2024
  • Eckardt, R. 2024. Pragmatic strengthening and conventionalized implicature (accepted). In K. Kiss (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Historical Linguistics. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. [Download PDF]
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. 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]
  • 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]
  • Eckardt, R. The perfect expression. Why the preterite was lost in Southern German. Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020, Tübingen. Online Proceedings.[Download PDF]
2021
  • Sprache und Kontext. Eine Einführung in die Pragmatik. Berlin: deGruyter Verlag. 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
  • German bloss questions as extreme ignorance questions. With Qi Yu. In Marcin Weigiel (ed.) Proceedings of Sinfonija 2019, Brno: pp. 7–22. (2020). [Download pdf]
  • 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]
  • Narrative Mikrostruktur. Ror Wolf durch die linguistische Brille gelesen. In Sonja Zeman (ed.) Strukturen der Narration. Sonderheft der Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik. (in print) [Download pdf]
  • Conjectural questions: The case of German verb-final wohl questions. Semantics and Pragmatics 13(9). https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.13.9.
  • The Parameters of Indirect Speech. In Daniel Gutzmann, Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullmann, and Thomas Ede Zimmerman (eds), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics (The Companions to Linguistics (CNLZ) series). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (25p.) DOI: 10.1002/9781118788516.sem032. (2020).
  • If versus ob. Conditional conjunctions as a mirror of medieval discourse. Submitted to Linguistische Berichte. (2020). [Download pdf]
2019
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]
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]
  • The Semantics of Free Indirect Discourse. How Texts Allow Us to Read Minds and Eavesdrop. Leiden: Brill, (2014).
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]
  • Speaker Commentary Items. Research Gate. (2013). [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. In Linguistics and Philosophy 35(1): pp. 21-55, (2012). [Download pdf]
  • 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
  • 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]
  • 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
  • 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]
  • Review of L. McNally, C. Kennedy (eds.), Adjectives and Adverbs. Language 86(2): pp. 450-452, (2010). [Download pdf]
2009
  • 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]
  • Review of L. McNally, C. Kennedy (eds.), Adjectives and Adverbs. Language 86(2): pp. 450-452, (2010). [Download pdf]
2008
  • Variation, Selection, Development: Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change. Mit Gerhard Jäger & Tonjes Veenstra. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, (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]
  • Concept Priming in Language Change. Theoretical Linguistics 34(2): pp. 123-133, (2008). [Download pdf]
  • Almost – A theory. Ms., Universität Göttingen, Semantics Archive. (2008).
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]
  • 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, Mouton de Gruyter: 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).
2006
  • Meaning Change in Grammaticalization. An Enquiry into Semantic Reanalysis. Oxford, Oxford University Press (2006).
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).
  • 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
  • Words in Time: Diachronic Semantics from Different Points of View. Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs (TiLSM) 143. Mit Klaus von Heusinger & Christoph Schwarze (eds.). Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, (2003).
  • Questions and Focus. ZAS papers in linguistics (ZASPiL) 30. ZAS, Berlin, (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]
  • 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: Diachronic Semantics from Different Points of View. Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs (TiLSM) 143. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter: pp. 1-34, (2003).
  • Meaning change in conceptual Montague semantics. In Regine Eckardt, Klaus von Heusinger & Christoph Schwarze (eds.), Words in Time: Diachronic Semantics from Different Points of View. Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs (TiLSM) 143.  Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter: pp. 225-248, (2003).
  • Eine Runde im Jespersen-Zyklus: Negation, emphatische Negation, negative- polare Elemente im Altfranzösischen. Internet-Publikation in KOPS (Konstanzer Online-Publikations-Sytem), (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]
  • 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).
2001
  • Reanalysing selbst. Natural Language Semantics 9: pp. 371-412, (2001). [Download pdf]
  • On the underlying mechanics of certain types of meaning change. In Linguistische Berichte 185: pp. 31-74, (2001). [Download pdf]
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]
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Formal Diachrony. Mit Urs Egli. Vorträge des Internationalen Kolloquiums im SFB 471 (Arbeitspapier No. 99), Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, (1999).
1998
  • Rezension von Elena Herburger: In the Event of Focus. GLOT International 3:9(10): pp. 13-15, (1998).
  • Formal diachronic semantics (Arbeitspapier No. 92), Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, (1998).
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).
1996
  • Adverbs, Events, and Other Things. Dissertation, Universität Stuttgart. Erschienen mit Überarbeitungen bei Tübingen, Niemeyer Verlag (1998).
  • 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).