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2020/unpublished
2019
- Johannes Dellert, Thora Daneyko, Alla Münch, Alina
Ladygina, Armin Buch, Natalie Clarius, Ilja Grigorjew,
Mohamed Balabel, Hizniye Isabella Boga, Zalina Baysarova,
Roland Mühlenbernd, Johannes Wahle and Gerhard Jäger, NorthEuraLex:
a wide-coverage lexical database of Northern Eurasia,
Language
Resources and Evaluation,
doi.org/10.1007/s10579-019-09480-6.
- Computational
Historical Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics
45:3-4, 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2019-0011.
(also arXiv:1805.08099.)
- Model
evaluation in computational historical linguistics,
Theoretical Linguistics 45:3-4, 2019, DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2019-0020.
- Cosima Schneider, Carolin Schonard, Michael Franke,
Gerhard Jäger and Markus Janczyk, Pragmatic
processing: An investigation of the (anti-)presuppositions
of determiners using mouse-tracking, Cognition 193,
2019, doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104024.
- Rooting MADness, blog post, Computer-Assisted
Language Comparison in Practice, 22/05/2019, https://calc.hypotheses.org/?p=1899.
2018
- (with Christian Bentz, Dan Dediu, and Annemarie Verkerk) The evolution of language
families is shaped by the environment beyond neutral drift,
Nature Human
Behavior 2, 816–821.
- Global-scale
phylogenetic linguistic inference from lexical resources,
Scientific Data
5, 180189 (2018), doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.189.
- (with Taraka Rama, Johann-Mattis List and Johannes Wahle)
Are Automatic
Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic
Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics?, Proceedings
of NAACL/HLT 2018, Vol. 2, 393-400 (also at arXiv:
1804.05416).
- (with Johann-Mattis List) Using
Ancestral State Reconstruction Methods for Onomasiological
Reconstruction in Multilingual Word Lists, Language
Dynamics and Change
8(1), 22-54.
- (with Katerina Harvati and Hugo Reyes-Centeno) (eds.) New
Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas,
Tübingen: Kerns Publishing.
2017
2016
- (with Hugo Reyes-Centeno and Katerina Harvati), Tracking
modern human population history from linguistic and
cranial phenotype, Scientific Reports
6, 36645; doi: 10.1038/srep36645.
- (with Pavel Sofroniev) Automatic
cognate
classification with a Support Vector Machine, in
Stefanie Dipper, Friedrich Neubarth and Heike Zinsmeister,
eds., Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Natural
Language Processing (KONVENS),
Bochumer Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 16, Ruhr Universität
Bochum, 128-134.
- Grice,
Occam,
Darwin, Theoretical
Linguistics 42(1), 111-115.
- (with Johann-Mattis List), Investigating
the
potential of ancestral state reconstruction algorithms in
historical linguistics, In Bentz, Christian, Jäger,
Gerhard & Yanovich, Igor, eds., Proceedings of the
Leiden Workshop on Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for
Linguistics. University of Tübingen, online publication
system.
- (with Giuseppe Longobardi, Armin Buch, Andrea Ceolin,
Aaron Ecay, Cristina Guardiano, Monica Irimia, Dimitris
Michelioudakis and Nina Radkevich) Correlated
evolution
or not? Phylogenetic linguistics with syntactic, cognacy
and phonetic data, in Roberts S.G., Cuskley C.,
McCrohon L., Barceló-Coblijn L. , Feher O. & Verhoef T.,
eds., The
Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th
International Conference (EVOLANG11).
- (with Søren Wichmann) Inferring
the world tree of languages from word lists, in
Roberts S.G., Cuskley C., McCrohon L., Barceló-Coblijn L. ,
Feher O. & Verhoef T., eds., The Evolution of
Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference
(EVOLANG11).
- (with Michael Franke) Probabilistic
pragmatics, or why Bayes' rule is probably important for
pragmatics, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 35(1),
3-44.
2015
- (with Johannes Wahle, Marisa Köllner, Harald Baayen and
Tineke Baayen-Oudshoorn, eds.), Proceedings
of
the 6th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in
Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tübingen.
- Support
for linguistic macrofamilies from weighted sequence
alignment, Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science, 112(41),
12752–12757.
- (with Birgit Öttl and Barbara Kaup) Does
formal
complexity reflect cognitive complexity? Investigating
aspects of the Chomsky Hierarchy in an Artificial Language
Learning study, PLoS One 10(4), e0123059.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123059.
- (with Johann-Mattis List) Factoring
lexical
and phonetic phylogenetic characters from word lists,
in J. Wahle, M. Köllner, H. Baayen, G. Jäger and T.
Baayen-Oudshoorn, eds., Proceedings
of
the 6th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in
Theoretical Linguistics, Tübingen.
2014
- (with Michael Franke) Pragmatic
back-and-forth
reasoning, in Salvatore P. Reda, ed., Pragmatics,
Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicature, Basingstoke,
170-200.
- Rationalizable
signaling, Erkenntnis
79(4), 673-706, DOI 10.1007/s10670-013-9462-3.
- Lexikostatistik
2.0, in A. Plewnia & A. Witt, eds., Sprachverfall? Dynamik -
Wandel - Variation. Jahrbuch 2013 des Instituts für
Deutsche Sprache, Berlin, de Gruyter, 197-216.
- What is a
universal? On the explanatory potential of evolutionary
game theory in linguistics, in E. McCready, K.
Yabushita and K. Yoshimoto, eds., Formal Approaches to
Semantics and Pragmatics, Springer, 85-103.
2013
- Phylogenetic
inference
from word lists using weighted alignment with empirically
determined weights, Language
Dynamics
and Change 3(2), 245-291.
- (with Judith Degen and Michael Franke) Cost-based
pragmatic
inference about referential expressions, in M. Knauff,
M. Pauen, N. Sebanz and I. Wachsmuth (eds.), Proceedings of
CogSci 2013, Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, 376-381.
- Interpretation
games
with variable costs, in Johan van Benthem and Fenrong
Lui, eds., Logic Across the University: Foundations and
Application—Proceedings of the Tsinghua Logic Conference,
Beijing, 14-16 October 2013. College Publications, London,
223-230 + 238-244 (author's response to comments).
- Wie die Bioinformatik hilft, Sprachgeschichte zu
rekonstruieren, in Alfred Nordheim & Klaus Antoni, eds.,
Grenzüberschreitungen: Der Mensch im Spannungsfeld von
Biologie, Kultur und Technik, Bielefeld, 139-166. [to obtain
the manuscript, please send me an email]
- (with Armin Buch, David Erschler and Andrei Lupas) Towards automated
language classification: a clustering approach, in
Lars Borin & Anju Saxena, eds., Approaches to Measuring
Linguistic Differences, Berlin, de Gruyter, 303-328.
2012
- (with Jim Rogers) Formal
language
theory: Refining the Chomsky Hierarchy, Philosophical
Transaction
of the Royal Society B, 367(1598), 1956-1970.
- (with Michael Franke) Bidirectional
optimization
from reasoning and learning in games, Journal of Logic, Language
and Information, 21(1), 117-139.
- (with Hannah Rohde, Scott Seyfarth, Brady Clark, and
Stefan Kaufmann) Communicating
with
Cost-based Implicature: a Game-Theoretic Approach to
Ambiguity. Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on the
Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 107-116.
- (with Hannah Rohde, Scott Seyfarth, Brady Clark, and
Stefan Kaufmann) Cost and
implicature in word use: Testing predictions of a
game-theoretic model of alignment, preproceedings
of
the Twenty-Fifth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
Processing, CUNY, New York, p. 25.
- (with Tao Gong, Len Shuai, and Monica Tamariz) Studying
language
change using Price equation and Polya-urn dynamics, PLoS ONE 7(3): e33171.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033171.
- Power
laws and other heavy-tailed distributions in linguistic
typology, Advances in Complex Systems
15(3/4).
- Using
statistics
for cross-linguistic semantics: a quantitative
investigation of the typology of color naming systems,
Journal of Semantics
29(4), 521-544.
- Estimating
and visualizing language similarities using weighted
alignment and force-directed graph layout, Proceedings of LINGVIS
& UNCLH, Workshop at EACL 2012,
Avignon.
- Game
theory in semantics and pragmatics, in C. Maienborn,
P. Portner & K. von Heusinger (eds.), Semantics. An
International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Vol. 3,
Berlin: de Gruyter, 2487-2516.
- (with Tao Gong and Monica Tamariz) Individual
and
social effects on linguistic diffusion, Proceedings of Evolang IX, Kyoto, Japan
- (with Monica Tamariz and Tao Gong) Investigating
the
effect of prestige on the diffusion of linguistic variants,
in Laura Carlson, Christoph Hoelscher and Thomas F. Shipley
(eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,
Cognitive Science Society, Austin, 1491-1496.
- (with Lars Koch-Metzger and Frank Riedel) Voronoi
Languages, Games and Economic Behavior
73(2), 517-537.
- Anton Benz, Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger & Robert
van Rooij, eds. Language,
Games
and Evolution, Springer.
- (with Michael Franke and Robert van Rooijj) Vagueness,
signaling and bounded rationality, In T. Onoda, D.
Bekki, and E. McCready, eds., JSAI-isAI 2010, Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN,
AMBN, ISS, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-19, 2010, Revised
Selected Papers, Springer, LNAI series,
volume 6797 2011, 45-59.
- Game-theoretical
pragmatics, in J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen, eds.,
Handbook of Logic and Language, 2nd edition, Elsevier,
467-491.
- Review of Information
structure: Theoretical, typological, and experimental
perspectives (ed. by M. Zimmermann & C. Fery),
Language 87(2),
435-438.
- Natural
color
categories are convex sets, In M. Aloni, H.
Bastiaanse, T. de Jager, & K. Schulz, eds., Logic,
Language
and Meaning. 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009, Revised Selected Papers,
Springer, 11-20.
- The proof theory
of partial variables, in T. Hanneforth & G.
Fanselow, eds., Language and Logos. Festschrift for Peter
Staudacher on his 70th birthday. Akademie Verlag, 188-199.
- Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger and Jens Michaelis, eds., The
Mathematics
of Language. 10th and 11th Biennial Conference, MOL 10,
Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 28-30, 2007 and MOL 11,
Bielefeld, Germany, August 20-21, 2009, Revised Selected
Papers, Springer.
2009
- Jäger, H., L. Steels,
A. Baronchelli, T. Briscoe, M. H. Christiansen, T.
Griffiths, G. Jäger, S. Kirby, N. Komarova, P. J.
Richerson, and J. Triesch. What can mathematical, computational and
robotic models tell us about the origins of syntax?
In D. Bickerton and E. Szathmáry. (eds.), Biological
Foundations and Origin of Syntax, Strüngmann Forum
Reports, vol. 3. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2009, 385-410.
- (with Christian Ebert)
Pragmatic
Rationalizability, in Arndt Riester and Torgrim
Solstad (eds.), Proceedings
of
Sinn and Bedeutung 13, SinSpeC. Working Papers of the
SFB 732, vol. 5, University of Stuttgart, 1-15.
2008
- Language evolution
and George Price's "General theory of selection", in
Robin Cooper and Ruth Kempson (eds.), Language in Flux: Dialogue
Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution,
College Publications, 53-82.
- (with Anette Rosenbach) Priming and
unidirectional language change, Theoretical Linguistics
34(2), 85-113.
- Evolutionary
stability conditions for signaling games with costly
signals, Journal
of
Theoretical Biology 253(1), 131-141.
- Applications of game
theory in linguistics, Language and Linguistics
Compass 2/3, 408-421.
- Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger and Tonjes Veenstra, eds., Variation,
Selection,
Development, Mouton de Gruyter.
2007
- The
evolution
of convex categories, Linguistics and Philosophy
30(5), 551-564.
- Maximum Entropy Models
and Stochastic Optimality Theory, in Annie Zaenen,
Jane Simpson, Tracy Holloway King, Jane Grimshaw, Joan
Maling, and Chris Manning (eds.), Architectures, Rules, and Preferences. Variations
on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan, CSLI Publications,
Stanford, 467-479.
-
Evolutionary Game Theory and Typology. A Case Study, Language
83(1), 74-109.
- (with Robert van Rooij) Language
structure:
psychological and social constraints, Synthese 159(1),
99-130.
- Evolutionary
stability of games with costly signaling, in M. Aloni,
P. Dekker & Floris Roelofsen (eds.), Proceedings of the
16th Amsterdam Colloquium, ILLC, University of Amsterdam,
121-126.
- Only updates. On the
dynamics of the focus particle only, in Maria Aloni,
Alastair Butler and Paul Dekker (eds.), Questions in Dynamic Semantics,
Elsevier (CRISPI series), 105-122. [reprint of my 1996
Amsterdam Colloquium paper]
- Game dynamics
connects semantics and pragmatics, in Ahti-Veikko
Pietarinen (ed.), Game
Theory and Linguistic Meaning, Elsevier, 89-102.
- Partial
Variables and Specificity, in Uli Sauerland and Penka
Stateva (eds.), Presupposition
and Implicature in Compositional Semantics,
Palgrave McMillan, pp 121-162.
- (with Stephan Kepser) Automata,
complexity, and Optimality Theory, in Gerlof Bouma,
Irene Krämer and Joost Zwarts (eds.), Cognitive Foundations
of Interpretation, KNAW, Amsterdam, 95-110.
2006
2005
- Anton Benz, Gerhard
Jäger and Robert van Rooij, eds.,
Game Theory and Pragmatics, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Anaphora
and
Type Logical Grammar, Springer, Dordrecht.
- (with Anton Benz and Robert van Rooij) An introduction to
game theory for linguists, in A. Benz, G. Jäger and R.
van Rooij (eds.), Game
Theory
and Pragmatics, Palgrave MacMillan, pp 1-82.
2004
- Learning Constraint
Subhierarchies: The Bidirectional Gradual Learning
Algorithm, in Blutner, R. and H. Zeevat, Optimality Theory
and Pragmatics, Palgrave MacMillan, pp 251-287.
- Alternatives or
presuppositions? A comparison of the Background-
Presupposition Rule with Alternative Semantics, in Theoretical
Linguistics
30(1), 111-122.
- Präsuppositionverarbeitung, in Carstensen, K.-U., C.
Ebert, C. Endriss, S. Jekat, R. Klabunde and H. Langer
(eds.) Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie. Eine
Einführung. 2. Auflage. Heidelberg: Spektrum, 348-355.
- Residuation, Structural Rules and Context Freeness, in Journal
of Logic, Language and Information 13(1), 47-59.
- Evolutionary Game
Theory for linguists. A primer, manuscript, Stanford
University and University of Potsdam.
2003
- Towards an explanation
of copula effects, in Linguistics
and
Philosphy 26(5), 557-593.
- On the Generative Capacity of Multimodal Categorial
Grammars. in Research
on Language and Computation 1(1-2), pp 105-125.
- Recursion by optimization: On the complexity of
bidirectional Optimality Theory, in Natural
Language
Engineering 9(1), 21-38.
- (with Reinhard Blutner) Competition and interpretation:
The German adverb wieder
('again'), in E. Lang, C. Maienborn & C.
Fabricius-Hansen (eds.), Modifying Adjuncts, Mouton de
Gruyter, pp 393-416.
- Resource sharing
in Type Logical Grammar, in G.-J. Kruijf & R. T.
Oehrle (eds.), Resource Sensitivity, Binding, and Anaphora,
Kluwer.
-
Evolutionary Game Theory and Linguistic Typology: a Case
Study, in P. Dekker (ed.), Proceedings of the 14th Amsterdam Colloquium,
ILLC, University of Amsterdam. (6 pages)
-
Simulating language change with Functional OT, in
Simon Kirby (ed.), Language Evolution and Computation,
Proceedings of the Workshop
at ESSLLI,Vienna 2003, pp 52-61.
2002
- Some notes on the
formal properties of bidirectional Optimality Theory, Journal
of Logic, Language and Information 11(4), 427-451.
- (with Henk Zeevat) A
reinterpretation of syntactic alignment. in D. de
Jongh, H. Zeevat and M. Nilsenova (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd and
4th International Symposium on Language, Logic and
Computation, ILLC, Amsterdam.
- On
Relational Interpretation of Multimodal Categorial Logics.
in D. de Jongh, H. Zeevat and M. Nilsenova (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd and 4th
International Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation,
ILLC, Amsterdam.
- Gradient
constraints in finite state OT:The unidirectional and the
bidirectional case, in I. Kaufmann and B. Stiebels
(eds.), More than Words.
A Festschrift for Dieter Wunderlich , Berlin,
Akademie Verlag, pp 299-325.
2001
- Indefinites and
Sluicing. A type logical approach, in Robert van Rooy
and Martin Stokhof (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Amsterdam Colloquium,
pp 114-119.
- Lambek Grammars as
Combinatory Categorial Grammars. Logic
Journal of the IGPL 9(6), 781-79.
- Topic-comment structure and the contrast between stage
level and individual level predicates, Journal of Semantics
18(2), pp 83-126.
- On the
semantics of as
and be. A
neo-Carlsonian account , in M. Kim and U. Strauss
(eds.), Proceedings of
NELS 31, GLSA, Amherst.
- Anaphora and
quantification in Categorial Grammar, in M. Moortgat
(ed.), Logical Aspects of
Computational Linguistics , Springer Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence 2014, Springer, pp. 70-90.
2000
- (with Reinhard
Blutner):Against
lexical decomposition in syntax. in A. Z. Wyner (ed.),
The Israeli Association
for Theoretical Linguistics. The Proceedings of the
Fifteenth Annual Conference, pp 113-137, reprinted
in Reinhard Blutner and Gerhard Jäger (eds.), Studies in Optimality Theory,
pp 5-29, University of Potsdam.
- Towards an
explanation of copula effects. in R. Steinitz (ed.),
ZAS Papers in Linguistics 16, pp 1-30, ZAS Berlin.
- (with
Robin Clark): A Categorial syntax
for verbs of perception. in A. Williams and E. Kaiser
(eds.), Penn
Working Papers in Linguistics 6.3, pp 15-33,
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia.
1999
- Deconstructing
Jacobson's Z. in P. Dekker (ed.), Proceedings of the 12th
Amsterdam Colloquium , pp 133-138, University of
Amsterdam.
- Focus without
variables: a multi-modal analysis, in K. N. Shahin, S.
Blake and E. Kim (eds.), Proceedings
of WCCFL 17 , pp 317-331, CSLI Publications,
Stanford.
- Stage levels, states,
and the semantics of the copula, in E. Lang and L.
Geist (eds.), ZAS Papers
in Linguistics 14, pp 65-94, ZAS Berlin.
- Topic, focus, and weak quantifiers, in P. Bosch and R. van
der Sandt (eds.), Focus:
Linguistic, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives,
pp 187-212, Cambridge University Press.
1998
1997
- Anaphora and Ellipsis
in Type Logical Grammar, in P. Dekker, M. Stokhof and
Y. Venema (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam
Colloquium, pp 175-180, University of Amsterdam.
- Common Grounds,
Questions and Relevance. draft, University of Munich,
1997.
- The
stage/individual contrast revisited, in B. Agbayani
and S.-W. Tang (eds.),
Proceedings of WCCFL 15, pp 225-239, CSLI
Publications, Stanford.
1996
- Only Updates. On the
Dynamics of the Focus Particle only, in P. Dekker and M. Stokhof
(eds.), Proceedings of
the 10th Amsterdam Colloquium, Vol. 2, pp 387-406,
ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
- Topics in Dynamic
Semantics. Ph.D. thesis, Humboldt- University Berlin,
published as CIS-Bericht
Nr. 96-92, Centrum
für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, LMU München.
1995
- Topic, scrambling, and aktionsart, in I.
Kohlhof, S. Winkler and H. B. Drubig (eds.), Proceedings of the Göttingen
Focus Workshop (= Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340
"Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen für die Computerlinguistik"
Nr. 69-1995), pp 19-34, Tübingen.
- Weak Quantifiers
and Information Structure , in J. N. Beckman (ed.), NELS 25. Proceedings of the
North East Linguistic Society, Vol. 1, pp 303-318,
GLSA, Amherst.