Viola Schmitt

List of John Benjamins publications in which Viola Schmitt is involved.

Articles

Schmitt, Viola and Frank Sode 2025 Modal comparisons across individuals require (a notion of) relative intensities Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer (eds.), pp. 282–299 | Chapter

This article lays out a novel problem for theories of comparison and graded modality. Based on examples where we compare desirability across different attitude subjects — i.e. α wants φ more than β (wants φ) — and thus seem to be relating points from different scales to one another, we argue… read more

Prinzhorn, Martin and Viola Schmitt 2010 Discontinuous DP-coordination in German Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2010, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 161–200 | Article

In this paper, we introduce what we consider to be a new problem for syntactic analysis. We show that German allows for discontinuous coordination of DPs, where material that is not part of the coordinate structure may intervene between the DP-coordinates. We further argue that discontinuous… read more