Dr. Jan Fliessbach
Main research areas
- Variation in Romance languages
- Interrogative syntax
- Intonational phonology
- Prosody
- Semantics-pragmatics interfaces
- Digital methods
- Corpus linguistics
Latest Publications
- 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, 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 (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).
- 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
Jan Fliessbach
Lecturer and research associate (post-doctorate)
(he-him)