Vera Hohaus

Biographic Data

ID1684025
NAMEVera Hohaus
GIVEN NAMESVera
FAMILY NAMEHohaus
SIGNATUREHOHAUS V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manchester
ORCID0000-0002-7457-4096
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter

    Open AccessVera HohausARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…2024References: 36

    Beck et al. (2009) and much follow-up research (including Bochnak 2015; Bowler 2016; Deal and Hohaus 2019) argue that languages systematically differ in the semantics of gradable predicates like tall and old , with some languages adopting a vague, delineation-based semantics and others adopting a relational, degree-based semantics. Beck et al. (2009) capture this point of variation in the so-called Degree Semantics Parameter. Based on elicitation…

  • (No) variation in the grammar of alternatives

    Open AccessAnna Howell, Vera Hohaus et al.ARTICLELinguistic Variation2022Cited by: 2References: 53

    The paper reports the results of an in-depth crosslinguistic study of intervention effects and the grammar of alternatives in a typologically diverse sample of five languages: Palestinian Arabic (Afro-Asiatic, Semitic), Russian (Indo-European, Slavic), Samoan (Austronesian, Oceanic), Turkish (Altaic, Turkic), and Yoruba (Niger-Congo, Defoid). In all of these languages, we find an interesting asymmetry in that focus evaluation interrupts question …

  • Comparisons of Equality With German so…wie , and the Relationship Between Degrees and Properties

    Open AccessVera Hohaus, Malte ZimmermannARTICLEJournal of Semantics2021

    We present a compositionally transparent, unified semantic analysis of two kinds of so...wie-equative constructions in German, namely degree equatives and property equatives in the domain of individuals or events. Unlike in English and many other European languages (Haspelmath & Buchholz 1998, Rett 2013), both equative types in German feature the parameter marker so, suggesting a unified analysis. We show that the parallel formal expression of Ge…

  • Weak necessity without weak possibility

    Open AccessJozina Vander Klok, Vera HohausARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2020

    This paper investigates the semantics of the suffix -NE in Javanese (Austronesian; Indonesia), bringing to light new findings to bear on the composition of modal strength distinctions. In a transparent manner, this functional morpheme derives weak necessity modals from strong necessity modals, but cannot attach to possibility modals to derive weak possibility. Javanese thereby takes a different compositional route to weak necessity than most Indo…

  • The Grammar of Degree

    Vera Hohaus, M Ryan BochnakARTICLEAnnual Review of Linguistics2019Cited by: 3References: 5

    In this review, we discuss the empirical landscape of degree constructions cross-linguistically as well as the major analytical avenues that have been pursued to account for individual languages and cross-linguistic variation. We first focus on comparatives and outline various compositional strategies for different types of comparative sentences as well as points of cross-linguistic variation in the lexicalization of comparative operators and gra…

  • Variation in Tense and Aspect, and the Temporal Interpretation of Complement Clauses

    Open AccessM Ryan Bochnak, Vera Hohaus et al.ARTICLEJournal of Semantics2019Cited by: 6References: 7

    In this paper, we investigate the temporal interpretation of propositional attitude complement clauses in four typologically unrelated languages: Washo (language isolate), Medumba (Niger-Congo), Hausa (Afro-Asiatic), and Samoan (Austronesian). Of these languages, Washo and Medumba are optional-tense languages, while Hausa and Samoan are tenseless. Just like in obligatory-tense languages, we observe variation among these languages when it comes to…