Selected work in progress

"Some structure-sensitivity in actuality" Paper to be given at the 34th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia.

"How rather is structured." Paper to be presented at the XXth Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Barcelona.

Gergel, R. & C. Cunha. 2009. "Modalidade e Inferências do Mundo Real em Português Europeu." (submitted).

Joint projects in preparation: (i) acceptability in subcomparatives (English/German); (ii) the adverb again in early English; (iii) rather-expressions in English & Romance.

Peer-reviewed articles

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

(forthcoming, a) "Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French."  To appear in Continuity and Change in Grammar, Anne Breitbarth, Chris Lucas, Sheila Watts, David Willis, (eds.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

(forthcoming, b; final revisions pending.) "On the realization of LF-binding in some degree dependencies." Ms. Univ. Tübingen. Re-reviewed for a collection of selected papers from Going Romance XXII, Reineke Bok-Bennema and Brigitte Kampers-Manhe (eds.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia:  John Benjamins.

(forthcoming, c; revisions pending.) "On motivating variation patterns in degree constructions: semantics meets grammaticalization." Ms. Univ. Tübingen, for Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics.

(2009a) "Rather: On a modal cycle". In Cyclical Change, Elly van Gelderen (ed.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [Prepublication draft: pdf]

(2009b) "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.

(2009c) "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]

(2009d) with Jutta 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]

(2008) "Comparative inversion: A diachronic study." Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 11. [Prepublication draft: pdf]

Gergel, R., K. Gengel & S. Winkler (2007) "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.

(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.

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

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

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 2005 dissertation, Universität Tübingen.]

Proceedings, working papers etc.

[* = based on peer-reviewed abstracts]

*(2008) "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: pdf freely available from Cascadilla Proceedings Project; superseded by the JCGL paper on comparative inversion above]

*(2008) "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; pdf freely available from the Scholarly Commons Repository; related to the WCCFL material and  superseded by the JCGL paper above]

*(2008) "Comparative conservatism, syntactic ‘radicalism’? What’s history got to do with it." Linguistic Evidence 3 Pre-Proceedings, Univ. Tübingen.

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

* 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.

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

(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. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 24.

Review

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

Further selected manuscripts

(2008) "Meaning change and structure-sensitivity." Project proposal. [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.]

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