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With the possible exception of my 1991 Minimale Syntax, the publications I am most proud of are co-authored. It is amazing how much papers improve when they are written in the constant intensive interaction with colleagues. I particularly like Weskott & Fanselow (2011), which won the Language Best Paper Award and made it into the all-time anthology of  best papers in Language.

I am proud that so many of the best linguists (and cognitive science colleagues) around were willing to co-author papers with me. Thanks, hence, to Rama Kant Agnihotri, Artemis Alexiadou, Rusudan Asatiani, Philippe Besnard, Petra Burkhardt, Damir Ćavar, Charles Clifton, Edeltraud Dobnig-Jülch, Sascha W. Felix†, Caroline Féry, Lyn Frazier, Stefan Frisch, Meg Grant, Jana Häussler, Robin Hörnig, Ralf Jodlbauer†, Martina Junker†, Reinhold Kliegl, Josef Krems, Manfred Krifka, Anoop Mahajan, Ulrich Mayr, Denisa Lenertovà, Alla Paslawska, Torsten Schaub, Matthias Schlesewsky, Stavros Skopeteas, Peter Staudacher, Yranahan Traoré, Shravan Vasishth, Lisa Verhoeven, Ralf Vogel, Thomas Weskott, Marta Wierzba, Wolfgang Wildgen. 

 

2020 Middle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: Testing syntactic variability in a new repeated exposure paradigm. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0251280. (with J.M.M. Brown, R. Hall & R. Kliegl)
submitted The Object Position in Tagbana (with Yranahan Traoré and Caroline Féry)
accepted Discontinuous noun phrases in Yucatec Maya. Journal of Linguistics. (with Starvros Skopeteas and Lisa Verhoeven)
accepted Acceptability, Grammar, and Processing. In: Goodall, Grant (ed.).The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax. Cambridge University Press. In preparation (under contract)
2020 Prosody of discontinuous noun phrases in South Asian Languages. Journal of South Asian Languages 10: 60-87. (with Caroline Féry)
2020 Factors influencing the acceptability of object fronting in German. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. (with Marta Wierzba)
2020 Is the OV-VO distinction due to a macroparameter? In: Tanaka, Masatoshi, Tomoya TsuTsui, & Masashi Hashimoto (eds). Linguistic Research as an Interdisciplinary Science. Hituzi Kenkyuu Soosho, Gengohen [Hituzi Research Series, Linguistics] 170. Tokyo: Hituzi Publishers. ISBN 9784823410178. 1-26.
2019 Who cares what who prefers? A study in judgment differences between linguists and non-linguists. In: Katy Carlson, Charles Clifton, Jr. and Janet Dean Fodor (eds.) Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing. Essays in Honor of Lyn Frazier Springer. Cham. 261-274. (with Jana Häussler and Thomas Weskott)
2018 Zur Flexibilität von Idiomen im Deutschen. Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia 27, 115-134.
2017 Partial Movement. In: Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell. 437-492.
2017 Syntaktische Variation - Unterspezifikation und Skalen. In: Konopka, Marek / Wöllstein, Angelika (eds.): Grammatische Variation. Empirische Zugänge und theoretische Modellierung. Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache 2016..Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2017. 145 -160.
2016 Constituent order in German multiple questions: Normal order and (apparent) anti-superiority effects. In: Sam Featherson and Yannick Versley (eds). Quantitative approaches to grammar and grammatical change. Perspectives from Germanic. Berlin; Mouton de Gruyter, 33-50. (with Jana Häussler and Thomas Weskott)
2016 Syntactic and Prosodic Reflexes of Information Structure in Germanic. In: Féry, Caroline and Shinishiro Ishihara (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure. Oxford, OUP. 621-641.
2016 Hörbeleg. In: Carmen Bluhm, Jens Hopperdietzel and Lars Erik Zeige (eds.). Glossarium amicorum. Festschrift für Karin Donhauser. Berlin, Berlin: Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik.
2015 Superiority in English and German: Cross-Language Grammatical Differences? Syntax 18:3, 235–265. (With Jana Häussler, Meg Grant and Lyn Frazier)
2015 On the alleged absence of certain ambiguities in free constituent order languages. In: Ángel Gallego & Dennis Ott (eds). 50 years later. Reflections on Chomsky’s Aspects. 113-122.
2013 A Comparative Perspective on Intervention Effects on Left Branch Extractions in Slavic. In:W. Sulym,M. Smolij & C. Djakiw, eds., Non Progredi Est Regredi. Festschrift fur Alla Paslwaska. Pais, Lviv, pp. 266–295.
2013 Morphological mismatches in discontinuous noun phrases. In Holden Härtl (ed.), Interfaces of morphology: A Festschrift for Susan Olsen, 11–25.Berlin: De Gruyter.
2012 Scrambling as Formal Movement. In I. Kucerova, & A. Neeleman (Eds.), Information. Structure: Contrasts and Positions. Cambridge: 267-295.
2011 Left peripheral focus: Mismatches between syntax and information structure Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 29: 169-209. (with Denisa Lenertovà)
2011 On the informativity of different measures of linguistic acceptability. Language 249-283. (with Thomas Weskott), https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/best-language-volume-iii .
2011 Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German. Linguistics 49(4), 657–683. (with Matthias Schlesewsly, Ralf Vogel and Thomas Weskott)
2011 Case inversion in Georgian: Syntactic properties and sentence processing, In: Case, Word Order, and Prominence. Lamers M, De Swart P (Eds); Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. New York: Springer: 145-171. (with Stavros Skopeteas and Rusudan Asatiani)
2011 Contextual licensing of marked OVS word order in German. Linguistische Berichte 225, 3-18. (with Robin Hörnig, Reinhold Kliegl, and Thomas Weskott)
2011 Focus and the exclusion of alternatives: On the interaction of syntactic structure with pragmatic inference Lingua. 121: 1693-1706. (with Stavros Skopeteas)
2011 Kann die Linguistik das Jahr 2024 erleben? Und die Syntax das Jahr 2014. Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie 78: 65-78.
2010 Focus in Georgian and the expression of contrast Lingua. 120: 1370-1391. (with Stravros Skopeteas)
2010 Effects of givenness and constraints on free word order. In: Malte Zimmermann & Caroline Féry (eds.) Information Structure: Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives. Oxford: OUP. 307-331. (with Stavros Skopeteas)
2010 Semantic type effects on crossing movement in German. In: Thomas Hanneforth and Gisbert Fanselow (eds.) Language and Logos. Berlin: de Gruyter. 45-62.
2010 Focus types and argument asymmetries: a cross-linguistic study in language production in Breul, C., and Göbbel, E. Contrastive information structure, Amsterdam, Benjamins. 169-197. (with Stavros Skopeteas)
2010 A Short Note on Long Movement in German. Linguistische Berichte 222, 129-140. (with Thomas Weskott)
2010 More Freedom on the Left. In: S. Imtiaz Hasnain and Shreesh Chaudhary (eds.) Problematizing Language Studies: Cultural, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives : Essays in Honour of Rama Kant Agnihotri. Delhi, Akar Pub, 317-331.
2009 Scaling issues in the measurement of linguistic acceptability. In: Susanne Winkler and Sam Featherston (eds). The fruits of empirical linguistics. 1, 229- 245. (with Thomas Weskott)
2009 Bootstrapping Verb Movement and the Clausal Architecture of German (and Other Languages). In A. Alexiadou, & et al. (Eds.), Advances in comparative Germanic Syntax (pp. 85–117). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
2009 Die (generative) Syntax in den Zeiten der Empiriediskussion Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft. 28: 133-139.
2008 Variance and informativity in different measures of linguistic acceptability. In: Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie (eds). Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Somerset MA: Cascadilla. 431-439. (with Thomas Weskott)
2008 Missing superiority effects: long movement in German and other languages. In: Jacek Witkoś and Gisbert Fanselow (eds.). Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View. Frankfurt: Lang. 67-87. (with Caroline Féry)
2008 Studies on the acceptability of object movement in German. In: Steube, Anita (ed.) The discourse potential of underspecified structures. Berlin New York: de Gruyter. 413-438. (With Denisa Lenertovà and Thomas Weskott)
2008 In need of mediation: The relation between syntax and information structure Acta Linguistica Hungarica. 55: 397-413.
2008 Introduction. Acta Linguistica Hungarica. 55: 231-241. (with Caroline Féry and Manfred Krifka)
2007 Effects of (in)transitivity on structure building and agreement. Brain Research. 1163: 100-10. (with Petra Burkhardt and Matthias Schlesewsky)
2007 Discontinuous constructions in Ukrainian. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 15(1), 3–48. (with Caroline Féry and Alla Paslawska)
2007 Carrots – perfect as vegetables, but not as a main dish. Theoretical Linguistics 33,3, 353–367.
2007 Partial wh-movement. In Partial wh-movement. In Martin Everaert & Henk C. van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 437-492. Oxford, England: Blackwell.
2006 Effects of Processing Difficulty on Judgments of Acceptability. In: G, Fanselow et al. (eds.) Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives. 291-316. (with Stefan Frisch)
2006 Word order variation in spatial descriptions with adverbs. Memory & Cognition. 34: 1183-92. (with Robin Hörnig, Reinhold Kliegl, and Thomas Weskott)
2006 Amnestying superiority violations: Processing multiple questions. Linguistic Inquiry, 37, 51-68. (with Charles Clifton & Lyn Frazier)
2006 Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives. (ed., with Caroline Féry, Matthias Schlesewsky, and Ralf Vogel)
2006 Fanselow, Gisbert. 2006. On pure syntax (uncontaminated by information structure). In Patrick Brandt & Eric Fuss (eds.), Form, structure and grammar: (Studia grammatica 63), 137–157. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
2006 The Restricted Access of Information Structure to Syntax – A Minority Report. In: Caroline Féry, Gisbert Fanselow and Manfred Krifka. The notions of information structure. Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 06, 195-211.
2006 Unrealised Possibilities. In Hans-Martin Gärtner, Sigrid Beck, Regine Eckardt, Renate Musan & Barbara Stiebels (eds.). Between 40 to 60 puzzles for Krifka. Snippets 20, 18-24.
2005 Syntactic variation in German wh-questions. Linguistic Variation Yearbook. 5, 37-63. (with Matthias Schlesewsky and Reinhold Kliegl)
2004 The MLC and Derivational Economy. In: Arthur Stepanov, Gisbert Fanselow & Ralf Vogel (eds.). Minimality Effects in Syntax. Berlin, de Gruyter. 73-124.
2004 Minimality Effects in Syntax (ed.). Berlin, de Gruyter. (with Arthur Stepanov and Ralf Vogel)
2004 Fanselow, Gisbert. 2004b. Fakten, Fakten, Fakten! Linguistische Berichte200. 481–493.
2003 Fanselow, Gisbert. 2003a. Free constituent order: A Minimalist interface account. Folia Linguistica 37(1–2). 191–231.
2003 Münchhausen-Style Head Movement and the Analysis of Verb Second. In: Anoop Mahajan (ed.) Syntax at Sunset 3: Head Movement and Syntactic Theory. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 10, 40-76.
2003 Optimality Theory as a Family of Cumulative Logics, Journal of Logic, Language and Information 12 153–182. (with Philippe Besnard and Torsten Schaub)
2003 Fanselow, Gisbert. 2003b. Surprising Specifiers and Cyclic Spellout. In Generative Linguistics in Poland 5: 30-46.
2003 More isn't always better: A surprising constraint on retrieval cues in human sentence parsing. In Proceedings of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference, Glasgow, UK, 2003. (with Rama Kant Agnihotri, Anoop Mahajan, Shravan Vasishth, and Matthias Schlesewsky)
2003 Zur Generierung der Satzgliedabfolge im Deutschen. Neue Beiträge zur Germanistik 112: 9-47.
2003 Gisbert Fanselow: Die Beziehung der Grammatik zur kommunikativen Funktion der Sprache. In: Helmut Richter and Walther Schmitz. Kommunikation - ein Schlüsselbegriff der Humanwissenschaften? Münster Nodus. 269-285.
2002 Against remnant VP movement. In: Alexiadou, Artemis, Anagnostopoulou, Elena, Barbiers, Sjef & Gärtner, Hans-Martin (eds.), Dimensions of movement: From features to remnants, 91–125. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2002 Fanselow, G. 2002a. Quirky subjects and other specifiers. In: More Than Words, Ingrid Kaufmann, and Barbara Stiebels (eds.), Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 227-250.
2002 On the correlation between morphology and syntax. In: C. Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham (eds:) Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax. Amsterdam Benjamis 219-242. (with Artemis Alexiadou)
2002 Distributed deletion. In Artemis Alexiadou (ed.), Theoretical approaches to Universals, 64–109. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (with Damir Čavar)
2002 Testing Age Invariance in Language Processes. In Susan Kemper & Reinhold Kliegl (eds:) Constraints on Language: Aging, Grammar, and Memory New York. Springer, 137-167. (with Reinhold Klieg, Ulrich Mayr and Martina Junker)
2002 Processing difficulty and principles of grammar. In Susan Kemper & Reinhold Kliegl (eds:) Constraints on Language: Aging, Grammar, and Memory New York. Springer, 170-200. (with Reinhold Kliegl and Matthias Schlesewsky)
2002 Wie ihr Gebrauch die Sprache prägt. In: Sibylle Krämer and Ekkehard König (eds.). Gibt es eine Sprache hinter dem Sprechen? Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 229-261.
2002 Fanselow, Gisbert, & Féry, Caroline (2002). Ineffability in grammar. In G. Fanselow, & C. Féry(Eds.), Resolving conflicts in grammars (pp. 265–307). Hamburg: Buske.
2002 Grammatik mit Widersprüchen. Kognitionswissenschaft 9: 149-157. (with Caroline Féry)
2001 Features, theta-roles, and free constituent order. Linguistic Inquiry 32, 405–437.
2001 When formal features need company. In C. Féry and W. Sternefeld (eds.), Audiatur Vox Sapientiae, 131-152. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
2001 Remarks on the economy of pronunciation. In: Gereon Müller and Wolfgang Sternefeld (eds.) Competition in Syntax. Berlin: de Gruyter. 107-150. (with Damir Ćavar)
2000 Partial movement and successive cyclicity. In Wh-scopemarking,ed. Ulrich Lutz, Gereon Müller, and Arnim von Stechow, 195–230. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (with Anoop Mahajan)
2000 Optimal exceptions. In: The lexicon in focus, ed. Barbara Steibels and Dieter Wunderlich. 173–209. Berlin: Ackademie Verlag.
2000 The subject preference in the processing of locally ambiguous Wh-questions in German. In B. Hemforth & L. Konieczny (Eds.),German sentence processing. Boston: Kluwer 65–93. (with Matthias Schlesewsky, Reinhold Kliegl, and Josef Krems)
2000 Does Constituent Length predict German Word Order in the Middle Field? In: Bayer, J., Römer, C. (Eds.), Von der Philologie zur Grammatiktheorie. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 63-77.
1999 Optimal Parsing. Syntactic Parsing Preferences and Optimality Theory. Rutgers Optimality Archive. (with Damir Ćavar, Matthias Schlesewsky, and Reinhold Kliegl)
1996 WH-expletive constructions in German and Hindi. In Uli Lutz and Gereon Müller (eds). Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340. 131-161. (with Anoop Mahajan)
1993 The return of the base generators.Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik 36: 1–74.
1993 Instead of a Preface: Some reflections on parameters. In: Gisbert Fanselow (ed.). The Parametrization of Universal Grammar. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
1992 „Ergative” Verben und die Struktur des deutschen Mittelfelds. In: Hoffmann, Ludger (Hrsg.): Deutsche Syntax. Ansichten und Aussichten. – Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 1992. S. 276-303.
1991 Minimale Syntax. Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik.
1991 Fanselow, Gisbert: 1991, ‘Ein modulares Konzept der Lexikonerweiterung’, Working Papers of the SFB 282 ‘Theory of the Lexicon’ 6, University of Cologne, pp. 1–32.
1990 Scrambling as NP-movement. In: Günter Grewendorf & Joachim Sabel (eds.), Scrambling and Barriers. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 113-140.
1990 On the nature of proper government and syntactic barriers. In: Werner Abraham, Wim Kosmeijer and Eric Reuland (eds.): Issues in Germanic syntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 33–48.
1989 Konkurrenzphänomene in der Syntax: eine nichtpragmatische Reduktion der Prinzipien B und C der Bindungstheorie’. Linguistische Berichte 124: 385–414.
1989 Fanselow, G. (1989): „Coherent infinitives in German: restructuring vs. IP-complementation“. In: Ch. Bhatt, E. Löbel and C. Schmidt, eds. (1989), Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences. Amsterdam: Benjamins (= Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 6 ), 1–16.
1988 Aufspaltung von NPn und das Problem der "freien" Wortstellung. Linguistische Berichte 114, 91–113.
1988 Word syntax and semantic principles. In Geert. Booij & Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of morphology, 95–122. Dordrecht, Foris.
1988 Word formation and the human conceptual system .Linguistische Studien 179, Reihe A, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 31- 52.
1988 Kasusminimalität und L-Markierung. Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik 29: 114–136.
1988 German Word Order and Universal Grammar. In: U. Reyle & C. Rohrer (1988): Natural Language Parsing and Linguistic Theory. Dordrecht: Reidel. 317–355.
1987 Sprachtheorie 1: Grundlagen und Zielsetzungen. Francke, Tübingen. 3. Auflage 1993. (with Sascha W. Felix)
1987 Sprachtheorie 2: Die Rektions- und Bindungstheorie. Francke, Tübingen. 3. Auflage 1993. (with Sascha W. Felix)
1987 Konfigurationalität. Tübingen: Narr.
1987 Gemeinsame Prinzipien von Wort- und Phrasensyntax. In: Brigitte Asbach-Schnitker and Johannes Roggenhofer (eds). Neuere Forschungen zur Wortbildung und Historiographie der Linguistik. Tübingen, Narr. 178-194.
1987 Über Wortstellungstypologie. Anlässlich eines Buches von John Hawkins", Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 6.1: 114-133.
1986 On the sentential nature of prenominal adjectives in German. Folia Linguistica. 20: 341-380.
1985 What is a possible complex word? In: Jindrich Toman (ed.) Studies on German Grammar. Dordrecht: Foris.
1985 Die Stellung der Wortbildung im System kognitiver Module. Linguistische Berichte 95, 91-126.
1985 Deutsche Verbalprojektionen und die Frage der Universalität konfigurationaler Sprachen. Diss., Univ. Passau.
1984 Noam Chomsky. Grammatik als System kognitiver Repräsentationen. Sprache und Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. 1984, Vol 15, Num 54, pp 31-56. (with Sascha W. Felix)
1983 'Zur Behandlung der Anaphora in der generativen Grammatik, Ein Überblick. Schriftenreihe des SFB 99, Nr. 84, Konstanz.
1983 Fanselow, Gisbert. 1983. Zu einigen Problemen von Kasus, Rektion und Bindung in der deutschen Syntax. M.A. Thesis. Universität Konstanz.
1981 Zur Syntax und Semantik der Nominalkomposition. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
1981 Neues von der Kompositafront. Zu drei Paradigmata in der Kompositagrammatik. Studium Linguistik.
1981 Videoeinsatz bei der Erforschung asymmetrischer Kommunikation. In: Annemarie Lange-Seidl (ed.). Zeichenkonstitution. Akten des 2. Semiotischen Kolloquiums Regensburg 1978. De Gruyter. pp. 507-515. (with Edeltraut Dobnig-Jülch, Ralf Jodlbauer und Wolfgang Wildgen)