TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
T1  - Stopn bashing givenness! a note on Elke Kasimir's "Question-answer test and givenness"
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 3-937786-01-5
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Kaiser, Elsi
A1  - Hörnig, Robin
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - Perception of intonational contours on given and new referents : a completion study and an eye-movement experiment
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 978-3-11-021922-7
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
A1  - Hoernig, Robin
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Knauf, Selene
A1  - Krueger, Agnes
T1  - Effects of focus and definiteness on children's word order: evidence from German five-year-olds' reproductions of double object constructions
JF  - Journal of child language
N2  - Two experiments tested how faithfully German children aged 4; 5 to 5; 6 reproduce ditransitive sentences that are unmarked or marked with respect to word order and focus (Exp1) or definiteness (Exp2). Adopting an optimality theory (OT) approach, it is assumed that in the German adult grammar word order is ranked lower than focus and definiteness. Faithfulness of children's reproductions decreased as markedness of inputs increased; unmarked structures were reproduced most faithfully and unfaithful outputs had most often an unmarked form. Consistent with the OT proposal, children were more tolerant against inputs marked for word order than for focus; in conflict with the proposal, children were less tolerant against inputs marked for word order than for definiteness. Our results suggest that the linearization of objects in German double object constructions is affected by focus and definiteness, but that prosodic principles may have an impact on the position of a focused constituent.
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000913000196
SN  - 0305-0009
SN  - 1469-7602
VL  - 41
IS  - 4
SP  - 780
EP  - 810
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hörnig, Robin
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
T1  - Given and new information in spatial statements
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 978-0-19-957095-9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Häussler, Jana
A1  - Mucha, Anna
A1  - Schmidt, Andreas
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Wierzba, Marta
T1  - Experimenting with Lurchi
BT  - V2 and agreement violations in poetic contexts
JF  - Of trees and birds. A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow
KW  - Festschrift
KW  - Informationsstruktur
KW  - Linguistik
KW  - Morphologie
KW  - Syntax
KW  - festschrift
KW  - information structure
KW  - linguistics
KW  - morphology
KW  - syntax
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432553
SN  - 978-3-86956-457-9
SP  - 307
EP  - 321
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
A1  - Hörnig, Robin
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Knauf, Selene
A1  - Krüger, Agnes
T1  - Effects of focus and definiteness on children's word order
BT  - evidence from German five-year-olds' reproductions of double object constructions
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Two experiments tested how faithfully German children aged 4; 5 to 5; 6 reproduce ditransitive sentences that are unmarked or marked with respect to word order and focus (Exp1) or definiteness (Exp2). Adopting an optimality theory (OT) approach, it is assumed that in the German adult grammar word order is ranked lower than focus and definiteness. Faithfulness of children's reproductions decreased as markedness of inputs increased; unmarked structures were reproduced most faithfully and unfaithful outputs had most often an unmarked form. Consistent with the OT proposal, children were more tolerant against inputs marked for word order than for focus; in conflict with the proposal, children were less tolerant against inputs marked for word order than for definiteness. Our results suggest that the linearization of objects in German double object constructions is affected by focus and definiteness, but that prosodic principles may have an impact on the position of a focused constituent.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 511 
KW  - indefinite articles
KW  - preschool-children
KW  - information
KW  - animacy
KW  - acquisition
KW  - constraints
KW  - sentences
KW  - language
KW  - grammar
KW  - stress
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415695
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 511
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
T1  - Stop bashing givenness!
BT  - A note on Elke Kasimir's "Questions-Answers Test and Givenness"
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - Elke Kasimir’s paper (in this volume) argues against employing the notion of Givenness in the explanation of accent assignment. I will claim that the arguments against Givenness put forward by Kasimir are inconclusive because they beg the question of the role of Givenness. It is concluded that, more generally, arguments against Givenness as a diagnostic for information structural partitions should not be accepted offhand, since the notion of Givenness of discourse referents is (a) theoretically simple, (b) readily observable and quantifiable, and (c) bears cognitive significance.
KW  - givenness
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8718
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 3
SP  - 53
EP  - 62
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Franselow, Gisbert
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
A1  - Vogel, Ralf
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
T1  - Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German
N2  - This article presents several acceptability rating experiments concerned with crossing wh-movement in German multiple questions. Our results show that there is no general superiority effect in German, thus refuting claims to the contrary by Featherston (2005). However, acceptability is reduced when a whphrase crosses a wh-subject with which it agrees in animacy. We explain this finding in terms of the availability of different sorting keys for the answers to the multiple questions.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 299 
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93630
SP  - 657
EP  - 683
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hörnig, Robin
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
T1  - Word order variation in spatial descriptions with adverbs
N2  - Previous research has shown that in a three-term spatial reasoning task, the second premise of a German premise pair is especially easy to comprehend if (1) the prepositional object rather than the grammatical subject denotes the given entity, and if (2) the term denoting the given entity precedes the term denoting the new entity. Accordingly, the second premise is easiest to comprehend with noncanonical word order-that is, with the prepositional object in preverbal position denoting the given entity (e.g., To the right of the given object is the new subject). This finding is explained in terms of contextual licensing of noncanonical word order. Here, we discuss and tested two alternative accounts of contextual licensing, given-new and partially ordered set relations (Poset). The given-new account claims that noncanonical word order is licensed by the term denoting the given entity preceding the term denoting the new entity. On the Poset account, noncanonical word order is licensed if the preverbal constituent introduces a new entity that stands in a transitive, irreflexive, and asymmetric relation to a given entity. Comprehension times for second premises with spatial adverbs in four different word orders support both accounts of contextual licensing; Poset licensing was stronger than given-new licensing.
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://www.springerlink.com/content/0090-502x/
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193264
SN  - 0090-502X
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
T1  - On the informativity of different measures of linguistic acceptability
JF  - Language : journal of the Linguistic Society of America
N2  - This article deals with the claim that the MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION (ME) method of gathering acceptability judgments produces data that are more informative for linguists than binary or n-point scale judgments. We performed three acceptability-rating experiments that directly compared ME data to binary and seven-point scale data. The results clearly falsify the hypothesis that data gathered by the ME method carry a larger amount of information about the acceptability of a given linguistic phenomenon. The three measures are largely equivalent with respect to informativity. Moreover, ME judgments are shown to be more liable to producing spurious variance under certain circumstances.*
KW  - acceptability judgments
KW  - empirical syntax
KW  - magnitude estimation
KW  - informativity
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 0097-8507
VL  - 87
IS  - 2
SP  - 249
EP  - 273
PB  - Linguistic Society of America
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
A1  - Vogel, Ralf
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
T1  - Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German
JF  - Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
N2  - This article presents several acceptability rating experiments concerned with crossing wh-movement in German multiple questions. Our results show that there is no general superiority effect in German, thus refuting claims to the contrary by Featherston (2005). However, acceptability is reduced when a wh-phrase crosses a wh-subject with which it agrees in animacy. We explain this finding in terms of the availability of different sorting keys for the answers to the multiple questions.
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/LING.2011.021
SN  - 0024-3949
VL  - 49
IS  - 4
SP  - 657
EP  - 683
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blaszczak, Joanna
A1  - Dipper, Stefanie
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
A1  - Ishihara, Shinishiro
A1  - Petrova, Svetlana
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
T1  - Syntax
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS
N2  - The guidelines for syntactic annotation contain the layers that are especially relevant for queries related to the interaction of information structure with syntax. The layers of this level are constituent structure, grammatical functions, and semantic roles.
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22253
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 7
SP  - 95
EP  - 133
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blaszczak, Joanna
A1  - Dipper, Stefanie
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
A1  - Ishihara, Shinishiro
A1  - Petrova, Svetlana
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
T1  - Morphology
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS
N2  - The guidelines for morphological annotation contain the layers that are necessary for understanding the structure of the words in the object language: morphological segmentation, glossing, and annotation of part-of-speech.
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22247
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 7
SP  - 55
EP  - 94
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Götze, Michael
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Endriss, Cornelia
A1  - Fiedler, Ines
A1  - Hinterwimmer, Stefan
A1  - Petrova, Svetlana
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
A1  - Stoel, Ruben
T1  - Information structure
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS
N2  - The guidelines for Information Structure include instructions for the annotation of Information Status (or ‘givenness’), Topic, and Focus, building upon a basic syntactic annotation of nominal phrases and sentences. A procedure for the annotation of these features is proposed.
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22277
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 7
SP  - 147
EP  - 187
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Olsen, Susan
A1  - Stiebels, Barbara
A1  - Bierwisch, Manfred
A1  - Zimmermann, Ilse
A1  - Cavar, Damir
A1  - Georgi, Doreen
A1  - Bacskai-Atkari, Julia
A1  - Alexiadou, Artemis
A1  - Błaszczak, Joanna
A1  - Müller, Gereon
A1  - Šimík, Radek
A1  - Meinunger, André
A1  - Thiersch, Craig
A1  - Arnhold, Anja
A1  - Féry, Caroline
A1  - Bayer, Josef
A1  - Titov, Elena
A1  - Fominyam, Henry
A1  - Tran, Thuan
A1  - Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina D.
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
A1  - Häussler, Jana
A1  - Mucha, Anne
A1  - Schmidt, Andreas
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Wierzba, Marta
A1  - Stede, Manfred
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
A1  - Gafos, Adamantios I.
A1  - Haider, Hubert
A1  - Wunderlich, Dieter
A1  - Staudacher, Peter
A1  - Rauh, Gisa
ED  - Brown, Jessica M. M.
ED  - Schmidt, Andreas
ED  - Wierzba, Marta
T1  - Of Trees and Birds
BT  - A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow
N2  - Gisbert Fanselow’s work has been invaluable and inspiring to many ­researchers working on syntax, morphology, and information ­structure, both from a ­theoretical and from an experimental perspective. This ­volume comprises a collection of articles dedicated to Gisbert on the occasion of his 60th birthday, covering a range of topics from these areas and beyond. The contributions have in ­common that in a broad sense they have to do with language structures (and thus trees), and that in a more specific sense they have to do with birds. They thus cover two of Gisbert’s major interests in- and outside of the linguistic world (and ­perhaps even at the interface).
KW  - Festschrift
KW  - Linguistik
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Morphologie
KW  - Informationsstruktur
KW  - festschrift
KW  - linguistics
KW  - syntax
KW  - morphology
KW  - information structure
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-426542
SN  - 978-3-86956-457-9
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -