Publikationen und Vorträge

Monographie

  • Lisa Schäfer (2025). The licensing and usage of topic drop in German. (Open Germanic Linguistics 12). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15584708

Herausgeberschaft

  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer & Ingo Reich (Hgg.) (2024). Information structure and information theory. (Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface 10). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12784266

Aufsätze

  • Lisa Schäfer & Ingo Reich (im Erscheinen): The identity condition of right node raising in German: experimental evidence. In: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 45 (3). Special Issue.
  • Philipp Rauth, Jenny Diener, Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer & Augustin Speyer (im Erscheinen): Kasussynkretismus und Kasusdistinktion im Rheinfränkischen. In: Augustin Speyer & Sophia Voigtmann (Hg.): Syntax aus Saarbrücker Sicht 7. Beiträge der SaRDiS-Tagung zur Dialektsyntax.
  • Philipp Rauth, Robin Lemke & Lisa Schäfer (2026): Generisches Maskulinum und Anaphernresolution. In: Philipp Rauth (Hg.): Genderneutrale Sprache. Hildesheim u.a.: Olms.
  • Ingo Reich, Robin Lemke & Lisa Schäfer (2026). Questions under discussion, salience and the acceptability of fragments. In: Andreas Konietzko & Susanne Winkler (Hgg.). Information structure and discourse in generative grammar. 157-190. Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer & Ingo Reich (2022). Can identity conditions on ellipsis be explained by processing principles?. In: Robin Hörnig, Sophie von Wietersheim, Andreas Konietzko & Sam Featherston (Hgg). Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic theory enriched by experimental data. 541–561. Tübingen: University of Tübingen.
  • Lisa Schäfer (2021): Topic drop in German: Empirical support for an information-theoretic account to a long-known omission phenomenon. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 40 (2). https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2021-2024.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2021): The role of UID for the usage of verb phrase ellipsis: psycholinguistic evidence from length and context effects. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661087.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2021). Predictable words are more likely to be omitted in fragments–evidence from production data. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.662125.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer & Ingo Reich (2021). Modeling the predictive potential of extralinguistic context with script knowledge: The case of fragments. PLoS ONE 16(2):e0246255. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246255.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2020). Script knowledge constrains ellipses in fragments – evidence from production data and language modeling. Proceedings of SCIL 2020. Vol. 3 , Article 45.

Vorträge

  • Ricarda Scherer, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus, Ingo Reich (2026). And WHO did WHAT? Studies about Gapping and focus structure in German. Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis 2026, Tübingen.
  • Ricarda Scherer, Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2026): Having one or more pizzas is not equally acceptable. A study about the acceptability of number mismatches in nominal Right-Node-Raising in German. 48. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) 2026, Trier.
  • Ricarda Scherer, Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2025). Having one or three uncles: equally acceptable. A study about number mismatches in nominal Right-Node-Raising in German. Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis 2025, Saarbrücken.
  • Jenny Diener, Robin Lemke, Philipp Rauth, Lisa Schäfer und Augustin Speyer (2025). Kasusdistinktion und Kasussynkretismus im Rheinfränkischen. 8. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD), Berlin.
  • Robin Lemke, Philipp Rauth & Lisa Schäfer (2024). Generisches Maskulinum, Femininmovierung und Anaphernresolution. Perspektiven der Movierungsforschung, Luxemburg.
  • Lisa Schäfer (2024): Experimental studies on topic drop in German. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln (LAK), Köln.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke & Ingo Reich (2024). The identity condition of right node raising in German: experimental evidence. Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE), International Congress of Linguists, Poznań.
  • Lisa Schäfer (2024). An information-theoretic approach to topic drop usage supported by empirical data. 30th Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 2024. Edinburgh.
  • Augustin Speyer, Robin Lemke, Philipp Rauth, Lisa Schäfer & Jenny Diener (2023). Weil mir der do Vortrach han wolle halle. Experimentelle Methoden am Beispiel von Kasussynkretismus und anderen dialektsyntaktischen Phänomenen im Saarland. Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax (SarDiS), Saarbrücken.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Heiner Drenhaus, Bozhidara Hristova & Ingo Reich (2023). Testing for effects of modality and memory load on coordination ellipsis in German. Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) 2023, Amherst.
  • Bozhidara Hristova, Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2023). Does information theory explain the usage of gapping? Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) 2023, Amherst.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2023). Creativity in antecedent-target mismatches in German sluicing. A corpus study. 45. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Köln.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2023). The impact of memory load on the processing of ellipsis: Three experiments on gapping and right node raising in spoken and written German. 45. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Universität zu Köln, Köln.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Bozhidara Hristova, Heiner Drenhaus and Ingo Reich (2023). What are you talking about? Estimating the probablity of Questions Under Discussion based on crowdsourced non-expert annotations. The QUD-Anno Challenge. Annotating Text with Questions under Discussion, online.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2022). Predictability effects on the acceptability of antecedent-target mismatches under verb phrase ellipsis. Linguistic Evidence (LE) 2022, Paris.
  • Lisa Schäfer (2022). Topic position or prefield? – Disentangling the positional restriction of topic drop in German based on acceptability rating data. Linguistic Evidence (LE) 2022, Paris.
  • Robin Lemke Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2022). Processing antecedent-target mismatches under verb phrase ellipsis is difficult, but if they are predictable, you can. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2022, York.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke & Ingo Reich (2022). Experimental investigations on the prefield restriction of German topic drop. 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Bukarest.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Ingo Reich & Heiner Drenhaus (2022). Discourse obligates! – An introduction. 44. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Tübingen (online).
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Ingo Reich & Heiner Drenhaus (2021). Empirical evidence for an information-theoretic account of topic drop in German. Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) 2020, online.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Ingo Reich & Heiner Drenhaus (2020). UID constrains the usage of topic drop in German: experimental and corpus linguistic findings. Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) 2020, online.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer & Ingo Reich (2020). Predicting (mis)matches in sluicing: Evidence from cloze, rating and reading time data. Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) 2020, online.
  • Lisa Schäfer (2020). If you can predict it, you can omit it: Empirical investigations on the usage of topic drop in German. Linguistic Evidence (LE) 2020, Tübingen.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2019). Speakers use verb phrase ellipsis to satisfy UID: Psycholinguistic evidence from length and context effects. Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS), Saarbrücken.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2019). Predictable words are more likely to be omitted in fragments – Evidence from production data. Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS), Saarbrücken.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2019). Script-based discourse expectations trigger omissions in fragments – Evidence from production data. Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC) 2019, Berlin.
  • Ingo Reich, Robin Lemke & Lisa Schäfer (2019): Guess who dances with whom? – Predictability and the acceptability of mismatches in sluicing and sprouting. Sluicing and ellipsis at 50, Chicago.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer & Ingo Reich (2018). Syntactic cues license voice mismatch in VP ellipsis – An experimental study. 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Stuttgart.

Posterpräsentationen

  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Heiner Drenhaus, Ingo Reich (2026). Is gapping relatively more frequent in spoken and RNR in written modality? – Evidence from production data elicited with AI-Generated images. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2026, Saarbrücken.
  • Ricarda Scherer, Robin Lemke, Ingo Reich, Heiner Drenhaus & Lisa Schäfer (2025). Having one or three uncles: equally acceptable. A study about number mismatches in nominal Right-Node-Raising in German. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2025, Prague.
  • Bozhidara Hristova, Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2025). The presentation format in cloze tasks influences syntactic predictability but it does not influence semantic predictability. Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) 2025, Saarbrücken.
  • Robin Lemke & Lisa Schäfer (2024). Comparing three experimental paradigms to investigate ellipsis processing. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2024, Edinburgh.
  • Lisa Schäfer Robin Lemke & Philipp Rauth (2024). Anaphora resolution of generic masculine nouns in German. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2024, Edinburgh.
  • Bozhidara Hristova, Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2024). Is cloze probability influenced by the presentation format in cloze tasks? Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2024, Edinburgh.
  • Philipp Rauth, Robin Lemke & Lisa Schäfer (2024).  Prosodic and syntactic disambiguation of German generic masculine nouns. The 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP)2024, Ann Arbor.
  • Bozhidara Hristova, Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2023). Does UID constrain the usage and processing of Gapping in German?  The 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP) 2024, Ann Arbor.
  • Philipp Rauth, Robin Lemke & Lisa Schäfer (2024). Experiments on anaphora resolution of generic masculine nouns in German. Linguistic Evidence 2024, Potsdam.
  • Bozhidara Hristova, Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2023). Testing an information-theoretic approach to the usage of gapping in German. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2023, Donostia.
  • Lisa Schäfer (2022). Preverbal positioning as a licensing condition for topic drop: experimental evidence. The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), UC Santa Cruz (online).
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer & Ingo Reich (2021). Predictability and ellipsis: Divergence between acceptability ratings and reading times. Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) 2020, Kaiserslautern (online).
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Ingo Reich & Heiner Drenhaus (2020). Do implicit Questions under Discussion license the usage of fragments? Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2020, online.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2020). Topic drop is more than dropping topics: corpus linguistic and experimental investigations on factors that facilitate the recovery of the omitted element. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2020, online.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer & Ingo Reich (2020). Can identity conditions on sluicing and sprouting be explained by processing? Linguistic Evidence 2020, Tübingen.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2019). Discourse expectations guide the use of verb phrase ellipsis: Psycholinguistic evidence for an information-theoretic account of context and length effects on VPE. Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental and Computational Perspectives (DETEC) 2019, Berlin.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke, Heiner Drenhaus & Ingo Reich (2019). Verb phrase ellipsis avoids troughs in the ID profile: An information-theoretic account to VPE based on evidence from rating and reading time data. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2019, Boulder.
  • Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer & Ingo Reich (2019). Can identity conditions on ellipsis be explained by processing principles? CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2019, Boulder.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke & Ingo Reich (2018). Topicality as prerequisite of Topic Drop? Evidence from rating studies on German. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2018, Berlin.
  • Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke & Ingo Reich (2018). What is dropped in Topic Drop? – A rating study on the relationship between Topicality and Topic Drop in German. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2018, Davis.