University of Wuppertal

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Wuppertal*

Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology

EditorPeter Herbeck & Natascha Pomino

Subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] 2026. | edited volume

Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school

Edited by Stefanie Frisch & Karen Glaser

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 62] 2025. | course book | open access

Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and supersentential phenomena

Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio & Chiara De Bastiani

Subjects Generative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] 2022. | edited volume

Current Visions of TAML2: Tense, Aspect and Modality in Second Languages. Special issue of the Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 8:1 (2019)

Edited by Paz González & Tim Diaubalick

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism

[Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 8:1] 2020. | special issue | open access

Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure

Edited by Carsten Breul & Edward Göbbel

Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 165] 2010. xii, 306 pp. | edited volume

Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure

Edited by Jennifer R. Austin, Stefan Engelberg & Gisa Rauh

Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 70] 2004. ix, 343 pp. | edited volume

Herbeck, Peter & Natascha Pomino 2026 The simple and the periphrastic past in spoken (Valencian) Catalan as evidence against zero in inflectional morphology

Keywords: spanning | zero exponence | past tense | analyticization | Valencian Catalan

In: Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology, Herbeck, Peter & Natascha Pomino (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] pp. 181–215

Herbeck, Peter & Natascha Pomino 2026 Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology

In: Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology, Herbeck, Peter & Natascha Pomino (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291]

Pomino, Natascha & Eva-Maria Remberger 2025 Athematic verbal forms in Italian: A DM-analysis based on spanning

Keywords: spanning | theme vowels | allomorphy | distributed morphology | verbal inflection | past participles | synthetic perfect | Italian | suppletion generalization

Linguistic Variation 26:1 pp. 24–60 | article | open access

Adamczyk, Elżbieta & Arjen Versloot 2025 Futurity and modality in the Old Frisian Skelta Riucht

Keywords: Old Frisian | Older Skelta Riucht | modality | skela | future tense | obligation | grammaticalization

NOWELE 78:2 pp. 121–177 | article

D’Aurizio, Laura, Johanna Stahnke & Natascha Müller 2024 Acquisition of morpho-syntactic features in a bilingual Italian child: An integrated approach to gender

Keywords: bilingual first language acquisition | Italian | gender feature | declension classes

In: Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll, Hracs, Lindsay (ed.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 69] pp. 54–87

Müller, Natascha 2024 Parameter setting in multilingual children with special reference to acceleration in French

Keywords: parameter | null-argument hierarchy | Rizzi-Chomsky cluster applied to French | acceleration | null-subject | postverbal subject | language dominance

In: Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] pp. 114–143

Müller, Natascha 2024 From the child’s perspective

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1 pp. 90–95 | article commentary

Haselow, Alexander 2024 Politeness, speech acts and socio-cultural change: The expression of gratitude in the history of English

Keywords: gratitude | politeness | social change | speech acts

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:3 pp. 419–449 | article

Antomo, Mailin, Nathalie Staratschek & Sonja Taigel 2026 Pragmatic writing in contemporary German: Toward a typology of context-sensitive written devices

Keywords: written language | pragmatics | punctuation | emojis | expressive meaning | politeness | text structuring

Written Language & Literacy 27:2 pp. 178–217 | article

Catasso, Nicholas 2025 Another adverbial expletive in German?

Keywords: expletive | German | syntax | anchoring | exemplification

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6:1/2 pp. 59–93 | article

Petrova, Svetlana 2025 Non-referential elements in the history of Low German

Keywords: expletives | correlates | quasi-arguments | Germanic | Low German

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6:1/2 pp. 122–157 | article

Haselow, Alexander 2022 Turn design in talk-in-interaction in a foreign language – Collaborative turn constructions and ellipses in casual conversations among German high-school learners of English

Keywords: conversation | collaborative turn construction | ellipsis | language acquisition

Pedagogical Linguistics 5:1 pp. 31–55 | article

Bauke, Leah 2022 Linguistic extravagance in compounds and idioms – an analysis of morphological marking

Keywords: compounds | idioms | exoskeletal vs. endoskeletal syntax

In: Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology, Eitelmann, Matthias & Dagmar Haumann (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 223] pp. 131–154

Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio & Chiara De Bastiani 2022 Interface phenomena and language change: Where we are and where we are going

In: Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and supersentential phenomena, Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio & Chiara De Bastiani (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] pp. 1–32

Catasso, Nicholas 2021 Review of Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax edited by Michalis Georgiafentis, Giannoula Giannoulopoulou, Maria Koloipoulou & Angeliki Tsokoglou (2020)

Languages in Contrast 22:1 pp. 160–168 | book review

Adamczyk, Elżbieta 2021 A multifactorial account of analogical developments in Old English nominal paradigms

NOWELE 74:1 p. 4 | article

Scalise, Elena, Johanna Stahnke & Natascha Müller 2021 Parameter setting and acceleration: Subject omissions in a trilingual child with special reference to French

Keywords: null-subjects | parameter setting | acceleration | trilingualism | French

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 12:1 pp. 157–184 | article

Petrova, Svetlana 2020 What genericity reveals about the establishment of the definite determiner in German

Keywords: definite determiner | generic NPs | Old High German | grammaticalization of the determiner system of German

In: Walking on the grammaticalization path of the definite article: Functional main and side roads, Szczepaniak, Renata & Johanna Flick (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 23] pp. 75–94

Diebowski, Jessica 2020 Language contact: Gender agreement in Spanish L2 learners and heritage speakers

Keywords: gender assignment | gender agreement | L2 learners | heritage speakers | Spanish | amount of exposure

In: Lost in transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development, Brehmer, Bernhard & Jeanine Treffers-Daller (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 59] pp. 125–150

González, Paz & Tim Diaubalick 2020 Task and L1 effects: Dutch students acquiring the Spanish past tenses

Keywords: Spanish L2 | tense-aspect | Spanish past tenses | Dutch L1

Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 8:1 pp. 24–40 | article | open access

Symanczyk Joppe, Vilma 2018 Optimal spaces and hyphens: A constraint-based analysis of compound word formation

Keywords: spaces | hyphens | open and solid writings | compounds | graphemic words | orthography | optimality theory | numbers | abbreviations | phrasal compounds

Written Language & Literacy 21:1 p. 89 | article

Arnaus Gil, Laia & Natascha Müller 2018 Acceleration and delay in bilingual, trilingual and multilingual German-Romance children: Finite verb placement in German

Keywords: early trilingualism | German finite verb placement | cross-linguistic influence

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:4 pp. 530–558 | article

Fox, Barbara A., Fay Wouk, Steven Fincke, Wilfredo Hernandez Flores, Makoto Hayashi, Minna Laakso, Yael Maschler, Abolghasem Mehrabi, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Susanne Uhmann & Hyun Jung Yang 2017 Morphological self-repair: Self-repair within the word

Keywords: repair | typology | morphological structure

Studies in Language 41:3 pp. 638–659 | article

Schmeißer, Anika, Nadine Eichler, Laia Arnaus Gil & Natascha Müller 2017 Mélanges interpropositionnels chez les enfants bilingues franco-allemands: Est-ce vraiment du code-switching ?

Keywords: code-switching | genre grammatical | mélange interphrastique | bilinguisme précoce | bilinguisme (non)-équilibré

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 7:2 pp. 238–274 | article

Di Venanzio, Laura, Katrin Schmitz & Anna-Lena Scherger 2016 Objects of transitive verbs in Italian as a heritage language in contact with German

Keywords: adult bilingualism | heritage language | Italian | German | objects | transfer

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:3 pp. 227–261 | article

Rauh, Gisa 2015 Adverbs as a linguistic category (?)

In: Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects, Pittner, Karin, Daniela Elsner & Fabian Barteld (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 170] pp. 19–46

Petrova, Svetlana & Esther Rinke 2014 Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French

In: Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin & Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213] pp. 271–294

Göbbel, Edward 2013 Extraposition of defocused and light PPs 
in English

In: Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective, Webelhuth, Gert, Manfred Sailer & Heike Walker (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] pp. 399–438

Jansen, Veronika, Jasmin Müller & Natascha Müller 2012  Code-switching between an OV and a VO language: Evidence from German-Italian, German-French and German-Spanish children

Keywords: code-switching | bilingualism | language acquisition | functional categories | word order | language balance

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:4 pp. 337–378 | article

Breul, Carsten, Edward Göbbel & Alexander Thiel 2010 Introduction

In: Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure, Breul, Carsten & Edward Göbbel (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 165] pp. 1–14

Breul, Carsten 2010 On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure

In: Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure, Breul, Carsten & Edward Göbbel (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 165] pp. 277–304

Hauser-Grüdl, Nicole 2010 Topicality in L1-acquisition: A contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German

In: Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure, Breul, Carsten & Edward Göbbel (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 165] pp. 199–230

Breul, Carsten 2008 A relevance-theoretic view on issues in the history of clausal connectives

In: Connectives in the History of English, Lenker, Ursula & Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283] pp. 167–192

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.