PD Dr. Ralf Vogel

Papers and Publications

2004
 
• Weak Function Word Shift (draft, April 28, 2004, submitted to Linguistics, ROA-663)
• Degraded Acceptability and Markedness in Syntax, and the Stochastic Interpretation of Optimality Theory (draft, to appear in Fanselow, Féry, Schlesewsky & Vogel (eds.) Gradience in Grammer, OUP, 2005, ROA-661)
• Correspondence in OT Syntax and Minimal Link Effects (to appear in Stepanov, Fanselow & Vogel (eds.), Minimality Effects in Syntax, Mouton de Gruyter 2004, ROA-662)
• Remarks on the Architecture of OT Syntax Grammars (draft version of a paper published under same title in Reinhard Blutner/Henk Zeevat (eds.), Optimality Theory and Pragmatics, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004, pp. 211-227, ROA-660)
• Dialectal Variation in German 3-Verb Clusters. A Surface-oriented OT-account. With Tanja Schmid. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 7: 235-274, 2004.

2003
 
• The state of the art in OT syntax (Review of Legendre, Grimshaw & Vikner, Optimality Theory Syntax, MIT Press 2001, in: Glot International Vol. 7, No. 6, June 2003,173-177)
• Surface Matters. Case Conflict in Free Relative Constructions and Case Theory. In Ellen Brandner and Heike Zinsmeister, editors, New Perspectives on Case Theory, 269-299. CSLI Publications, Stanford, 2003.
• Dialectal Variation in German 3-Verb Clusters. Looking for the Best Analysis. In Anoop Mahajan (ed.), Head Movement and Syntactic Theory, volume 10 of UCLA/Potsdam working papers in Linguistics, 199-235, 2003. And in Ralf Vogel (ed.), Three papers on German verb movement, Linguistics in Potsdam 22, 83-118, 2004.
• The resolution of case conflicts. A pilot study. With Stefan Frisch. In Susann Fischer, Ruben van de Vijver, Ralf Vogel (eds.): Experimental Studies in Linguistics 1, Linguistics in Potsdam 21, 91-103, 2003.
• Counting Markedness. A corpus investigation on German Free Relative Constructions. In Susann Fischer, Ruben van de Vijver, Ralf Vogel (eds.): Experimental Studies in Linguistics 1, Linguistics in Potsdam 21, 105-122, 2003.
• Superiorität in europäischen Sprachen. Zwischenbericht zu einer Datenerhebung. With Ewa Trutkowski, Marco Zugck, Joanna Blaszczak, Gisbert Fanselow and Susann Fischer. In Susann Fischer, Ruben van de Vijver, Ralf Vogel (eds.): Experimental Studies in Linguistics 1, Linguistics in Potsdam 21, 123-137, 2003.

2002 and earlier
 
• Feedback Optimisation. Economy and Markedness in OT Syntax, Pt. I Manuscript, University of Potsdam and University of Stuttgart, 2002. Superseded by Correspondence in OT Syntax and Minimal Link Effects and Remarks on the Architecture of OT Syntax Grammars (see above).
• Free Relative Constructions in OT Syntax In Gisbert Fanselow & Caroline Féry (eds.), Resolving Conflicts in Grammars: Optimality Theory in Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology, volume 11 of Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft, pp. 119-162. Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg, 2002.
• Towards an Optimal Typology of the Free Relative Construction. In Alex Grosu (ed.), IATL8. Papers from the 16th Annual Conference and from the Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation "The Syntax and Semantics of Relative Clause Constructions",Tel Aviv University 2000, Israel Association For Theoretical Linguistics, pp. 107-119, 2001.
• Case Conflict in German Free Relative Constructions. An Optimality Theoretic Treatment. In Gereon Müller & Wolfgang Sternefeld (eds.), Competition in Syntax, de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 341-375, 2001.
• Polyvalent Verbs Ph.D. Thesis, 1998. Humboldt University Berlin. Published online in 2000 under http://dochost.rz.hu-berlin.de/dissertationen/vogel-ralf-1998-07-13/PDF/Vogel.pdf. Gzipped version.
• The Dative - An Oblique Case with Markus Steinbach (1998). Linguistische Berichte 173: 65-90. Draft version available!
• On the (Absence of a) Base Position for Dative Objects in German
with Markus Steinbach (1995). FAS Papers in Linguistics 4, Berlin: 99-131.
• Zum Konzept der Tiefenstruktur in der Generativen Grammatik
with Markus Steinbach, MA thesis, 1994. Therein:
Chapter 1: ``Zum Begriff der syntaktischen Tiefenstruktur im Sprachmodell der generativen Grammatik seit Chomsky (1965)'', and Chapter 3:``Argumentstruktur und Aspekt''.