Project & project-relevant publications

Bayer, Josef. to appear. From the adjunction theory to the head theory of particles. In: CP and DP Adjunction, ed. by Maria Goldbach & Pilar Larrañaga. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Viesel, Yvonne & Constantin Freitag. to appear. Wer kann 'denn schon ja' sagen?: Natural and

experimental data on German discourse particles in rhetorical questions. Zeitschrift für

Sprachwissenschaft.

Dörre, Laura & Andreas Trotzke. in press. The processing of secondary meaning: An experimental

comparison of focus and modal particles in wh-questions. In Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay

(eds.), Secondary Content: The Linguistics of Side Issues. Leiden: Brill.

Bayer, Josef. 2019. Why doubling discourse particles? In: Ludovico Franco & Paolo Lorusso (eds.). Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation. Contributions In Honor of M. Rita Manzini. Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 132. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Bayer, Josef. 2018a. A comparative note on the Bangla particle to and the German particle doch. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Angelika Kratzer FestSite. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=ak_festsite_writings

Bayer, Josef. 2018b. Reparatur in der Grammatik. Anmerkungen zum Sprachdesign. In: Elisabeth Leiss & Sonja Zeman (eds.), Die Zukunft von Grammatik - die Grammatik der Zukunft. Festschrift für Werner Abraham anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 51-74.

Bayer, Josef. 2018c. Criterial freezing in the syntax of particles. In J. Hartmann, M. Jäger, A. Kehl, A. Konietzko & S. Winkler (eds.), Freezing: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Domains. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 225-263.

Broekhuis, Hans & Josef Bayer. 2018. Sluicing and gapping: ellipsis or selective spell-out? lingbuzz/

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Dörre, Laura, Anna Czypionka, Andreas Trotzke & Josef Bayer. 2018. The processing of German modal particles and their counterparts. Linguistische Berichte 255, 58-91.

Trotzke, Andreas. 2018. DP-internal modal particles: A case study of German ja. Studia Linguistica

72, 322-339.

Bayer, Josef. 2017a. Prima la musica, dopo le parole: A small note on a big topic. In: Gautam Sengupta, Shruti Sircar, Madhavi Gayathri Raman & Rahul Balusu (eds.) Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax: Essays in Honour of R. Amritavalli. Singapore: Springer. 195-213.

Bayer, Josef. 2017b. Clitic denn and wh-movement. In Clemens Mayr & Edwin Williams (eds.) Festschrift für Martin Prinzhorn. Wiener Linguistische Gazette 82. 1-11.

Bayer, J. & Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng. 2017. Wh-in-situ. In: Martin Everaert & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.). The Blackwell Companion to Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell. 4979-5022.

Bayer, Josef & Volker Struckmeier (eds.) 2017. Discourse Particles: Formal Approaches to their Syntax and Semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Quaglia, Stefano & Andreas Trotzke. 2017. Italian verb particles and clausal positions. MIT Working

Papers in Linguistics 82, 67-82.

Trotzke, Andreas. 2017a. The Grammar of Emphasis: From Information Structure to the Expressive Dimension. Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 131. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Trotzke, Andreas. 2017b. German grammar and mirativity: Experimental evidence. Review of

Cognitive Linguistics 15, 460-488.

Trotzke, Andreas & Eva Wittenberg. 2017. Expressive particle verbs and conditions on particle fronting. Journal of Linguistics 53, 407-435.

Bayer, Josef & Probal Dasgupta. 2016. Emphatic topicalization and the structure of the left periphery: Evidence from German and Bangla. Syntax 19, 309-353.

Bayer, Josef, Jana Häussler & Markus Bader. 2016. A new diagnostic for cyclic wh-movement: Discourse particles in German questions. Linguistic Inquiry 47, 591-629.

Trotzke, Andreas & Stefano Quaglia. 2016. Particle topicalization and German clause structure. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 19, 109-141. DOI: 10.1007/s10828-016-9080-y.

Trotzke, Andreas & Giuseppina Turco. 2015. The grammatical reflexes of emphasis: Evidence from German wh-questions. Lingua 168, 37-56.

Viesel, Yvonne. 2015. Discourse structure and syntactic embedding: The German discourse particle ja. Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, 418-427.

Trotzke, Andreas. 2015. Rethinking Syntactocentrism: Architectural Issues and Case Studies at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.

Trotzke, Andreas, Stefano Quaglia & Eva Wittenberg. 2015. Topicalization in German particle verb constructions: The role of semantic transparency. Linguistische Berichte 244, 407-424.

Trotzke, Andreas. 2015. DP-internal discourse particles, expressive content, and illocutionary force. Grazer Linguistische Studien 83, 91-104.

Bayer, Josef, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke (eds.). 2015. Discourse-oriented Syntax. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.

Bayer, Josef & Andreas Trotzke. 2015. The derivation and interpretation of left peripheral discourse particles. In Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke (eds.), Discourse-oriented Syntax, 13-40. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.

Bayer, Josef, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke. 2015. Issues in discourse-oriented syntax. In Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke (eds.), Discourse-oriented Syntax, 1-12. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Bayer, Josef. 2012. From modal particle to interrogative marker: A study of German denn. In Laura Brugé, Anna Cardinaletti, Giuliana Giusti, Nicola Munaro & Cecilia Poletto (eds.), Functional Heads, 13-28. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Trotzke, Andreas. 2012. Review of Lieven Danckaert, Latin Embedded Clauses: The Left Periphery. Amsterdam: Benjamins. The LINGUIST List 23.4367.

Bayer, Josef & Hans-Georg Obenauer. 2011. Discourse particles, clause structure, and question types. The Linguistic Review 28, 449-491.

Viesel, Yvonne. 2011. glaubt er, glaub ich, glaub: Integrierte V1-Parenthesen, Extraktion aus V2-Komplementen, Grammatikalisierung. Linguistische Berichte 226, 129-169.

Bayer, Josef. 2010. Wh-drop and recoverability. In Jan-Wouter Zwart & Mark de Vries (eds.), Structure Preserved: Studies in Syntax for Jan Koster, 31-39. Amsterdam & Philadelphia:  Benjamins.

Trotzke, Andreas. 2010a. Rethinking syntactocentrism: Lessons from recent generative approaches to pragmatic properties of left-periphery-movement in German. Dissertation, University of Freiburg.

Trotzke, Andreas. 2010b. Rethinking syntactocentrism: An architectural view on minimalist approaches to German left peripheral focus. In Johannes Haack, Heike Wiese, Andreas Abraham & Christian Chiarcos (eds.), Proceedings of KogWis 2010. 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science. Potsdam: Potsdam University Press.

Bayer, Josef. 2001. Asymmetry in emphatic topicalization. In Caroline Féry & Wolfgang Sternefeld (eds.), Audiatur Vox Sapientiae: A Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow, 15-47. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.

Bayer, Josef. 1999. Bound focus or how can association with focus be achieved without going semantically astray? In Georges Rebuschi & Laurice Tuller (eds.), The Grammar of Focus, 55-82. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.

Talks

Josef Bayer, Particles ex-situ in Emphatic Wh-Questions. GLOW 41. Budapest. Workshop The grammar and pragmatics of interrogatives and their (special) uses. Saturday, 14 April 2018.

Viesel, Yvonne & Constantin Freitag. On the application of multiple discourse particles in

rhetorical questions. [Poster] Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, 15-17 February 2018.

Andreas Trotzke, Approaching the pragmatics of exclamations experimentally. XPrag 2017, U Cologne, 21 - 23 June 2017.

Andreas Trotzke, The grammar of not-at-issue meaning. Lecture series, U Sorbonne Paris Cité/CNRS, April - May 2017.

Anna Czypionka, Josef Bayer, Maribel Romero & Carsten Eulitz, The licensing of discourse particles in complex questions: Evidence from graded judgments and event-related potentials. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, 30 March - 1 April 2017.

Andreas Trotzke, The interaction between scalar particles and illocutionary force in imperatives. BLS 43, University of California, Berkeley, 3 - 5 February 2017.

Yvonne Viesel & Constantin Freitag, The discourse particle ja in questions? Natural findings and experimental evidence. Workshop on Discourse Particles in the Context of Current Linguistic Research, U Konstanz, 30 January 2017.

Andreas Trotzke, Neue Perspektiven auf die Syntax-Pragmatik-Schnittstelle, LMU Munich, 16 December 2016.

Andreas Trotzke, ??Trag ausgerechnet in Stuttgart vor! Zur Interaktion von Illokution und skalaren Partikeln, U Stuttgart, 13 December 2016.

Josef Bayer & Uwe Braun, German discourse particles in sentential infinitives. 31st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW), U Stellenbosch, 2 - 3 December 2016.

Andreas Trotzke, The syntax of discourse particles, Stanford University, 11 November 2016.

Josef Bayer, From the Adjunction Theory to the Head Theory of Particles. Workshop DP and CP-Adjunction – and beyond: Interrelation between Syntactic Operations and Semantic / Pragmatic Features, 6-8 October 2016, University of Hamburg [invited lecture].

Andreas Trotzke, The grammar of emphasis: New evidence from German, ZAS Berlin, 27 June 2016.

Andreas Trotzke, Expressive particle verbs at the syntax-semantics interface, Stanford University,

24 May 2016.

Josef Bayer, Reparatur in der Grammatik. Anmerkungen zum Sprachdesign / Repair in Grammar. Notes on the Design of Language. Die Zukunft von Grammatik - Die Grammatik der Zukunft. Symposium anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags von Werner Abraham. 12.-13.02.2016. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. [invited lecture].

Yvonne Viesel, Information structure in (embedded) discourse supplements: The German discourse particle ja. 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, 16-18 December 2015.

Andreas Trotzke, The grammar of emphasis: From information structure to the expressive dimension, University of Tübingen, 10 November 2015.

Andreas Trotzke & Stefano Quaglia, Topicalization patterns of expressive particle verbs: Comparative evidence from German and Italian. 31st Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL 31), Bar Ilan University, 13-14 October 2015.

Andreas Trotzke & Stefano Quaglia, Emphasis and the syntax of particle verbs. 8th SinFonIJA, University of Ljubljana, 24-26 September 2015.

Andreas Trotzke, O‘zapft is! Die Grammatik der Emphase. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 22 July 2015.

Josef Bayer, Keio lectures: Minimalist explorations of the clausal periphery. Keio University, Tokyo,

18 July 2015.

Josef Bayer, Criterial Freezing in the Syntax of Particles. Workshop on Freezing: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Domains. 3-4 July 2015, University of Tübingen.

Andreas Trotzke, Expressive particle verbs as a distinct grammatical class. U Stuttgart, 1 June 2015.

Josef Bayer, Movement and scope in wh-questions with discourse particles. The 30th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 30), University of Chicago, 22-23 May 2015.

Andreas Trotzke, Emphasis and left peripheral particles in German. The 30th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 30), University of Chicago, 22-23 May 2015.

Laura Dörre, Andreas Trotzke, Anna Czypionka & Josef Bayer, The at-issue and non-at-issue meaning of modal particles and their counterparts. 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, USC Los Angeles, 19-21 March 2015.

Andreas Trotzke & Giuseppina Turco, From information structure to the expressive dimension. 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, USC Los Angeles, 19-21 March 2015.

Andreas Trotzke, The grammar of emotions: Word order, particles, and emphasis. UC San Diego, 17 March 2015.

Andreas Trotzke, Mirativity, emphasis, and German word order. International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages, Universidad Complutense Madrid, 6-8 October 2014.

Laura Dörre, Josef Bayer & Andreas Trotzke, Modal particles and their homonyms: Meaning frequency and interpretation. Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference (ERP) 2014, U Madrid, 1-3 October 2014.

Andreas Trotzke & Yvonne Viesel, DP-internal discourse particles, illocutionary force, and specificity. 7th SinFonIJA, University of Graz, 25-27 September 2014.

Andreas Trotzke, Die Grammatik der Emotionen: Über emphatische Wortstellungen im Deutschen, University of Vienna, 23 September 2014.

Andreas Trotzke & Yvonne Viesel, DP-internal discourse particles: The case of ja. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2014), University of Oxford, 1-5 September 2014.

Josef Bayer, Messages from the Bavarian clitic -n. International Conference on Generative Linguistics and Philosophy in Honor of Günther Grewendorf. University of Frankfurt, 27-29 June 2014.  

Andreas Trotzke, Giuseppina Turco & Josef Bayer, Left peripheral particles, syntactic constituency, and emphasis, Exploring the Interfaces 3: Prosodic and Constituent Structure, McGill University, 8-10 May 2014.

Andreas Trotzke, Left peripheral particles, successive-cyclic movement, and emphasis, 36th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), University of Marburg, 5-7 March 2014.

Andreas Trotzke & Yvonne Viesel, DP-internal discourse particles, illocutionary force, and specificity, 40th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG 40), University of Trento, 13-15 February 2014.

Josef Bayer, Probal Dasgupta & Sibansu Mukhopadhyay, Functional structure and the Bangla discourse particle to, 30th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA 30), University of Hyderabad, 6-8 February 2014.

Bayer, Josef & Laura Dörre, German adverbs and discourse particles: Corpus-linguistic investigations, Schloss Freudental, 25 January 2014.

Trotzke, Andreas & Yvonne Viesel, Discourse particles in the German DP, Schloss Freudental, 25 January 2014.

Bayer, Josef & Andreas Trotzke, Clause structure & utterance meaning: Word order, particles, emphasis, Schloss Freudental, 24 January 2014.

Trotzke, Andreas & Giuseppina Turco, Left peripheral discourse particles and emphasis: A pilot study, Phonology Colloquium, University of Konstanz, 19 December 2013.

Bayer, Josef, Syntaktische Architektur und syntaktische Prozesse bei Modalpartikeln, University of Cologne, 30 October 2013.

Bayer, Josef & Andreas Trotzke, Discourse particles, successive-cyclic movement, and the nature of derivations, University of Venice (Ca‘Foscari di Venezia), 3 October 2013.

Bayer, Josef & Andreas Trotzke, Discourse particles and successive-cyclic movement, Syntax Colloquium, University of Konstanz, 25 June 2013.

Bayer, Josef & Andreas Trotzke, Ist Emphase ein Merkmal der Grammatik? [Is emphasis encoded in grammar?] Syntax Colloquium, University of Konstanz, 10 July 2012.