Wolfgang U. Dressler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Wolfgang U. Dressler plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 2210-2116 | E-ISSN 2210-2124
ISSN 1879-7865 | E-ISSN 1879-7873
The Mental Lexicon (ML)
Edited by Harald Baayen, Melanie J. Bell, Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli
ISSN 1871-1340 | E-ISSN 1871-1375
Titles
The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Veronika Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 66] 2021. ix, 307 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Nominal Compound Acquisition
Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 61] 2017. viii, 310 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012
Edited by Franz Rainer, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 327] 2014. viii, 350 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Variation and Change in Morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008
Edited by Franz Rainer, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky and Hans Christian Luschützky
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 310] 2010. vii, 249 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ineta Savickienė and Wolfgang U. Dressler
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 43] 2007. vi, 352 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004
Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 264] 2005. xiv, 320 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000
Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 218] 2002. vii, 317 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Morphological Analysis in Comparison
Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer, Markus A. Pöchtrager and John R. Rennison
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 201] 2000. x, 261 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology
Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology
Wolfgang U. Dressler, Willi Mayerthaler, Oswald Panagl and Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 10] 1987. ix, 168 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts: Johann Nestroy’s Der Talisman and its English translations Target 35:4, pp. 540–572 | Article
Literary occasionalisms, new words coined by writers with a particular poetic aim in view, often pose a great challenge for translators. Given recent advances in machine translation (MT), could literary translators benefit from MT when it comes to the translation of occasionalisms? We address… read more
2022 Morphopragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 977–986 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 1. Introduction The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective, Mattes, Veronika, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 12. Conclusions The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective, Mattes, Veronika, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 289–304 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 5. Early phases of development of German derivational morphology The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective, Mattes, Veronika, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 109–140 | Chapter
This chapter presents for the first time an overall description of the development of German derivational morphology. The longitudinal spontaneous speech corpora of three children acquiring Standard Austrian German and their mothers is analysed up to 3;0, with outlooks up to 6;0. The analysis… read more
2017 Chapter 13. Discussion and outlook Nominal Compound Acquisition, Dressler, Wolfgang U., F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch (eds.), pp. 287–305 | Chapter
2017 Introduction Nominal Compound Acquisition, Dressler, Wolfgang U., F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 4. Requests in Turkish and German child-directed and child speech: Evidence from different socio-economic backgrounds Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Ketrez, F. Nihan, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek (eds.), pp. 53–68 | Chapter
On the basis of parent-child interaction data of families from different socio-economic status (SES), we discuss the usage of requests in input and output of three-year old monolingual German-speaking children and bilingual children speaking mainly Turkish at home. Whereas high SES parents are… read more
2017 Chapter 1. Emergence and early development of German compounds Nominal Compound Acquisition, Dressler, Wolfgang U., F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch (eds.), pp. 19–37 | Chapter
The West Germanic language German is particularly rich and productive in nominal compounding, especially of noun-noun compounds. This chapter presents and analyzes the longitudinal data of three Viennese children up to 3;0 and the transversal data of 28 children at 3;0 and 3;3 (14 low, 14 high… read more
2014 German plural doublets with and without meaning differentiation Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012, Rainer, Franz, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 249–258 | Article
This contribution studies the synchrony and diachrony of German plural variants. Plural doublets in the sense of overabundance must be restricted to variants with the same meaning used by one and the same speech community. But there is a preference for distinctiveness which assigns different… read more
2014 Morphology and meaning: An overview Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012, Rainer, Franz, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 3–46 | Article
2014 Development of adjective frequencies across semantic classes: A growth curve analysis of child speech and child-directed speech Language, Interaction and Acquisition 5:2, pp. 185–226 | Article
This paper is a longitudinal investigation of adjective use by children aged 1;8−2;8, speaking Dutch, German, French, Hebrew, and Turkish, and by their caregivers. Each adjective token in transcripts of spontaneous speech was coded for semantic class. The development of adjective use in each… read more
2013 The acquisition of nominal determiners in French and German: A cross-linguistic perspective on the grammaticalization of nouns Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bassano-Bonhommo, Dominique and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 37–59 | Article
In many languages, the acquisition of nominal determiners is a central aspect of the emergence of grammar in children. This study compares the development of determiners — between the ages 1–3 — in the spontaneous productions of two children who acquire French and Austrian German respectively.… read more
2012 Acquisition of German diminutive formation and compounding in a comparative perspective: Evidence for typology and the role of frequency Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency, Kiefer, Ferenc †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár (eds.), pp. 237–264 | Article
Early phases of first language acquisition can shed light on general preferences in diminutive formation and compounding, as is demonstrated in this typological characterization of German diminutives and compounds and their acquisition. The role of typology is shown to be similar to that in… read more
2012 Suffix predictability and stem transparency in the acquisition of German noun plurals Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency, Kiefer, Ferenc †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár (eds.), pp. 217–236 | Article
This study examines the impact of suffix and stem properties on children’s acquisition of German noun plural morphology. As to suffix selection, we distinguish three levels of predictability: highly predictable, partially predictable and exceptional, based on sonority/gender distributions in actual… read more
2011 L’acquisition des déterminants nominaux en français et en allemand: Une perspective interlangue sur la grammaticalisation des noms Grammaticalization and first language acquisition – Crosslinguistic perspectives/Grammaticalisation et acquisition des langues premières - Perspectives interlangues, Bassano-Bonhommo, Dominique and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 37–60 | Article
In many languages, noun determiner acquisition is a central aspect of the emergence of grammar in children. The study compares the development of determiners — between one and three years of age — in the spontaneous productions of two children who acquire French and Austrian German, respectively.… read more
2011 How far can diachronic change be predicted: The Italo-Romance first person plural present indicative Diachronica 28:4, pp. 499–544 | Article
This paper attempts to predict diachronic change in the restricted domain of Italo-Romance first person plural present indicative allomorphs, starting from the reconstructed Proto-Italo-Romance forms -amo, -emo, -imo, preserved in several dialects to this day (with corresponding subjunctives -emo,… read more
2010 Chapter 6. A typological approach to first language acquisition Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems, Kail, Michèle and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 109–123 | Article
This paper will not simply be cross-linguistic, but typological, insofar as it refers to language types as constellations of typologically relevant linguistic properties. The general hypothesis is that children are sensitive to typological properties of the language they acquire, i.e. they are… read more
2010 First language acquisition of compounds Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding, Scalise, Sergio and Irene Vogel (eds.), pp. 323–344 | Article
This chapter discusses early phases of first language acquisition of compounds in German based on longitudinal data of two Austrian children and compares these data to results on compound acquisition in other languages. The first compounds to emerge in German (simultaneously with the emergence of… read more
2008 Core morphology in child directed speech: Crosslinguistic corpus analyses of noun plurals Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives, Behrens, Heike (ed.), pp. 25–60 | Article
2007 8. Diminutives and hypocoristics in Austrian German (AG) The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective, Savickienė, Ineta and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 207–230 | Chapter
This paper intends to show how diminutives emerge in the corpus of two children who acquire a language which has productive diminutive formation, but where diminutives play a minor role due to low frequency; they do not serve as triggers or facilitators in the acquisition of German noun morphology.… read more
2007 5. The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Italian morphology The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective, Savickienė, Ineta and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 125–153 | Chapter
The paper deals with the acquisition of diminutives by four Italian children with three objectives: to highlight parallelisms and differences in input and output data; to contrast the mechanism of item-based learning (cf. Tomasello 2003) to the dual-route model (Clahsen et al. 2003) as regards the… read more
2007 Conclusions The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective, Savickienė, Ineta and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 343–349 | Miscellaneous
2007 Introduction The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective, Savickienė, Ineta and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Miscellaneous
2002 Introduction Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova (eds.), pp. 1–3 | Miscellaneous
2002 Book notice: “Language Death” by David Crystal Studies in Language 26:3, pp. 733–735 | Miscellaneous
2002 8. On contrastive word-formation semantics: Degrees of transparency/opacity of German and Hungarian denominal adjective formation Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova (eds.), pp. 105–115 | Chapter
2001 Morphopragmatics of diminutives and augmentatives: On the priority of pragmatics over semantics Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, Kenesei, István and Robert M. Harnish (eds.), pp. 43–58 | Article
2000 Introduction Morphological Analysis in Comparison, Dressler, Wolfgang U., Oskar E. Pfeiffer, Markus A. Pöchtrager and John R. Rennison (eds.), pp. vii ff. | Miscellaneous
2000 Are fillers as precursors of morphemes relevant for morphological theory? A case story from the acquisition of French Morphological Analysis in Comparison, Dressler, Wolfgang U., Oskar E. Pfeiffer, Markus A. Pöchtrager and John R. Rennison (eds.), pp. 89 ff. | Article
1999 What is Natural in Natural Morphology (NM)? Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série, Hajičová, Eva, Tomáš Hoskovec, Oldřich Leška †, Petr Sgall and Zdena Skoumalová (eds.), pp. 135–144 | Article
1999 Morphopragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: 1997 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
1996 A Functionalist Semiotic Model of Morphonology Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994), Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 67–83 | Article
1996 8. Language death Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics, Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 195 ff. | Article
1996 A note on rhematic disagreements in early child language Discourse and Meaning: Papers in honor of Eva Hajičová, Partee, Barbara H. and Petr Sgall (eds.), pp. 205 ff. | Article
1996 Reply to Janda and Walker Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994), Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 102–105 | Article
1995 Interactions between Iconicity and Other Semiotic Parameters in Language Iconicity in Language, Simone, Raffaele (ed.), pp. 21 ff. | Article
1995 Die ersten stufen des Erwerbs der slowenischen Flexion: Eine Fallstudie Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série, Hajičová, Eva, Miroslav Červenka, Oldřich Leška † and Petr Sgall (eds.), pp. 249 ff. | Article
1994 Functional Sentence Perspective within a Model of Natural Textlinguistics The Syntax of Sentence and Text: A Festschrift for František Daneš, Čmejrková, Svĕtla and František Štícha (eds.), pp. 89 ff. | Article
1994 Functional analysis in the study of second language acquisition Functions of Language 1:2, pp. 201–228 | Article
Studies of second language acquisition (SLA) are often devoid of sufficient theoretical background. With this contribution we want to demonstrate the suitability of a theoretical functional approach to this area and especially to the analysis of the learner's perspective. The theoretical background… read more
1992 Between grammar and discourse Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 149 ff. | Article
1991 Elements of morphopragmatics Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987, Verschueren, Jef (ed.), pp. 33 ff. | Article
1989 Supplement to Chapter 6. German-language materials Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook, Menn, Lise and Loraine K. Obler (eds.), pp. 1457–1547 | Miscellaneous
1989 Chapter 6. Agrammatism in German: Two case studies Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook, Menn, Lise and Loraine K. Obler (eds.), pp. 281–441 | Chapter
1987 I. Word formation as part of natural morphology Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology, Dressler, Wolfgang U., Willi Mayerthaler, Oswald Panagl and Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel, pp. 99 ff. | Chapter
1987 Morphological islands: constraint or preference? Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 71 ff. | Article
1987 Morphological islands: constraint or preference? Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 71 ff. | Article
1985 On the diachrony of subtractive poerations: evidence for semiotically based models of natural phonology and natural morphology from northern
anatolien greek dialects Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983, Fisiak, Jacek (ed.), pp. 105 ff. | Article
1982 3. A semiotic model of diachronic process phonology Perspectives on Historical Linguistics: Papers from a conference held at the meeting of the Language Theory Division, Modern Language Assn., San Francisco, 27–30 December 1979, Lehmann, Winfred P. and Yakov Malkiel (eds.), pp. 93 ff. | Chapter
1981 External evidence for an abstract analysis of the German velar nasal Phonology in the 1980’s, Goyvaerts, Didier L. (ed.), pp. 445–468 | Article