Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities - General Linguistics

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Humboldt University of Berlin

University of Bremen

University of Erfurt

University of Bielefeld

Monographs

• Stolz, Christel, Thomas Stolz & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2012. Maya yucateco de X-Hazil Sur, Quintana Roo. 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). DOI
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth. 2007. Languages of Asia. Lecture Notes. Linguistics Department, University of Bremen (ISBN 978-3-00-023082-0).
• Lehmann, Christian, Yong-Min Shin & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2000. Direkte und indirekte Partizipation. Zur Typologie der sprachlichen Repräsentation konzeptueller Relationen. Unterschleissheim & Newcastle: Lincom Europa (Second edition 2006).
• Lehmann, Christian, Yong-Min Shin & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2000. Person prominence and relation prominence. On the typology of syntactic relations with particular reference to Yucatec Maya. Unterschleissheim & Newcastle: Lincom Europa.

Edited Volumes

• Verhoeven, Elisabeth (ed.). 2013.  Yucatec Maya in typological perspective. Special Issue of Language Typology and Universals 66, 1.
• Helmbrecht, Johannes & Elisabeth Verhoeven (eds.). 2011. Latin in typological perspective. Special Issue of Language Typology and Universals 64, 2.
• Helmbrecht, Johannes, Yoko Nishina, Yong-Min Shin; Stavros Skopeteas & Elisabeth Verhoeven (eds.). 2009. Form and Function in Language Research. Berlin: de Gruyter. DOI
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth, Stavros Skopeteas, Yong-Min Shin, Yoko Nishina & Johannes Helmbrecht (eds.). 2008. Studies on Grammaticalization. Berlin: de Gruyter. DOI

Journal articles and book chapters

• Stavros, Skopeteas, Elisabeth Verhoeven & Gisbert Fanselow. 2020. Discontinuous noun phrases in Yucatec Maya. Journal of Linguistics. Preprint
• Fritz-Huechante, Paola, Elisabeth Verhoeven & 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
• Rott, Julian, Elisabeth Verhoeven & Paola Fritz-Huechante. 2020. Valence orientation and psych properties: Towards a typology of the psych alternation. Open Linguistics, 6: 401-423. DOI
• 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
• Rott, Julian & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2019. Tiers for fears and other emotions: A cross-linguistic approach to psych lexis and syntax. In A. Gattner, R. Hörnig, M. Störzer & S. Featherston (eds.) Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. DOI

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

• Verhoeven, Elisabeth. 2018. Animacy shift and layers of nominal structure. Theoretical Linguistics 44(1-2):99-106. DOI

• Verhoeven, Elisabeth. 2017. Scales or features in verb meaning? Verb classes as predictors of syntactic behaviour. In L. de Cuypere, C. Vanderschueren, G. De Sutter (eds.) Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 31:164-193. Preprint
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Anne Temme. 2017. Word order acceptability and word order choice. In S. Featherston, R. Hörnig, R. Steinberg, B. Umbreit, J. Wallis (eds.) Linguistic Evidence 2016 Online Proceedings. Tübingen: Universität Tübingen. Preprint
• Temme, Anne & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2017. Backward binding as a psych effect: A binding illusion? Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 36.2:279-308. Preprint | DOI
• Temme, Anne & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2016. Verb class, case, and order: A crosslinguistic experiment on non-nominative experiencers. Linguistics 54.4. Preprint | DOI
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth. 2015. Thematic asymmetries do matter! A corpus study of word order in German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 27.1:45-104. Preprint | DOI
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Stavros Skopeteas. 2015. Licensing focus constructions in Yucatec Maya. International Journal of American Linguistics 81,1:1-40. Preprint | DOI
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth & Frank Kügler. 2015. Accentual preferences and predictability. An acceptability study on split intransitivity in German. Lingua 165: 298-315. Preprint | DOI
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth. 2014. Thematic prominence and animacy asymmetries. Evidence from a cross-linguistic production study. Lingua 143:129-161. Preprint | DOI
• Temme, Anne & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 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. Preprint
• 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 & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 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. Preprint | URL
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth. 2012. Cabécar - a Chibchan language of Costa Rica. In Sakel, J. & Stolz, Th. (eds.), Amerindiana. Neue Perspektiven auf die indigenen Sprachen Amerikas, 155-169. Preprint | DOI
• Skopeteas, Stavros & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2011. Distinctness effects on VOS order: Evidence from Yucatec Maya. In Avelino, H. (ed.), New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 275-300. Preprint
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth. 2010. Agentivity and stativity in experiencer verbs: Implications for a typology of verb classes. In Linguistic Typology14:213-251. Preprint | DOI
• 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. Preprint | DOI
• Shin, Yong-Min & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 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. DOI
• Skopeteas, Stavros & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 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. Preprint | URL
• Skopeteas, Stavros & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2009. The interaction between topicalization and structural constraints: Evidence from Yucatec Maya. In The Linguistic Review 26: 239-259. Preprint | DOI
• 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. Preprint
• 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. Linguistische Berichte 219:355-376. Preprint | URL
• Verhoeven, Elisabeth. 2008. (Non-)canonical marking of experiencer objects: A typological comparison of Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Modern Greek. Language Typology and Universals 61/1, 81-92. DOI
• 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. DOI
• 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, Stavros Skopeteas, Yong-Min Shin, Yoko Nishina & Johannes Helmbrecht. 2008. Introduction. In Verhoeven, E. (et al. eds.), Studies on Grammaticalization. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1-11. DOI
• Kügler, Frank, Stavros Skopeteas & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2007. Encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya: On the interplay of prosody and syntax. In ISIS, Vol. 8, 187-208. URL
• Lehmann, Christian & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 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. Preprint | DOI
• Lehmann, Christian & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 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 & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2005. Postverbal argument order in Yucatec Maya. In Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF) 58, 4:347-373. DOI
• Skopeteas, Stavros & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 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, Yong-Min Shin & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 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, Yong-Min Shin & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2000. Unfolding of situation perspectives as a typological characteristic of languages. In Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF) 53, 1:71-79. DOI
• Lehmann, Christian, Yong-Min Shin & Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2000. Zur interlingualen Ebene in der typologischen Analyse. In Göttinger Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 2000, 3:57-71.

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