ExCl/ExQ Publications

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Theses

DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2020, March 31. Cleft Exhaustivity: A Unified Approach To Inter-Speaker And Cross-Linguistic Variability. Universität Potsdam dissertation. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-44642
Pavlovic, Anna-Christina. 2020, January 6. The Interpretation of it-Clefts. Göttingen: Universität Göttingen dissertation. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-7785

Articles

Zimmermann, Malte & Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar. 2022. Embedded Questions are Exhaustive Alright, but…. In Özgün, Aybüke & Zinova, Yulia (eds.), Language, Logic, and Computation, Vol. 13206, 173–194. Cham: Springer International Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98479-3_9
Blok, Dominique & Chark, Jordan. 2021. Homogeneity and universal quantification in embedded questions. In Grosz, Patrick Georg & Marti, Luisa & Pearson, Hazel & Sudo, Yasutada & Zobel, Sarah (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, 148–168. University College London & Queen Mary University London. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.929
Chark, Jordan. 2021. The interaction of question particles and negation in embedded contexts: the case of “alles.” Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 30. 185. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v30i0.4814
Zimmermann, Malte. 2021. Fake tense in Hausa counterfactuals: A novel argument for underspecified EXCL. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 30. 125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v30i0.4808
Fricke, Lea. 2020. A southern German use of prefield-eses: Evidence from the corpus and an experimental study. Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft 39(1). 41–77. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2020-2012
Zimmermann, Malte & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar. 2020. (Non-)exhaustivity in focus partitioning across languages. In Approaches to Hungarian, 208–230. John Benjamins. Retrieved from https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027261601-atoh.16.10zim
Destruel, Emilie & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2019. (Non-)Exhaustivity in French c’est-Clefts. Paris. Retrieved from https://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2017/abstracts/Deveaugh-Geiss-Destruel.pdf
Renans, Agata & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2019. Experimental studies on it-clefts and predicate interpretation. Semantics & Pragmatics 12(11). 1–50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.12.11
Destruel, Emilie & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2018. On the interpretation and processing of exhaustivity: Evidence of variation in English and French clefts. Journal of Pragmatics 138. 1–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.09.009
Zimmermann, Malte. 2018. Embedded Questions and Concealed Relative Questions in Hausa and Akan. In Bogal-Allbritten, Elisabeth & Coppock, Elisabeth (eds.), Proceedings of TripleA 4,Gothenburg, 1–16. Universität Tübingen. Retrieved from https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/83114
Tönnis, Swantje & Fricke, Lea & Schreiber, Alexander. 2018. Methodological Considerations on Testing Argument Asymmetry in German Cleft Sentences. In Fuß, Eric & Konopka, Marek & Trawiński, Beata & Waßner, Ulrich H. (eds.), Grammar and Corpora 2016, 231--240. Heidelberg University Publishing. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.361.509
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2018. An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in es-clefts. In Truswell, Rob (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Vol. 1, 347–366. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/142
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2018. That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non‑)exhaustivity in clefts. Semantics and Pragmatics 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.11.3
Tönnis, Swantje & Fricke, Lea M. & Schreiber, Alexander. 2016. Argument Asymmetry in German Cleft Sentences. In Köllner, Marisa & Ziai, Ramon (eds.) 208–218. Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Retrieved from https://esslli2016.unibz.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/esslli-stus-2016-proceedings.pdf
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Zimmermann, Malte & Onea, Edgar & Boell, Anna-Christina. 2015. Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: An empirical study. In D’Antonio, Sarah & Moroney, Mary & Little, Carol Rose (eds.) 373–393. Stanford University. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v25i0.3054

Talks

Fricke, Lea. 2020, February. Experimental investigations into exhaustivity of embedded questions. Invited talk, Research institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
Fricke, Lea. 2019, December. Die Interpretation eingebetteter Fragen. Vier Einbettungsverben im experimentellen Vergleich. Invited talk, Leipzig, Germany.
Fricke, Lea & Blok, Dominique. 2019, November. Exhaustiveness in embedded questions. An experimental comparison of four predicates of embedding. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Fricke, Lea & Bombi, Carla & Zimmermann, Malte & Onea, Edgar. 2019, September. New evidence for intermediate exhaustive readings of wh-questions. Talk, Cagliari, Italien. Retrieved from https://osf.io/8sxum/
Zimmermann, Malte & Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar. 2019, September. Embedded Questions are exhaustive, alright, but... Talk, Tsikhisdziri. Retrieved from https://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2019/uploaded_files/inlineitem/ZimmermannFrickeOnea.pdf
Zimmermann, Malte & Philipp, Mareike. 2019, September. Empirical Investigations on Quantifier Scope Ambiguities in German. Talk, Universität Osnabrück.
Zimmermann, Malte. 2019, August. How much do we know when we know who went to the party? Experimental investigations into the exhaustivity of embedded questions and the modulating effect of particles. Invited talk, ZAS Berlin.
Zimmermann, Malte & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar. 2019, June. (Non-)Exhaustivity in Focus Partitioning: A cross-linguistic investigation on exhaustivity. Invited talk, Budapest.
Fricke, Lea. 2019, June. Exhaustivität eingebetteter Fragen. Talk, Graz University.
Onea, Edgar. 2019, June. Hungarian Focus and It-clefts in English are the same. Invited talk, Potsdam, Germany.
Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar. 2019, April. Testing exhaustive readings of embedded questions. Talk, Graz University.
Zimmermann, M. & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, S. & Onea, E. 2019, January. (Non-) exhaustivity in focus partitioning:A cross-linguistic experimental investigation of exhaustivity in cleft structures. Invited talk, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
Fricke, Lea & Bombi, Carla & Zimmermann, Malte & Onea, Edgar. 2018, October. Exhaustivity in German embedded questions: Experimental evidence. Talk, Universität Potsdam.
Zimmermann, Malte. 2018, September. Embedded wh-questions as definites and the import of question particles. Invited talk, Vancouver.
Bombi, Carla & Grubic, Mira & Renans, Agata & Duah, Reginald. 2018, September. The semantics of the clausal determiner no ́ in Akan (Kwa). Talk, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Zimmermann, Malte. 2018, June. Embedded wh-questions as definites and the import of question particles. Invited talk, ILLC, Amsterdam.
Bombi, Carla & Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2018, June. Experimental evidence concerning the exhaustivity of wh-interrogatives embedded under German “wissen” (know). Talk, Graz, Austria.
Zimmermann, Malte. 2018, June. Embedded wh-questions as  definites and the import of question particles. Invited talk, Konstanz,FOR211.
Bombi, Carla & Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2018, May. Exhaustivity in questions: Two pilot studies on interrogatives embedded under German “wissen” (know). Talk, Potsdam University, Germany.
Tönnis, Swantje. 2018, March. AG 2 Investigating the Distribution of Clefts in Written and Spoken German: The Role of Prosody. Talk, Universität Stuttgart. Retrieved from https://www.dgfs2018.uni-stuttgart.de/arbeitsgruppen/ag-2/dgfs2018-AG02-Toennis.pdf
Onea, Edgar. 2018, February. Exhaustivity Inferences with Focus. Talk, Jelenia Góra, Poland.
Fricke, Lea & Bombi, Carla. 2018, February. Exhaustivity of wh-interrogatives embedded under German “wissen” (know). Talk, Szklarska Poręba, Poland.
Zimmermann, Malte & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Onea, Edgar & Tönnis, Swantje. 2017, September. (Non-) exhaustivity in focus partitioning: A cross-linguistic investigation of exhaustivity in Hungarian focus and clefts. Talk, Universität zu Köln.
Zimmermann, Malte & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Onea, Edgar & Tönnis, Swantje. 2017, June. On the (non-)exhaustivity of focus partitioning: A cross-linguistic investigation of exhaustivity in Hungarian focus and clefts. Invited talk, Budapest. Retrieved from https://www.nytud.hu/icsh13/venue.html
Zimmermann, Malte. 2017, June. Question embedding, concealed relative questions, and (non-)exhaustive interpretations: Insights from Hausa (Chadic) and Akan (Kwa)? Invited talk, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Retrieved from https://semanticsofaaa2017.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/mz-abstract.pdf
Onea, Edgar & Beaverdadd, David & Tonhauser, Judith. 2017, May. Less than total exhaustion: Why a non-at-issue-implication of identificational focus does’t project. Talk, University of Oslo.
Destruel Johnson, Emilie & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2017, March. Cross-linguistic Variation in the Interpretation and Processing of Cleft Exhaustivity: The Semantics- Pragmatics Debate Revisited. Talk, University of Genoa.
Renans, Agata & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2017, March. it-Clefts with Collective and Distributive Interpretation: Experimental Studies. Talk, University of Genoa.
Onea, Edgar. 2017, March. Projective exhaustivity in clefts. Talk, University of Genoa.
Tönnis, Swantje & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2017, March. Experimental investigations on exhaustivity in Hungarian preverbal Focus. Talk, Szklarska Poreba, Poland.
Renans, Agata & Bade, Nadine & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2017, January. Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatics: Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures in Ga (Kwa). Talk, ZAS Berlin.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2016, December. An Experimental Study on Number-based Implicatures in German es-Clefts and Definite Pseudoclefts. Talk, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Renans, Agata & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2016, December. Exhaustivity in it-Clefts with Collective and Distributive Predicates: An Experimental Study. Talk, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2016, December. An Experimental Study on Number-based Implicatures in German es-Clefts and Definite Pseudoclefts. Talk, Potsdam University, Germany.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2016, December. An Experimental Study on Number-based Implicatures in German es-Clefts and Definite Pseudoclefts. Talk, Universität Göttingen.
Renans, Agata & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2016, December. Exhaustivity in it -Clefts with Collective and Distributive Predicates: An Experimental Study. Talk, Göttingen.
Tönnis, Swantje & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2016, November. Experimental Investigations on Exhaustivity in German it-clefts and Hungarian Preverbal Focus. Talk, Institut of Theoretical Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2016, September. That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in it-clefts. Talk, University of Edinburgh.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte & Boell, Anna Christina. 2016, August. Empirical Insights On The Exhaustivity Inference In it-Clefts. Talk, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Onea, Edgar & Tönnis, Swantje & Zimmermann, Malte. 2016, June. That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in it-clefts. Talk, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2016, May. That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in clefts. Talk, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2016, April. That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in clefts. Talk, Linguistics Department, Universität Konstanz, Germany.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2016, March. Experimental Research In Semantics/Pragmatics Example Study: Exhaustivity in it-Clefts. Talk, Linguistics Department, University of Ghana at Legon, Ghana.
Zimmermann, Malte. 2015, October. Scalar Particles and the analysis of Contrastive Topics: A cross-linguistic investigation of English and Vietnamese. Invited talk, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte & Boell, Anna-Christina. 2015, September. Exhaustivity and at-issueness in it-clefts : An empirical study. Talk, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Zimmermann, Malte & Onea, Edgar & Tönnis, Swantje & Boell, Anna Christina. 2015, June. It-Cleft Exhaustivity: Empirical Investigations. Talk, Potsdam University.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2015, June. It-Cleft Exhaustivity: Empirical Investigations. Talk, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Zimmermann, Malte & Onea, Edgar & Tönnis, Swantje & Boell, Anna Christina. 2015, May. It-Cleft Exhaustivity: Empirical Investigations. Talk, Language Processing Lab, University of Southern California, USA.
Boell, Anna Christina & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2014, September. Exhaustiveness in It-Clefts (ExCl): A Proposal. Talk, Universität Göttingen, Germany.

Posters

Zimmermann, Malte. 2020, August. Fake tense in Hausa counterfactuals: A novel argument for underspecified EXCL. Poster, Virtually at Cornell University, New York. Retrieved from https://osf.io/wx9au/
Chark, Jordan. 2020, August. The interaction of question particles and negation in embedded contexts: the case of alles. Poster, Virtually at Cornell University, New York.
Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar. 2020, March. Exhaustivity of embedded questions under know, predict, agree and surprise. Poster, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved from https://osf.io/ubth9/
Fricke, Lea & Bombi, Carla & Blok, Dominique & Zimmermann, Malte. 2020, March. The pragmatic status of strong exhaustive readings of embedded questions. Poster, Hamburg.
Zimmermann, Malte & Paape, Dario. 2019. Conditionals on crutches: Expanding the modal horizon. Poster, Universität Osnabrück.
Kiziltan, Sybille. 2018, May. The influence of visual salience on the exhaustivity of clefts and definite descriptions in German. Poster, Pavia, Italy.
Bombi, Carla. 2018, May. Definiteness in Akan (Kwa): familiarity and uniqueness revisited. Poster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Bombi, Carla & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2018, February. Quantitative data in the field: a case study on Akan. Poster, University of Tübingen.
Bombi, Carla & Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2017, September. Exhaustiveness in embedded questions across languages. Poster, University of Cologne.
Bade, Nadine & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Renans, Agata. 2017, February. Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatics: Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures in Ga (Kwa). Poster, National University of Singapore. Retrieved from https://lingconf.com/glowinasia2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/11/renans-etal.pdf
Tönnis, Swantje & Fricke, Lea Marie & Schreiber, Alexander. 2016, November. Methodological Considerations on Testing Argument Asymmetry in German Cleft Sentences. Poster, Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim. Retrieved from https://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de/abstracts/FrickeToennis_GaC-2016_paper_43.pdf
Tönnis, Swantje & Fricke, Lea Marie & Schreiber, Alexander. 2016, August. Argument Asymmetry in German Cleft Sentences. Poster, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy.
Mucha, Anne. 2016, June. Quantifiers, pronouns, and cross–linguistic variation. Poster, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Onea, Edgar & Mayerhofer, Bastian. 2015, July. Indefinites and questions. An experimental approach. Poster, University of Chicago.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Zimmermann, Malte & Onea, Edgar & Boell, Anna-Christina. 2015, July. Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: An empirical study. Poster, Chicago.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte & Boell, Anna-Christina & Tönnis, Santje. 2015, June. Two Emprirical Studies On Exhaustivity Inferences & It-Clefts. Poster, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Zimmermann, Malte & Onea, Edgar & Boell, Anna. 2015, May. Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: an empirical study. Poster, Stanford University.
Roeser, Jens & Shipova, Evgeniya & Vasishth, Shravan & Zimmermann, Malte. 2015, March. Locality rules out variable binding in coreference resolution. Poster, University of Southern California.