Dr. Jan Fliessbach

Main research areas

• Variation in Romance languages
• Interrogative syntax
• Intonational phonology
• Prosody
• Semantics-pragmatics interfaces
• Digital methods
• Corpus linguistics

Latest Publications

• Thiberge, G., Brunetti, L., & Fliessbach, J. (accepted). Différences fonctionnelles entre quasi-synonymes: les interrogatives de raison en français. In 9e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française. Lausanne (July 1st to July 5th 2024).
• Fliessbach, J., Brunetti, L., & Yoo, H. (accepted). 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, J., García, N. M., & Uth, M. (2024). The Production of Post-Lexical Prosodic Prominence in Yucatec Maya and its Perception by Speakers of Yucatecan Spanish. International Journal of American Linguistics, 90(2), 185–226.
• Fliessbach, Jan (accepted): 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).
• Uth, M., Gutiérrez-Bravo, R., & Fliessbach, J. (2024). On the incompatibility of object fronting and progressive aspect in Yucatec Maya. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/flang.2023.1286520/full