Projects and Publications

The relation between grammar and usage: null subjects and subject position in Spanish and Persian
SFB 1252 ‘Prominence in Language’, Sub-project C01 ‘Prominence and Information Structure’ (January 2017 – currently)

Canes Nápoles, A. The Interplay between Discourse Markers and Information Structure in the Construction of Discourse Coherence
Cassarà, A. Context and information structure in syntactic variation
Engel, E. Topic marking constructions in French
Same, F. Coherence and topic shift in discourse: A comprehensive approach to sentence and discourse topic

Adli, Aria. 2010a. Constraint cumulativity and gradience: Wh-scrambling in Persian. Lingua 120(9): 2259–2294.
Adli, Aria. 2010b. The semantic role of the wh-element and subject position in Spanish and Catalan. STUF – Language Typology and Universals 63(2): 103–117.
Adli, Aria. 2011a. A heuristic mathematical approach for modeling constraint cumulativity: Contrastive focus in Spanish and Catalan. The Linguistic Review 28(2): 111–173.
Adli, Aria. 2011b. On the relation between acceptability and frequency. In Rinke, E. & Kupisch, T. (eds.), The Development of Grammar: Language Acquisition and Diachronic Change - In Honour of Jürgen M. Meisel. Amsterdam & New York: John Benjamins. 383–404.
Adli, Aria. 2011c. Gradient acceptability and frequency effects in information structure: a quantitative study on Spanish, Catalan, and Persian. Habilitationsschrift. Universität Freiburg.
Adli, Aria. 2015. What you like is not what you do: acceptability and frequency in syntactic variation. In Adli, Aria, García García, Marco & Kaufmann, Göz (eds.), Variation in Language: Usage-based vs. System-based Approaches. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 173–199.
Romary, Laurent. 2016. Converting the multi-lingual spoken corpus into a standardised format. Unpublished technical report. INRIA/University of Cologne.

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