Stefan Sudhoff

List of John Benjamins publications in which Stefan Sudhoff is involved.

Titles

The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches

Edited by Christine Dimroth and Stefan Sudhoff

The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning. It is thus hardly surprising that languages have developed devices to highlight this meaning component and to contrast statements with negative and positive polarity in discourse. Research on this issue has started from languages like German… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 249] 2018. v, 291 pp.

Focus Particles in German: Syntax, prosody, and information structure

Stefan Sudhoff

This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 151] 2010. xiii, 335 pp.

Articles

Dimroth, Christine and Stefan Sudhoff 2018 The grammatical realization of polarity contrast: Introductory remarks The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches, Dimroth, Christine and Stefan Sudhoff (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter

Sudhoff, Stefan 2016 Correlates of object clauses in German and Dutch Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms: Syntactic properties and interpretative effects, Frey, Werner, André Meinunger and Kerstin Schwabe (eds.), pp. 23–48 | Article

This paper deals with usages of the German pronoun es (and its counterpart het in Dutch) as a correlate of extraposed object clauses. It is argued (i) that es is the head of an argument DP and takes the embedded clause as its complement; (ii) that there are two types of matrix predicates, one of… read more