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Desintegration attributiver Adjektivphrasen (Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 2025)

Sayatz, Ulrike & Roland Schäfer. 2025. Desintegration attributiver Adjektivphrasen. In Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (angenommen).

Abstract

This paper examines graphemic ways of marking constituents as syntactically non-integrated despite a strong default reading as fully integrated. Specifically, we look at canonically positioned pre-nominal APs in German which can be marked as non-integrated through punctuation marks such as commas, dashes, and parentheses (as well as prosodically though pauses and intonation curves). We present  evidence (from an elicitation experiment and a large-scale corpus study) for influencing factors triggering the use of the aforementioned punctuation marks as well as for their functional differentiation. The paper is written from the perspective of Probabilistic Graphemics, a production-oriented framework dedicated to decoding the mapping of grammatical categories onto graphemic usage, which is derived from usage-based approaches.

Situating language register … (Frontiers)

Pescuma, Valentina N. & Serova, Dina & Lukassek, Julia & Sauermann, Antje & Schäfer, Roland & Adli, Aria & Bildhauer, Felix & Egg, Markus & Hülk, Kristina & Ito, Aine & Jannedy, Stefanie & Kordoni, Valia & Kühnast, Milena & Kutscher, Silvia & Lange, Robert & Lehmann, Nico & Liu, Mingya & Lütke, Beate & Maquate, Katja & Mooshammer, Christine & Mortezapour, Vahid & Müller, Stefan & Norde, Muriel & Pankratz, Elizabeth & Patarroyo, Angela G. & Pleșca, Ana-Maria & Ronderos, Camilo R. & Rotter, Stephanie & Sauerland, Uli & Schnelle, Gohar & Schulte, Britta & Schüppenhauer, Gediminas & Sell, Bianca Maria & Solt, Stephanie & Terada, Megumi & Tsiapou, Dimitra & Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Weirich, Melanie & Wiese, Heike & Zaruba, Kathy & Zeige, Lars Erik & Lüdeling, Anke & Knoeferle, Pia (2022) “Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, & cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods”, Frontiers in Psychology 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964658 Continue reading

The plural interpretability of German linking elements (Morphology)

Roland Schäfer & Elizabeth Pankratz (2018) The plural interpretability of German linking elements. Morphology 28(4), 325–358. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-018-9331-5 (Click the title for online reading, click the DOI for official bibliographic information.) [BibTeX]

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