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Publications

Propositional discourse referents and anaphora in dialogue

Krifka, Manfred. 2025. Propositional discourse referents and anaphora in dialogue. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29, 807-824.

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Introduction: Biased questions

Krifka, Manfred & Tue Trinh. 2025. Introduction: Biased questions. In Trinh, Tue, Anton Benz, Daniel Goodhue, Kazuko Yatsushiro & Manfred Krifka (eds.). Biased questions: Experimental Results & Theoretical Modelling. Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface 11, v-xxiv. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Symbol eines schwarzen Buchs mit Lesezeichen und Buchstaben 'OA' oben.

Biased questions: Experimental Results & Theoretical Modelling

Trinh, Tue, Anton Benz, Daniel Goodhue, Kazuko Yatsushiro & Manfred Krifka (eds.). 2025. Biased questions: Experimental Results & Theoretical Modelling. Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface 11. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Similative Plurals in Persian: Alternatives, Homogeneity, or Strongest Meanings?

Krifka, Manfred & Fereshteh Modarresi. 2025. Similative Plurals in Persian: Alternatives, Homogeneity, or Strongest Meanings?. Proceedings of the 41th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), 323-332.

Are performatives real? Evidence from a language with realis/irrealis distinction

Krifka, Manfred. 2025. Are performatives real? Evidence from a language with realis/irrealis distinction. In Csipak, Eva, Johanna David & Mingya Liu (eds.). A Festschrift in Honour of Regine Eckardt, 149-155. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Number Agreement of Coordinated Subjects: Competing Syntactic and Semantic Rules

Krifka, Manfred & Fereshteh Modarresi. 2025. Number Agreement of Coordinated Subjects: Competing Syntactic and Semantic Rules. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 34), 646-665.

A framework for performative and assertive updates

Krifka, Manfred. 2024. A framework for performative and assertive updates. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28, 490-508.

Hurford's constraint and the disjunction over speech acts

Krifka, Manfred. 2024. Hurford's constraint and the disjunction over speech acts. Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, 226-235.

Structure and interpretation of declarative sentences

Krifka, Manfred. 2024. Structure and interpretation of declarative sentences. In Trotzke, Andreas (ed.), Journal of Pragmatics 226. Special issue: Recent Advances in the Syntax of Speech Acts, 51-63.

Bite one’s thumb and turn one’s nose: A minimal pair of focus assignment in Romeo and Juliet

Krifka, Manfred. 2024. Bite one’s thumb and turn one’s nose: A minimal pair of focus assignment in Romeo and Juliet. In Himmelreich, Anke, Danied Hole & Johannes Mursell (eds.). To the left, to the right, and much in-between: A Festschrift for Katharina Hartmann. Frankfurt am Main: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

Performative updates and the modeling of speech acts

Krifka, Manfred. 2024. Performative updates and the modeling of speech acts. Synthese 203, Article 31, pp. 1-31.

A man who is married to Ann. – Blocking of indefinites with internal and external modifiers

Krifka, Manfred & Fereshteh Modarresi. 2023. A man who is married to Ann. – Blocking of indefinites with internal and external modifiers. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27, 347-364.

Oro-facial expressions and acoustic cues in German questions

Żygis, Marzena, Nasim Mahdinazhad Sardhaei & Manfred Krifka. 2023. Oro-facial expressions and acoustic cues in German questions. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, 4135-4139.

Linguistik des Selbstgesprächs, mit Evidenz aus Schnitzlers “Leutnant Gustl”

Krifka, Manfred. 2023. Linguistik des Selbstgesprächs, mit Evidenz aus Schnitzlers “Leutnant Gustl”. Grazer Linguistische Studien 94, 343-365.

Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian

Modarresi, Fereshteh & Manfred Krifka. 2023. Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian. In Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri & Jian Gang Ngui (eds.). Advances in Iranian Linguistics II. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 361, 12-43. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Layers of assertive clauses: propositions, judgements, commitments, acts

Krifka, Manfred. 2023. Layers of assertive clauses: propositions, judgements, commitments, acts. In Hartmann, Jutta M. & Angelika Wöllstein (eds.). Propositionale Argumente im Sprachvergleich / Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research : Theorie und Empirie / Theoretical and Empirical Issues. Studien zur deutschen Sprache 84, 116-183. Tübingen: Narr.

Die Bedrohung der sprachlichen Vielfalt

Krifka, Manfred. 2023. Die Bedrohung der sprachlichen Vielfalt. Biodiversität und die Zukunft der Vielfalt : Vorträge anlässlich der Jahresversammlung am 24. und 25. September 2021 in Halle (Saale). Nova Acta Leopoldina: Abhandlungen der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina : NAL-conference 427, 11-36.

Anaphoric potential of bare nominals, incorporated objects and weak definites in German

Krifka, Manfred & Fereshteh Modarresi. 2023. Anaphoric potential of bare nominals, incorporated objects and weak definites in German. In Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux & Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.). Reference: From conventions to pragmatics. Studies in Language Companion Series 228, 27-51. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Anaphoric Potential of Pseudo-Incorporated Nominals in Comparison with Compounds and Implicit Objects

Modarresi, Fereshteh & Manfred Krifka. 2022. Anaphoric Potential of Pseudo-Incorporated Nominals in Comparison with Compounds and Implicit Objects. Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory enriched by Experimental Data, 585-605.

Anaphoric potential of weak definites vs. implicit entities and indefinites in German

Modarresi, Fereshteh & Manfred Krifka. 2022. Anaphoric potential of weak definites vs. implicit entities and indefinites in German. Linguistic Evidence 2022, 89-92.