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Publications

Books

• To Appear 2010. Grammatiktheorie: Von der Transformationsgrammatik zur beschränkungsbasierten Grammatik. Stauffenburg Einführungen Nr. , Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
• 2007. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Eine Einführung. Stauffenburg Einführungen, No. 17, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
• 2002. Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German. Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism, No. 13, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• 1999. Deutsche Syntax deklarativ. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar für das Deutsche. Linguistische Arbeiten, No. 394, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag.
• 1994. Computerlinguistik und Prolog – Teil I Syntax. Lecture Notes Computational Linguistics. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Habilitationsschrift, Dissertation, and Diploma Thesis

• 2000. Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German, Habilitationsschrift, Universität des Saarlandes, Philosophische Fakultät II, Saarbrücken.
• 1997. Spezifikation und Verarbeitung deutscher Syntax in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Dissertation, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken. A completely revised version that was extended more than hundret pages appeared 1999 as Deutsche Syntax deklarativ.
• 1993. Ein HPSG-Fragment für das Deutsche. Morphologie, Grammatik, Parser und Dialogkomponente in Prolog. Diplomarbeit, Informatik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Journal Articles

• To Appear 2010. Persian Complex Predicates and the Limits of Inheritance-Based Analyses. Journal of Linguistics 46(2).
• 2006. Phrasal or Lexical Constructions? Language 82(4), pages 850–883.
• 2005. Zur Analyse der scheinbar mehrfachen Vorfeldbesetzung. Linguistische Berichte 203, pages 29–62.
• 2005. Zur Analyse der deutschen Satzstruktur. Linguistische Berichte 201, pages 3–39.
• 2004. Continuous or Discontinuous Constituents? A Comparison between Syntactic Analyses for Constituent Order and Their Processing Systems. Research on Language and Computation 2(2), pages 209–257.
• 2004. Complex NPs, Subjacency, and Extraposition. Snippets 8, pages 10–11.
• 2003. Mehrfache Vorfeldbesetzung. Deutsche Sprache 31(1), pages 29–62.
• 2003. The Morphology of German Particle Verbs: Solving the Bracketing Paradox. Journal of Linguistics 39(2), pages 275–325.
• 1999. An HPSG-Analysis for Free Relative Clauses in German. Grammars 2(1), pages 53–105.

Book Chapters

• To Appear. German: A Grammatical Sketch, In Artemis Alexiadou and Tibor Kiss (Eds): Syntax. An International Handbook, Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Verlag.
• To Appear. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, In Artemis Alexiadou and Tibor Kiss (Eds): Syntax. An International Handbook, Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Verlag.
• 2009. together with Walt Detmar Meurers. Corpora and Syntax, In Anke Lüdeling und Merja Kytö (Eds): Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook, Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 29.2, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Verlag.
• 2008. Depictive Secondary Predicates in German and English. In Christoph Schroeder, Gerd Hentschel und Winfried Boeder (Eds): Secondary Predicates in Eastern European Languages and beyond, Studia Slavica Oldenburgensia, No. 16, Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, pages 255–273.
• 2007. Qualitative Korpusanalyse für die Grammatiktheorie: Introspektion vs. Korpus, In Gisela Zifonun and Werner Kallmeyer (Eds): Sprachkorpora – Datenmengen und Erkenntnisfortschritt. Institut für Deutsche Sprache Jahrbuch 2006, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pages 70–90.
• 2006a. Complex Predicates, In Brown, Keith (Ed): Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics – 2nd Edition, Elsevier: Oxford, pages 697–704.
• 2006b. Resultativkonstruktionen, Partikelverben und syntaktische vs. lexikonbasierte Konstruktionen. In Kerstin Fischer und Anatol Stefanowitsch (Eds): Konstruktionsgrammatik. Von der Anwendung zur Theorie, Stauffenburg Linguistik, No. 40, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, pages 177–202.
• 2005. Zur Analyse scheinbarer V3-Sätze In Franz-Josef d'Avis (Ed): Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie. Symposium Göteborg 13–15 Mai 2004, Göteborger Germanistische Forschungen.
• 2002a. Syntax or Morphology: German Particle Verbs Revisited, In Nicole Dehé, Ray Jackendoff, Andrew McIntyre und Silke Urban (Eds.): Verb-Particle Explorations, Interface Explorations, No. 1, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 119–139.
• 2002b. together with Andreas Witt. Grundlagen für den Computereinsatz in der Linguistik: Attribute, Werte, Unifikation. In Horst Müller (Ed): Arbeitsbuch Linguistik, UTB 2169, Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, pages 425–442.
• 2001. Case in German – Towards an HPSG-Analysis. In Tibor Kiss and Detmar Meurers (Eds.): Constraint-based Approaches to Germanic Syntax, Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism, No. 7. Stanford: CSLI-Publications, pages 217–255.
• 2000a. German Particle Verbs and the Predicate Complex. In Ronnie Cann, Claire Grover, and Philip Miller (Eds.): Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG. Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism. Stanford: CSLI-Publications, pages 215–229.
• 2000b. together with Walter Kasper. HPSG Analysis of German. In Wolfgang Wahlster (Ed): Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation, Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, pages 238–253.

Review Article

• 2005. Resultative Constructions: Syntax, World Knowledge, and Collocational Restrictions. Review of Hans C. Boas: A Constructional Approach to Resultatives. Studies in Language 29(3), pages 651–681.

Editorial Work

• 2009. The Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• 2008. The Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• 2007. The Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• 2006. The Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• 2005. The Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• 2004. The Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Center for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• 2003. Proceedings of the HPSG-2003 Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Refereed Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports

• To appear. Elliptical Constructions, Multiple Frontings, and Surface-Based Syntax In Gerhard Jäger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn und Shuly Winter (Eds): Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2004, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• 2009. Towards an HPSG Analysis of Maltese. In Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Beth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz und Martine Vanhove (Eds), Introducing Maltese linguistics. Papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (Bremen/Germany, 18–20 October, 2007) Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pages 83–112.
• 2007. The Grammix CD Rom. A Software Collection for Developing Typed Feature Structure Grammars. In Bender, Emily M. und Tracy Holloway King (Eds): Proceedings of the GEAF 2007 Workshop, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pages 259–266.
• 2007. Phrasal or Lexical Constructions? Some Comments on Underspecification of Constituent Order, Compositionality, and Control. In Stefan Müller (Ed): Proceedings of the HPSG-2007 Conference, Stanford Department of Linguistics and CSLI's LinGO Lab, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pages 373–393.
• 2004. An Analysis of Depictive Secondary Predicates in German without Discontinuous Constituents In Stefan Müller (Ed): Proceedings of the HPSG-2004 Conference, Center for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pages 202–222.
• 2003. Object-To-Subject-Raising and Lexical Rule. An Analysis of the German Passive. In Stefan Müller (Ed): Proceedings of the HPSG-2003 Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pages 278–297.
• 2002a. The Morphology of German Particle Verbs: Solving the Bracketing Paradox. In Frank van Eynde, Lars Hellan and Dorothee Beermann (Eds): Proceedings of the HPSG-2001 Conference, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pages 247–266.
• 2002b. Blockaden und Deblockaden: Perfekt, Passiv und modale Infinitive. In David Reitter (Ed), Tagungsband TaCoS 2002, Potsdam, pages 4–12.
• 2002c. Mehrfache Vorfeldbesetzung. In Stephan Busemann (Ed): Konvens 2002, 6. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache, Proceedings, Saarbrücken, pages 115–122.
• 2002d. mit Berthold Crysmann, Anette Frank, Bernd Kiefer, Günter Neumann, Jakub Piskorski, Ulrich Schäfer, Melanie Siegel, Hans Uszkoreit und Feiyu Xu An Integrated Archictecture for Shallow and Deep Processing. In 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the Conference
• 2002e. Multiple Frontings in German. In Gerhard Jäger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn, and Shuly Winter (Eds): Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2002, Trento.
• 2001. An HPSG Analysis of German Depictive Secondary Predicates, Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2001.
• 2000a. Continuous or Discontinuous Constituents? In Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers und Shuly Wintner (Eds): Proceedings of the Workshop Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation, pages 133–152, Birmingham.
• 2000b. Object-to-Subject Raising or Lexical Rule – An HPSG Analysis of the German Passive. In Werner Zühlke and Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini (Eds): KONVENS 2000 Sprachkommunikation. Berlin: VDE Verlag, pages 157–162.
• 2000c. The Passive as a Lexical Rule. In Flinkinger, Dan und Andreas Kathol (Eds): Proceedings of the HPSG-2000 Conference, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pages 247–266.
• 1999a. Syntactic Properties of German Particle Verbs. In Abstracts of HPSG 99, pages 83–88, Edinburgh.
• 1999b. Restricting Discontinuity. In Proceedings of the 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium 1999 (NLPRS '99), pages 85–90, Beijing.
• 1999c. Parsing of an HPSG Grammar for German: Word Order Domains and Discontinuous Constituents. In Jost Gippert and Peter Olivier (Eds): Multilinguale Corpora. Codierung, Strukturierung, Analyse, Prag: enigma corporation.
• 1998a. An HPSG-Analysis for Free Relative Clauses in German. Verbmobil Report 224, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Saarbrücken.
• 1998b. Case in German – An HPSG-Analysis. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Topics in Constraint-based Theories of Germanic Syntax, pages 113–132, Saarbrücken.
• 1997a. An HPSG-Analysis for Free Relative Clauses in German. In Proceedings of Formal Grammar 1997, pages 179–188, Aix-En-Provence.
• 1997b. Complement Extraction Lexical Rules and Argument Attraction. Research Report RR-97-08, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Saarbrücken.
• 1997c. Scrambling in German – Extraction into the Mittelfeld. Research Report RR-97-06, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Saarbrücken.
• 1997d. Subsumption or Unification – An HPSG-Analysis for Free Relative Clauses in German. In Proceedings of DGfS 1997, Heidelberg.
• 1997e. Yet Another Paper about Partial Verb Phrase Fronting in German. Research Report RR-97-07, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Saarbrücken.
• 1996a. The Babel-System – An HPSG Fragment for German, a Parser and a Dialog Component. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Practical Application of Prolog, pages 263–277, London.
• 1996b. Yet Another Paper about Partial Verb Phrase Fronting in German. In Proceedings of COLING 96, pages 800–805, Copenhagen.
• 1996c. Complement Extraction Lexical Rules and Argument Attraction. In Dafydd Gibbon, editor, Natural Language Processing and Speech Technology. Results of the 3rd KONVENS Conference, Bielefeld, October 1996, pages 223–236, Berlin, New York. Mouton de Gruyter.
• 1995. Scrambling in German – Extraction into the Mittelfeld. In Proceedings of the tenth Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Hong Kong.