Frans Plank

Professor of Linguistics and English Language

Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universit-t Konstanz

Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz

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Current research projects:
	- Computational Analysis of Linguistic Development (CALD)
	- Morphological Typology: Agglutination - Flexion (SFB 471)
	- Finiteness: Diachrony and Typology (SFB 471)
	- Morphologische Komplexität (P3, ZAS)
	- Edition der sprachwissenschaftlichen Schriften Wilhelm von Humboldts (BBAW)
Current research areas:
	- typology in relation to diachrony
	- morphological typology
	- reanalysis: nouns >/< pronouns, verbs >/< adpositions
	- approximative numerals
	- grammatical categories: number, case, finiteness, prolongative, ...
	- grammatical relations
	- basic vocabularies of perception
	- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Products:
	The Universals Archive Das grammatische Raritätenkabinett
	Linguistic Typology
	The ALT Grammar Watch
Unpublished papers:	Indirect dual. Part I. (1989)
	Ellipsis and inflection of determiners and modifiers in coordinate NPs (1991)
	The unlikely plurals of ONE in Bavarian and Miskito (1994)
	Thoughts on the origin, progress, and pronominal status of reciprocal forms in Germanic, occasioned by those of Bavarian (2002)
	The prolongative, and what can hinder its grammaticalisation from loose, enumerative coordination (2002)
	How to agree in gender when you've got the wrong number: Low numerals in German(ic) (2002)
	Oneness > indefiniteness > impreciseness in numbers and clock time > reciprocal disorder - in Bavarian, where else (2002)
	The imperative of free choice: look and see what can become an indefinite pronoun, too (2002)
	Temperature talk: The basics (2003)
	Deferential Attributive Possessives: What persons to use them with, what for, and what it may lead to (2003) On the construction "INDEFINITE ARTCLE" - EVALUATIONAL ADJECTIVE- NUMERAL - NOUN, In English and elsewhere (2004) The prosodic contribution of clitics: Focus on Latin (2005) ((FRISCH ge) (WAG tist)) ((HALB ge) (WON nen)) (2005) Affix suspension: The issues (2006) The direction of derivation and the unity of polysemous lexical items (2006) Two rather dissimilar grammatical variations on the theme of  'and such' (2007) What linguistic universals can be true of (2007) How crosslinguistically variable is the lexicon and grammar of naming? (2007)