Publications:

To appear/in prep.

· with Gisbert Fanselow and Jana Häussler (to appear): Constituent Order in Multiple Questions: Normal Order and (Apparent) Anti-Superiority Effects. In: Featherston, Sam, & Yannick Versley (eds.): Quantitative Approaches to Grammar and Grammatical Change (TiLSM 290). Berlin: DeGruyter, 33-50.

· with Anke Holler and Susanna Salem (under revision): Does narrative perspective influence readers’ spatial perspective-taking? — An empirical study on free indirect discourse, psycho-narration and first-person narration. Submitted to a Special Issue of Glossa on Perspective Taking, ed. by Stefan Hinterwimmer, Hannah Weilandt, and Petra Schumacher.

· with Robin Hörnig and Gert Webelhuth (under revision): On the contextual licensing of English locative inversion and topicalization. Submitted to Linguistic Evidence conference proceedings to appear with DeGruyter.

· with Tatjana Zybatow (under revision): Das Doppelperfekt: Theorie und Empirie. Submitted to Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft.

2016

· with Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe: Empirical Correlates of Narrative Closure. Special Issue of Diegesis on Empirical Approaches to Narrative, ed. by Marisa Bortolussi, Peter Dixon, and Roy Sommer. Available here: https://www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/diegesis/article/view/215

2015

· with Anke Holler and Susanna Salem: On the Processing of Free Indirect Discourse: First Results and Methodological Challenges. In: Annika Hübl und Markus Steinbach (Hrsg.). Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

2014

· Kurzrezension von Meindl, Claudia (2011): Methodik für Linguisten. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 33(2), 256-257.

2013

· with Jason Merchant, Lyn Frazier, and Charles Clifton, Jr.: Fragment answers to questions: A case of inaudible syntax. In: Goldstein, Laurence (ed.): Brevity. Oxford, UK: OUP, 21-35.

· with Barbara Höhle, Robin Hörnig, Selene Knauf and Agnes Krüger: Effects of information structure and definiteness on children’s word order: Evidence from 5-year old’s reproductions of double-object constructions. Journal of Child Language; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000913000196

· with Gisbert Fanselow and Jana Häussler: ̈aussler): Constituent Order in Multiple Questions: Normal Order and (Apparent) Anti-Superiority Effects. In: The Mind Research Repository (beta), Vol.1. Leipzig: Universit ̈at Leipzig.

2011

· with Gisbert Fanselow: On the Informativity of Different Measures of Linguistic Acceptability. Language, 87.2, 249-273. Prefinal draft: *.pdf.

· with Robin Hörnig, Gisbert Fanselow, and Reinhold Kliegl: Contextual Licensing of Marked OVS Word Order in German. Linguistische Berichte, 225, 3-18.

· with Gisbert Fanselow, Matthias Schlesewsky, and Ralf Vogel: Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German. Linguistics, 49, 657-683.

2010

· with Gisbert Fanselow: A Short Note on Long Movement in German. Linguistische Berichte, 222, 129-140.

2009

· with Robin Hörnig: Given and New Information in Spatial Statements. In: Féry, Caroline and Malte Zimmermann (eds.): Information Structure from Different Perspectives. OUP, 354-374.

· with Gisbert Fanselow: Scaling issues in the measurement of linguistic acceptability. In: Featherston, Sam and Susanne Winkler (eds.): The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics, Vol. I: Process. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 231-245.

· with Caroline Féry, Elsi Kaiser, Robin Hörnig und Reinhold Kliegl: Perception of intonation contours on given and new referents: a completion study and an eye-movement experiment. In: Boersma, Paul and Silke Hamann (eds.): Perception in Phonology. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

2008

· with Gisbert Fanselow: Variance and Informativity in Different Measures of Linguistic Acceptability. In: Abner, N. and Bishop, J. (Eds.): Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 431-439. pdf.

· with Stavros Skopeteas und Robin Hörnig: Contextual versus Inherent Properties of Entities in Space. Linguistische Berichte, 216, 431-454.

· with Gisbert Fanselow und Denisa Lenertová: Studies on the acceptability of object movement to Spec,CP. In: Steube, A. (ed.): The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 413-438.

2007

· with Joanna Blaszczak, Stefanie Dipper, Gisbert Fanselow, Shinichiro Ishihara, Svetlana Petrova, Stavros Skopeteas and Malte Zimmermann: Morphology. In: Dipper, Stefanie, Michael Götze, and Stavros Skopeteas (eds.): Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 7, 55-94. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

· with Joanna Blaszczak, Stefanie Dipper, Gisbert Fanselow, Shinichiro Ishihara, Svetlana Petrova, Stavros Skopeteas and Malte Zimmermann: Syntax. In: Dipper, Stefanie, Michael Götze, and Stavros Skopeteas (eds.): Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 7 (95-133). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

· with Michael Götze, Cornelia Endriss, Ines Fiedler, Stefan Hinterwimmer, Svetlana Petrova, Anne Schwarz, Stavros Skopeteas and Ruben Stoel: Information Structure. In: Dipper, Stefanie, Michael Götze, and Stavros Skopeteas (eds.): Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 7 (147-187). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

2005

· Stop Bashing Givenness! A Note on Elke Kasimir's ``Questions-Answers Test and Givenness''. In: Ishihara, Shinichiro, Michaela Schmitz, and Anne Schwarz (eds.): Approaches and Findings in Oral, Written and Gestural Language, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 3 (53-62). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

· with Robin Hörnig, Reinhold Kliegl und Gisbert Fanselow: Word order variation in spatial descriptions with adverbs. Memory and Cognition, 34, 131-139

2004

· Towards a Scalar Notion of Information Structural Markedness. In: Steube, Anita (ed., 2004): Information Structure: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects. Language, Context, and Cognition, Vol.1. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 195-210.

· Carla Umbach, Ina Mleinek, Christine Lehmann, Anita Steube und Kai Alter: Intonational Patterns in Contrast and Concession. In: Steube, Anita (ed., 2004): Information Structure: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects. Language, Context, and Cognition, Vol.1. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 277-305.

2003

· Information Structure as a Processing Guide: The Left Periphery of German V2 Sentences and its Interpretation in Context. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Leipzig. Download (1MB): diss.pdf

2002

· Movement to the Left Periphery and its Impact on Local Discourse Structure. In: Bende-Farkas, Agnes, and Arndt Riester (eds.): Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Structure in Context. Stuttgart: IMS, 247-258.