Monographien
2021
Sprache und Kontext. Eine Einführung in die Pragmatik. Berlin: deGruyter Verlag. 2021.
2014
The Semantics of Free Indirect Discourse. How Texts Allow Us to Read Minds and Eavesdrop. Leiden: Brill (2014).
2003
The Structure of Meaning Change: Semantic change under reanalysis. Habilitationsschrift, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und ZAS Berlin. Erschienen mit Überarbeitungen als Meaning Change in Grammaticalization. An Enquiry into Semantic Reanalysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2006).
1996
Adverbs, Events, and Other Things. Dissertation, Universität Stuttgart. Erschienen mit Überarbeitungen bei Tübingen, Niemeyer Verlag (1998).
Herausgebertätigkeit
2013
Beyond ‘Any‘ and ‘Ever‘: New Explorations in Negative Polarity Sensitivity. Mit Manfred Sailer, Eva Csipak, Mingya Liu. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, (2013).
2008
Variation, Selection, Development: Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, (2008). Mit Gerhard Jäger, Tonjes Veenstra. Beiträge von: Brady Clark, Tecumseh Fitch, Elly van Gelderen, Alain Kihm, Manfred Krifka, Wouter Kusters, John McWhorter, Robert van Rooij, Teresa Satterfield, Michael Tomasello, Annette Rosenbach, Elizabeth C. Traugott.
2003
Words in Time: Diachronic Semantics from Different Points of View. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, (2003). Mit Klaus von Heusinger & Christoph Schwarze. Beiträge von: A. Blank, W. Breu, M. Butt und W. Geuder, R. Eckardt, E. Gerö und A. von Stechow, S. Günthner, U. Haas-Spohn, D. Kronenfeld, G. Rundblad, J. Meinschäfer, H. Rott, D. Wasserstein.
Questions and Focus. ZAS papers in linguistics ZASPiL 30. Berlin: ZAS, (2003).
2000
Meaning Change – Meaning Variation. Proceedings of a workshop held at Konstanz University in Feb. 1999. Arbeitspapier No. 106, Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, (2000). [Download pdf]
1995
ConSole II Proceedings: Proceedings of the second conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, Tübingen, December 1993. Mit Veerle van Geenhoven. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics, (1995).
Wissenschaftliche Publikationen (begutachtet)
2023
Eckardt, R. (accepted). The Preterite Loss in Southern German: How Extralinguistic and Intralinguistic Factors Conspire. In Nora Boneh (ed.): Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, Berlin: de Gruyter. [Download PDF]
2022
Eckardt, R. The perfect expression. Why the preterite was lost in Southern German. Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020, Tübingen. Online Proceedings. [Download PDF]
Eckardt, R. and George Walkden. A particle-like use of hwæþer. Wisdom’s questions in Boethius. In Xabier Artiagotia, Arantzazu Elordieta and Sergio Montforte (eds.) Discourse Particles. Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 41 – 64. (2022) [Download PDF]
2021
mit Eva Csipak. The Explicated Addressee: A (mainly) pragmatic account of Japanese ka-questions. In Mineshima, Koji (ed.), PostProceedings of LENLS 2020, Tokyo, 2021, Springer LNCS/LNAI series. [Download PDF]
Eckardt, R. In search of the narrator. In Emar Maier, Andreas Stokke (eds.) The language of fiction. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 157 – 185 (2021) [Download PDF]
2020
Conjectural questions: The case of German verb-final wohl questions. Semantics and Pragmatics 13(9). https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.13.9.
On speakers in narrative fiction. In Mingya Liu (ed.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24 (2019). Osnabrück and Konstanz: pp. 179 – 192, (2020). [Download pdf]
German bloss questions as extreme ignorance questions. With Qi Yu. In Marcin Weigiel (ed.) Proceedings of Sinfonija 2019, Brno: 7-22, (2020).[Download pdf]
If versus ob. Linguistics, special issue on formal diachronic semantics. under revision (2020).
2019
Self-Addressed Questions and Indexicality: The case of Korean. With Gisela Disselkamp. Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 23, Barcelona: pp. 383–398, (2019). [Download pdf]
Evidentials and Questions.With Andrea Beltrama. In Chris Pinon (ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 12, pp. 121–155. Paris: CNRS (2019) [Download pdf]
2017
Perspective and the future-in-the-past. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1): 71: pp. 1–20 (2017). [Download pdf]
Wh-Questions on the Table. Manuscript, Konstanz. (2017) [Download pdf]
2012
The many careers of negative polarity items. In Kristin Davidse, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems & Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), Grammaticalization and Language Change: New Reflections. Studies in Language Companion Series 130. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company: pp. 299-326, (2012). [Download pdf]
Hereby explained. An event-based account of performative utterances. Linguistics and Philosophy 35(1): pp. 21-55, (2012). [Download pdf]
2011
Imperatives as Future Plans. In Ingo Reich et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 15. Saarbrücken, Universaar – Saarland University Press: pp. 209-223, (2011). [Download pdf]
2010
A Logic for Easy Linking Semantics. In Maria Aloni, Harald Bastiaanse, Tikitu de Jager, Katrin Schulz (eds.), Logic, Language and Meaning. 17th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009. Berlin, Springer-Verlag: pp. 274-283, (2010). [Download pdf]
2009
The Real, the Apparent, and what is eigentlich. In Bergljot Behrens & Cathrine Fabricius Hansen (eds.), Structuring information in discourse: The explicit/implicit dimension. Oslo Studies in Language 1. UniPub, University of Oslo: pp. 77-108, (2009).
Nothing compares to you. In Ed Cormany, Satoshi Ito & David Lutz (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XIX. Ithaca, NY, CLC Publications: pp. 142-164, (2009).
Even in Horn Space. In Peter Bosch, David Gabelaia & Jerome Lang (eds.), Logic, Language, and Computation. 7th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation, TbiLLC 2007, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 1-5, 2007. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence [LNAI] 5422). Berlin, Springer-Verlag: pp. 47-61, (2009).
2008
The lower part of event ontology. In Benedikt Löwe (ed.), Algebra, Logic, Set Theory: Festschrift für Ulrich Felgner zum 65. Geburtstag. Studies in Logic 4. London, College Publications: pp. 85-102, (2007). Reprinted in: Johannes Dölling (ed.): Event structures in linguistic form and interpretation. Language, context, and cognition 5, Berlin/New York, De Gruyter: pp. 477-492, (2008). [Download pdf]
2007
Inherent focus on wh-phrases. In Estela Puig-Waldmüller (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11. Barcelona, Universität Pompeu Fabra: pp. 209-228, (2007). [Download pdf]
Licensing ‘or’. In Uli Sauerland & Penka Stateva (eds.), Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition). Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan: pp. 34-70, (2007). [Download pdf]
2005
Too poor to mention: Subminimal events and negative polarity items. In Angelika Wöllstein-Leisten & Claudia Maienborn (eds.), Event Arguments in Syntax, Semantics and Discourse. Tübingen, Niemeyer: pp. 301-330, (2005).
2004
Virtual Signs. The emergence of new meanings by reanalysis. In Paul Dekker & Robert van Rooy (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, 19-21 December 2003. University of Amsterdam, ILLC/Department of Philosophy: pp. 9-12, (2004).
2003
Manner Adverbs and Information Structure: Evidence from the adverbial modification of verbs of creation. In Ewald Lang, Cathrine Fabricius Hansen & Claudia Maienborn (eds.), Modifying Adjuncts. Interface Explorations 4. Berlin, New York, De Gruyter Mouton: pp. 261-305, (2003). [Download pdf]
2002
Semantic Change in Grammaticalization. In Graham Katz, Sabine Reinhart & Philip Reuter (eds.), Sinn und Bedeutung VI. - Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik. Osnabrück, Universität Osnabrück: pp. 53-67, (2002). [Download pdf]
2001
Reanalysing selbst. Natural Language Semantics 9: pp. 371-412, (2001). [Download pdf]
On the underlying mechanics of certain types of meaning change. Linguistische Berichte 185: pp. 31-74, (2001).
2000
Meaning Change and Truth Value Based Semantics. In Alan K. Melby & Arle R. Lommel (eds.), LACUS Forum XXVI: The Lexicon. Edmonton/Alberta/ Fullerton (CA), LACUS Publication: pp. 247-257, (2000). [Download pdf]
Causation, Contexts, and Event Individuation. In James Higginbotham, Achille Varzi & Fabio Pianesi (eds.), Speaking of Events. Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press: pp. 105-121, (2000). [Download pdf]
Normal Objects, Normal Worlds and the Meaning of Generic Sentences. Journal of Semantics 16(3): pp. 237-278, (2000). [Download pdf]
1999
Focus with Nominal Quantifiers. In Peter Bosch & Rob van der Sandt (eds.), Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives (Studies in Natural Language Processing). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: pp. 166-186, (1999). (vorpubliziert 1994).
1997
Judgement Structure, Focus, and the Interpretation of Indefinites. In Edit Doron & Shuly Wintner (eds.), Proceedings of IATL 12 (1996), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: pp. , (1997). [Download pdf]
Modal Default Reasoning. In Paul Jacques Edgar Dekker, Martin J. B. Stokhof & Yde Venema (eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh Amsterdam Colloquium. ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam: pp. , (1997).
Auf Einladung (Sammelbände, Comments, Reviews)
2022
Formal semantics and historical linguistics. In Guiseppe Longobardi, Paola Crisma (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. Oxford University Press. In production (2022). [Download PDF]
2020
Narrative Mikrostruktur. Ror Wolf durch die linguistische Brille gelesen. Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik. (2020). doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2020-2012. [Download pdf]
The Parameters of Indirect Speech. In Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullmann, Thomas Ede Zimmerman, and Daniel Gutzmann (eds), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. DOI: 10.1002/9781118788516.sem032
2015
Utterance events and indirect speech. In Remus Gergel & Andreas Blümel (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis - SinFonIJA VII, Graz, Grazer Linguistische Studien 88: pp. 27-46, (2015). [Download pdf]
Speakers and Narrators. In Dorothee Birke & Tilmann Köppe (eds.), Author and Narrator: Transdisciplinary Contributions to a Narratological Debate (linguae & litterae 48). Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton: pp. 153-186, (2015). [Download pdf]
2014
Information Structure and Language Change. Mit Augustin Speyer. In Caroline Féry & Shinichiro Ishihara (eds.), Handbook of Information Structure. Oxford, Oxford University Press: pp. 503-522, (2014). [Download pdf]
Dear Ede! Semantics and Pragmatics of Vocatives. In Daniel Gutzmann, Jan Köpping & Cécile Meier (eds.), Approaches to Meaning. Composition, Values and Interpretation (Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface 32). Leiden, Brill: pp. 223-249, (2014). [Download pdf]
2013
Beyond ‘Any‘ and ‘Ever‘. Mit Manfred Sailer. In Eva Csipak, Regine Eckardt, Mingya Liu & Manfred Sailer (eds.), Beyond ‘Any‘ and ‘Ever‘: New Explorations in Negative Polarity Sensitivity. Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton: pp. 3-20, (2013).
Minimizers – Towards pragmatic licensing. Mit Eva Csipak. In Eva Csipak, Regine Eckardt, Mingya Liu & Manfred Sailer (eds.), Beyond ‘Any‘ and ‘Ever‘: New Explorations in Negative Polarity Sensitivity. Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton: pp. 267-298, (2013). [Download pdf]
Sprache, sprachliche Bedeutung, Sprachverstehen und Kontext. Mit Nikola Kompa, Susanne Grassmann & Henrike Moll. In Achim Stephan & Sven Walter (eds.), Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft. Stuttgart, Metzler: pp. 432-444, (2013). [Download pdf]
2012
Grammaticalization and Semantic Reanalysis. In Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn & Paul Portner (eds.), Semantics – An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 33/3). Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton: pp. 2675-2702, (2012). [Download pdf]
Particles as speaker indexicals in free indirect discourse. In Hermann Cölfen, Ulrich Schmitz & Bernhard Schröder (eds.), SDV. Sprache und Datenverarbeitung - International Journal for Language Data Processing: Special Issue on Formal Approaches to Discourse Particles and Modal Adverbs 35.2/2011 and 36.1/2012. Duisburg, Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr: pp. 99-119, (2012). [Download pdf]
Particles, Maximize Presupposition, and Discourse Management. In Henk Zeevat, Cathrine Fabricius Hansen & Antje Rossdeutscher (eds.), Lingua 122 (15), Special Issue on Additivity and Adversativity: pp. 1801-1818, (2012). [Download pdf]
2011
Grammaticalization and Semantic Change. In Bernd Heine & Heiko Narrog (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization. Oxford, Oxford University Press: pp. 389-400, (2011). [Download pdf]
Semantic Reanalysis and Language Change. Language and Linguistic Compass 5(1): pp. 33-46, (2011). [Download pdf]
2010
Review of L. McNally & C. Kennedy (eds.), Adjectives and Adverbs. Language 86(2): pp. 450-452, (2010). [Download pdf]
2009
APO: Avoid Pragmatic Overload. In Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Jacqueline Visconti (eds.), Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics (Studies in Pragmatics 7). London, Emerald: pp. 21-41, (2009).
2008
Concept Priming in Language Change. Theoretical Linguistics 34(2): pp. 123-133, (2008). [Download pdf]
2007
The syntax and pragmatics of embedded yes/no questions. In Kerstin Schwabe & Susanne Winkler (eds.), On Information Structure, Meaning and Form - Generalizations across languages. Amsterdam, John Benjamins: pp. 447-466, (2007). [Download pdf]
Introduction. In Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger & Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), Variation, Selection, Development: Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change. Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton: pp. 1-22, (2007).
Was noch? Navigating in Question Answer Discourse. In Andreas Späth (ed.), Interfaces and interface conditions. Berlin, De Gruyter: pp. 77-96, (2007).
2004
Comments to ‘‘Interpreting Focus’’ by Bart Geurts and Rob van der Sandt . Theoretical Linguistics 30(1): pp. 77-86, (2004). [Download pdf]
Particles and Strategies. Sprache und Datenverarbeitung - Themenheft 'Diskurspartikeln' 28 (4): pp. 79-86, (2004).
2003
Introduction: Historical Linguistics as a Transdisciplinary Field of Research. Mit Klaus von Heusinger & Christoph Schwarze. In Regine Eckardt, Klaus von Heusinger & Christoph Schwarze (eds.). Words in Time (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 143). Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton: pp. 1-34, (2003).
Meaning change in conceptual Montague semantics. In Regine Eckardt, Klaus von Heusinger & Christoph Schwarze (eds.), Words in Time (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 143). Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton: pp. 225-248, (2003).
2002
Rezension von "Intensifiers in English and German: A comparison" von Peter Siemund (London: Routledge, 2000). Linguistische Berichte 190: pp. 251-259, (2002).
Event Semantics. In Fritz Hamm & Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds.), Semantics. Linguistische Berichte, Sonderheft 10: pp. 91-128, (2002).
1999
Three ways to create metonymy – A study in locative readings of institution names. In Christoph Schwarze (ed.), Semantica lessicale. Studi italiani di linguistica teorica ed applicata (SILTA) 28(2): pp. 265-282, (1999).
1998
Rezension von Elena Herburger: In the Event of Focus. GLOT International 3:9(10): pp. 13-15, (1998).
Andere (Arbeitspapiere, Manuskripte)
2013
Speaker Commentary Items. Research Gate. (2013). [Download pdf]
2008
Almost – A theory. Ms., Universität Göttingen, Semantics Archive. (2008)
2003
Eine Runde im Jespersen-Zyklus: Negation, emphatische Negation, negative- polare Elemente im Altfranzösischen. Internet-Publikation in KOPS (Konstanzer Online-Publikations-Sytem) unter
nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-9910 [
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Formal Diachrony. Mit Urs Egli. Vorträge des Internationalen Kolloquiums im SFB 471 (Arbeitspapier No. 99), Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, (1999).
1998
Formal diachronic semantics (Arbeitspapier No. 92), Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, (1998).
1996
Wieviel Ambiguität braucht ein Lexikon? Eine Analyse der proc-acco-Konstruktionen (SFB 282), (Theorie des Lexikons 89), University of Düsseldorf, (1996).
Predication and Intonation. Arbeitspapier Nr. 77 of the SFB 340, Universitäten Tübingen/Stuttgart, (1996).
1995
Relating Events. In Fritz Hamm & Arnim von Stechow (eds.), Proceedings of the Kolloquium “Neuere Entwicklungen in der Semantik natürlicher Sprache”, Blaubeuren 1994. Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, (1995).
Two questions in the Interpretation of Focus. In Hans Kamp & Barbara Hall Partee (eds.), Proccedings of the workshop “Context Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning”. Prague/Bad Teinach, (1995).
1994
Adverbs in Focus. In Hans Kamp (ed.), Ellipsis, Tense and Questions. Europäisches Verbundprojekt DYANA-2, Arbeitsbericht R2.2.B, (1994).