PUBLICATIONS

@article{nokey,

title = {Off phases: It’s all relative(ized)},

author = {C. Halpert and H. Zeijlstra },

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-07-01},

journal = {Linguistic Inquiry},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {forthcoming},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Testing amelioration of sentences with subject obviation},

author = {J. Goncharov and S. Buchszyk and F. Constantino and I. Feldhausen and T. Weskott and H. Zeijlstra },

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-07-01},

journal = {Glossa},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {forthcoming},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Ironic Negation in Basic Cognitive Tasks: The Role of Cognitive Load and Instruction Recoding},

author = {P. Smith and B. Kaup and C. Dudschig},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-07-01},

journal = {Psychological Research},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {forthcoming},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Thinking of cats when there are no dogs: Activation of plausible alternatives during negation processing in German adults},

author = {D. Tack and C. Boila and B. Kaup and Y. Portele and A. Grimm},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-07-01},

journal = {Glossa},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Mattiuzzi2026,

title = {There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle},

author = {Tommaso Mattiuzzi and Cecilia Poletto},

doi = {10.1111/1467-968x.70033},

issn = {1467-968X},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-06-30},

urldate = {2026-06-30},

journal = {Trans of the Philol Soc},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {\<jats:title\>Abstract\</jats:title\>

                  \<jats:p\>This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co‐exist with plain negators from the earliest attestations of each variety. These emphatic forms serve distinct functions\textemdashDomain‐Widening and discourse‐level Rejection or Confirmation\textemdashand constitute the source of new plain negators, while plain negators can themselves be reanalysed as emphatic negators. On this basis, we propose to set aside the notion of the cycle as an abstract phenomenon that underlies all observed processes of formation of new negators in our dataset. Instead, these are better conceived as a group of phenomena, which involve descriptively and theoretically distinct shifts in the encoding of different negative functions, including but not limited to ‘plain’ negation.\</jats:p\>},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Sonntag2026,

title = {The language of gesture: Testing the multimodality-for-compensation account with head and hand emblems of affirmation and negation.},

author = {Samuel Sonntag and Ian Grant Mackenzie and Emanuel Sch\"{u}tt and Katarina Sivec and Sara Oguz and Merle Weicker and Carolin Dudschig},

doi = {10.1037/xhp0001398},

issn = {1939-1277},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-06-00},

urldate = {2026-06-00},

journal = {Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance},

volume = {52},

number = {6},

pages = {707--734},

publisher = {American Psychological Association (APA)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Sonntag2026b,

title = {The language of gesture: Testing the multimodality-for-compensation account with head and hand emblems of affirmation and negation.},

author = {Samuel Sonntag and Ian Grant Mackenzie and Emanuel Sch\"{u}tt and Katarina Sivec and Sara Oguz and Merle Weicker and Carolin Dudschig},

doi = {10.1037/xhp0001398},

issn = {1939-1277},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-06-00},

urldate = {2026-06-00},

journal = {Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance},

volume = {52},

number = {6},

pages = {707--734},

publisher = {American Psychological Association (APA)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Ippolito2025,

title = {What’s in an X-marked conditional: A temporal puzzle},

author = {Michela Ippolito and Zahra Mirrazi},

doi = {10.1007/s11049-025-09690-4},

issn = {1573-0859},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-03-00},

urldate = {2026-03-00},

journal = {Nat Lang Linguist Theory},

volume = {44},

number = {1},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Baroncini2025,

title = {Language and structure activation explain cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language production: Evidence from within- and across-language priming},

author = {Ioli Baroncini and Jacopo Torregrossa},

doi = {10.1017/s1366728925000379},

issn = {1469-1841},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-03-00},

urldate = {2026-03-00},

journal = {Bilingualism},

volume = {29},

number = {2},

pages = {294--308},

publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},

abstract = {\<jats:title\>Abstract\</jats:title\>

                  \<jats:p\>This study investigates cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children, examining whether activation of a bilingual’s other language or a structure from that language leads to differences in the magnitude of cross-linguistic influence. We triangulate evidence from both across-language and within-language priming experiments conducted with 36 Italian\textendashGreek bilingual children aged 7 to 11. We designed the priming experiments to prime the verb-subject-object (VSO) word-order \textendash an inappropriate structure in Italian but grammatical in Greek \textendash following a VSO in Italian or in Greek. We observed a gradual increase in VSO production in Italian throughout the tasks, particularly in the across-language priming experiment. The results are discussed in terms of implicit learning mechanisms underlying priming and the connectedness of syntactic representations in bilingual grammar, supporting a model of cross-linguistic influence in which both structure and language activation play a role. Effects of age and dominance in Greek varied between the two priming conditions.\</jats:p\>},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Unbilibanlicheru stimmo \textendash un-pr\"{a}figierte Adjektive  mit besonderen Eigenschaften. In: Kozianka, Maria, Schuhmann, Roland,  und Susanne Zeilfelder: „so manag uu\^{i}sl\^{i}k uuord“. },

author = {Wei\ss, H},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-01-15},

journal = {Studien zum  Spannungsfeld von Synchronie und Diachronie},

volume = {Festschrift Rosemarie L\"{u}hr},

issue = {Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag},

pages = {245-251},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Borkowski:et:al:2026,

title = {DUUIgateway: A Web Service for Platform-independent, Ubiquitous Big Data NLP},

author = {Cedric Borkowski and Giuseppe Abrami and Dawit Terefe and Daniel Baumartz and Alexander Mehler},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711026000439},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2026.102549},

issn = {2352-7110},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-01-01},

journal = {SoftwareX},

volume = {34},

pages = {102549},

abstract = {Distributed processing of unstructured text data is a challenge 

 in the rapidly changing and evolving natural language processing 

 (NLP) landscape. This landscape is characterized by heterogeneous 

 systems, models, and formats, and especially by the increasing 

 influence of AI systems. While many of these systems handle text 

 data, there are also unified systems that process multiple input 

 and output formats, while allowing for distributed corpus processing. 

 However, there are hardly any user-friendly interfaces that allow 

 existing NLP frameworks to be used flexibly and extended in a 

 user-controlled manner. Due to this gap and the increasing importance 

 of NLP for various scientific disciplines, there has been a demand 

 for a web and API based flexible software solution for deploying, 

 managing and monitoring NLP systems. Such a solution is provided 

 by Docker Unified UIMA-gateway. We introduce DUUIgateway and evaluate 

 its API and user-driven approach to encapsulation. We also describe 

 how these features improve the usability and accessibility of 

 the NLP framework DUUI. We illustrate DUUIgateway in the field 

 of process modeling in higher education and show how it closes 

 the latter gap in NLP by making a variety of systems for processing 

 text and multimodal data accessible to non-experts.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Wei\ss2025,

title = {Neg-words},

author = {Helmut Wei\ss},

doi = {10.1075/elt.25001.wei},

issn = {2589-1596},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-08-21},

journal = {ELT},

publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},

abstract = {Abstract

				This paper is concerned with neg-words that are usually defined by their occurrence in NC constructions. The

					common definition of neg-words has several weaknesses: for example, it does not allow to define NC in a non-circular way or it

					cannot explain why DN is possible in many NC languages. Therefore, an alternative definition is proposed in this paper: Neg-words

					are indefinite pronouns (or adverbs) that contain a negative morpheme, or indefinite pronouns (or adverbs) that have replaced such

					an indefinite pronoun (or adverb). Defining neg-words in this way has several advantages: it allows a non-circular and precise

					definition of NC, it can also explain why DN is also possible in NC languages (therefore, the term negative quantifier can be

					dispensed with), and it allows an alternative typological classification of NC and non-NC languages to the usual one in which NC

					and DN languages are contrasted. According to the view expressed here, non-NC languages are languages without neg-words (as

					defined here) and they cover a group of languages to which 80% to 90% of all languages belong. In addition, I analyze neg-words as

					Heimian indefinites with an interpretable neg-feature. This explains the wide range of uses of neg-words from weak indefinites

					(the default case) to negated existential quantifiers to universal quantifiers that scope over negation.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Wei\ss2025b,

title = {Neg-words},

author = {Helmut Wei\ss},

doi = {10.1075/elt.25001.wei},

issn = {2589-1596},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-08-21},

journal = {ELT},

publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},

abstract = {Abstract

				This paper is concerned with neg-words that are usually defined by their occurrence in NC constructions. The

					common definition of neg-words has several weaknesses: for example, it does not allow to define NC in a non-circular way or it

					cannot explain why DN is possible in many NC languages. Therefore, an alternative definition is proposed in this paper: Neg-words

					are indefinite pronouns (or adverbs) that contain a negative morpheme, or indefinite pronouns (or adverbs) that have replaced such

					an indefinite pronoun (or adverb). Defining neg-words in this way has several advantages: it allows a non-circular and precise

					definition of NC, it can also explain why DN is also possible in NC languages (therefore, the term negative quantifier can be

					dispensed with), and it allows an alternative typological classification of NC and non-NC languages to the usual one in which NC

					and DN languages are contrasted. According to the view expressed here, non-NC languages are languages without neg-words (as

					defined here) and they cover a group of languages to which 80% to 90% of all languages belong. In addition, I analyze neg-words as

					Heimian indefinites with an interpretable neg-feature. This explains the wide range of uses of neg-words from weak indefinites

					(the default case) to negated existential quantifiers to universal quantifiers that scope over negation.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Wei\ss2025c,

title = {Neg-words},

author = {Helmut Wei\ss},

doi = {10.1075/elt.25001.wei},

issn = {2589-1596},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-08-21},

urldate = {2025-08-21},

journal = {ELT},

publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},

abstract = {\<jats:title\>Abstract\</jats:title\>

				\<jats:p\>This paper is concerned with neg-words that are usually defined by their occurrence in NC constructions. The

					common definition of neg-words has several weaknesses: for example, it does not allow to define NC in a non-circular way or it

					cannot explain why DN is possible in many NC languages. Therefore, an alternative definition is proposed in this paper: Neg-words

					are indefinite pronouns (or adverbs) that contain a negative morpheme, or indefinite pronouns (or adverbs) that have replaced such

					an indefinite pronoun (or adverb). Defining neg-words in this way has several advantages: it allows a non-circular and precise

					definition of NC, it can also explain why DN is also possible in NC languages (therefore, the term negative quantifier can be

					dispensed with), and it allows an alternative typological classification of NC and non-NC languages to the usual one in which NC

					and DN languages are contrasted. According to the view expressed here, non-NC languages are languages without neg-words (as

					defined here) and they cover a group of languages to which 80% to 90% of all languages belong. In addition, I analyze neg-words as

					Heimian indefinites with an interpretable neg-feature. This explains the wide range of uses of neg-words from weak indefinites

					(the default case) to negated existential quantifiers to universal quantifiers that scope over negation.\</jats:p\>},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Wei\ss2025d,

title = {Neg-words},

author = {Helmut Wei\ss},

doi = {10.1075/elt.25001.wei},

issn = {2589-1596},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-08-21},

urldate = {2025-08-21},

journal = {ELT},

publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},

abstract = {\<jats:title\>Abstract\</jats:title\>

				\<jats:p\>This paper is concerned with neg-words that are usually defined by their occurrence in NC constructions. The

					common definition of neg-words has several weaknesses: for example, it does not allow to define NC in a non-circular way or it

					cannot explain why DN is possible in many NC languages. Therefore, an alternative definition is proposed in this paper: Neg-words

					are indefinite pronouns (or adverbs) that contain a negative morpheme, or indefinite pronouns (or adverbs) that have replaced such

					an indefinite pronoun (or adverb). Defining neg-words in this way has several advantages: it allows a non-circular and precise

					definition of NC, it can also explain why DN is also possible in NC languages (therefore, the term negative quantifier can be

					dispensed with), and it allows an alternative typological classification of NC and non-NC languages to the usual one in which NC

					and DN languages are contrasted. According to the view expressed here, non-NC languages are languages without neg-words (as

					defined here) and they cover a group of languages to which 80% to 90% of all languages belong. In addition, I analyze neg-words as

					Heimian indefinites with an interpretable neg-feature. This explains the wide range of uses of neg-words from weak indefinites

					(the default case) to negated existential quantifiers to universal quantifiers that scope over negation.\</jats:p\>},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = { (io)wiht in Old High German Dialects },

author = {Farbod Khouzani },

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-03-00},

journal = {Zeitschrift f\"{u}r Dialektologie und Linguistik (ZDL)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Lago2025,

title = {Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: does linear distance matter?},

author = {Sol Lago and Petra Schulz and Esther Rinke and Elise Oltrogge and Carolin Dudschig and Barbara Kaup},

doi = {10.3765/elm.3.5797},

issn = {2694-1791},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-24},

urldate = {2025-01-24},

journal = {ELM},

volume = {3},

pages = {214--223},

publisher = {Linguistic Society of America},

abstract = {\<jats:p\>Affirmative sentences are comprehended more quickly when they are true vs. false but this facilitation is often reduced or absent in negative sentences, yielding a so-called negation-by-truth-value interaction. The reduced sensitivity to truth-value has been attributed to processing difficulties triggered by negation. We investigated whether difficulties such as these were eased when comprehenders were given more time to process the negator. Specifically, we compared negated sentences in which the negator immediately preceded an adjectival predicate vs. occurred earlier in the sentence, separated by several words from the predicate. The results of two sentence-picture matching tasks replicated previous findings of increased processing difficulties in negative vs. affirmative sentences, as well as the negation-by-truth-value interaction. However, we did not find evidence that sensitivity to truth-value was modulated by the distance between the negator and the predicate. Our findings suggest that, when sentences are presented in isolation, having more time to process a negator does not confer a measurable comprehension advantage.\</jats:p\>},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Lago2025b,

title = {Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: does linear distance matter?},

author = {Sol Lago and Petra Schulz and Esther Rinke and Elise Oltrogge and Carolin Dudschig and Barbara Kaup},

doi = {10.3765/elm.3.5797},

issn = {2694-1791},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-24},

urldate = {2025-01-24},

journal = {ELM},

volume = {3},

pages = {214--223},

publisher = {Linguistic Society of America},

abstract = {\<jats:p\>Affirmative sentences are comprehended more quickly when they are true vs. false but this facilitation is often reduced or absent in negative sentences, yielding a so-called negation-by-truth-value interaction. The reduced sensitivity to truth-value has been attributed to processing difficulties triggered by negation. We investigated whether difficulties such as these were eased when comprehenders were given more time to process the negator. Specifically, we compared negated sentences in which the negator immediately preceded an adjectival predicate vs. occurred earlier in the sentence, separated by several words from the predicate. The results of two sentence-picture matching tasks replicated previous findings of increased processing difficulties in negative vs. affirmative sentences, as well as the negation-by-truth-value interaction. However, we did not find evidence that sensitivity to truth-value was modulated by the distance between the negator and the predicate. Our findings suggest that, when sentences are presented in isolation, having more time to process a negator does not confer a measurable comprehension advantage.\</jats:p\>},

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pubstate = {published},

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