Maria Vollmer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Vollmer is involved.
Articles
2024 Comparing zero and referential choice in eight languages with a focus on Mandarin Chinese Studies in Language 48:2, pp. 351–389 | Article
Mandarin has a low rate of overtly expressed arguments in all syntactic functions without agreement marking on the verb. It has been claimed that Mandarin exhibits higher rates of zero arguments than other languages. Most previous work has compared Mandarin with English, while comparison with… read more
2023 Chapter 9. Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse? Evidence from Multi-CAST Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra and Simone Mattiola (eds.), pp. 231–268 | Chapter
It has been argued that speakers employ morphosyntactic structures such as presentationals and left-dislocations (Lambrecht 1994) to establish new entities in discourse due to considerations of referent accessibility vis-à-vis event processing (Du Bois 1987; Chafe 1987). We here investigate… read more