PUBLICATIONS

This page provides an overview of all publications resulting from our various projects. The publications are organized by project and offer insights into our academic work.

Project A02:

Meier, C. (2024, December). Antonyms and adjectival Horn scales [Manuscript]. Goethe-University Frankfurt. https://cecilemeier.ch/pdf_docs/NegHypothesis.pdf

Weiß, H. (2025). Neg-words: What they are and what they are not and what follows from this. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1075/elt.25001.wei

Weiß, H. (2026a). Unbilibanlicheru stimmo – un-präfigierte Adjektive mit besonderen Eigenschaften. In: Kozianka, Maria, Schuhmann, Roland, und Susanne Zeilfelder: „so manag uuîslîk uuord“. Studien zum Spannungsfeld von Synchronie und Diachronie. Festschrift Rosemarie Lühr. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 245-251.

Hammerla, L., Lücking, A., Reinert, C., & Mehler, A. (in press). D-Neg: Syntax-aware graph reasoning for negation detection. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings).

Reinert, C., Weiß, H., & Meier, C. (in press). Ohne Negation undenklich: Verbklassen und Adjektiv-morphologie. Eine Untersuchung zur Systematik von negativen Adjektiven ohne positive Basis. In Proceedings of the Conference “Verbklassen: Semantik, Grammatik und ihre Interdependenzen” (Linguistik – Impulse und Tendenzen). De Gruyter.

Meier, C. (in press). Steigerung. In D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay, & T. E. Zimmermann (Eds.), Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK): Semantik und Pragmatik. De Gruyter Brill.

Reinert, C., & Weicker, M. (in press). Adjektiv. In D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay, & T. E. Zimmermann (Eds.), Wörterbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK): Semantik und Pragmatik. De Gruyter Brill.

Project A03

Poletto, C. (2024). Negative concord as doubling. In M. Greco et al. (Eds.), Festschrift in honor of Andrea Moro.

Balsemin, T., Pinzin, F., & Poletto, C. (2024). Universal 20 restriction reloaded: The view from Old Italo-Romance. Isogloss, 10(3), 1–24.

Weiß, H. (2025). Neg-words: What they are and what they are not and what follows from this. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1075/elt.25001.wei

Khouzani, F. (2025, März). (io)wiht in Old High German dialects [Manuscript]. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik (ZDL).

Project A04

Sailer, M. (2025). Horn clauses and strict NPIs under negated matrix clauses. In S. Müller & R. Chaves (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (S. 152–172). Frankfurt: University Library. https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2024.10

Zeijlstra, H. (2024). Two varieties of Korean: Rightward head movement or polarity sensitivity? Linguistic Inquiry.

Kamali, B., & Zeijlstra, H. (2024). Negative dependencies in Turkish. Languages, 9, 342.

Koeneman, O., & Zeijlstra, H. (2024). Do-support and the syntax of finiteness. In M. Lekakou, K. Szendroi & R. Truswell (Eds.), Generation Flex: Flexible syntax 25 years on.

Mirrazi, Z. (2024). Presuppositions of tense and strength of counterfactuality. Natural Language Semantics.

Ippolito, M., & Mirrazi, Z. (2024). What’s in an X-marked conditional: Evidence from sequence of tense. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Branan, K., & Zeijlstra, H. (2024). Head movement and linear edges. Glossa.

Halpert, C., & Zeijlstra, H. (2024). Off phases: It’s all relative(ized). Linguistic Inquiry.

Goncharov, J., Buchszyk, S., Constantino, F., Feldhausen, I., Weskott, T., & Zeijlstra, H. (2024). Testing amelioration of sentences with subject obviation. Glossa.

Project B02

Baroncini, I., & Torregrossa, J. (2025). Language and structure activation explain cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language production: Evidence from within- and across-language priming. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Portele, Y., Boila, C., Grimm, A., Torregrossa, J., Weicker, M., & Kaup, B. (2025). Pragmatic reasoning in context: Anticipating negation for adjectives. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (Vol. 29, pp. 1306–1317). https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2024.v29.1277

Poletto, C. (2024). Negative concord as doubling. In M. Greco et al. (Eds.), Festschrift in honor of Andrea Moro. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa.

Poletto, C., & Pinzin, F. (2024). Clitic doubling in the Romance languages. In M. Loporcaro (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics (Part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, edited by M. Aronoff.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.643

Project B03

Mursell, J., & Hartmann, K. (2025). Subject relative clauses in Dagbani. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10572

Mursell, J., & Himmelreich, A. (in press). Information-structural constraints on linearization in the DP. Linguistic Variation.

Project B04

Zeijlstra, H. (2025). Modals, negation, concord, and polarity.

Zeijlstra, H. (2025). A non-trivial problem. In E. Csipak, M. Liu, & J. David (Eds.), A Festschrift in Honour of Regine Eckardt. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/34036

Zeijlstra, H. (2025). Abwärts implizierend. In D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay, & T. E. Zimmermann (Eds.), Semantik und Pragmatik (WSK 10). De Gruyter Brill.

Zeijlstra, H. (2025). Aufwärts implizierend. In D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay, & T. E. Zimmermann (Eds.), Semantik und Pragmatik (WSK 10). De Gruyter Brill.

Zeijlstra, H. (2025). Negation. In D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay, & T. E. Zimmermann (Eds.), Semantik und Pragmatik (WSK 10). De Gruyter Brill.

Bharadwaj, P., Sementsova, A., Hartmann, K., & Zeijlstra, H. (in preparation). When they go high, we go low.

Zeijlstra, H. (2024). Two Varieties of Korean: Rightward Head Movement or Polarity Sensitivity? Linguistic Inquiry, 55(3), 622-641. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00471

Kamali, B., & Zeijlstra, H. (2024). Negative dependencies in Turkish. Languages, 9, 342.

Koeneman, O., & Zeijlstra, H. (2024). Do-support and the syntax of finiteness. In M. Lekakou, K. Szendroi & R. Truswell (Eds.), Generation Flex: Flexible syntax 25 years on.

Project B05

Sailer, M. (in press). A phrasal construction for an ex quolibet falsum inference. In S. Müller (Ed.), Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on HPSG.

Sailer, M. (2025). Horn clauses and strict NPIs under negated matrix clauses. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (pp. 152–172). https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2024.10

Sailer, M. (2025). Just a peep on a green twig: Negation affinity and NPI-hood. In E. Csipak, J. David, & M. Liu (Eds.), A Festschrift in Honour of Regine Eckardt (pp. 198–207). Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://doi.org/10.18452/33390

Levine, R. D., Richter, F., & Sailer, M. (in preparation). Formal semantics: An empirically based approach. LangSci Press.

Sailer, M. (in press). [Multiple entries]. In D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay, & T. E. Zimmermann (Eds.), Semantik und Pragmatik (WSK 10). De Gruyter Brill.

Sailer, M. (2025). Horn clauses and strict NPIs under negated matrix clauses. In S. Müller & R. Chaves (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (p. 152–172). Frankfurt: University Library. https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2024.10

Project C02

Sonntag, S., Mackenzie, I. G., Schütt, E., Sivec, K., Weicker, M., & Dudschig, C. (in press). The language of gesture: Testing the multimodality-for-compensation account with head and hand emblems of affirmation and negation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Lago, S., Schulz, P., Rinke, E., Oltrogge, E., Dudschig, C., & Kaup, B. (2025). Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: does linear distance matter? Proceedings of ELM 3, 214–223.

Capuano, F., & Kaup, B. (2024). Pragmatic Reasoning in GPT Models: Replication of a Subtle Negation Effect. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 3953–3959.

Kati, L., Sabinasz, D., Schöner, G., & Kaup, B. (2024). Interaction of polarity and truth value – A neural dynamic architecture of negation processing. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 1442–1448.

Maienborn, C., Buscher-Schiewe, F., Dudschig, C., & Kaup, B. (2026). Denials as a window into semantic and world-knowledge violations. To appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30.

Albu, E., & Kaup, B. (2026). This has happened before: Assigning reference to negative events. To appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30.

Schütt, E., Weicker, M., & Dudschig, C. (2024). Multimodal aspects of sentence comprehension: Do facial and color cues interact with processing negated and affirmative sentences? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 50(6), 957–966. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001302

Lago, S., Schulz, P., Rinke, E., Oltrogge, E., Dudschig, C., & Kaup, B. (2025). Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: Does linear distance matter? In Proceedings of the 3rd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning Conference (ELM 3) (p. 214–223). Linguistic Society of America. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5797

Capuano, F., & Kaup, B. (2024). Pragmatic reasoning in GPT models: Replication of a subtle negation effect. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 3953–3959).

Kati, L., Sabinasz, D., Schöner, G., & Kaup, B. (2024). Interaction of polarity and truth value: A neural dynamic architecture of negation processing. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1442–1448).

Project C03

Csanady, M. (2025). Interpretation verbaler und nonverbaler Negationsausdrücke bei Erwachsenen und Implikationen für den Spracherwerb [Bachelor’s thesis]. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

Schütt, E., Weicker, M., & Dudschig, C. (2023). Multimodal aspects of sentence comprehension: Do facial and color cues interact with processing negated and affirmative sentences? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001302

Weicker, M. & Schulz, P. (2026). The role of negation position in German: Developmental patterns in children’s comprehension. To appear in R. Hill, X. Jiang, D. Worapipat & A. Yedetore (eds.), Proceedings of the 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Project C04

Lago, A., Schulz, P., Rinke, E., Oltrogge, E., Dudschig, C., & Kaup, B. (2025). Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: Does linear distance matter? In Proceedings of the 3rd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning Conference (ELM 3) (p. 214–223). Linguistic Society of America. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5797

Lago, A., Schulz, P., Rinke, E., Oltrogge, E., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2025). Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: does linear distance matter? Proceedings of the Experiments in Linguistic Meaning conference (ELM 3), 214-223. Linguistic Association of America. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5797

Portele, Y., Boila, C., Grimm, A., Torregrossa, J., Weicker, M., & Kaup, B. (2025). Pragmatic reasoning in context: Anticipating negation for adjectives. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 29, 1306-1317. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2024.v29.1277

Project C06

Lago, S., Schulz, P., Rinke, E., Oltrogge, E., Dudschig, C., & Kaup, B. (2025). Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: Does linear distance matter? Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 3. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5797

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Abusaleh, A., Hammerla, L., & Mehler, A. (in press). Seeing what’s not said: Cross-modal negation detection in multimodal political communication. ICNLP 2026.

Borkowski, C., Abrami, G., Terefe, D., Baumartz, D., & Mehler, A. (2026). DUUIgateway: A web service for platform-independent, ubiquitous big data NLP. SoftwareX.

Lücking, A., Hammerla, L., & Mehler, A. (2026). Not every quantifier can be negated. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (Special Session: PhilLingNeg). Frankfurt am Main.

Hammerla, L., Lücking, A., Reinert, C., & Mehler, A. (2025). D-Neg: Syntax-aware graph reasoning for negation detection. In K. Inui et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of IJCNLP-AACL (pp. 1432–1454). https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-ijcnlp.89/

Hammerla, L., Mehler, A., & Abrami, G. (2025). Standardizing heterogeneous corpora with DUUR. In K. Inui et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of IJCNLP-AACL (pp. 1410–1425). https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-ijcnlp.87/

Lücking, A., & Ginzburg, J. (2025). Exceptions from rules and noteworthy exceptions. Linguistics and Philosophy, 48, 371–409. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-024-09429-1

Abrami, G., Genios, M., Fitzermann, F., Baumartz, D., & Mehler, A. (2025). Docker unified UIMA interface. SoftwareX, 29, 102033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.102033

Lücking, A. (2025). Referential transparency theory. In Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK): Semantik und Pragmatik. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/wsk

Hammerla, L., & Mehler, A. (under review). Predicting LLM answer correctness from negation usage patterns in chain-of-thought reasoning.

Hammerla, L., & Mehler, A. (under review). Gutenberg+: A more temporally faithful corpus for diachronic NLP. Language Resources and Evaluation.

Bahmanian, N., Martinez Bruera, M., Lücking, A., Hammerla, L., Abrami, G., Sailer, M., Mehler, A., & Lago, S. (2025). Data management protocol for CRC 1629. https://next.hessenbox.de/index.php/s/zQYBAfeXTJSDaib