Johannes Mursell

List of John Benjamins publications in which Johannes Mursell is involved.

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The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement

Johannes Mursell

In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 268] 2021. xii, 280 pp.

Articles

Tan, Jennifer and Johannes Mursell 2018 Chapter 9. Embedding evidence in Tagalog and German: On two types of evidentials Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 185–212 | Chapter

We compare two particles with similar meaning contributions from two different languages, German wohl and Tagalog yata, both roughly translatable as ‘I infer’. Based on their context usage, we claim that both are inferential evidentials. Despite their identical meaning, we assume a non-uniform… read more

Mursell, Johannes and Anke Himmelreich  Constraints on information-structural marking in the DP: The view from Mabia languages Linguistic Variation: Online-First Articles | Article

This paper investigates how information-structural categories like focus can be linearized inside the DP. Starting from the claim that information-structural marking possibilities in the DP-structure often mirror marking possibilities in the CP-structure within the same language, we show that… read more