YesNo1/2 Publications

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Theses

Meijer, A. Marlijn. 2020. Propositional Anaphora. The case of embedded polar responses in Dutch and English. Universität zu Köln dissertation.

Articles

Loos, Cornelia & Steinbach, Markus & Repp, Sophie. 2020. Affirming and rejecting assertions in German Sign Language (DGS). In Michael Franke & Nikola Kompa & Mingya Liu & Jutta L. Mueller & Juliane Schwab (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Vol. 2, 1–19. Universität Osnabrück and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.883
Repp, Sophie & Meijer, A. Marlijn & Scherf, Nathalie. 2019. Responding to negative assertions in Germanic: On ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in English, Dutch and Swedish. In M. Teresa Espinal & Elena Castroviejo & Manuel Leonetti & Louise McNally & Cristina Real-Puigdollers (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Vol. 2, 267–286. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2019.v23i2.611
Claus, Berry & Frühauf, Felix & Krifka, Manfred. 2019. Interpreting polarity-ambiguous propositional anaphors with negative antecedents: some experimental results. In M. Teresa Espinal & Elena Castroviejo & Manuel Leonetti & Louise McNally & Cristina Real-Puigdollers (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Vol. 1, 267–284. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2019.v23i1.515
Meijer, Marlijn. 2018. The Pragmatics and Semantics of Embedded Polar Responses with English ‘so’. In Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 35, 269–279. Somerville, MA, USA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Retrieved from https://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/35/paper3398.pdf
Meijer, Marlijn & Repp, Sophie. 2018. Modal subordination of propositional anaphora: On the role of tense and the modal particle ook in contextual counterfactuals in Dutch. In Rob Truswell & Chris Cummins & Caroline Heycock & Brian Rabern & Hannah Rohde (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Vol. 2, 881–898. Retrieved from https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/173
Claus, Berry & Meijer, A. Marlijn & Repp, Sophie & Krifka, Manfred. 2017. Puzzling response particles: An experimental study on the German answering system. Semantics and Pragmatics 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.10.19
Meijer, A. Marlijn. 2016. Referring to propositions ‘inside’ a negated one: the modal particles auch and ook in contextual counterfactuals. In Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSole XXIV), 19–44. University of York and York St John University. Retrieved from https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/geesteswetenschappen/lucl/sole/console-xxiv.pdf
Meijer, A. Marlijn & Claus, Berry & Repp, Sophie & Krifka, Manfred. 2015. Particle Responses to Negated Assertions:  Preference Patterns for German ‘ja’ and ‘nein’. In Thomas Brochhagen & Floris Roelofsen & Nadine Theiler (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, 286–295. University of Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC). Retrieved from https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/mVkOTk2N/AC2015-proceedings.pdf

Talks

Geist, Ljudmila & Repp, Sophie. 2021, June. Responding to negative (biased) questions: Russian vs. German. Talk presented at the 14th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-14), Universität Leipzig.
Geist, Ljudmila & Repp, Sophie. 2021, February. ‘Yes’ and ‘no’ in responses to negative (biased) quesions: Russian vs. German. Talk presented at the Workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) ‘Empirical approaches to canonical and non-canonical uses of negation’, Universität Freiburg.
Geist, Ljudmila & Repp, Sophie. 2021, February. Yes- and No-Responses to Biased Questions in Russian in Comparison to German. Talk presented at the Slavic Colloquium, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Repp, Sophie. 2021, February. Responses to biased questions: German vs. Russian. Invited talk presented at the Workshop ‘Biased Questions: Experimental Results & Theoretical Modelling’, ZAS Berlin.
Repp, Sophie. 2019, October. How ambiguous are response particles? The role of prosody and type of antecedent clause. Invited talk presented at the Information Structure and Ambiguity: The Process of Integrating Sentences into Discourse, Tübingen.
Loos, Cornelia & Repp, Sophie & Meijer, A. Marlijn & Steinbach, Markus. 2019, September. Affirming and rejecting negative assertions in German Sign Language (DGS). Talk presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 24, Universität Osnabrück.
Repp, Sophie. 2019, May. Yes/No, response particles are not trivial! German and German Sign Language in the multimethodical data lab and under the theoretical microscope. Invited talk, Universität Amsterdam. Retrieved from https://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/IDSLI/dozentenseiten/Repp/Repp_Amsterdam_2019_05_Talk_ILLC_Amsterdam.pdf
Loos, Cornelia & Meijer, Marlijn & Steinbach, Markus & Repp, Sophie. 2019, February. Responding to negative assertions A typological perspective on ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in German Sign Language. Talk presented at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris.
Claus, Berry & Frühauf, Felix & Krifka, Manfred. 2018, September. Negation and polarity-ambiguous propositional anaphors. Talk presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 23, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_KbjrNXXui1R2djWFk4VTBDdlV3R3RvR2dQQVZmWmJXc3Rv/view
Repp, Sophie & Meijer, A. Marlijn & Scherf, Nathalie. 2018, September. Responding to negative assertions in Germanic: On ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in English, Dutch and Swedish. Talk presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 23, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Meijer, A.M. 2017, November. Embedding propositional anaphora. Talk presented at the Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln, University of Cologne.
Frühauf, Felix & Claus, Berry & Krifka, Manfred & Meijer, Marlijn & Repp, Sophie. 2017, June. Two response systems for German ‘ja’ and ‘nein’? : Evidence from usage preference data and interpretation data. Talk presented at the 7th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, XPRAG 2017, Universität zu Köln. Retrieved from https://xprag2017.uni-koeln.de/sites/xprag2017/user_upload/FruehaufClausReppKrifkaMeijer.pdf
Krifka, Manfred. 2017, May. Epistemic, Evidential and Discourse Modalities in Commitment Space Semantics. Talk presented at the Workshop “Non-At-Issue Meaning and Information Structure”, Oslo University, Norway. Retrieved from https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/Talks/ModalityOsloHandout.pdf
Meijer, A. Marlijn. 2017, March. How believing so is different from believing it. Talk presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Saarbrücken.
Repp, Sophie & Meijer, A. Marlijn & Claus, Berry. 2017, January. A cross-linguistic view on speaker variation in the interpretation of response particles. Talk presented at the Workshop “Cross-linguistic Pragmatics”, ZAS Berlin.
Krifka, Manfred. 2016, December. Responses to assertions and polarity questions: Formal proposals, experimental results. Invited talk presented at the 12th European Conference on Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Meijer, A. Marlijn. 2016, October. Arguing so and keeping track of the common ground. Talk presented at the LingLunch, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Krifka, Manfred. 2016, May. Assertions and Questions in Commitment Space Semantics. Talk presented at the Workshop ‘Dynamic Semantics’, ZAS Berlin.
Claus, Berry & Meijer, Marlijn & Repp, Sophie & Krifka, Manfred. 2016, February. Polarity particles in response to negated antecedents: Two groups of speakers for German ja and nein. Talk presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Konstanz.
Claus, Berry & Meijer, A. Marlijn & Repp, Sophie & Krifka, Manfred. 2016, January. Particle responses to negative assertions and questions: Two groups of speakers for the German response particles ‘ja’ and ‘nein’. Talk presented at the Workshop on “Questions, Answers and Negation”, ZAS Berlin.
Claus, Berry & Repp, Sophie & Meijer, Marlijn & Krifka, Manfred. 2015, June. Puzzling response particles: An experimental study on German ‘ja’ and ‘nein’. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2015, Universität Göttingen, Germany.

Posters

Loos, Cornelia & Steinbach, Markus & Repp, Sophie. 2020. Responding to assertions in German Sign Language (DGS). Poster presented at the Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST 2020), online.
Loos, Cornelia & Repp, Sophie & Steinbach, Markus. 2019, November. Response elements in German Sign Language (DGS). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2019, ZAS Berlin.
Loos, Cornelia & Steinbach, Markus & Repp, Sophie. 2019, November. YesNo. Response elements in German Sign Language (DGS). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2019, ZAS Berlin. Retrieved from https://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/IDSLI/dozentenseiten/Repp/Repp_Poster_XPrag_Jahrestreffen.jpg
Loos, Cornelia & Repp, Sophie & Meijer, A. Marlijn. 2019, September. Affirming and rejecting negative assertions in German Sign Language (DGS). Poster presented at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Hamburg.
Loos, Cornelia & Meijer, Marlijn & Steinbach, Markus & Repp, Sophie. 2019, June. Multimodal responses: A typological perspective on yes and no in German Sign Language. Poster presented at the LingCologne, Köln.
Loos, Cornelia & Steinbach, Markus & Repp, Sophie. 2019, April. Responding to positive and negative assertions in German Sign Language (DGS). Poster presented at the GLOW 43, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, online. Retrieved from https://glowlinguistics.org/43/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/02/GLOW_43_paper_72-Loos.pdf
Repp, Sophie & Meijer, Marlijn. 2018, June. A prosodic production study of the German response particles ‘ja’, ‘nein’ and ‘doch’. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2018, Graz.
Meijer, Marlijn. 2017, September. The pragmatics of embedded propositional proforms: embedding it, that and the NCA. Poster presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 22, ZAS Berlin & Potsdam University. Retrieved from https://sinnundbedeutung22.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/meijer_abstract.pdf
Meijer, A.M. 2017, September. Embedding weak pronouns. Poster presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 22, University of Potsdam.
Meijer, A. Marlijn & Repp, Sophie. 2016, September. Modal subordination of propositions: the Dutch and German modal particles ook and auch and the subjunctive. Poster presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 21, University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6NWIxYmNhY2QyODI4NTE4NA
Repp, Sophie & Meijer, A. Marlijn & Claus, Berry. 2016, June. Response particles: The case of English (in comparison to German). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2016, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Meijer, A. Marlijn & Repp, Sophie. 2016, June. Referring to propositions ‘inside’ a negated one: The role of the subjunctive and of modal particles. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2016, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Claus, Berry & Frühauf, Felix & Repp, Sophie & Meijer, A. Marlijn & Krifka, Manfred. 2016, June. Particle responses to negative polar questions with high vs. low negation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2016, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Krifka, Manfred. 2015, May. Bias in commitment space semantics: declarative questions, negated questions, and question tags. Poster presented at the Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT) 25, Stanford University.
Claus, Berry & Meijer, Marlijn & Repp, Sophie & Krifka, Manfred. 2015. Are response particles not well understood? Yes/No, they aren’t!: An experimental study on German ja and nein. Poster presented at the SemDial 2015 - goDIAL. The 19th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, Gothenburg.