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 Aybüke Özgün & Yulia Zinova (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 Patrick Georg Grosz & Luisa Marti & Hazel Pearson & Yasutada Sudo & Sarah Zobel (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. Presented at the Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 12, 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 Elisabeth Bogal-Allbritten & Elisabeth Coppock (eds.), Proceedings of TripleA 4,Gothenburg, 1–16. Universität Tübingen. Retrieved from https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/83114
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
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. & Tönnis, Swantje & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2018. An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in es-clefts. In Rob Truswell (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
Tönnis, Swantje & Fricke, Lea & Schreiber, Alexander. 2018. Methodological Considerations on Testing Argument Asymmetry in German Cleft Sentences. In Eric Fuß & Marek Konopka & Beata Trawiński & Ulrich H. Waßner (eds.), Grammar and Corpora 2016, 231--240. Heidelberg University Publishing. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.361.509
Tönnis, Swantje & Fricke, Lea M. & Schreiber, Alexander. 2016. Argument Asymmetry in German Cleft Sentences. In Marisa Köllner & Ramon Ziai (eds.) 208–218. Presented at the Student Session at the 28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2016), 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 Sarah D’Antonio & Mary Moroney & Carol Rose Little (eds.) 373–393. Presented at the Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT) 25, 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 presented at the Sprachwissenschaftliche Vorträge am Institut für Germanistik Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Fricke, Lea & Blok, Dominique. 2019, November. Exhaustiveness in embedded questions. An experimental comparison of four predicates of embedding. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2019, ZAS Berlin.
Fricke, Lea & Bombi, Carla & Zimmermann, Malte & Onea, Edgar. 2019, September. New evidence for intermediate exhaustive readings of wh-questions. Talk presented at the 3rd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2019), Cagliari, Italien. Retrieved from https://osf.io/8sxum/
Zimmermann, Malte & Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar. 2019, September. Embedded Questions are exhaustive, alright, but... Talk presented at the 13th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, 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 presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 24, 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 presented at the Evening lecture at the DGfS Summerschool 2019 “Experimental Pragmatics: Theory, Methods, Interfaces”, 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 presented at the 13th  International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Budapest.
Fricke, Lea. 2019, June. Exhaustivität eingebetteter Fragen. Talk presented at the Linguistisches Kolloquium, Graz University.
Onea, Edgar. 2019, June. Hungarian Focus and It-clefts in English are the same. Invited talk presented at the International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 14, 2019, Potsdam, Germany.
Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar. 2019, April. Testing exhaustive readings of embedded questions. Talk presented at the Workshop on New approaches to focus and related phenomena, 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 presented at the Department of English, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
Fricke, Lea & Bombi, Carla & Zimmermann, Malte & Onea, Edgar. 2018, October. Exhaustivity in German embedded questions: Experimental evidence. Talk presented at the 44th Generative Grammatik des Südens (GGS), Universität Potsdam.
Zimmermann, Malte. 2018, September. Embedded wh-questions as definites and the import of question particles. Invited talk presented at the UBC Linguistics Colloquium, Vancouver.
Bombi, Carla & Grubic, Mira & Renans, Agata & Duah, Reginald. 2018, September. The semantics of the clausal determiner no ́ in Akan (Kwa). Talk presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 23, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Zimmermann, Malte. 2018, June. Embedded wh-questions as definites and the import of question particles. Invited talk presented at the Inquisitive Semantics Colloquium, 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 presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2018, Graz, Austria.
Zimmermann, Malte. 2018, June. Embedded wh-questions as  definites and the import of question particles. Invited talk presented at the Workshop on M​eaning i​n non-canonical Q​uestions, 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 presented at the Syn-Sem Colloquium, Potsdam University, Germany.
Tönnis, Swantje. 2018, March. AG 2 Investigating the Distribution of Clefts in Written and Spoken German: The Role of Prosody. Talk presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Universität Stuttgart. Retrieved from https://www.dgfs2018.uni-stuttgart.de/arbeitsgruppen/ag-2/dgfs2018-AG02-Toennis.pdf
Fricke, Lea & Bombi, Carla. 2018, February. Exhaustivity of wh-interrogatives embedded under German ‘wissen’ (know). Talk presented at the 19th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poręba, Poland.
Onea, Edgar. 2018, February. Exhaustivity Inferences with Focus. Talk presented at the Workshop on Uncertainty in Meaning and Representation in Linguistics and Philosophy, Jelenia Góra, 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 presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2017, 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 presented at the 13 International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, 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 presented at the Workshop on Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA 4), 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 presented at the Workshop “Non-At-Issue Meaning and Information Structure”, 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 presented at the Workshop “Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions”, University of Genoa.
Renans, Agata & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2017, March. it-Clefts with Collective and Distributive Interpretation: Experimental Studies. Talk presented at the Workshop “Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions”, University of Genoa.
Onea, Edgar. 2017, March. Projective exhaustivity in clefts. Talk presented at the Workshop “Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions”, University of Genoa.
Tönnis, Swantje & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2017, March. Experimental investigations on exhaustivity in Hungarian preverbal Focus. Talk presented at the 18th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, 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 presented at the Workshop on Cross-linguistic Pragmatics, 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 presented at the International Workshop on Non-Prototypical Clefts, 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 presented at the International Workshop on Non-Prototypical Clefts, 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 presented at the Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, Potsdam University, Germany.
Renans, Agata & DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2016, December. Exhaustivity in it -Clefts with Collective and Distributive Predicates: An Experimental Study. Talk presented at the Workshop on Clefts, Göttingen.
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 presented at the Workshop on Clefts, Universität 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 presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 21, 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 presented at the Experimental Approaches to Semantics Workshop at ESSLLI 2015, 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 presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2016, 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 presented at the Syntax-Semantics Colloquium in the linguistics department, 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 presented at the 31st Annual meeting of the “Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics" (IATL 31), 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 presented at the Workshop on Experimental Pragmatics at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2015), 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 presented at the Syntax-Semantics Colloquium (SynSem), Potsdam University.
DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. 2015, June. It-Cleft Exhaustivity: Empirical Investigations. Talk presented at the Workshop on Exhaustivity Effects in Cleft Sentences, 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 presented at the Workshop on Questions in Discourse, Universität Göttingen, Germany.

Posters

Zimmermann, Malte. 2020, August. Fake tense in Hausa counterfactuals: A novel argument for underspecified EXCL. Poster presented at the Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT) 30, 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 presented at the Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT) 30, Virtually at Cornell University, New York.
Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar. 2020, March. Exhaustivity of embedded questions under know, predict, agree and surprise. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 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 presented at the 42th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Hamburg.
Zimmermann, Malte & Paape, Dario. 2019. Conditionals on crutches: Expanding the modal horizon. Poster presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 24, Universität Osnabrück.
Kiziltan, Sybille. 2018, May. The influence of visual salience on the exhaustivity of clefts and definite descriptions in German. Poster presented at the 2nd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2018), Pavia, Italy.
Bombi, Carla. 2018, May. Definiteness in Akan (Kwa): familiarity and uniqueness revisited. Poster presented at the Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT) 28, 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 presented at the conference Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory, University of Tübingen.
Bombi, Carla & Fricke, Lea & Onea, Edgar & Zimmermann, Malte. 2017, September. Exhaustiveness in embedded questions across languages. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2017, 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 presented at the GLOW in Asia, 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 presented at the 6th international conference Grammar and Corpora, 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 presented at the Student Session at the 28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2016), Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy.
Mucha, Anne. 2016, June. Quantifiers, pronouns, and cross–linguistic variation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2016, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Onea, Edgar & Mayerhofer, Bastian. 2015, July. Indefinites and questions. An experimental approach. Poster presented at the 6th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, XPRAG 2015, 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 presented at the 6th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, XPRAG 2015, 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 presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2015, 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 presented at the Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT) 25, Stanford University.
Roeser, Jens & Shipova, Evgeniya & Vasishth, Shravan & Zimmermann, Malte. 2015, March. Locality rules out variable binding in coreference resolution. Poster presented at the 28thAnnual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Southern California.