Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Markus Egg

Selected publications



2009
  • several entries in Christa Dürscheid and Stefan Schierholz (eds), Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft vol.1.1: Grammatik/Formenlehre
2008
  • “Efficient processing of underspecified discourse representations”, in Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers (with Michaela Regneri and Alexander Koller).
  • “Underspecified modelling of complex discourse constraints”, in Proceedings of Coling 2008: Companion volume: Posters (with Michaela Regneri).
  • “Reference to embedded eventualities”, in Johannes Dölling, Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow, and Martin Schäfer (eds), Event structures in linguistic form and interpretation, Berlin: de Gruyter, 149-172.
  • “Underspecified discourse representation”, in Anton Benz and Peter Kühnlein (eds), Constraints in Discourse, Amsterdam: Benjamins (Pragmatics & Beyond), 117-138 (with G. Redeker).
2007
  • “Against opacity”, Journal on Research on Language and Computation 5, 435-455.
  • “Aspect and coercion in Ancient Greek”, in Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker, and Floris Roelofsen (eds), Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 49-54 (with C. Bary).
  • “Meaning and use of rhetorical questions”, in Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker, and Floris Roelofsen (eds), Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 73-78.
  • “The syntax and semantics of relative clause modification”, in Khal'il Simanan, Maarten de Rijke, Remko Scha, and Rob van Son (eds), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Universiteit Amsterdam, 49-56.
2006
  • “Naar een semi-automatische analyse van tekststructuren in corpora”, in Hans Hoeken, Berna Hendriks, and Peter Jan Schellens (eds), Studies in taalbeheersing 2, Assen: Van Gorcum, 41-52. (with G. Redeker)
  • “Anti-Ikonizität an der Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle”, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 25, 1-38.
2005
  • Flexible semantics for reinterpretation phenomena, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
2004
  • “Mismatches at the syntax-semantics interface”, In Stefan Müller (ed.): Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 119-139.
  • “Intergressivprädikate: Stiefkinder der Aspektsemantik”. In L. Gautier und D. Haberkorn (eds): Aspekt und Aktionsarten im heutigen Deutsch (Eurogermanistik), Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 103-118.
2003
  • “Beginning novels and finishing hamburgers - remarks on the semantics of to begin”. Journal of Semantics 20, 163-191.
  • “Type coercion from a natural language generation point of view”. In Holden Härtl and Heike Tappe (eds): Mediating between Concepts and Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (with K. Striegnitz), 323-348.
2002
  • "Semantic construction for reinterpretation phenomena”. Linguistics 40, 579-609.
  • “A compositional account of VP ellipsis”. In Frank Van Eynde, Lars Hellan, and Dorothee Beermann (eds): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 162-179 (with K. Erk).
2001
  • “The Constraint Language for Lambda Structures”. Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 10, 457-485 (with J. Niehren and A. Koller).
2000
  • Flexible semantic composition: the case of reinterpretation. Habilitationsschrift, Universität des Saarlandes.
1999
  • “Derivation and resolution of ambiguities in wieder-sentences”. In P. Dekker (ed.), Proceedings of the 12th Amsterdam Colloquium, 109-114.
1998
  • Wh-questions in Underspecified Minimal Recursion Semantics”, Journal of Semantics 15, 37-82.
  • “Steuerung der Inferenz in der Diskursverarbeitung”, Kognitionswissenschaft 7, 106-110 (with C. Gardent and M. Kohlhase).
  • “Constraints over Lambda Structures in Semantic Underspecification”, Proceedings of ACL/COLING '98, 353-359 (with J. Niehren, P. Ruhrberg, and F. Xu).
  • “Dynamic control of scope underspecification”. In P. Dekker et al. (eds), Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium, 109-114 (with Michael Kohlhase).
1996
  • “Aspect and quantification: an iterative approach”. In P. Dekker, M. Stokhof (eds), Proceedings of the 10th Amsterdam Colloquium, 203-221.
1995
  • “The intergressive as a new category of verbal aktionsart”. Journal of Semantics 12, 311-356.
  • “Semantic underspecification and modifier attachment ambiguities”. In J. Kilbury and R. Wiese (eds), Integrative Ansätze in der Computerlinguistik (DGfS/CL '95) , Düsseldorf, Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 19-24. (with K. Lebeth).
1994
  • Aktionsart und Kompositionalität. Zur kompositionellen Ableitung der Aktionsart komplexer Kategorien. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag (studia grammatica 37).
  • “A type hierarchy for aspectual classification”. In H.Trost (ed.), KONVENS '94. Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache. Berlin: Springer, 92-101 (with M. Herweg).
  • “Zur Repräsentation extrem polysemer Lexeme”. In M. Schwarz (ed.), Kognitive Semantik/Cognitive Semantics. Tübingen: Narr, 163-177.
1990
  • “Zur Typologie subjektfinaler Sprachen”. Linguistische Berichte 126, 95-114.