Arne Lohmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 785320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arne Lohmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arne |
| FAMILY NAME | Lohmann |
| SIGNATURE | LOHMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5643-9819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Modal Particles in German
Research on German modal particles (MPs) has long noted their tendency to occur in combination with one another. Prior studies have investigated this phenomenon relying mostly on qualitative and introspective methods. The present article demonstrates the benefits of employing quantitative methods to investigate MP combinations. In a corpus-linguistic study of spoken German, we address the question of ordering tendencies within these sequences, as…
Explaining reversible discourse marker sequences
Pragmatic marker combinations
Phonetic effects of grammatical category
Nouns and verbs in the speech signal
Over the past decades a considerable number of works have observed differences in the phonetic realization of nouns and verbs. The guiding question in most relevant research is whether such differences are caused by grammatical category per se, or are triggered by more general processes of phonetic implementation that impact nouns and verbs differently. Most studies argue for the latter and focus on one particular process or variable, which is ad…
The range of linguistic units
This study examines the role of distance in the decision among grammatical variants. The empirical test case is the English mandative subjunctive construction, which co-occurs with an embedded modal auxiliary, a subjunctive or an indicative verb form. The fact that the subjunctive is triggered by specific lexical items allows one to measure the distance between the triggering unit and the target verb. This distance is found to play a significant …
Forthcoming articles
The question of form in the forming of questions: The meaning and
Time and thyme are not homophones
‘ Time and thyme are not homophones’, a 2008 article by Susanne Gahl published in Language , reports a frequency effect differentiating the durations of homophones, for example, time vs. thyme. The article is of fundamental theoretical relevance, as the finding reported has significant implications for research on homophones and the effects of frequency in general. As I show in the present paper, however, the main analysis in Gahl 2008 does not p…
Cut ( n ) and cut ( v ) are not homophones
This paper tests whether lemma frequency impacts the duration of homographic noun–verb homophones in spontaneous speech, e.g. cut ( n )/ cut ( v ). In earlier research on effects of lemma frequency (e.g. Gahl 2008), these pairs of words were not investigated due to a focus on heterographic homophones. Theories of the mental lexicon in both linguistics and psycholinguistics differ as to whether these word pairs are assumed to have shared or separa…
A quantitative approach to the grammaticalization of discourse markers
This article takes a quantitative approach to the grammar of English two-part discourse marker sequences like oh well , you know I mean , etc. We investigate the internal ordering preferences of such sequences in spoken American English corpus data from the perspective of grammaticalization. From this perspective, the development of many discourse markers can be understood as involving a process of increasing syntactic de-categorialization (Hoppe…
Order in NP conjuncts in spoken English and Japanese
Discourse Marker Sequencing and Grammaticalization
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:This paper deals with the grammatical properties of discourse markers (DMs), specifically their ordering preferences relative to one another. While the data presented here are synchronic, we approach the topic of DM sequencing from the perspective of grammaticalization. From this perspective, DMs can be understood as the result of a process in which elements serving other functions, for example gram…
Domain minimization and beyond
An important account of linear ordering in syntax is John A. Hawkins' (2004) theory of cognitive efficiency and the principles of domain minimization formulated therein. In its latest formulation, the theory postulates syntactic and semantic minimization principles. With regard to the relative strength of these principles, prior research into the dynamics of these constraints has come to differing conclusions. Using the relative ordering of prepo…
Determinants of the extent of compound use
Little is known about the principles governing the extent to which nominal compounds are used. Adopting a contrastive perspective, this paper takes as its starting point the widely held assumption that German assigns a more important role to compounding than English. The notion of compound use is broken down into the three factors of (type and token) frequency, productivity and complexity. An analysis of newspaper and fictional language reveals a…
Cut ( n ) and cut ( v ) are not homophones
This paper tests whether lemma frequency impacts the duration of homographic noun–verb homophones in spontaneous speech, e.g. cut ( n )/ cut ( v ). In earlier research on effects of lemma frequency (e.g. Gahl 2008), these pairs of words were not investigated due to a focus on heterographic homophones. Theories of the mental lexicon in both linguistics and psycholinguistics differ as to whether these word pairs are assumed to have shared or separa…
A quantitative approach to the grammaticalization of discourse markers
This article takes a quantitative approach to the grammar of English two-part discourse marker sequences like oh well , you know I mean , etc. We investigate the internal ordering preferences of such sequences in spoken American English corpus data from the perspective of grammaticalization. From this perspective, the development of many discourse markers can be understood as involving a process of increasing syntactic de-categorialization (Hoppe…
Order in NP conjuncts in spoken English and Japanese
Phonetic effects of grammatical category
The range of linguistic units
This study examines the role of distance in the decision among grammatical variants. The empirical test case is the English mandative subjunctive construction, which co-occurs with an embedded modal auxiliary, a subjunctive or an indicative verb form. The fact that the subjunctive is triggered by specific lexical items allows one to measure the distance between the triggering unit and the target verb. This distance is found to play a significant …
Time and thyme are not homophones
‘ Time and thyme are not homophones’, a 2008 article by Susanne Gahl published in Language , reports a frequency effect differentiating the durations of homophones, for example, time vs. thyme. The article is of fundamental theoretical relevance, as the finding reported has significant implications for research on homophones and the effects of frequency in general. As I show in the present paper, however, the main analysis in Gahl 2008 does not p…
Explaining reversible discourse marker sequences
Nouns and verbs in the speech signal
Over the past decades a considerable number of works have observed differences in the phonetic realization of nouns and verbs. The guiding question in most relevant research is whether such differences are caused by grammatical category per se, or are triggered by more general processes of phonetic implementation that impact nouns and verbs differently. Most studies argue for the latter and focus on one particular process or variable, which is ad…
Domain minimization and beyond
An important account of linear ordering in syntax is John A. Hawkins' (2004) theory of cognitive efficiency and the principles of domain minimization formulated therein. In its latest formulation, the theory postulates syntactic and semantic minimization principles. With regard to the relative strength of these principles, prior research into the dynamics of these constraints has come to differing conclusions. Using the relative ordering of prepo…
Pragmatic marker combinations
Determinants of the extent of compound use
Little is known about the principles governing the extent to which nominal compounds are used. Adopting a contrastive perspective, this paper takes as its starting point the widely held assumption that German assigns a more important role to compounding than English. The notion of compound use is broken down into the three factors of (type and token) frequency, productivity and complexity. An analysis of newspaper and fictional language reveals a…
Discourse Marker Sequencing and Grammaticalization
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:This paper deals with the grammatical properties of discourse markers (DMs), specifically their ordering preferences relative to one another. While the data presented here are synchronic, we approach the topic of DM sequencing from the perspective of grammaticalization. From this perspective, DMs can be understood as the result of a process in which elements serving other functions, for example gram…
Domain minimization and beyond
An important account of linear ordering in syntax is John A. Hawkins' (2004) theory of cognitive efficiency and the principles of domain minimization formulated therein. In its latest formulation, the theory postulates syntactic and semantic minimization principles. With regard to the relative strength of these principles, prior research into the dynamics of these constraints has come to differing conclusions. Using the relative ordering of prepo…
Order in NP conjuncts in spoken English and Japanese
A quantitative approach to the grammaticalization of discourse markers
This article takes a quantitative approach to the grammar of English two-part discourse marker sequences like oh well , you know I mean , etc. We investigate the internal ordering preferences of such sequences in spoken American English corpus data from the perspective of grammaticalization. From this perspective, the development of many discourse markers can be understood as involving a process of increasing syntactic de-categorialization (Hoppe…
Cut ( n ) and cut ( v ) are not homophones
This paper tests whether lemma frequency impacts the duration of homographic noun–verb homophones in spontaneous speech, e.g. cut ( n )/ cut ( v ). In earlier research on effects of lemma frequency (e.g. Gahl 2008), these pairs of words were not investigated due to a focus on heterographic homophones. Theories of the mental lexicon in both linguistics and psycholinguistics differ as to whether these word pairs are assumed to have shared or separa…
Time and thyme are not homophones
‘ Time and thyme are not homophones’, a 2008 article by Susanne Gahl published in Language , reports a frequency effect differentiating the durations of homophones, for example, time vs. thyme. The article is of fundamental theoretical relevance, as the finding reported has significant implications for research on homophones and the effects of frequency in general. As I show in the present paper, however, the main analysis in Gahl 2008 does not p…
The range of linguistic units
This study examines the role of distance in the decision among grammatical variants. The empirical test case is the English mandative subjunctive construction, which co-occurs with an embedded modal auxiliary, a subjunctive or an indicative verb form. The fact that the subjunctive is triggered by specific lexical items allows one to measure the distance between the triggering unit and the target verb. This distance is found to play a significant …
Forthcoming articles
The question of form in the forming of questions: The meaning and
Phonetic effects of grammatical category
Nouns and verbs in the speech signal
Over the past decades a considerable number of works have observed differences in the phonetic realization of nouns and verbs. The guiding question in most relevant research is whether such differences are caused by grammatical category per se, or are triggered by more general processes of phonetic implementation that impact nouns and verbs differently. Most studies argue for the latter and focus on one particular process or variable, which is ad…
Explaining reversible discourse marker sequences
Pragmatic marker combinations
Modal Particles in German
Research on German modal particles (MPs) has long noted their tendency to occur in combination with one another. Prior studies have investigated this phenomenon relying mostly on qualitative and introspective methods. The present article demonstrates the benefits of employing quantitative methods to investigate MP combinations. In a corpus-linguistic study of spoken German, we address the question of ordering tendencies within these sequences, as…
Linguistics (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works)