Welcome to the homepage of Prof. Dr. Josef Bayer
Areas of research and interest:
- Syntactic Theory
- Syntax-Semantics Interface
- Syntax-Morphology Interface
- German(ic) Syntax
- Word Order
- Case
- Complementation
- Focus Particles
- Discourse Particles
- Dialects
- Bavarian
- South Asian
- Bengali (Bangla)
- Psycholinguistics
- Language Comprehension
- Syntactic Parsing
- Language and Brain
Projects
- Language Comprehension and Variable Word Order: Syntactic and Extra-Syntactic Factors in the Processing of German Clauses. (DFG; Ba 1178 / 4-3) (finished)
(with Markus Bader and Jens-Max Hopf)
Doctoral Student: Jana Häussler - The Syntax-Morphology Interface: Case, Agreement, and the Licensing of Arguments (Kurt-Lion Foundation, Konstanz / Tel-Aviv) (finished)
(with Alexander Grosu) - Dialect Grammar, Free Variation and Change: Do we Need a Concept of Microvariaton? (SFB 471, A17) (finished)
(with Ellen Brandner) - Lexical Features and Variable Syntactic Processes (SFB 471, A18) (finished)
(with Susanne Trissler) - Lexical and Syntactic Processes in Language Comprehension (SFB 471, D2) (finished)
(with Markus Bader, Tanja Schmid, Jana Häussler)
- Clause Structure and Utterance Meaning: Word Order, Particles, Emphasis , 04/2013 - 09/2017 (DFG; Ba 1178 / 9-1) (finished) (with Andreas Trotske)
doctoral student: Yvonne Viesel - AThEME: Advancing the European Multilingual Experience
(with Janet Grijzenhout and Claudia Diehl)
Multilingualism and Communicative Impairments
since August 2015 (finished)
doctoral student: Constantin Freitag
- The Role of German Particles in Questions , since 04/2016 (DFG; FOR 2111 Questions at the Interface )
(with Carsten Eulitz, Maribel Romero and Anna Czypionka)
Publications
Monographs
- Bayer, J. (1996), Directionality and Logical Form: On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
- Bader, M. & J. Bayer (2006), Case and Linking in Language Comprehension: Evidence from German . Springer, Berlin.
Edited volumes
- Bayer, J. (1987) (ed.), Grammatik und Kognition: Psycholinguistische Untersuchungen. Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 1.
- Abraham, W. & J. Bayer (eds.) (1993), Dialektsyntax Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 5.
- Bayer, J. (ed.) (1994), Sentence Processing and the Nature of the Human Syntactic Parser. Special Issue, Folia Linguistica XXVIII / 1-2.
- Bayer, J. & C. Römer (eds.) (2000), Von der Philologie zur Grammatiktheorie. Niemeyer, Tübingen.
- Bayer, J., T. Bhattacharya & MT Hany Babu (eds.) (2007), Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honor of KA Jayaseelan. Amsterdam, John Benjamin. 1-11.
- Trotzke, A. & J. Bayer (eds.) (2015), Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces . Berlin, de Gruyter.
- Bayer, J., R. Hinterhölzl & A. Trotzke (eds.) (2015), Discourse-oriented Syntax . Amsterdam, John Benjamin.
- Bayer, J. & Y. Viesel (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshops: Clause Typing and the Syntax-to-Discourse Relation in Head-Final Languages. Working paper # 130 of the Department of Linguistics, Konstanz University. 1-5.
Selected Articles
- Bayer, J. (1977), On the Semantics of Directional Postpositions. Papiere zur Linguistik 17/18. 102-122.
- Bayer, J. (1984a), Towards an explanation of certain that-t phenomena: The COMP-node in Bavarian. In: de Geest, W. & Y. Putseys (eds.) Sentential Complementation . Dordrecht, Foris. 23-32.
- Bayer, J. (1984b), COMP in Bavarian syntax . The Linguistic Review 3. 209-274.
- de Bleser, R. & J. Bayer (1985), German word formation and aphasia . The Linguistic Review 5. 1-40.
- Bayer, J. (1986), The role of event expression in grammar . Studies in Language 10. 1-52.
- Bayer, J., R. de Bleser & C. Dronsek (1987), Form and Function of Cases in Agrammatism . In: Bayer, J. (1987) (ed.). 81-117.
- de Bleser, R., J. Bayer and C. Luzzatti (1987), Die kognitive Neuropsychologie der Schrittsprache - Ein Überblick mit zwei deutschen Fallbeschreibungen . In: Bayer, J. (1987) (ed.). 118-162.
- Bayer, J. (1988), Fortschritte der Syntaxtheorie. Anmerkungen zu Henk van Riemsdijk and Edwin Williams, Introduction to the Theory of Grammar, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,1986* Linguistische Berichte 117. 410-426.
- de Bleser, R. & J. Bayer (1988), On the role of inflectional morphology in agrammatism, . In: Hammond, M. & M. Noonan (eds.) Theoretical Morphology. New York, Academic Press. 45-69.
- de Bleser, R., C. Dronsek & J. Bayer (1988), Morphosyntactic processing in German agrammatism: A replication and revision of von Stockert / Bader (1976) . Cortex 24. 53-76.
- Bayer, J. (1989), A note on alleged PRO-government. In: Jaspers, D., W. Klooster, Y. Putseys and P. Seuren (eds.) Sentential Complementation and the Lexicon: Studies in Honor of Wim de Geest. Dordrecht, Foris. 1-20.
- Bayer, J. & R. de Bleser (1989), Lexikalische Morphologie und Tiefendyslexie: Eine Fallbesprechung. In: Günther, H. (ed.) Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Flexionsmorphologie. Hamburg, Buske. 123-154.
- Bayer, Josef (1989). Notes on the ECP in German and English. GAGL : Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 30. 1-55.
- Bayer, J. (1990a), What Bavarian negative concord reveals about the syntactic structure of German. In: Mascaró, J. and M. Nespor (eds.), Grammar in Progress. Dordrecht, Foris. 13-23.
- Bayer, J. (1990b), Interpretive islands: evidence for connectedness and global harmony in logical form . In: Grewendorf, G. & W. Sternefeld (eds.), Scrambling and Barriers. Amsterdam, John Benjamin. 341-421.
- de Bleser, R. & J. Bayer (1990), Morphological reading errors in a German case of deep dyslexia . In: J.-L. Nespoulous & P. Villiard (eds.) Morphology, Phonology and Aphasia. New York, Springer. 32-59.
- Bayer, J. & A. Lahiri (1990), Bengali emphatic clitics in the lexicon-syntax interface. In: Dressler, W., H. Luschützky, O. Pfeiffer and J. Rennison (eds.), Contemporary Morphology. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. 3-16.
- Bayer, J. & J. Kornfilt (1990), Restructuring Effects in German. In: Parametric variation in Germanic and Romance / .ed by Elisabeth Engdahl et al. (Edinburgh working papers in cognitive science ; 6). Edinburgh : University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science, 1990. 21-42
- Bayer, J. (1991a), German particles in a modular grammar: Neurolinguistic evidence . In: Abraham, W. (ed.) Discourse Particles. Amsterdam, John Benjamin. 253-302.
- Bayer, J. (1991b), Representatie van algemene namen en eigennamen in het mentale lexicon: neurolinguistische evidentie Tabu 21. Faculteit Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. 53-66
- Bayer, J. (1991c), Die Repräsentation von Gemeinnamen und Eigennamen im mentalen Lexikon; Neurolinguistische Evidenz. [German translation of Bayer (1991b)].
- Bayer, J. & J. Kornfilt (1991), Against scrambling as move-alpha . Proceedings of the 21st NELS Conference , Montreal 1990. 1-15.
- Bayer, J. (1993), Zum in Bavarian and scrambling. In: Abraham, W. & J. Bayer (eds.) Dialektsyntax. Sonderheft 5 der Linguistischen Berichte. 50-70.
- Bayer, J. & J. Kornfilt (1994), Against scrambling as an instance of move-alpha . In: van Riemsdijk, H. & N. Corver (eds.) Studies on Scrambling. Berlin, De Gruyter. 17-60.
- Bayer, J. (1995), On the origin of sentential arguments in German and Bengali . In: Haider, H., S. Olsen & S. Vikner (eds.) Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax. Dordrecht, Kluwer. 45-75.
- Bader, M., J. Bayer, J.-M. Hopf & M. Meng (1996), Case-assignment in processing German verb-final clauses. MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics 9th Proceedings of the NELS 26 Processing Workshop. Vol. 9, 1-25.
- de Bleser, R., J. Bayer and C. Luzzatti (1996), Linguistic theory and morphosyntactic impairments in German and Italian aphasics . Journal of Neurolinguistics 9. 175-185.
- Bayer, J. (1997), CP extraposition as argument shift . In: D. Beerman, D. LeBlanc & H. van Riemsdijk (eds.) Rightward Movement. Amsterdam, John Benjamin. 37-58.
- Bayer, J. & P. Suchsland (1997), Expletiva und leere Subjekte im Deutschen. GAGL (Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik) 41. 12-38.
- Bayer, J. (1998), How does logical information enter grammar? In: B. McGuinness (ed.) Language, Logic and the Formalization of Knowledg: Coimbra Lecture and Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Siena in September 1997. Gaeta, Bibliotheca. 53-75.
- Hopf, J.-M., J. Bayer, M. Bader & M. Meng (1998), Event-related brain potentials and case information in syntactic ambiguities . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 10.2. 264-280.
- Bayer, J. & P. Suchsland (1998), Some remarks on expletives in German . Electronic Festschrift in Honor of Noam Chomsky’s 70th birthday.
- Bayer, J. (1999a), Final complementizers in hybrid languages . Journal of Linguistics 35, 233-271.
- Bayer, J. (1999b), Bound focus in German or how can association with focus be achieved without going semantically astray? in: G. Rebuschi & L. Tuller, eds., The Grammar of Focus. Amsterdam, John Benjamin. 55-82.
- Bayer, J. (1999c), Sprachliches Wissen und Sprachbewußtsein. Anmerkungen zur kognitiven Grundlage der Linguistik. Jenaer Universitätsreden 8. Antrittsvorlesungen 09.02.1995-17.01.1996. Philosophische Fakultät der Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena. 145-174
- Bayer, J. (2000), Basic order - A significant difference between English VO and German OV. In J. Bayer & C. Römer (eds.), Von der Philologie zur Grammatiktheorie: Peter Suchsland zum 65. Geburtstag. Niemeyer, Tübingen. 45-62.
- Bayer, Josef ; Bader, Markus; Hopf, Jens-Max; Meng, Michael (2000) Der verpasste Dativ : wie variable Wortstellungen die Verarbeitung von Sätzen beeinflussen Forschungsmagazin der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 9, 20-23.
- Bayer, J. & A. Grosu (2000), Feature checking meets the criterion approach: Three ways of saying only in Romance and Germanic . In: V. Motapanyane (ed.), Comparative Studies in Romanian Syntax. North-Holland Linguistic Series 58, Amsterdam. 49-81.
- Bader, M., M. Meng, J. Bayer & J.-M. Hopf, (2000), Syntactic Function Ambiguities in German - An Overview . In: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 19.1. 34-102.
- Bader, M., Meng, M., & Bayer, J. (2000), Case and reanalysis . In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29 , 37-52.
- Bader, M., M. Meng, J. Bayer & J.-M. Hopf, (2001), Syntactic Function Ambiguities in German - A Clarification . Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 20.2. 266-279.
- Bayer, J. (2001a), Asymmetry in emphatic topicalization . In: C. Féry & W. Sternefeld (eds.) Audiatur Vox Sapientiae. Akademie publishing house, Berlin. 15-47.
- Bayer, J. (2001b), Two grammars in one: Sentential complements and complementizers in Bengali and other South Asian languages. In: P. Bhaskarorao & K.V. Subbarao (eds.) The Yearbook of South Asian Languages: Tokyo Symposium on South Asian Languages - Contact, Convergence and Typology. Sage Publications, New Delhi. 11-36.
- Bayer, J., M. Bader & M. Meng, (2001), Morphological underspecification meets oblique case: syntactic and processing effects in German. Lingua 111. 465-514.
- Bayer, J. (2002a), Minimale Annahmen in Syntax und Morphologie. Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 79, Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig. 277-297.
- Bayer, J. (2002b), Decomposing the left periphery: dialectal and cross-linguistic evidence . Israeli Association of Theoretical Linguistics (IATL) 18.
- Hopf, J.-M., M. Bader, M. Meng & J. Bayer (2003), Is human sentence parsing serial or parallel? Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cognitive Brain Research 15. 165-177
- Bayer, J. (2004a), Decomposing the left periphery: dialectal and cross-linguistic evidence . In: H. Lohnstein & S. Trissler (eds.), The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 59-95.
- Bayer, J. (2004b), Non-nominative subjects in comparison . In: P. Bhaskararao & KV Subbaraou (eds.), Non-Nominative Subjects. vol. 1. Amsterdam: John Benjamin. 49-76.
- Bayer, J. & E. Brandner (2004), Klitisiertes zu im Bairischen und Alemannischen. . In: F. Patocka & P. Wiesinger (eds.), Morphologie und Syntax deutscher Dialekte und historische Dialektologie des Deutschen . Wien. Edition Praesens. 160-188.
- Bayer, J. (2004c), Was beschränkt die Extraktion? Subjekt – Objekt vs. Topic – Fokus. In: Franz Josef D'Avis (ed)., Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, Gothenburg German Studies 46. 233-257.
- Bayer, J., T. Schmid & M. Bader (2005), Clause union and clausal position . In: M. den Dikken & C. Tortora (eds.) The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories . Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 79-113.
- Schmid, T., M. Bader & J. Bayer (2005), Coherence - An Experimental Approach . In: M. Reis & S. Kepser (eds.), Linguistic Evidence . Berlin: de Gruyter. 435-456.
- Bayer, J. (2005) Displaced and misplaced genitives. In: H. Broekhuis, N. Corver, R. Huybregts, U. Kleinhenz, J. Koster (eds.): Organizing Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk. 22-30.
- Bayer, J. (2006a), Wh in Situ . In: M. Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, vol. V. Oxford, Blackwell. 376-438.
- Bayer, J. (2006b). A note on targets of A'-movement in the left periphery of German sentences . In: P. Brandt & E. Fuß (eds.) Form, Structure, and Grammar. A Festschrift Presented to Günther Grewendorf on Occasion of his 60th Birthday . Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 119-128.
- Bayer, J. & M. Bader (2007), On the Syntax of Prepositional Phrases . In: Späth, A. (ed.) Interface and Interface Conditions . Berlin, de Gruyter. 157-179.
- Bayer, J. (2008), Review article Clause Structure in South Asian Languages . Ed. by Veneeta Dayal and Anoop Mahajan (Studies in natural language and linguistic theory 61.) Dordrecht: Kluwer. 2004. Language 84, no. 3. 597-612.
- Bayer, J. & E. Brandner (2008a), On Wh-Head-Movement and the Doubly-Filled-Comp Filter . In: Chang CB & HJ Haynie (eds.) Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics . Somerville: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 87-95.
- Bayer, J. & E. Brandner (2008b), Wie oberflächlich ist die syntaktische Variation zwischen Dialekten: Doubly-filled COMP revisited . In: F. Patocka & G. Seiler. Dialektale Morphologie – dialektale Syntax. Wien: Praesens.
- Bayer, J. (2009), Nominal negative quantifiers as adjuncts . The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 12. 5-30.
- Bayer, J. (2010 a), Discourse particles in questions . In: Mohanty, R., & Menon, M. (Eds.), Proceedings of GLOW in ASIA VII 2009 . Hyderabad: EFL University Press.
- Bayer, J. (2010 b), Wh-drop and recoverability. In: J.-W. Zwart & M. de Vries (eds.), Structure Preserved: Studies in Syntax for Jan Koster . Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 31-39.
- Bayer J. & H.-G. Obenauer (2011), Discourse particles, clause structure, and question types. The Linguistic Review 28. 449-491.
- Bayer, J. (2012), From Modal Particle to Interrogative Marker: A Study of German denn. In: L. Brugè, A. Cardinaletti, G. Giusti, N. Munaro & C. Poletto (eds.), Functional Heads . Oxford University Press.
- Bayer, Josef (2013a). W-Frage, Fragepartikel und W-drop im Bairischen. In Rüdiger Harnisch.Strömungen in der Entwiclung der Dialekte und ihrer Erforschung. Regensburg. Edition Vulpes. 188-207
- Bayer, Josef (2013b). Klitisierung, Reanalyse und die Lizensierung von Nullformen: Zwei Beispiele aus dem Bairischen. Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 19 [ed. W. Abraham & E. Leiss]. 29-45
- Bayer, J. & Salzmann, M. (2013). That -trace effects and resumption - How improper movement can be repaired . In: P. Brandt & E. Fuß (Eds.), Repairs - The Added Value of Being Wrong . Berlin: de Gruyter. 275 - 333.
- Salzmann, Martin, Jana Häussler, Markus Bader & Josef Bayer (2013), That-Trace Effects Without Traces: An Experimental Investigation . in Stefan Keine & Shyne Sloggett (eds.) Proceedings of NELS 42. vol. II, 149-162.
- Bayer, J. (2014), Syntactic and phonological properties of wh-operators and wh-movement in Bavarian. In: G. Grewendorf & H. Weiß (eds.) Bavarian Syntax . Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 23-50.
- Bayer, J. (2015a) A note on possessor agreement. In: Egashira, H., Kitahara, H., Nakazawa, K., Nishimae, A., Nomura, T., Oishi, M., Suzuki, I. (eds.) In Untiring Pursuit of Better Alternatives . Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
- Bayer, J. (2015b) Doubly-filled comp, wh head-movement, and derivational economy. In: H. van Riemsdijk & M. van Oostendorp (eds.) Representing Structure in Phonology and Syntax . Studies in Generative Grammar 124 . Berlin: de Gruyter. 7-39.
- Bayer, J. & Andreas Trotzke (2015), The derivation and interpretation of left peripheral discourse particles. In: Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke . Discourse-oriented syntax . Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Josef Bayer & Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng (2017), Wh-in-situ. In: Martin Everaert & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.). The Blackwell Companion to Syntax . Oxford: Blackwell. 4979 - 5022.
- Bayer, J., J. Häussler & M. Bader (2016). A New Diagnostic for Cyclic Wh-Movement: Discourse Particles in German Questions. Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 47, Number 4, Fall 2016 591–629.
- Bayer, J & P. Dasgupta (2016) Emphatic Topicalization and the structure of the left periphery: Evidence from German and Bangla. Syntax 2016. 1-45.
- Bayer, J. (2016/17). Reparatur in der Grammatik – Anmerkungen zum Sprachdesign. Die Zukunft der Grammatik – Die Grammatik der Zukunft. Festschrift für Werner Abraham anlässlich seines 80 Geburtstags. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 51-74.
- Bayer, J. (2017a). Clitic 'denn' and 'wh'-movement. In Clemens Mayr & Edwin Williams (eds.) Festschrift for Martin Prinzhorn . Wiener Linguistische Gazette 82. 1-11.
- Bayer, J. (2017b), Prima la musica, dopo le parole: A small note on a big topic. Gautam Sengupta, Shruti Sircar, Madhavi Gayathri Raman & Rahul Balusu. Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax: Essays in Honor of R. Amritavalli. Singapore: Springer. 195-213
- Anna Czypionka, Josef Bayer, Maribel Romero & Carsten Eulitz. The licensing of discourse particles in complex questions: Evidence from graded judgments and event-related potentials. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, March 30 - April 1, 2017
- Dörre, L., A. Czypionka, A. Trotzke & J. Bayer. (2018). The processing of German modal particles and their counterparts. Linguistische Berichte 255.
- Bayer, J. (2018a) Criterial freezing in the syntax of particles. In J. Hartmann, M. Jäger, A. Kehl, A. Konietzko & S. Winkler (eds.), Freezing: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Domains. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 225-263.
- Bayer, J. (2018b). A comparative note on the Bangla particle "to" and the German particle "doch". University of Massachusetts Amherst. Angelika Kratzer FestSite. 1-15.
- Czypionka, A., L. & J. Bayer (2018). Inverse Case attraction: experimental evidence for a syntactically guided process. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
- Bayer, J. (2019a). On uninterpretable features. In Jessica Brown, Andreas Schmidt & Marta Wierzba . Of Trees and Birds. A Festschrift in honour of Gisbert Fanselow. Universitätsverlag Potsdam. 2-14.
- Bayer, J. (2019b) Wir treiben das Wort in den Wahnsinn. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Mittwoch, 10. April 2019. Feuilleton 39.
- Bayer, J. (2020), Why doubling discourse particles? Ludovico Franco & Paolo Lorusso. "Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation". 47-72. Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 132. Mouton de Gruyter, Boston/Berlin. 47-72.
- Bayer, J. & C. Freitag (2020). How much verb moves to second position? In: Horst Lohnstein & Antonios Tsiknakis (eds.), Verb Second – Grammar internal and grammar external interfaces.77-122. Interface Explorations [IE] 32. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Bayer, J. (2020) Whatʼs unique in Bavarian syntax? - Thoughts on the occasion of a performance of Bachʼs St Matthew Passion. In: Masatoshi Tanaka, Tomoya Tsutsui & Masashi Hashimoto (eds.) Linguistic Research as an Interdisciplinary Science. Hituzi Kenkyuu Soosho, Gengohen [Hituzi Research Series, Linguistics] 170. Tokyo: Hituzi Publishers. 27-43.
- Broekhuis, H. & J. Bayer (2020). Clausal ellipsis: deletion or selective spell-out? Linguistics in the Netherlands, vol 37, ed. by Elena Tribushinina & Mark Dingemanse, 2020. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 23-37.
- Bayer, J. (2021). A comparative note on the Bangla particle to and the German particle doch. In: Mina Dan & Aditi Ghosh (eds.). Language, Culture and Linguistics. Essays in Honour of Suniti Kumar Chatterji. 117-136. Hyderabad Orient BlackSwan Private Limited.
- Grosu, A. & J. Bayer (2021). Pre-nominal adjectival transparent free relatives. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 92. Gabi Danon (ed.). Proceedings of IATL 2018-2019. 43-58.
- Czypionka, A., M. Romero & J. Bayer (2021). Question-sensitive discourse particles at the interfaces of syntax, semantics and pragmatics - an experimental approach. Glossa. 6(1): 24.
- A. Czypionka, M. Kharaman, J. Bayer, M. Romero & C. Eulitz (2022). Licensing Question-Sensitive Discourse Particles: Evidence from Grammaticality Judgments, Self-Paced Reading and EEG Studies. In: R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim, A. Konietzko & S. Featherston (eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data. 197–215. Tübingen: University of Tübingen.
- Bayer, J. (2023). Deutsche Partikeln als funktionale Köpfe. Linguisten-Seminar. Forum japanisch-germanistischer Sprachforschung. Band 5. München: Iudicium Verlag. 9-39.
- Bayer, J. (2023a). Bavarian Discourse Particles in Wh-Questions. With a note on North-East Italian Dialects. Quaderni di lavoro ASIt - ASIt working papers. Festschrift in honour of Cecilia Poletto's 60th birthday, vol. 2. University of Padua. 450-475.
- Bayer, J. (2023b). Syntaktische Form und interpretative Lücken. Epenthese in der Syntax. Linguisten-Seminar. Forum japanisch-germanischer Sprachforschung. Band 6. München. Iudicium-Verlag. pp 9-44.
- Czypionka, A., M. Kharaman, J. Bayer, M. Romero & C. Eulitz (to appear). Licensing Question-Sensitive Discourse Particles: Evidence from Grammaticality Judgments, Self-Paced Reading and EEG Studies. Linguistic Evidence.
- Bayer, J. (to appear). On the syntactic status of ‘n in Bavarian wh-questions. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik.
Unpublished Work
- Bayer, Josef. Verb Second
- Bayer, Josef. V(P) -Topicalization and the Role of Traces
- Bayer, Josef. Some Comments on Tanya Reinhart's PRAGMATICS AND LINGUISTICS: AN ANALYSIS OF SENTENCE TOPICS
- Bayer, Josef & William Marslen-Wilson. 1992. Configurationality in the light of language comprehension: The order of arguments in German. Manuscript Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena & Birkbeck College London.
Doctoral Students
- Iris Bräuning
- Laura Dörre
- Constantin Freitag
- Jana Häussler
- Simon Hopp
- Michael Meng
- Alexandra Rehn
- Yvonne Viesel
Talks
Talks at conferences (since 2000)
- (with M. Bader & M. Meng) A KP for oblique Cases. DGFS-Workshop. Marburg 1.-3. March 2000.
- Symmetry and asymmetry in South Asian languages. Workshop on Antisymmetry Theory, Cortona, 15.-17. May 2000.
- Ways of deriving Case, Case Workshop: Diagnosis in Language processing / Conflicting Rules. Potsdam, 1.-3. December 2000
- Topicalization, force and pied-piping, Workshop Elements minimaux de la variation linguistique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales, Paris, 15-16. December 2000
- Non-standard subjects and Case, SFB-Kolloquium Kasusfragen: lexikalisch, semantisch oder strukturell?, SFB 282, Cologne, 18 May 2001
- Emphatic topics in Bavarian and the organization of the left periphery, Giornata di dialettologia, Universitá di Padova, 8. June 2001
- Non-standard subjects and Case. International Symposium on Non-Nominative Subjects. Tokyo, 17.-21. December 2001
- (with Markus Bader) Processing load and syntactic ambiguity resolution. 15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Proce-ssing, CUNY, New York. 21-23.3.2002
- Topicalization and force in CP Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University. 20.6.2002
- Decomposing the left periphery: dialectal and cross-linguistic evidence. Israeli Association of Theoretical Linguists (IATL), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan. 24-25.6.2002
- Dative pertinacity. Workshop on Pertinacity, Schloss Freudental. 11-14 Juli 2002
- (with E. Brandner) Klitisiertes "zu" im Bairischen und Alemannischen, 1. Internationaler Dialektologenkongress der IDGG, Marburg, 5.-8.3.2003
- (with T. Schmid and M. Bader) Coherent Infinitives in German: An Experimental Perspective, International Conference on Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, 28.-31.1.2004
- (with M. Bader) P as Case, 30. Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Universitá Ca' Foscari, Venezia, 26.-28.2.2004
- Was beschränkt die Extraktion? Subjekt -- Objekt vs. Topic -- Fokus Symposium Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie. Göteborgs Universitet. 13-15 May 2004
- (with T. Schmid and M. Bader) Parsing and Grammar: Evidence from Infinitival Complementation. 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. College Park, Maryland. 25-27 März 2004
- (with M. Bader and J. Häussler) On Structure and Frequency: Case in PP and VP. 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. College Park, Maryland. 25-27 March 2004
- (with T. Schmid and M. Bader) Clause Position and Clause Union. 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City. 3-5 June 2004
- (with E. Brandner) Light Noun Raising in Alemannic and Bavarian Infinitives. 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City. 3-5 June 2004
- (mit M. Bader) On the syntactic nature of preposition phrases. Workshop on Interface and Interface Conditions in Honor of Professor Anita Steube. Leipzig, 26. June, 2004.
- Adjacency in infinitive constructions. SFB-Workshop Germanic Infinitives: Representation, Variation and Processing. University of Konstanz. 30.9. - 2.10. 2004.
- Ingredients of the Left Periphery. 1. Meeting of the Scientific Network: The Structure of the Left Periphery in Germanic Languages – CP- and IP-Related Elements in Normal and Impaired Speech. Greifswald, 3 November 2004.
- Notes on the status of subjects and expletives in connection mit word order. Colloquium Expletive Subjects in Romance and Germanic Languages, University of Konstanz. 11. - 13. November 2004.
- On the Shape and Position of Infinitives. Universität Potsdam, 27. January 2005.
- That-trace without reference to the subject. 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. Katholieke Universiteit van Brabant, Tilburg. 9.-11.-05. 2005. [invited speaker]*
- Checking clausal complements in head-final languages. 5th Asia GLOW Conference, New Delhi. Aug. 5 - 8, 2005. *
- Deutsch nur - Italienisch solo. Symposium Das Italienische und das Deutsche: ein typologischer Vergleich. Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 3.- 4. Februar 2006. *
- Subjects and Microcomparative Variation. Trondheim 5-6 August 2006.
- (with E. Brandner), Wie oberflächlich ist die syntaktische Variation zwischen Dialekten? – Doubly-filled COMP revisited. 2. Kongress der IGDD, Vienna, 20-23 September 2006.
- (with E. Brandner), On Clausal Typing by Wh-Head-Movement. Journées d'etudes « Types des Phrases et périphérie gauche », Paris, 1.-2. Dezember 2006
- (with E. Brandner), On wh-head-movement and the Doubly Filled Comp Filter. 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Berkeley, 27-29 April 2007.
- On the nature of the [/that/ trace] effect. University of Geneva, 30 October 2007.
- From modal particle to interrogative marker. Journées d'etudes La structure des types de phrases, Paris 16.-17. November 2007.
- Complementation in SOV-syntax. Head-Final Languages Workshop, Leipzig 6.-9. December 2007.
- Variation in der linken Satzperipherie des Bairischen (und verwandter Dialekte),
Workshop Neue Tendenzen in der deutschen Dialektologie: Morphologie und Syntax, Universit&agraphe; degli Studi di Verona, 13-14 December 2007.
- Associating the German Discourse Particle "denn" with the Left Periphery, Workshop on Discourse Particles, Venice, 4 February 2008.
- How does the German particle denn reach the left periphery? Berlin, 2-4 Mai 2008.
- German denn versus Bavarian -n in questions, Salzburg, 15 Mai 2008.
- (with Hans-Georg Obenauer) Discourse Particles, Clause Structure, and Question Types. Particle Workshop, Cambridge 30-31 October 2008.
- (with Martin Salzmann) That-trace effects and resumption as the result of Improper Movement DGfS Osnabrück 05.03.2009.
- W-Frage, Fragepartikel und W-drop im Bairischen
11. Bayerisch-Österreichische Dialektologentagung, Passau 22.-25. September 2010.
- (with Hans-Georg Obenauer) On the (In-) Dependence of Interpretation from Syntax-Evidence from Special Questions.
Sentence Types, Sentence Mood, and Illocutionary Forces. International Conference to Honor Manfred Bierwisch Berlin 04.-06.11.2010.
- (with Jana Häussler, Markus Bader & Simon Hopp) Connecting to Illocutionary Force: A Theoretical and Experimental Study of the German Discourse Particle denn. GLOW, Vienna 28.-30.04.2011.
- Doubly-Filled Comp, wh head-movement, and chain uniformity. Inaugural Workshop The Representation of Structure in Grammar.Annesso Cartesiano di Villa Salmi, Arezzo. Juli 1-3 2011.
- Discourse Particles in Questions. Syntactic Constituency, Scope and Decomposition. Paper presented at the workshop Structures of Meaning - in Honor of Arnim von Stechow, University of Konstanz, 10-11 November 2011.
- Syntaktische und phonologische Eigenschaften von W-Operatoren und W-Bewegung im Bairischen Workshop Syntax des Bairischen. Frankfurt, 29.06.2012.
- Demystifying Bavarian complementizer agreement GIST 6, Ghent, October 17, 2012.
- Klitisierung, Reanalyse, und die Lizensierung von Nullformen: zwei Beispiele aus dem Bairischen. 18.LIPP Symposium. München, 15. November 2012.
- (with Andreas Trotzke), Discourse particles, successive-cyclic movement, and the nature of derivations, University of Venice (Ca'Foscari di Venezia), 3 October 2013.
- (with Laura Dörre) German adverbs and discourse particles: Corpus-linguistic investigations, Schloss Freudental, 25 January 2014.
- (with Andreas Trotzke) Clause structure & utterance meaning: Word order, particles, emphasis, Schloss Freudental, 24 January 2014.
- (with Probal Dasgupta & Sibansu Mukhopadhyay) Functional structure and the Bangla discourse particle to, 30th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable(SALA 30), University of Hyderabad, 6-8 February 2014.
- (with Andreas Trotzke, Giuseppina Turco) Left peripheral particles, syntactic constituency, and emphasis, Exploring the Interfaces 3: Prosodic and Constituent Structure, McGill University, 8-10 May 2014.
- Messages from the Bavarian clitic -n. International Conference on Generative Linguistics and Philosophy in Honor of Günther Grewendorf. University of Frankfurt, 27-29 June 2014.
- Functional Structure and the Bangla Discourse Particle to. GGS Konstanz 30-31 Mai 2014
- (with Probal Dasgupta) The architectural unity of emphasis, topic and interrogative marking in Bangla. The grammar's reflexes of emphasis: From information structure to the expressive dimension. Konstanz, 29-30 September 2014.
- Movement and scope in wh-questions with discourse particles. 30th Comparative Syntax Workshop, 22-23 May 2015, University of Chicago.
- Criterial Freezing in the Syntax of Particles. Workshop on Freezing: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Domains 3-4 July 2015, University of Tübingen. [invited lecture].
- Minimalist Explorations of the Clausal Periphery. [three invited lectures]. Keio University, Tokyo. 18 July 2015. (Lecture I, Lecture II, Lecture III)
- Reparatur in der Grammatik. Anmerkungen zum Sprachdesign / Repair in Grammar. Notes on the Design of Language. Die Zukunft von Grammatik - Die Grammatik der Zukunft. Symposium anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags von Werner Abraham. 12.-13.02.2016. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. [invited lecture].
- (with Constantin Freitag) How much verb moves to second position? Theoretical and experimental evidence. Verb-Second Workshop, 29.–31.July 2016, Bergische Universität Wuppertal.[invited lecture].
- From the Adjunction Theory to the Head Theory of Particles. Workshop DP and CP-Adjunction – and beyond: Interrelation between Syntactic Operations and Semantic / Pragmatic Features, 6-8 October 2016, University of Hamburg. [invited lecture].
- (with Uwe Braun) German Discourse Particles in Sentential Infinitives. 31st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, 1-3 November 2016. University of Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa.
- (with Anna Czypionka, Maribel Romero & Carsten Eulitz). The licensing of discourse particles in complex questions: Evidence from graded judgments and event-related potentials. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, 30 March - 1 April 2017. Poster
- Case deficiency in the verbal and in the adpositional domain. Workshop on Case-impoverished Germanic. Lund, 5-6 October 2017
- (with Martin Salzmann and Jana Häussler). That-trace effects without traces: in favor of a phonological EPP. DGfS 2018: 40. Jahrestagung. AG 6 Referential and relational approaches to syntactic asymmetries. Friday 9 March 2018.
- Particles ex-situ in Emphatic Wh-Questions. GLOW 41. Budapest. Workshop The grammar and pragmatics of interrogatives and their (special) uses. Saturday, 14 April 2018.
- The reduction of denn to -n and some of its consequences. Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax (SaRDiS). 20. - 21.11.2020 [invited speaker]
- What are discourse particles ? A syntactic account. English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. 27.11.2020 [invited speaker]
- Particles as functional heads. Recycling in the syntax of wh-questions. Syracuse/Cornell. Workshop on Word Order and Scrambling. Syracuse University- 08-09 May 2021.
- Lecture series Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik – 48. Linguisten-Seminar 2022. Tokyo. 29 August – 01 September 2022.
- I. Formale Prinzipien und interpretatorische Lücken. Über den Umgang mit (scheinbaren) Paradoxien. 29 August 2022.
- II. Was ist Verb-Zweit?. 30 August 2022.
- III. Reanalyse und Grammatikalisierung. 31 August 2022.
- Modalpartikeln in deutschen Wh-Fragen. Gesellschaft für Germanistik Osaka-Kobe. Kwansei-Gakuin-University. 02 September 2022. [invited lecture].
- Repair in Grammar by Syntactic Epenthesis. Hiroshima University. 05 September 2022. [invited lecture].
- Case Deficiency in the Verbal and in the Adpositional Domain. Sophia University, Tokyo. 08. September 2022. [invited lecture].
Webschrift
On Thursday, 19 November 2015, I was surprised by the webschrift Charting the Landscape of Linguistics, ed. by Ellen Brandner, Anna Czypionka, Constantin Freitag & Andreas Trotzke. The fotos which accompany the document inform about the invited speaker and the celebration that followed the event.
CV
- born November 15, 1950 in Dietfurt / Altmühl (Bavaria).
- 1970-82: university education (German philology, linguistics, philosophy, musicology) at Regensburg, Hamburg (MA), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Konstanz.
- 1982: doctoral dissertation, Konstanz.
- 1978-82: scientific staff of research group of Collaborative Research Center 99, University of Konstanz.
- 1982-85: scientific staff of research group Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders, Technical University of Aachen.
- 1985-90: scientific staff, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- 1991: habilitation in theoretical linguistics, University of Konstanz.
- 1991-92: visiting professor, University of Duesseldorf.
- 1992-93: visiting professor, University of Vienna.
- 1993-1994: scientific staff, Collaborative Research Center 340, University of Stuttgart.
- 1994-2000: professor of General and Germanic Linguistics, University of Jena.
- 2000-2016: professor of General and Germanic Linguistics, University of Konstanz.
- 2001-2003: head of the department of linguistics.
- 2016: retired.
Links
Besuch bei Richard Strauss:
Previously board member of:
- Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Kluwer.
- Advisory board / Fachbeirat of Zentrum für Allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin - Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
- Linguistische Berichte
- Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Currently board member of:
Others:
http://www.richard-wagner-web.de/
http://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/Anfangsseite/deutsch.htm