Sebastian Sauppe

Datos Biográficos

ID202117
NOMBRESebastian Sauppe
NOMBRESSebastian
APELLIDOSauppe
FIRMASAUPPE S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Zurich
ORCID0000-0001-8670-8197
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS35
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Discourse ergativity and human reference in Basque

    Open AccessAitor Egurtzegi, Damián E Blasi et al.ARTICLEStudies in Language2025

    One possible usage-based motivation for ergative alignment in grammars is the reference-establishing function shared by the sole argument of intransitives and the patient argument of transitives. Here we test this hypothesis, known as Preferred Argument Structure, against discourse data from Basque, a language with ergative case marking. While we do find a discourse-ergative distribution of lexical forms of reference, our results suggest animacy …

  • Neural correlates of processing case in adults and children

    Open AccessArrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Caroline Andrews et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2025Referencias: 91

    Sentence-initial arguments with role-specific case markers (e.g., accusatives) have been reported to be processed slower than arguments with default case markers (e.g., nominatives), both in adults and children. However, the evidence for this comes from studies that conflate word order and case, comparing initial arguments with default case and fronted (scrambled) arguments with role-specific case. Here, we disentangle these effects by studying t…

  • The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension

    Open AccessArrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Caroline Andrews et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2023

    A central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in general cognition and prominently encoded in language, with agents appearing as more salient and preferred over patients. An unresolved question is whether this preference for agents already operates during apprehension, that is, the earliest stage of event processing,…

  • Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning

    Open AccessAitor Egurtzegi, Damián E Blasi et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2022

    Languages differ in how they mark the dependencies between verbs and arguments, e.g., by case. An eye tracking and EEG picture description study examined the influence of case marking on the time course of sentence planning in Basque and Swiss German. While German assigns an unmarked (nominative) case to subjects, Basque specifically marks agent arguments through ergative case. Fixations to agents and event-related synchronization (ERS) in the th…

  • Speaking for seeing

    Open AccessSebastian Sauppe, Monique FleckenARTICLECognition2021

    Human experience and communication are centred on events, and event apprehension is a rapid process that draws on the visual perception and immediate categorization of event roles ("who does what to whom"). We demonstrate a role for syntactic structure in visual information uptake for event apprehension. An event structure foregrounding either the agent or patient was activated during speaking, transiently modulating the apprehension of subsequen…

  • Symmetrical and asymmetrical voice systems and processing load

    Open AccessSebastian SauppeARTICLELanguage2017Citada por: 2

    The voice system of Tagalog has been proposed to be symmetrical in the sense that there are no morphologically unmarked voice forms. This stands in contrast to asymmetrical voice systems, which exhibit unmarked and marked voices (e.g. active and passive in German). This article investigates the psycholinguistic processing consequences of the potential (a)symmetries in the voice systems of Tagalog and German by analyzing changes in cognitive load …

  • Automated Dating of the World's Language Families Based on Lexical Similarity

    Eric W Holman, Cecil H Brown et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2011Citada por: 33Referencias: 40

    This paper describes a computerized alternative to glottochronology for estimating elapsed time since parent languages diverged into daughter languages. The method, developed by the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) consortium, is different from glottochronology in four major respects: (1) it is automated and thus is more objective, (2) it applies a uniform analytical approach to a single database of worldwide languages, (3) it is base…