Publications

Sauerland, U., Matthaei, C., & Salfner, F. (2025). Machine Language Learning: Can the Logical Structure of Human Language Unleash LLMs? Proceedings of SCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.17304

Ilić, I. (2024). Complements and modifiers: Implications for typologies of pronouns. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 9(1), 5720. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5720 Download

Sauerland, U., Meyer, M.-C., & Yatsushiro, K. (2024). The cum-sine pattern in German child language: An argument for antonym decomposition. Language Acquisition, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2332452 Download

Alexiadou, A., Hein, J., Ilić, I., & Sauerland, U. (2024). The third person is present: An argument from determiners in generic statements. Proceedings of NELS 54, 1, 31–44. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14881870 Download

Hein, J. (2024). Category-Sensitive Escape from Islands in Limbum and Asante Twi. Languages, 9(10), 317. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9100317 Download

Silleresi, S., Bassi, I., Bimpeh, A. A., Driemel, I., Nuworsu, A., & Guasti, M. T. (2024). The interpretation of logophoric and ordinary pronouns in Ewe: an experimental study. Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, 344–350. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14524470 Download

Jeretič, P., Gonzalez, A., Bassi, I., Yatsushiro, K., & Sauerland, U. (2024). DUAL as a core concept and the pronounceability of alternatives. Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, 181–187. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14515420 Download

Hein, J., Driemel, I., Martin, F., Nie, Y., & Alexiadou, A. (2024). Errors of multiple exponence in Child English. Proceedings of WCCFL 40, 122–131. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14416889 Download

Bimpeh, A. A., Driemel, I., Bassi, I., & Silleresi, S. (2024). Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: variation and competition. Proceedings of WCCFL 40, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14416622 Download

Hein, J., Driemel, I., Martin, F., Nie, Y., & Alexiadou, A. (2024). Errors of multiple exponence in Child English: A study of past tense formation. Morphology, 1–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-024-09434-x Download

Del Pinal, G., Bassi, I., & Sauerland, U. (2024). Free choice and presuppositional exhaustification. Semantics & Pragmatics, 17(3), 1–52. https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.17.3 Download

Bill, C., Driemel, I., Yatsushiro, K., Hein, J., & Sauerland, U. (2024). Kein subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children’s behavior with negative indefinites. Language Acquisition, 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2354219 Download

Alexiadou, A. (2024). Double plural marking and the building blocks of nominals. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 9(1), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.11585 Download

Driemel, I., Hein, J., Bill, C., Gonzalez, A., Ilić, I., Jeretič, P., & van Alem, A. (2023). Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch and English Child Language. Languages, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030179 Download

Guasti, M. T., Alexiadou, A., & Sauerland, U. (2023). Undercompression errors as evidence for conceptual primitives. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1104930 Download

Yatsushiro, K., Geçkin, V., Harmati-Pap, V., Alexiadou, A., & Sauerland, U. (2023). The Plural is Unmarked: Evidence from Turkish, Hungarian and German. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 8(1), 1–43. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8209 Download

Sauerland, U., Bassi, I., Bill, C., Bimpeh, A., Hirsch, A., Jeretič, P., Meyer, M.-C., Nicolae, A., Yatsushiro, K., & Alexiadou, A. (2023). An Algebra of Thought that predicts key aspects of language structure. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 27, 589–608. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1088 Download

Hein, J., Bill, C., Driemel, I., Gonzalez, A., Illic, I., & Jeretič, P. (2023). Negative concord in the acquisition of English and German: Some results from a corpus study. Proceedings of CLS 58. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10184205 Download

Gonzalez, A., Jeretič, P., Dal Farra, C., & Hein, J. (2023). Presupposition projection from the scope of “say.” Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 27, 253–271. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1069 Download

Bassi, I., Driemel, I., Bimpeh, A. A., & Silleresi, S. (2023). Strict Logophors in Ewe, Yoruba, and Igbo. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 27, 52–63. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1052 Download

Alexiadou, A., & Ilić, I. (2023). Acquiring Japanese Passives: A Production Study. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. BUCLD 47, Boston. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8177573 Download

Bassi, I., Hirsch, A., & Trinh, T. (2022, December 29). Pre-DP only is a propositional operator at LF: a new argument from ellipsis. Proceedings of SALT 32. 32nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference. https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5358 Download

Bill, C., Gonzalez, A., Driemel, I., & Makharoblidze, T. (2022). As complex as they appear: Children’s comprehension of conjunctive expressions in Georgian. Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium, 38–44. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7533595 Download

Jeretič, P. (2022). Neg-raising with belief predicates as a scaleless implicature. Proceedings of SALT 32, 891–914. https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5367 Download

Driemel, I., Hein, J., Carioti, D., Wünsch, J., Tsakali, V., Alexiadou, A., Sauerland, U., & Guasti, M. T. (2022). An experimental study on kind  and generic readings across languages: bare plural vs. definite plural. Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium, 353–359. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7533495 Download

Martin, F., Nie, Y., Alexiadou, A., & Guasti, M. T. (2022). Wearing Causation on Its Sleeve: Overt cause in Child French Causatives. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. BUCLD 46, Boston. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7529477 Download

Yatsushiro, K., Dal Farra, C., Gonzalez, A., Hein, J., Silleresi, S., Avellana, A., Huang, Ai., Ilori, J. F., Krishnan, G. G., Pintér, L., Guasti, M. T., & Sauerland, U. (2022). Children’s Wh-questions across Languages: Some Preliminary Results. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. BUCLD 46, Boston. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7529367 Download

Bassi, I., Del Pinal, G., & Sauerland, U. (2021). Presuppositional Exhaustification. Semantics & Pragmatics, 14, 1–42. https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.14.11 Download

Sauerland, U., & Alexiadou, A. (2020). Generative Grammar: A Meaning First Approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571295 Download