Research

The linguistics section is highly active in research and is very successful in gaining third-party funding for research initiatives. Linguists of the section also contribute significantly to the large scale collaborative research center SFB 1718 Common Ground.

• SFB 1718 Project A6 (Friedrich & Weber):
  Developing Common Ground across Age and Language Proficiency
• SFB 1718 Project B2 (Menéndez Benito):
  Common Ground Management Interactions: Romance Evidentials
• SFB 1718 Project B5 (Griffiths):
  Clarifying the Common Ground: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of the Form and Pragmatic Function of Reprise Questions and Reprise Fragments
• SFB 1718 Project B6 (Axel-Tober, Featherston & Winkler):
  Syntax Interacts with Common Ground: Non-Canonical Inversion Structures
• SFB 1718 Project C1 (Kehl, Kramer & Winkler)
  Construction and Destruction of Common Ground in Polarized Political Discourse
• SFB 1718 Project C5 (Bauer, Beck & Zirker)
  Multiple Common Grounds – Linguistic Mechanisms for Literary Meaning
• DFG Individual Project (Griffiths)
  Crosslinguistic Experiments on Fragmentary Sentences (CLEFS; 522896622)
• BMBF Project
  Conflict and Consensus in Science Communication 

(since 2010)

Habilitations

• Griffiths, James (2024), “On clausal and verb phrase ellipsis: Studies on the licensing conditions on clausal and verbal ellipsis, focusing on English” Kumulative Habilitationsschrift, Universität Tübingen. (Featherston)
• Konietzko, Andreas (2020), "Islands and Complex Constructions in English and German: Bridging the Gap between Theory of Grammar, Processing and Neurolinguistics" Kumulative Habilitationsschrift, Universität Tübingen. (Winkler)
• Hartmann, Jutta (2016), "The Syntax and Focus Structure of Specificational Copular Clauses and Clefts" Habilitationsschrift, Universität Tübingen. (Winkler)
• Grosz-Patel, Pritty (2014), "On Structural and Contextual Relations in the Grammar: Individual Variables, Agreement, and Anaphoric Presuppositions" Kumulative Habilitationsschrift, Universität Tübingen. (Beck)
• Gergel, Remus (2010), "From Comparisons to Preferences" Kumulative Habilitationsschrift, Universität Tübingen. (Beck)

Dissertations

• Cortés Rodríguez, Álvaro (2024), "An experimental lens on multiple sluicing: Amelioration effects, crosslinguistic variation, and processing.” (Griffiths) Download
• Kehl, Andreas (2023), "Adjunct Islands. Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from English and German." (Winkler)
• Truong, Thanh Lan (2023), “Hearing the message and seeing the messenger: The role of talker information in spoken language comprehension” (Weber)
• von Wietersheim, Sophie (2020), “Binding as Evidence for Structural Integration” (Featherston)
• Wimmer, Alexander (2020), “On Certain Conditionals” Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Beck) Download
• Beck, Sara (2020), “Native and non-native idiom processing: same difference” (Weber)
• Berezovskaya, Polina (2020), "Comparing Comparatives: New Perspectives from Fieldwork and Processing" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Beck) Download
• Jäger, Marion (2020), "Focus Particles and Extraction" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Winkler) Download
• Sachs, Konstantin (2019), "Indefinite Intervention Effects: How Focus Intervention Restricts the Scope of Indefinites" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Beck) Download
• Remmele, Bettina (2019), "The Prosody of Sluicing: Production studies on prosodic disambiguation" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Winkler) Download
• Brockmann, Saskia Gabriela (2018), "The Relation between Pronouns and Definites. Evidence from First Language Acquisition" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Beck)  Download
• Howell, Anna (2018), "Alternative Semantics Across Languages" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Beck)
• Grohe, Ann-Kathrin (2017), "Learning foreign and native accents: the role of production and listening" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Weber)  Download
• Wagner, Wiltrud (2017), "Idioms and Ambiguity in Context: Literal and Figurative Readings of Idiomatic Expressions" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Winkler)
• Bade, Nadine (2016), "Obligatory Presupposition Triggers in Discourse - Empirical Investigations of the Theories 'Maximize Presupposition' and ‘Obligatory Implicatures’" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Beck)  Download
• Hohaus, Vera (2015), "Context and Composition: How Presuppositions Restrict the Interpretation of Free Variables" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Beck)  Download
• Konietzko, Andreas (2014), "The Syntax and Information Structure of Bare Argument Ellipsis in English and German: Experimental and Theoretical Evidence" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Winkler) Publisher Link
• Salakhyan, Elena (2014), "Eastern European Manifestations of English as a Lingua Franca" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Kohn)  Download
• Tiemann, Sonja (2013), "The Processing of 'wieder' ('again') and Other Presupposition Triggers" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Beck) Download
• Hofstetter, Stefan (2013), "Selected Issues in the Theory of Comparison: Phrasal Comparison in Turkish and a Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Intensifiers, Negative Island Effects and the Distribution of Measure Phrases" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Beck) Download
• Krasikova, Sveta (2010), "Modals in Comparatives" Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. (Beck)