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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Universität Bremen

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Monographs

• Stolz, Christel & Stolz, Thomas & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2012): Maya yucateco de X-Hazil Sur, Quintana Roo. (Archivo de las lenguas indígenas de México) México D.F. : El Colegio de México.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2007): Experiential Constructions in Yucatec Maya. A Typologically Based Analysis of a Functional Domain in a Mayan Language. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins (SLCS 87).
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2007): Languages of Asia. Lecture Notes. Linguistics Department, University of Bremen (ISBN 978-3-00-023082-0).
• Lehmann, Christian; Shin, Yong-Min & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2000): Direkte und indirekte Partizipation. Zur Typologie der sprachlichen Repräsentation konzeptueller Relationen. Unterschleissheim & Newcastle: Lincom Europa (Second edition 2006).
• Lehmann, Christian; Shin, Yong-Min & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2000): Person prominence and relation prominence. On the typology of syntactic relations with particular reference to Yucatec Maya. Unterschleissheim & Newcastle: Lincom Europa.

Edited Volumes

• Alexiadou, Artemis & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (eds.) (2021): The Syntax of Argument Structure: Empirical Advancements and Theoretical Relevance. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110757255
• Helmbrecht, Johannes & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (eds.) (2011): Latin in typological perspective. Special Issue of Language Typology and Universals 64, 2.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (ed.) (2013): Yucatec Maya in typological perspective. Special Issue of Language Typology and Universals 66, 1.
• Helmbrecht, Johannes & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (eds.) (2011): Latin in typological perspective. Special Issue of Language Typology and Universals 64, 2.
• Helmbrecht, Johannes; Nishina, Yoko; Shin, Yong-Min; Skopeteas, Stavros & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (eds.) (2009): Form and Function in Language Research. Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth; Skopeteas, Stavros; Shin, Yong-Min; Nishina, Yoko & Helmbrecht, Johannes (eds.) (2008): Studies on Grammaticalization. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Journal articles and book chapters

• Lüdeling, A., Alexiadou, A., Adli, A., Donhauser, K., Dreyer, M., Egg, M., Feulner, A.H., Gagarina, N., Hock, W., Jannedy, S., Kammerzell, F., Knoeferle, P., Krause, T., Krifka, M., Kutscher, S., Lütke, B., McFadden, T., Meyer, R., Mooshammer, C., Müller, S., Maquate, K., Norde, M., Sauerland, U., Solt, S., Szucsich, L., Verhoeven, E., Waltereit, R., Wolfsgruber, A. & Zeige, L.E. (2023): Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation. Register Aspects of Language in Situation., 1-58. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/24901
• Pescuma, V.N., Serova, D., Lukassek, J., Sauermann, A., Schäfer, R., Adli, A., Bildhauer, F., Egg, M., Hülk, K., Ito, A., Jannedy, S., Kordoni, V., Kuehnast, M., Kutscher, S., Lange, R., Lehmann, N., Liu, M., Lütke, B., Maquate, K., Mooshammer, C., Mortezapour, V., Müller, S., Norde, M., Pankratz, E., Patarroyo, A.G., Pleşca, A.-M., Ronderos, C.R., Rotter, S., Sauerland, U., Schnelle, G., Schulte, B., Schüppenhauer, G., Sell, B.M., Solt, S., Terada, M., Tsiapou, D., Verhoeven, E., Weirich, M., Wiese, H., Zaruba, K., Zeige, L.E., Lüdeling, A. & Knoeferle, P. (2023): Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods. Frontiers in Psychology 13:964658. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964658
• Rott, Julian Andrej, Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Fritz-Huechante, Paola (2023): Directionality in the psych alternation: a quantitative cross-linguistic study. Linguistic Typology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-0060
• Lehmann, Nico & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2022): Discourse-Independent Variation in V-Initial Constituent Order: The Yucatec Mayan Preverbal Domain Revisited. R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim, A. Konietzko & S. Featherston (eds.) Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. 459–477. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-75891
• Stavros, Skopeteas, Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Gisbert Fanselow (2022): Discontinuous noun phrases in Yucatec Maya. Journal of Linguistics, 58(3), 609-648. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226720000419
• Fritz-Huechante, Paola, Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Julian A. Rott (2020): Agentivity and non-culminating causation in the psych-domain: Cross-linguistic evidence from Spanish and Korean. Glossa 5(1): 128.1-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.896
• Rott, Julian & Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Paola Fritz-Huechante (2020): Valence orientation and psych properties: Towards a typology of the psych alternation. Open Linguistics, 6: 401-423. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0020
• Olthof, M., van Lier, E., Claessen, T., Danielsen, S., Haude, K.,  Lehmann, N., Mous, M., Verhoeven, E., Visser, E., Vuillermet, M. & A. Wolvengrey (2020): Verb-based restrictions on noun incorporation across languages. Linguistic Typology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-2054
• Rott, Julian & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2019): Tiers for fears and other emotions: A cross-linguistic approach to psych lexis and syntax. A. Gattner, R. Hörnig, M. Störzer & S. Featherston (eds.) Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. http://hdl.handle.net/10900/91225

• Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Lehmann, Nico (2018): Self-embedding and complexity in oral registers. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 93. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.592

• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2018): Animacy shift and layers of nominal structure. Theoretical Linguistics 44(1-2):99-106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2018-0009

• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2017): Scales or features in verb meaning? Verb classes as predictors of syntactic behaviour. L. de Cuypere, C. Vanderschueren, G. De Sutter (eds.) Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 31:164-193.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Temme, Anne (2017): Word order acceptability and word order choice. S. Featherston, R. Hörnig, R. Steinberg, B. Umbreit, J. Wallis (eds.) Linguistic Evidence 2016 Online Proceedings. Tübingen: Universität Tübingen.
• Temme, Anne & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2017): Backward binding as a psych effect: A binding illusion? Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 36.2:279-308.
• Temme, Anne & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2016): Verb class, case, and order: A crosslinguistic experiment on non-nominative experiencers. Linguistics 54.4.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2015): Thematic asymmetries do matter! A corpus study of word order in German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 27.1:45-104. DOI: 10.1017/S147054271400021X.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Skopeteas, Stavros (2015): Licensing focus constructions in Yucatec Maya. International Journal of American Linguistics 81,1:1-40.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Kügler, Frank (2015): Accentual preferences and predictability. An acceptability study on split intransitivity in German. Lingua 165: 298-315. DOI 10.1016/ j.lingua. 2014.09.013
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2014): Thematic prominence and animacy asymmetries. Evidence from a cross-linguistic production study. Lingua 143:129-161. DOI 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.02.002.
• Temme, Anne & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2014): Clitic left dislocation vs. scrambling: Comparing the linearization properties of German and Greek experiencer verbs. In Kotzoglou, G. et al eds.  Selected papers of the 11^th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Rhodes: University of the Aegean, 1668-1678.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2013): Introduction, in: Verhoeven, E. (ed.) Yucatec Maya in typological perspective. Special Issue of Language Typology and Universals 66, 1: 3-6.
• Skopeteas, Stavros & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2012): Left peripheral arguments and discourse interface strategies in Yucatec Maya, in: Neeleman, A. & Kucerová, I. (eds.), Information Structure: Contrasts and Positions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 296-321.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2012): Cabécar - a Chibchan language of Costa Rica. Sakel, J. & Stolz, Th. (eds.), Amerindiana. Neue Perspektiven auf die indigenen Sprachen Amerikas, 155-169.
• Skopeteas, Stavros & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2011): Distinctness effects on VOS order: Evidence from Yucatec Maya, Avelino, H. (ed.), New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 275-300.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2010): Agentivity and stativity in experiencer verbs: Implications for a typology of verb classes, in: Linguistic Typology 14:213-251.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2010): Transitivity in Chinese experiencer object verbs, in: Brandt, P. & García García, M. (ed.), Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 95-118.
• Shin, Yong-Min & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2009): Animacy and argument hierarchy in conflict: Constraints on object topicalization in Korean, in: Helmbrecht (et al. eds.), Form and Function in Language Research. Berlin: de Gruyter, 107-122.
• Skopeteas, Stavros & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2009): Distinctness effects on VOS order: evidence from Yucatec Maya, in: Avelino, H., Coon, J. & Norcliffe, E. (eds.), New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 59 (Special Issue on Mayan Languages), 157-173.
• Skopeteas, Stavros & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2009): The interaction between topicalization and structural constraints: Evidence from Yucatec Maya, in: The Linguistic Review 26: 239-259.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2009): Experiencer objects and object clitics in Modern Greek: Evidence from a corpus study, in: Baltazani, M., Giannakis, G.K., Tsagalidis, T. & Xydopoulos, G. I. (eds.) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of Ioannina, Aug. 30^th – Sept 2^nd 2007, Ioannina: University of Ioannina, 574-588.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2009): Körper und Psyche im Maya von Yukatán, in: Nitschke, A., Stagl, J. & Bauer, D. (eds.), Überraschendes Lachen, gefordertes Weinen. Gefühle und Prozesse. Epochen und Kulturen im Vergleich; Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Historische Anthropologie, Bd. 11; Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau, 265-285.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2009): Subjects, agents, experiencers, and animates in competition: Modern Greek argument order, in: Linguistische Berichte 219:355-376.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2008): (Non-)canonical marking of experiencer objects: A typological comparison of Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Modern Greek, in: Language Typology and Universals 61/1, 81-92.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2008): Grammaticalization in constructions: Clitic doubling with experiencers in Modern Greek, in Verhoeven, E. (et al. eds.), Studies on Grammaticalization. Berlin: de Gruyter, 251-281.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2008): Grammatikalisierung und die Entstehung von Konstruktionen: Experiencerobjekt-Konstruktionen im Neugriechischen, in: Stolz, Thomas (ed.), Grammatikalisierung und grammatische Kategorien. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 111-133.
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth; Skopeteas, Stavros; Shin, Yong-Min, Nishina, Yoko & Helmbrecht, Johannes (2008): Introduction, in: Verhoeven, E. (et al. eds.), Studies on Grammaticalization. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1-11.
• Kügler, Frank & Skopeteas, Stavros & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2007): Encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya: On the interplay of prosody and syntax, in: ISIS, Vol. 8, 187-208.
• Lehmann, Christian & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2006): Extraversive transitivization in Yucatec Maya and the nature of the applicative, in: Kulikov, L. & Malchukov, A. & de Swart, P. (eds.), Case, Valency and Transitivity. Amsterdam etc.: Benjamins, 465-493.
• Lehmann, Christian & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2005): Noun incorporation and participation. A typological study on participant association with particular reference to Yucatec Maya, in: Lehmann, Christian (ed.), Typological studies in Participation. Studia Typologica 7, 105–188.
• Skopeteas, Stavros & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2005): Postverbal argument order in Yucatec Maya, in: Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF) 58, 4:347-373.
• Skopeteas, Stavros & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2004): Syntactic prominence of animates in the history of Greek [Sintaktiki kiriarxia ton empsixon stin istoria tis Ellinikis], in: Katsimali, Georgia & Kalokerinos, Alexis & Anagnostopulu, Elena & Kappa, Ioanna, 6^th International Conference of Greek Linguistics. Crete: University of Crete, 1-14.
• Lehmann, Christian; Shin, Yong-Min & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2003): On the typology of applicative constructions (with special reference to Yucatec Maya). University of Erfurt: Working paper Nr. 6 (Typology of Yucatec Maya).
• Lehmann, Christian; Shin, Yong-Min & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2000): Unfolding of situation perspectives as a typological characteristic of languages, in: Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF) 53, 1:71-79.
• Lehmann, Christian; Shin, Yong-Min & Verhoeven, Elisabeth (2000): Zur interlingualen Ebene in der typologischen Analyse, in: Göttinger Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 2000, 3:57-71.

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