Dr. Jan Fliessbach

Main research areas

• Variation in Romance languages
• Syntax (Interrogatives and relative clauses; cf. Project D03  in the CRC 1287, and PaCoCo) 
• Intonational phonology
• Prosody
• Semantics-pragmatics interfaces
• Digital methods
• Corpus linguistics

Latest Publications

• Fliessbach, J. & Rosemeyer, M. (accepted). Euphemism, discourse function, and language change. French diable and diantre ‘the hell’ interrogatives in a corpus of historical theater plays. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics.
• Fliessbach, J. (accepted). Relating wh-placement in French to situational deixis, expressivity, and non-canonical questions. In P.-Y. Modicom (Hrsg.), Deixis and indexicality (beyond) here and now (Studies in Pragmatics). Berlin, Leiden: Brill.
• Lewandowski, W. & Fliessbach, J. (accepted). 
  In search of the hidden path: The zero-encoding construction in satellite-framed English and verb-framed French. Journal of Pragmatics.
• Fliessbach, J., Tovena, L. M., & Fleury, D. (2025). Grammatical person as a clue to interpreting French how-questions. In Proceedings of SemDial 2025 (Bialogue). Bielefeld, Germany. https://purl.org/semdial/2025/proceedings
• Auhagen, P. & J. Fliessbach. (2024). Structural and sociolectal limits of variability of que in Mexican Spanish noun clefts. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10(1). 1–28. doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.449.
• Fliessbach, J. & J. Rockstroh. (2024). Verb influence on French wh-placement: a parallel corpus study. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2024-0001.
• Fliessbach, J. & Tovena, L. M. & Fleury, D. & Linon, Y. (2024). Accounting for comment-questions. Proceedings of SemDial 2024 (TrentoLogue). Trento. Italy.
• Thiberge, G., Brunetti, L., & Fliessbach, J. (2024). Différences fonctionnelles entre quasi-synonymes: les interrogatives de raison en français. In 9e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française. Lausanne (01.07.-05.07.2024).
• Fliessbach, J., Brunetti, L., & Yoo, H. (2024). On the overlapping discourse functions of Spanish 'cómo que' and French 'comment ça' interrogatives. In K. Habicht, T. Hennoste, H. Metslang, & R. Pajusalu (Eds.), Open Linguistics. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Language. Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Fliessbach, Jan (2024): Mirativity, obviousness, and reversal as instances of contrast on different levels of meaning. Evidence from Spanish intonation. In Jorina Brysbaert, Karen Lahousse (Eds.): On the role of contrast in Information Structure. Definition, types, encoding and annotation. Berlin: de Gruyter (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs/TiLSM).