Institute of English Languages and Literatures

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Featherston, S. (accepted) Response methods in acceptability experiments. In G. Goodall (ed.) Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax. Cambridge, CUP.

2020

Featherston, S. (2020) Can we build a grammar on the basis of judgements? In Samuel Schindler, Anna Drożdżowicz, & Karen Brøcker (eds.) Linguistic Intuitions: Evidence and Method. Oxford: OUP.

2019

Eberhardt, I. & S. Featherston (2019) Focus particles and negative scope: Both evidence for syntactic integration?. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics4(1), 126. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.613

Featherston, S., R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim & S. Winkler (eds.) (2019) Experiments in Focus: Information Structure and Semantic Processing. (Linguistische Arbeiten 571). Berlin: de Gruyter.

Featherston, S. (2019) The Decathlon Model. In A. Kertész, C. Rákosi & E. Moravcsik (eds.), Current Approaches to Syntax – a Comparative Handbook, 155-186. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Gattnar, A., R. Hörnig, M. Störzer & S. Featherston (eds.) (2019) Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory. Tübingen: University of Tübingen.   online publication

Gerbrich, H., V. Schreier & S. Featherston (2019) Standard items for English judgement studies: Syntax and semantics. In S. Featherston, R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim & S. Winkler (eds.), Experiments in Focus: Information Structure and Semantic Processing, 305-328. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Hörnig, R., S. Featherston, S. von Wietersheim & S. Winkler (2019) Markedness in context: An approach to licensing. In S. Featherston, R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim & S. Winkler (eds.), Experiments in Focus: Information Structure and Semantic Processing, 1-16. Berlin: de Gruyter.

von Wietersheim, S. & S. Featherston (2019) Does structural binding correlate with degrees of functional dependence? In K. Beijering, G. Kaltenböck, & M. S. Sansiñena (eds.), Insubordination: New Perspectives. TiLSM, 265-290. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

2017

Featherston, S., R. Hörnig, R. Steinberg, B. Umbreit & J. Wallis (eds.) (2017) Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2016: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives. Tübingen: University of Tübingen.  online publication

Magdou, K. & S. Featherston (2017) Resumptive Pronouns can be more acceptable than gaps: Experimental evidence from Greek. In T. Georgakopoulos, Pavlidou T.-S., Pechlivanos M., Alexiadou A., Androutsopoulos J., Kalokairinos A., Skopeteas S. & Stathi K. (eds.), Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL12), 613-627. Berlin: Edition Romiosini/CeMog.

Weiland-Breckle, H., S. Featherston & K. von Heusinger (2017) Conditions on systematic polysemy: An empirical investigation on the pragmatics of predicate transfer. Linguistische Berichte 252, 80-113.

2016

Featherston, S. & Y. Versley (eds.) (2016) Quantitative Approaches to Grammar and Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Germanic. Berlin: de Gruyter.

von Wietersheim, S. & S. Featherston (2016) Violation of Principle C as Evidence for Structural Integration. In F. Pratas, S. Pereira, & C. Pinto (eds.), Coordination and Subordination: Form and Meaning – Selected Papers from CSI Lisbon 2014, 269-293. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2011

Bott, O., S. Featherston, J. Radó & B. Stolterfoht (2011/2018) The application of experimental methods in semantics. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, Portner (eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning: Volume 1: 33.1 305-321. Berlin: de Gruyter.  download

Featherston, S. (2011) Reply: Distinguishing lexical and syntactic exceptions. In H. Simon & H. Wiese (eds.), Expecting the Unexpected 335-337. Berlin: de Gruyter.   download

Featherston, S. (2011) Three types of exceptions - and all of them rule-based. In H. Simon & H. Wiese (eds.), Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar. Berlin: de Gruyter.   download

Featherston, S., K. von Heusinger, & H. Weiland (2011) I'm leaking oil and looking for a garage: Testing conditions on meaning transfer. In Runner J. (ed), Experiments at the Interfaces (Syntax and Semantics volume 37), 31-65. Bingley: Emerald.

Stolterfoht, B. & S. Featherston (eds.) (2011) Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory. Berlin: de Gruyter.

2009

Featherston, S. (2009) Relax, lean back, and be a linguist. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 28 (1), 127-132.  download

Featherston, S. (2009) Why syntax needs boiling and freezing points. In Featherston S. & Winkler S. (eds.), The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 1: Process. Berlin: de Gruyter.  download

Featherston, S. & S. Winkler (eds.) (2009) The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 1: Process. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Winkler, S. & S. Featherston (eds.) (2009) The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 2: Product. Berlin: de Gruyter.

2008

Featherston, S. (2008) Review of M. Bader, & J. Bayer (2008) 'Case and Linking in Language Comprehension: Evidence from German'. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Vol. 11, (3), 249-263.

Featherston, S. (2008) Thermometer judgements as linguistic evidence. In C. M. Riehl & A. Rothe (eds.), Was ist linguistische Evidenz?, 69-90. Aachen: Shaker Verlag.  download

2007

Featherston, S. (2007) Data in generative grammar: The stick and the carrot. Theoretical Linguistics 33 (3), 269-318.  download

Featherston, S. (2007) Reply. Theoretical Linguistics 33 (3), 401-413.  download

Featherston, S. & W. Sternefeld (eds.) (2007) Roots: Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2006

Featherston, S. (2006) Experimentell erhobene Grammatikalitätsurteile und ihre Bedeutung für die Syntaxtheorie. In W. Kallmeyer & G. Zifonun (eds.), Sprachkorpora - Datenmengen und Erkenntnisfortschritt, 49-69. Berlin: de Gruyter.  download

Hahn, G., D. Penka, C. Gehrlich, A. Messias, M. Weismann, L. Hyvärinen, M. Leinonen, M. Feely, G. Rubin, C. Dauxerre, F. Vital-Durand, S. Featherston, K. Dietz & S. Trauzettel-Klosinski (2006) New standardised texts for assessing reading performance in four European languages. British Journal of Ophthalmology 90, 480-484.

2005

Featherston, S. (2005) Magnitude estimation and what it can do for your syntax: Some wh-constraints in German.  Lingua 115, 1525-1550.  download

Featherston, S. (2005) That-trace in German. Lingua 115, 1277-1302.  download

Featherston, S. (2005) The Decathlon Model of empirical syntax. In M. Reis & S. Kepser (eds.), Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives, 187-208. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.  download

Featherston, S. (2005) Universals and grammaticality: Wh-constraints in German and English. Linguistics 43 (4), 667-711.  download

2004

Featherston, S. (2004) Bridge verbs and V2 verbs: The same thing in spades? Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 23 (2), 181-210.  download

2003

Featherston, S. & W. Sternefeld (2003) The interaction of factors in judgements of reflexive structures: Data from object coreference in German. In L. Gunkel, G. Müller, & G. Zifonun (eds.), Arbeiten zur Reflexivierung. Linguistische Arbeiten 481, 25-50. Tübingen: Niemeyer.  download

Sternefeld, W. & S. Featherston (2003) The German Reciprocal 'einander' in Double Object Constructions reference with 'einander'. In L. Gunkel, G. Müller, & G. Zifonun (eds.), Arbeiten zur Reflexivierung. Linguistische Arbeiten 481, 239-266. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

2002

Featherston, S. (2002) Coreferential objects in German: Experimental evidence on reflexivity. Linguistische Berichte 192, 457-484.  download

2001

Featherston, S. (2001) Empty Categories in Language Processing. Amsterdam: Benjamins.  download

Featherston, S. (2001) Review of Braidi S. 'The acquisition of second language syntax'. Studies in Language 25:2, 335-341.

Featherston, S. (2001) Review of Lamb S. 'Pathways of the brain: The neurocognitive basis of language'. Studies in Language 25:2, 342-348.

2000

Featherston, S., M. Gross, T. Münte & H. Clahsen (2000) Brain potentials in the processing of complex sentences: An ERP study of control and raising constructions. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 29 (2), 141-154.

1999

Clahsen H. & S. Featherston (1999) Antecedent priming at trace positions: Evidence from German scrambling. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 28 (4), 415-437.