RESEARCH

 


Main qualification work


(2010) "From Comparisons to Preferences." (Cumulative Habilitationsschrift, Univ. Tübingen; Committee: Prof. S. Beck, Prof. S. Winkler, Prof. K. Axel-Tober, Prof.  A. Kroch; Chair: Prof. J. Kabatek)


(2005) "Modality and Ellipsis." (Doctoral dissertation, Univ. Tübingen; Committee: Prof. S. Winkler, Prof. H.-B. Drubig, Prof. M. Reis, Prof. S. Beck; Chair: Prof. H. Tonn)



Book


(2009) Modality and Ellipsis. Diachronic and Synchronic Evidence. [Series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs.] Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (=Published version of dissertation listed above.) [Publisher: html]



Papers


[C] = conference proceedings; [H] = handbook article; [J] = journal article; [R] = other type of reviewed article


To appear:


[H] Axel-Tober, K. & R. Gergel (under contract): "Mood and modality in generative and other formal linguistic approaches." Chapter 20 for The Oxford Handbook of Mood and Modality, Jan Nuyts & Johan van der Auwera (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.


[C] "Structure-sensitivity in actuality: notes from a class of preference expressions" University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 17.1. [Paper: pdf]



2010:


[J] Beck, S., S. Krasikova, D. Fleischer, R. Gergel, S. Hofstetter,  C. Savelsberg, J. Vanderelst & E. Villalta. "Cross-linguistic variation in comparison constructions." The Linguistic Variation Yearbook 9.  [Prepublication draft: pdf]


[R] "Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French."  In Continuity and Change in Grammar, Anne Breitbarth, Chris Lucas, Sheila Watts, David Willis, (eds). AmsterdamPhiladelphia: John Benjamins. [Prepublication draft: pdf]


[R] "On the realization of LF-binding in some degree dependencies."  RLLT 2. [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, Selected papers from Going Romance Groningen 2008, ed. by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe & Bart Hollebrandse. [Publisher: html]


[J] "Motivating certain variation patterns in degree constructions: semantics meets grammaticalization." Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. [A companion paper to the Going Romance 2008 paper above; it contains an initial investigation of Old Romanian.  [Paper: pdf]


[J] Gergel, R. & C. Cunha. "Modalidade e Inferências da Realidade em Português Europeu." RASAL Lingüística - Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística. [Publisher: html]



2009:


[R] Gergel, R. & J. Hartmann:  "Experiencers with (un)willingness: A raising analysis of German wollen." In Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Justin Nugger, Thomas McFadden & Florian Schäfer (eds.).   Amsterdam/Philadelphia:  John Benjamins.  [Prepublication draft:  pdf]


[R] "The little DE of degree constructions." In Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Acquisition, Héctor Campos, Ronald Leow & Donna Lardiere (eds.). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. [Prepublication draft of paper given at GURT 2007: pdf]


[R] "Rather: On a modal cycle". In Cyclical Change, Elly van Gelderen (ed.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [Publisher: html]


[R] "Comparatives and types of þonne in Old English: Towards an integrated analysis of the data types in comparative derivations" In The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics; Volume 2: Product, Susanne Winkler & Sam Featherston (eds.). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. [Publisher: html]



2008:


[J] "Comparative inversion: A diachronic study." Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 11. [Prepublication draft: pdf]


[C] "How comparatives invert: Toward a new syntax with some history." In Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Charles Chang & Hannah Haynie (eds.), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.    [Paper at WCCFL 2007: Paper freely available via: Cascadilla Proceedings Project; superseded by the JCGL paper on comparative inversion above]


[C] "Comparatives and inversion: A (necessarily)  diachronic account." In Proceedings of the 31st Penn Linguistic Colloquium,  U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Joshua Tauberer, Aviad Eilam & Laurel MacKenzie (eds.), PWPL 14.1. [Paper at PLC 2007; Paper freely available via Scholarly Commons Repository; related to the WCCFL material and  superseded by the JCGL paper above]


[C] "Comparative conservatism, syntactic ‘radicalism’? What’s history got to do with it." Pre-Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 3, University of Tübingen.



2007 and earlier:


[R] (2007) Gergel, R., K. Gengel & S. Winkler. "Ellipsis and inversion: A feature-based focus account." In On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across Languages, Kerstin Schwabe & Susanne Winkler (eds.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [Publisher: html]


[R] (2007) "Interpretable features in vP-ellipsis: On the licensing head." In ConSole 14, Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente, & Erik Schoorlemmer (eds.). ISSN: 1574-499X. Leiden University. [Publisher: html]


[C] (2006) "Systematic silence on the rise: Diachronic developments in the licensing of vP ellipsis." Pre-Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2, Universität Tübingen.


[J] (2004) "Short-distance reanalysis of English Modals: Evidence from ellipsis".  Studia Linguistica 58.


[C] Dvořák, B. & Gergel, R. (2004) "Slovenian clitics: VP ellipsis in yes/no questions and beyond."  In Ileana Comorovski & Manfred Krifka (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on the Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions, ESSLLI 16.


[C] Dvořák, B. & Gergel, R. (2004) "Ga-ga ellipsis: Why Slovenian clitics sometimes get stressed." Pre-Proceedings  of Linguistic Evidence 1, University of Tübingen.


[J] (2003) "Modal syntax: Detecting its parameters with VP-ellipsis." SKY Journal of Linguistics 16.


(2002) "From simple predicators to clausal functors. The English modals through time and the primitives of modality." In Klaus von Heusinger and Kerstin Schwabe (eds.), Sentence Type and Specificity, ZASPIL 24.



Review


(2003) Review of Bas Aarts: English Syntax and Argumentation. 2nd ed. Basingstoke/Hampshire/New York: Palgrave, 2001. Linguistics 41.



Selected unpublished work


(2008) "Meaning change and structure-sensitivity." [02/2008, 22p.].


(2008) "Topicalization, Doubling, and a Little More on Adjectives." Paper presented at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS), Panel on Topicality. Universität Bamberg.  [HO, 02/2008, 8p.]


Dvořák, B. & R. Gergel (2006) "‘Clitic’-licensed ellipsis in Slovenian: Diagnostics of a construction" Ms., ZAS Berlin & Universität Tübingen [07/2006, 35p.]


  1. (2005)"Ellipsis and Parallelism Strategies in English: A Diachronic Perspective." [10/2005, 7p.]