Ralf Vogel
Biographic Data
| ID | 845512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralf Vogel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralf |
| FAMILY NAME | Vogel |
| SIGNATURE | VOGEL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9333-0652 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grammatical gaps
Grammatical taboos
This explorative study focuses on grammatical taboos in German, morphosyntactic constructions which are subject to stigmatisation, as they regularly occur in standard languages. They are subjected to systematic experimental testing in a questionnaire study with gradient rating scales on two salient and two non-salient grammatical taboo phenomena of German. The study is divided into three subexperiments with different judgement types, an aesthetic…
Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German
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 t…
Together in harmony
Skandal im Verbkomplex. Betrachtungen zur scheinbar inkorrekten Morphologie in infiniten Verbkomplexen des Deutschen
In German infinite verbal complexes with three verbs we can observe a phenomenon which so far has been treated as an irregular exception, because in a particular order, so-called ‘312 order’, all three verbs seem to occur in a wrong form. Corpus research shows, however, that the putative exception has a systematic character and can be observed over a longer time in German. This article therefore tries to take a different perspective: the problem …
Weak function word shift
The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains. This generalization has been formulated within optimality theory in terms of alignment constraints on prosodic structure by Selkirk (1996) in explaining the distribution of prosodically strong and weak …
Optimality Theory and Pragmatics
Yet another Theta System
Tanya Reinhart's “Theta System” (henceforth: TS) is yet another version of what we call linking theories, i.e., theories that formulate generalizations about how verbs project their semantic arguments into syntactic constituent structure. The last decades of linguistic research have seen many proposals of this kind. The TS is particularly designed to fit into a minimalist theory of syntax, but, as far as I can see, there is nothing particularly m…
On the nature of the input in optimality theory
The input has two main functions in optimality theory (Prince and Smolensky (1993)). First, the input deÞnes the candidate set, in other words it determines which output candidates compete for optimality, and which do not. Second, the input is referred to by faithfulness constraints that prohibit output candi-dates from deviating from speciÞcations in the input. Whereas there is general agreement concerning the relevance of the input in phonology…
On the (Absence of a) Base Position for Dative Objects in German
The topic of this paper is the dative object case in German and the constraints that govern word order in the so-called middlefield of German clauses
Weak function word shift
The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains. This generalization has been formulated within optimality theory in terms of alignment constraints on prosodic structure by Selkirk (1996) in explaining the distribution of prosodically strong and weak …
Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German
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 t…
On the (Absence of a) Base Position for Dative Objects in German
The topic of this paper is the dative object case in German and the constraints that govern word order in the so-called middlefield of German clauses
Yet another Theta System
Tanya Reinhart's “Theta System” (henceforth: TS) is yet another version of what we call linking theories, i.e., theories that formulate generalizations about how verbs project their semantic arguments into syntactic constituent structure. The last decades of linguistic research have seen many proposals of this kind. The TS is particularly designed to fit into a minimalist theory of syntax, but, as far as I can see, there is nothing particularly m…
On the nature of the input in optimality theory
The input has two main functions in optimality theory (Prince and Smolensky (1993)). First, the input deÞnes the candidate set, in other words it determines which output candidates compete for optimality, and which do not. Second, the input is referred to by faithfulness constraints that prohibit output candi-dates from deviating from speciÞcations in the input. Whereas there is general agreement concerning the relevance of the input in phonology…
Optimality Theory and Pragmatics
Weak function word shift
The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains. This generalization has been formulated within optimality theory in terms of alignment constraints on prosodic structure by Selkirk (1996) in explaining the distribution of prosodically strong and weak …
Skandal im Verbkomplex. Betrachtungen zur scheinbar inkorrekten Morphologie in infiniten Verbkomplexen des Deutschen
In German infinite verbal complexes with three verbs we can observe a phenomenon which so far has been treated as an irregular exception, because in a particular order, so-called ‘312 order’, all three verbs seem to occur in a wrong form. Corpus research shows, however, that the putative exception has a systematic character and can be observed over a longer time in German. This article therefore tries to take a different perspective: the problem …
Together in harmony
Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German
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 t…
Grammatical taboos
This explorative study focuses on grammatical taboos in German, morphosyntactic constructions which are subject to stigmatisation, as they regularly occur in standard languages. They are subjected to systematic experimental testing in a questionnaire study with gradient rating scales on two salient and two non-salient grammatical taboo phenomena of German. The study is divided into three subexperiments with different judgement types, an aesthetic…
Grammatical gaps
Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · German (4 works) · Optimality theory (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Phonology (3 works)