Beyond”
New publication by Markus Bader:
Bader, Markus, Jacopo Torregrossa & Esther Rinke. 2023. Pinning down the interaction between
animacy and syntactic function in the interpretation of German and Italian personal and
demonstrative pronouns. Discourse Processes 0(0). 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2023.2252699
New publication by Markus Bader:
Bader, Markus. 2023. How free is the position of german object pronouns? In Kristin Kopf &
Thilo Weber (eds.), Free variation in grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches, 22–47.
Amsterdam: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.234.02bad
New publication by Anke Himmelreich:
Himmelreich, A., (2023) “Feature deletion by head movement – A new solution to agreement asymmetries in Modern Standard Arabic”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5731
New publication by Anke Himmelreich and Katharina Hartmann:
Himmelreich, Anke & Hartmann, Katharina, (2023) “Agreement with disjoined subjects in German”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8504
New publications by Markus Bader:
Bader, Markus & Michael Meng. 2023. Processing noncanonical sentences: Effects of context on online processing and (mis)interpretation. Glossa Psycholinguistics 2(1). 1–45. doi: 10.5070/G6011117
New publication by Yvonne Portele and Markus Bader
Portele, Yvonne & Markus Bader. 2023. Strong semantic biases make demonstrative pronouns act like personal pronouns. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). 1–39. doi: 10.16995/glossa.8832
New publication by Helmut Weiß:
Weiß, Helmut (2022): Empirical Evidence for Split-CP in German (varieties). Double Complementizers in Saurian and E-Topicalization in Bavarian. In: FS Cecilia Poletto. Special issue of Quaderni di lavoro ASIt.
New publication by Helmut Weiß:
Trutkowski, Ewa, und Helmut Weiß (2023): Zeugen gesucht! Zur Geschichte des generischen Maskulinums im Deutschen. In: Linguistische Berichte 273: 5-40. https://doi.org/10.46771/9783967692792_2
New publication by Gerrit Kentner:
Kentner, G., Franz, I., Knoop, C.A., & Menninghaus, W. (2023). The final lengthening of pre-boundary syllables turns into final shortening as boundary strength levels increase. Journal of Phonetics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101225
New publication by Gerrit Kentner:
Kentner, G. (accepted). Reduplication as expressive morphology in German. In: Williams, J. (Eds.): Expressivity in the European Linguistic Sphere. Cambridge University Press.
New publication by Gerrit Kentner:
Arjava, H., & Kentner, G. (2022). Alignment of prosodic weight and musical length in Finnish vocal music textsetting. In: Scharinger, M. and Wiese, R. (Eds.): How Language Speaks to Music: Prosody from a Cross-domain Perspective. De Gruyter. 161-189. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770186-007
New publication by Gerrit Kentner:
Kentner, G., Franz, I., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Poetics of reduplicative word formation: evidence from a rating and recall experiment. Language & Cognition, 14(3), 333-361. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2021.27
New publication by Gerrit Kentner:
Kentner, G. (2022). Phonetik und Phonologie des Deutschen. In: Klabunde, R., Mihatsch, W., Dipper, S. (Hgg): Linguistik im Sprachvergleich. Germanistik — Romanistik — Anglistik. J.B. Metzler / Springer. 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62806-5_1
New publication by Gerrit Kentner:
Kentner, G. (2022). DO NOT REPEAT: repetition and reduplication in German revisited. In: Eitelmann, M. Haumann, D. (Hgg): Extravagant Morphology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 181-205. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.223.08ken
New publication by Corinna Langer and Frank Kügler:
Langer, C., & Kügler, F. (2022). Focus and Prosodic Cues in Hungarian Noun Phrases. In Proc. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) (pp. 219-223).
New publication by Corinna Langer:
Balogh, Kata and Langer, Corinna. “Additive particles, prosodic structure and focus sensitivity in Hungarian” Linguistics, vol. 60, no. 1, 2022, pp. 277-314. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0189
New publication by Frank Kügler:
Citation: Kügler, F. (2022): Phrase-Level ATR Vowel Harmony in Anum—A Case of Recursive Prosodic Phrasing. Languages 2022, 7(4), 308; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040308
New research project in ViCom by Frank Kügler:
“Co-speech gestures and prosody as multimodal markers of information structure” (PI: Prof. Dr. Frank Kügler (Goethe University) & Prof. Dr. Pilar Prieto Vives (UPF Barcelona); Beginn: Oktober 2022).
New research project in ViCom by Cornelia Ebert:
“Visual and Non-visual Means of Perspective Taking in Language” (PI: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert (Goethe University) & Prof. Dr. Stefan Hinterwimmer (University of Wuppertal); Beginn: Oktober 2022).
New publication by Frank Kügler:
Wang B, Kügler F and Genzel S (2022) The interaction of focus and phrasing with downstep and post-low-bouncing in Mandarin Chinese. Front. Psychol. 13:884102. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.884102