Steffen Heidinger
List of John Benjamins publications in which Steffen Heidinger is involved.
Articles
2026 Spatial expressions with implicit (and overt) arguments: A comparative study of French and Spanish Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology, Herbeck, Peter and Natascha Pomino (eds.), pp. 334–367 | Chapter
Implicit arguments in the prepositional domain are a lesser-studied context of NULL or NOTHING, yet much like in the inflectional and verbal domains, micro-variation within Romance reveals different types of implicit arguments and illuminates properties of the structures within which they are… read more
2018 Chapter 4. Acceptability and frequency in Spanish focus marking Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco and Melanie Uth (eds.), pp. 99–128 | Chapter
In this paper, we analyze the status and relevance of three syntactic positions for focus marking in Spanish: sentence-initial, sentence-internal, and sentence-final position (as we will only consider constituents with an unmarked linear position that is postverbal and non-final, initial position… read more
2014 Chapter 5. Fronting and contrastively focused secondary predicates in Spanish Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 125–154 | Chapter
This paper is about the syntactic position of contrastively focused secondary predicates in Spanish. In the literature, fronting is presented as a possible means to encode contrastive focus in Spanish. Based on data from a production experiment I will show however that fronting is a dispreferred… read more