Prof. Dr. Josef Bayer

1. Language Comprehension and Variable Word Order: Syntactic and Extra-Syntactic Factors in the Processing of German Clauses. (DFG; Ba 1178 / 4-3) (finished)
   (with Markus Bader and Jens-Max Hopf)
   Doctoral Student: Jana Häussler


2. The Syntax-Morphology Interface: Case, Agreement, and the Licensing of Arguments  (Kurt-Lion Foundation, Konstanz / Tel-Aviv) (finished)
   (with Alexander Grosu)


3. Dialect Grammar, Free Variation and Change: Do we Need a Concept of Microvariaton?  (SFB 471, A17) (finished)
   (with Ellen Brandner)


4. Lexical Features and Variable Syntactic Processes  (SFB 471, A18) (finished)
   (with Susanne Trissler)


5. Lexical and Syntactic Processes in Language Comprehension  (SFB 471, D2) (finished)
   (with Markus Bader, Tanja Schmid, Jana Häussler)
    
6. Clause Structure and Utterance Meaning: Word Order, Particles, Emphasis , 04/2013 - 09/2017  (DFG; Ba 1178 / 9-1) (finished) (with Andreas Trotske)
   doctoral student: Yvonne Viesel                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
7. AThEME: Advancing the European Multilingual Experience
   (with Janet Grijzenhout and Claudia Diehl)
   Multilingualism and Communicative Impairments
   since August 2015 (finished)
   doctoral student: Constantin Freitag
    
8. The Role of German Particles in Questions , since  04/2016  (DFG; FOR 2111  Questions at the Interface ) 
   (with Carsten Eulitz, Maribel Romero and Anna Czypionka)

Monographs

• Bayer, J. (1996),  Directionality and Logical Form: On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ.  Kluwer, Dordrecht.
   
• Bader, M. & J. Bayer (2006),  Case and Linking in Language Comprehension: Evidence from German . Springer, Berlin.
   

Edited volumes

• Bayer, J. (1987) (ed.), Grammatik und Kognition: Psycholinguistische Untersuchungen. Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 1.                                                                                                                           
• Abraham, W. & J. Bayer (eds.) (1993),  Dialektsyntax Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 5.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
• Bayer, J. (ed.) (1994),  Sentence Processing and the Nature of the Human Syntactic Parser.  Special Issue, Folia Linguistica XXVIII / 1-2.
   
• Bayer, J. & C. Römer (eds.) (2000),  Von der Philologie zur Grammatiktheorie. Niemeyer, Tübingen.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
• Bayer, J., T. Bhattacharya & MT Hany Babu (eds.) (2007),  Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honor of KA Jayaseelan.  Amsterdam, John Benjamin. 1-11.
   
• Trotzke, A. & J. Bayer (eds.) (2015),  Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces . Berlin, de Gruyter.
   
• Bayer, J., R. Hinterhölzl & A. Trotzke (eds.) (2015),  Discourse-oriented Syntax . Amsterdam, John Benjamin.                                                                                                                                                             
• Bayer, J. & Y. Viesel (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshops: Clause Typing and the Syntax-to-Discourse Relation in Head-Final Languages. Working paper # 130 of the Department of Linguistics, Konstanz University. 1-5.

Selected Articles

• Bayer, J. (1977),  On the Semantics of Directional Postpositions.   Papiere zur Linguistik 17/18. 102-122. 
   
• Bayer, J. (1984a),  Towards an explanation of certain that-t phenomena: The COMP-node in Bavarian. In: de Geest, W. & Y. Putseys (eds.)  Sentential Complementation . Dordrecht, Foris. 23-32.
   
• Bayer, J. (1984b),  COMP in Bavarian syntax . The Linguistic Review  3. 209-274.
   
• de Bleser, R. & J. Bayer (1985),  German word formation and aphasia . The Linguistic Review  5. 1-40.
   
• Bayer, J. (1986),  The role of event expression in grammar . Studies in Language  10. 1-52.
   
• Bayer, J., R. de Bleser & C. Dronsek (1987),  Form and Function of Cases in Agrammatism . In: Bayer, J. (1987) (ed.). 81-117.
   
• de Bleser, R., J. Bayer and C. Luzzatti (1987),  Die kognitive Neuropsychologie der Schrittsprache - Ein Überblick mit zwei deutschen Fallbeschreibungen . In: Bayer, J. (1987) (ed.). 118-162.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
• Bayer, J. (1988), Fortschritte der Syntaxtheorie. Anmerkungen zu Henk van Riemsdijk and Edwin Williams, Introduction to the Theory of Grammar, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,1986*   Linguistische Berichte 117. 410-426.                                                                                                                                                                      
• de Bleser, R. & J. Bayer (1988),  On the role of inflectional morphology in agrammatism, . In: Hammond, M. & M. Noonan (eds.)  Theoretical Morphology.  New York, Academic Press. 45-69.                                                                                                                                                                                                 
• de Bleser, R., C. Dronsek & J. Bayer (1988),  Morphosyntactic processing in German agrammatism: A replication and revision of von Stockert / Bader (1976) . Cortex  24. 53-76.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
• Bayer, J. (1989),  A note on alleged PRO-government. In: Jaspers, D., W. Klooster, Y. Putseys and P. Seuren (eds.)  Sentential Complementation and the Lexicon: Studies in Honor of Wim de Geest.  Dordrecht, Foris. 1-20.
   
• Bayer, J. & R. de Bleser (1989), Lexikalische Morphologie und Tiefendyslexie: Eine Fallbesprechung. In: Günther, H. (ed.) Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Flexionsmorphologie. Hamburg, Buske. 123-154.
   
• Bayer, J. (1990a),  What Bavarian negative concord reveals about the syntactic structure of German. In: Mascaró, J. and M. Nespor (eds.),  Grammar in Progress. Dordrecht, Foris. 13-23.
   
• Bayer, J. (1990b),  Interpretive islands: evidence for connectedness and global harmony in logical form . In: Grewendorf, G. & W. Sternefeld (eds.),  Scrambling and Barriers.  Amsterdam, John Benjamin. 341-421.
   
• de Bleser, R. & J. Bayer (1990),  Morphological reading errors in a German case of deep dyslexia . In: J.-L. Nespoulous & P. ​​Villiard (eds.)  Morphology, Phonology and Aphasia.  New York, Springer. 32-59.
   
• Bayer, J. & A. Lahiri (1990),  Bengali emphatic clitics in the lexicon-syntax interface. In: Dressler, W., H. Luschützky, O. Pfeiffer and J. Rennison (eds.),  Contemporary Morphology.  Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. 3-16.                                                                                                                                                                                                            
• Bayer, J. & J. Kornfilt (1990), Restructuring Effects in German. In: Parametric variation in Germanic and Romance / .ed by Elisabeth Engdahl et al. (Edinburgh working papers in cognitive science ; 6). Edinburgh : University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science, 1990. 21-42                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
• Bayer, J. (1991a),  German particles in a modular grammar: Neurolinguistic evidence . In: Abraham, W. (ed.)  Discourse Particles.  Amsterdam, John Benjamin. 253-302.
   
• Bayer, J. (1991b),  Representatie van algemene namen en eigennamen in het mentale lexicon: neurolinguistische evidentie   Tabu 21. Faculteit Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. 53-66                                                                                                                                                                                                          
• Bayer, J. (1991c), Die Repräsentation von Gemeinnamen und Eigennamen im mentalen Lexikon; Neurolinguistische Evidenz. [German translation of Bayer (1991b)].                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
• Bayer, J. & J. Kornfilt (1991), Against scrambling as move-alpha . Proceedings of the 21st NELS Conference , Montreal 1990. 1-15.
   
• Bayer, J. (1993), Zum in Bavarian and scrambling. In: Abraham, W. & J. Bayer (eds.) Dialektsyntax. Sonderheft 5 der Linguistischen Berichte. 50-70.
   
• Bayer, J. & J. Kornfilt (1994),  Against scrambling as an instance of move-alpha . In: van Riemsdijk, H. & N. Corver (eds.)  Studies on Scrambling.  Berlin, De Gruyter. 17-60.
   
• Bayer, J. (1995),  On the origin of sentential arguments in German and Bengali . In: Haider, H., S. Olsen & S. Vikner (eds.)  Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax. Dordrecht, Kluwer. 45-75.
   
• Bader, M., J. Bayer, J.-M. Hopf & M. Meng (1996), Case-assignment in processing German verb-final clauses. MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics  9th Proceedings of the NELS 26 Processing Workshop. Vol. 9, 1-25.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
• de Bleser, R., J. Bayer and C. Luzzatti (1996),  Linguistic theory and morphosyntactic impairments in German and Italian aphasics . Journal of Neurolinguistics  9. 175-185.
   
• Bayer, J. (1997),  CP extraposition as argument shift . In: D. Beerman, D. LeBlanc & H. van Riemsdijk (eds.)  Rightward Movement.  Amsterdam, John Benjamin. 37-58.
   
• Bayer, J. & P. Suchsland (1997), Expletiva und leere Subjekte im Deutschen. GAGL (Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik) 41. 12-38.
                       
• Bayer, J. (1998),  How does logical information enter grammar?  In: B. McGuinness (ed.)  Language, Logic and the Formalization of Knowledg:  Coimbra Lecture and Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Siena in September 1997. Gaeta, Bibliotheca. 53-75.
   
• Hopf, J.-M., J. Bayer, M. Bader & M. Meng (1998),  Event-related brain potentials and case information in syntactic ambiguities . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience  10.2. 264-280.
   
• Bayer, J. & P. ​​Suchsland (1998),  Some remarks on expletives in German . Electronic Festschrift in Honor of Noam Chomsky’s 70th birthday.                                                                                                                                     
• Bayer, J. (1999a),  Final complementizers in hybrid languages . Journal of Linguistics 35, 233-271.
   
• Bayer, J. (1999b),  Bound focus in German or how can association with focus be achieved without going semantically astray?  in: G. Rebuschi & L. Tuller, eds.,  The Grammar of Focus.  Amsterdam, John Benjamin. 55-82.
   
• Bayer, J. (1999c), Sprachliches Wissen und Sprachbewußtsein. Anmerkungen zur kognitiven Grundlage der Linguistik. Jenaer Universitätsreden 8. Antrittsvorlesungen 09.02.1995-17.01.1996. Philosophische Fakultät der Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena. 145-174                                                                                                                 
• Bayer, J. (2000), Basic order - A significant difference between English VO and German OV. In J. Bayer & C. Römer (eds.), Von der Philologie zur Grammatiktheorie: Peter Suchsland zum 65. Geburtstag. Niemeyer, Tübingen. 45-62.
   
• Bayer, Josef ; Bader, Markus; Hopf, Jens-Max; Meng, Michael (2000) Der verpasste Dativ : wie variable Wortstellungen die Verarbeitung von Sätzen beeinflussen Forschungsmagazin der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 9, 20-23.
   
• Bayer, J. & A. Grosu (2000),  Feature checking meets the criterion approach: Three ways of saying only in Romance and Germanic . In: V. Motapanyane (ed.),  Comparative Studies in Romanian Syntax.  North-Holland Linguistic Series 58, Amsterdam. 49-81.
   
• Bader, M., M. Meng, J. Bayer & J.-M. Hopf, (2000),  Syntactic Function Ambiguities in German - An Overview . In:  Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft  19.1. 34-102.                                                                                                                                                                                             
• Bader, M., Meng, M., & Bayer, J. (2000),  Case and reanalysis . In:  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29 , 37-52.
   
• Bader, M., M. Meng, J. Bayer & J.-M. Hopf, (2001),  Syntactic Function Ambiguities in German - A Clarification . Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 20.2. 266-279.                                                                                                                                                                                                 
• Bayer, J. (2001a),  Asymmetry in emphatic topicalization . In: C. Féry & W. Sternefeld (eds.)  Audiatur Vox Sapientiae.  Akademie publishing house, Berlin. 15-47.
   
• Bayer, J. (2001b), Two grammars in one: Sentential complements and complementizers in Bengali and other South Asian languages. In: P. Bhaskarorao & K.V. Subbarao (eds.) The Yearbook of South Asian Languages: Tokyo Symposium on South Asian Languages - Contact, Convergence and Typology. Sage Publications, New Delhi. 11-36.
   
• Bayer, J., M. Bader & M. Meng, (2001), Morphological underspecification meets oblique case: syntactic and processing effects in German. Lingua 111. 465-514.
   
• Bayer, J. (2002a), Minimale Annahmen in Syntax und Morphologie. Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 79, Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig. 277-297.
   
• Bayer, J. (2002b),  Decomposing the left periphery: dialectal and cross-linguistic evidence . Israeli Association of Theoretical Linguistics (IATL) 18. 
   
• Hopf, J.-M., M. Bader, M. Meng & J. Bayer (2003),  Is human sentence parsing serial or parallel? Evidence from event-related brain potentials.  Cognitive Brain Research 15. 165-177 
   
• Bayer, J. (2004a),  Decomposing the left periphery: dialectal and cross-linguistic evidence . In: H. Lohnstein & S. Trissler (eds.),  The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 59-95.
   
• Bayer, J. (2004b),  Non-nominative subjects in comparison . In: P. Bhaskararao & KV Subbaraou (eds.), Non-Nominative Subjects. vol. 1. Amsterdam: John Benjamin. 49-76.
   
• Bayer, J. & E. Brandner (2004),  Klitisiertes zu im Bairischen und Alemannischen. . In: F. Patocka & P. ​​Wiesinger (eds.),  Morphologie und Syntax deutscher Dialekte und historische Dialektologie des Deutschen . Wien. Edition Praesens. 160-188.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
• Bayer, J. (2004c), Was beschränkt die Extraktion? Subjekt – Objekt vs. Topic – Fokus. In: Franz Josef D'Avis (ed).,  Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, Gothenburg German Studies 46. 233-257.                                                                                                                                                                                                          
• Bayer, J., T. Schmid & M. Bader (2005),  Clause union and clausal position . In: M. den Dikken & C. Tortora (eds.)  The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories . Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 79-113.
   
• Schmid, T., M. Bader & J. Bayer (2005), Coherence - An Experimental Approach . In: M. Reis & S. Kepser (eds.),  Linguistic Evidence . Berlin: de Gruyter. 435-456.
   
• Bayer, J. (2005) Displaced and misplaced genitives. In: H. Broekhuis, N. Corver, R. Huybregts, U. Kleinhenz, J. Koster (eds.): Organizing Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk. 22-30.
   
• Bayer, J. (2006a), Wh in Situ . In: M. Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk (eds.),  The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, vol. V.  Oxford, Blackwell. 376-438.
   
• Bayer, J. (2006b).  A note on targets of A'-movement in the left periphery of German sentences . In: P. Brandt & E. Fuß (eds.)  Form, Structure, and Grammar. A Festschrift Presented to Günther Grewendorf on Occasion of his 60th Birthday . Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 119-128.
   
• Bayer, J. & M. Bader (2007),  On the Syntax of Prepositional Phrases  . In: Späth, A. (ed.)  Interface and Interface Conditions . Berlin, de Gruyter. 157-179.
   
• Bayer, J. (2008),  Review article  Clause Structure in South Asian Languages . Ed. by Veneeta Dayal and Anoop Mahajan (Studies in natural language and linguistic theory 61.) Dordrecht: Kluwer. 2004.  Language  84, no. 3. 597-612.
   
• Bayer, J. & E. Brandner (2008a),  On Wh-Head-Movement and the Doubly-Filled-Comp Filter . In: Chang CB & HJ Haynie (eds.)  Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics . Somerville: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 87-95.
   
• Bayer, J. & E. Brandner (2008b),  Wie oberflächlich ist die syntaktische Variation zwischen Dialekten: Doubly-filled COMP revisited . In: F. Patocka & G. Seiler. Dialektale Morphologie – dialektale Syntax. Wien: Praesens.                                                                                       
• Bayer, J. (2009),  Nominal negative quantifiers as adjuncts . The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics  12. 5-30.
   
• Bayer, J. (2010 a),  Discourse particles in questions . In: Mohanty, R., & Menon, M. (Eds.),  Proceedings of GLOW in ASIA VII 2009 . Hyderabad: EFL University Press.
   
• Bayer, J. (2010 b),  Wh-drop and recoverability.  In: J.-W. Zwart & M. de Vries (eds.),  Structure Preserved: Studies in Syntax for Jan Koster . Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 31-39.
   
• Bayer J. & H.-G. Obenauer (2011),  Discourse particles, clause structure, and question types.  The Linguistic Review  28. 449-491. 
   
• Bayer, J. (2012),  From Modal Particle to Interrogative Marker: A Study of German denn. In: L. Brugè, A. Cardinaletti, G. Giusti, N. Munaro & C. Poletto (eds.),  Functional Heads . Oxford University Press.
   
• Bayer, Josef (2013a). W-Frage, Fragepartikel und W-drop im Bairischen. In Rüdiger Harnisch.Strömungen in der Entwiclung der Dialekte und ihrer Erforschung. Regensburg. Edition Vulpes. 188-207                                                                                                                                                                   
• Bayer, Josef (2013b). Klitisierung, Reanalyse und die Lizensierung von Nullformen: Zwei Beispiele aus dem Bairischen. Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 19 [ed. W. Abraham & E. Leiss]. 29-45                                                                                                                                                             
• Bayer, J. & Salzmann, M. (2013). That -trace effects and resumption - How improper movement can be repaired . In: P. Brandt & E. Fuß (Eds.),  Repairs - The Added Value of Being Wrong . Berlin: de Gruyter. 275 - 333.
   
• Salzmann, Martin, Jana Häussler, Markus Bader & Josef Bayer (2013),  That-Trace Effects Without Traces: An Experimental Investigation . in Stefan Keine & Shyne Sloggett (eds.)  Proceedings of NELS  42. vol. II, 149-162.
   
• Bayer, J. (2014),  Syntactic and phonological properties of wh-operators and wh-movement in Bavarian. In: G. Grewendorf & H. Weiß (eds.)  Bavarian Syntax . Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 23-50.
   
• Bayer, J. (2015a)  A note on possessor agreement. In: Egashira, H., Kitahara, H., Nakazawa, K., Nishimae, A., Nomura, T., Oishi, M., Suzuki, I. (eds.)  In Untiring Pursuit of Better Alternatives . Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
   
• Bayer, J. (2015b)  Doubly-filled comp, wh head-movement, and derivational economy. In: H. van Riemsdijk & M. van Oostendorp (eds.)  Representing Structure in Phonology and Syntax . Studies in Generative Grammar 124 . Berlin: de Gruyter. 7-39.
   
• Bayer, J. & Andreas Trotzke (2015),  The derivation and interpretation of left peripheral discourse particles. In: Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke . Discourse-oriented syntax . Amsterdam: John Benjamins.                                                                                                    
• Josef Bayer & Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng (2017),  Wh-in-situ. In: Martin Everaert & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.). The Blackwell Companion to Syntax . Oxford: Blackwell. 4979 - 5022.                                                                                                                               
• Bayer, J., J. Häussler & M. Bader (2016). A New Diagnostic for Cyclic Wh-Movement: Discourse Particles in German Questions. Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 47, Number 4, Fall 2016 591–629.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
• Bayer, J & P. ​​Dasgupta (2016)  Emphatic Topicalization and the structure of the left periphery: Evidence from German and Bangla.  Syntax 2016. 1-45.                                                                                                                                                                                    
• Bayer, J. (2016/17). Reparatur in der Grammatik – Anmerkungen zum Sprachdesign. Die Zukunft der Grammatik – Die Grammatik der Zukunft. Festschrift für Werner Abraham anlässlich seines 80 Geburtstags. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 51-74.                                                                                                                                          
• Bayer, J. (2017a). Clitic 'denn' and 'wh'-movement. In Clemens Mayr & Edwin Williams (eds.) Festschrift for Martin Prinzhorn . Wiener Linguistische Gazette 82. 1-11.                                                                                                                                                                   
• Bayer, J. (2017b), Prima la musica, dopo le parole: A small note on a big topic. Gautam Sengupta, Shruti Sircar, Madhavi Gayathri Raman & Rahul Balusu. Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax: Essays in Honor of R. Amritavalli. Singapore: Springer. 195-213                                                                                                                                                                         
• Anna Czypionka, Josef Bayer, Maribel Romero & Carsten Eulitz. The licensing of discourse particles in complex questions: Evidence from graded judgments and event-related potentials. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, March 30 - April 1, 2017                                                                                                                                                                                                
• Dörre, L., A. Czypionka, A. Trotzke & J. Bayer. (2018). The processing of German modal particles and their counterparts. Linguistische Berichte 255.                                                                                                                                                                               
• Bayer, J. (2018a) Criterial freezing in the syntax of particles. In J. Hartmann, M. Jäger, A. Kehl, A. Konietzko & S. Winkler (eds.),  Freezing: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Domains.  Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 225-263.  
                                                                                                          
• Bayer, J. (2018b). A comparative note on the Bangla particle "to" and the German particle "doch". University of Massachusetts Amherst. Angelika Kratzer FestSite. 1-15.                                                                                                                                               
• Czypionka, A., L. & J. Bayer (2018). Inverse Case attraction: experimental evidence for a syntactically guided process. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
• Bayer, J. (2019a). On uninterpretable features. In Jessica Brown, Andreas Schmidt & Marta Wierzba . Of Trees and Birds. A Festschrift in honour of Gisbert Fanselow. Universitätsverlag Potsdam. 2-14.
   
• Bayer, J. (2019b) Wir treiben das Wort in den Wahnsinn. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Mittwoch, 10. April 2019. Feuilleton 39.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
• Bayer, J. (2020), Why doubling discourse particles? Ludovico Franco & Paolo Lorusso. "Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation". 47-72. Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 132.  Mouton de Gruyter, Boston/Berlin. 47-72.
                                                                                                                                                                     
• Bayer, J. & C. Freitag (2020). How much verb moves to second position? In: Horst Lohnstein & Antonios Tsiknakis (eds.), Verb Second – Grammar internal and grammar external interfaces.77-122. Interface Explorations [IE] 32. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 
   
• Bayer, J. (2020) Whatʼs unique in Bavarian syntax? - Thoughts on the occasion of a performance of Bachʼs St Matthew Passion. In: Masatoshi Tanaka, Tomoya Tsutsui & Masashi Hashimoto (eds.) Linguistic Research as an Interdisciplinary Science. Hituzi Kenkyuu Soosho, Gengohen [Hituzi Research Series, Linguistics] 170. Tokyo: Hituzi Publishers. 27-43.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
• Broekhuis, H. & J. Bayer (2020). Clausal ellipsis: deletion or selective spell-out? Linguistics in the Netherlands, vol 37, ed. by Elena Tribushinina & Mark Dingemanse, 2020. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 23-37.     
   
• Bayer, J. (2021). A comparative note on the Bangla particle to and the German particle doch. In: Mina Dan & Aditi Ghosh (eds.). Language, Culture and Linguistics. Essays in Honour of Suniti Kumar Chatterji. 117-136. Hyderabad Orient BlackSwan Private Limited.     
       
• Grosu, A. & J. Bayer (2021). Pre-nominal adjectival transparent free relatives. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 92. Gabi Danon (ed.). Proceedings of IATL 2018-2019. 43-58. 
   
• Czypionka, A., M. Romero & J. Bayer (2021). Question-sensitive discourse particles at the interfaces of syntax, semantics and pragmatics - an experimental approach. Glossa. 6(1): 24.
   
• A. Czypionka, M. Kharaman, J. Bayer, M. Romero & C. Eulitz (2022). Licensing Question-Sensitive Discourse Particles: Evidence from Grammaticality Judgments, Self-Paced Reading and EEG Studies. In: R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim, A. Konietzko & S. Featherston (eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data. 197–215. Tübingen: University of Tübingen.
   
• Bayer, J. (2023). Deutsche Partikeln als funktionale Köpfe. Linguisten-Seminar. Forum japanisch-germanistischer Sprachforschung. Band 5. München: Iudicium Verlag. 9-39.   
   
•  Bayer, J. (2023a). Bavarian Discourse Particles in Wh-Questions. With a note on North-East Italian Dialects. Quaderni di lavoro ASIt - ASIt working papers. Festschrift in honour of Cecilia Poletto's 60th birthday, vol. 2. University of Padua. 450-475.
   
• Bayer, J. (2023b). Syntaktische Form und interpretative Lücken. Epenthese in der Syntax. Linguisten-Seminar. Forum japanisch-germanischer Sprachforschung. Band 6. München. Iudicium-Verlag. pp 9-44.
   
• Czypionka, A., M. Kharaman, J. Bayer, M. Romero & C. Eulitz (to appear). Licensing Question-Sensitive Discourse Particles: Evidence from Grammaticality Judgments, Self-Paced Reading and EEG Studies. Linguistic Evidence.     
   
• Bayer, J. (to appear). On the syntactic status of ‘n in Bavarian wh-questions. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik.                                                 

•  Bayer, Josef. Verb Second

• Bayer, Josef. V(P) -Topicalization and the Role of Traces

• Bayer, Josef. Some Comments on Tanya Reinhart's PRAGMATICS AND LINGUISTICS: AN ANALYSIS OF SENTENCE TOPICS

• Bayer, Josef & William Marslen-Wilson. 1992. Configurationality in the light of language comprehension: The order of arguments in German. Manuscript Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena & Birkbeck College London.

Doctoral students

• Iris Bräuning
• Laura Dörre
• Constantin Freitag
• Jana Häussler
• Simon Hopp 
• Michael Meng   
• Alexandra Rehn
• Yvonne Viesel

Talks at conferences (since 2000)

• (with M. Bader & M. Meng) A KP for oblique Cases. DGFS-Workshop. Marburg 1.-3. March 2000.
   
• Symmetry and asymmetry in South Asian languages. Workshop on Antisymmetry Theory, Cortona, 15.-17. May 2000.
   
• Ways of deriving Case, Case Workshop: Diagnosis in Language processing / Conflicting Rules. Potsdam, 1.-3. December 2000
   
• Topicalization, force and pied-piping, Workshop Elements minimaux de la variation linguistique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales, Paris, 15-16. December 2000
   
• Non-standard subjects and Case, SFB-Kolloquium Kasusfragen: lexikalisch, semantisch oder strukturell?, SFB 282, Cologne, 18 May 2001
   
• Emphatic topics in Bavarian and the organization of the left periphery, Giornata di dialettologia, Universitá di Padova, 8. June 2001
   
• Non-standard subjects and Case. International Symposium on Non-Nominative Subjects. Tokyo, 17.-21. December 2001
   
• (with Markus Bader) Processing load and syntactic ambiguity resolution. 15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Proce-ssing, CUNY, New York. 21-23.3.2002
   
• Topicalization and force in CP Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University. 20.6.2002
   
• Decomposing the left periphery: dialectal and cross-linguistic evidence. Israeli Association of Theoretical Linguists (IATL), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan. 24-25.6.2002
   
• Dative pertinacity. Workshop on Pertinacity, Schloss Freudental. 11-14 Juli 2002
   
• (with E. Brandner) Klitisiertes "zu" im Bairischen und Alemannischen, 1. Internationaler Dialektologenkongress der IDGG, Marburg, 5.-8.3.2003
   
• (with T. Schmid and M. Bader) Coherent Infinitives in German: An Experimental Perspective, International Conference on Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, 28.-31.1.2004
   
• (with M. Bader) P as Case, 30. Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Universitá Ca' Foscari, Venezia, 26.-28.2.2004
   
• Was beschränkt die Extraktion? Subjekt -- Objekt vs. Topic -- Fokus Symposium Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie. Göteborgs Universitet. 13-15 May 2004
   
• (with T. Schmid and M. Bader) Parsing and Grammar: Evidence from Infinitival Complementation. 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. College Park, Maryland. 25-27 März 2004
   
• (with M. Bader and J. Häussler) On Structure and Frequency: Case in PP and VP. 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. College Park, Maryland. 25-27 March 2004
   
• (with T. Schmid and M. Bader) Clause Position and Clause Union. 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City. 3-5 June 2004
   
• (with E. Brandner) Light Noun Raising in Alemannic and Bavarian Infinitives. 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City. 3-5 June 2004
   
• (mit M. Bader) On the syntactic nature of preposition phrases. Workshop on Interface and Interface Conditions in Honor of Professor Anita Steube. Leipzig, 26. June, 2004.
   
• Adjacency in infinitive constructions. SFB-Workshop Germanic Infinitives: Representation, Variation and Processing. University of Konstanz. 30.9. - 2.10. 2004.
   
• Ingredients of the Left Periphery. 1. Meeting of the Scientific Network: The Structure of the Left Periphery in Germanic Languages – CP- and IP-Related Elements in Normal and Impaired Speech. Greifswald, 3 November 2004.
   
• Notes on the status of subjects and expletives in connection mit word order. Colloquium Expletive Subjects in Romance and Germanic Languages, University of Konstanz. 11. - 13. November 2004.
   
• On the Shape and Position of Infinitives. Universität Potsdam, 27. January 2005.
   
• That-trace without reference to the subject. 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. Katholieke Universiteit van Brabant, Tilburg. 9.-11.-05. 2005. [invited speaker]*
   
• Checking clausal complements in head-final languages. 5th Asia GLOW Conference, New Delhi. Aug. 5 - 8, 2005. *
   
• Deutsch nur  - Italienisch solo. Symposium Das Italienische und das Deutsche: ein typologischer Vergleich. Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 3.- 4. Februar 2006. *
   
• Subjects and Microcomparative Variation. Trondheim 5-6 August 2006. 
   
• (with E. Brandner), Wie oberflächlich ist die syntaktische Variation zwischen Dialekten? – Doubly-filled COMP revisited. 2. Kongress der IGDD, Vienna, 20-23 September 2006.
   
• (with E. Brandner), On Clausal Typing by Wh-Head-Movement. Journées d'etudes « Types des Phrases et périphérie gauche », Paris, 1.-2. Dezember 2006 
   
• (with E. Brandner), On wh-head-movement and the Doubly Filled Comp Filter. 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Berkeley, 27-29 April 2007.
   
• On the nature of the [/that/ trace] effect. University of Geneva, 30 October 2007.
   
• From modal particle to interrogative marker. Journées d'etudes La structure des types de phrases, Paris 16.-17. November 2007.
   
• Complementation in SOV-syntax. Head-Final Languages Workshop, Leipzig 6.-9. December 2007.
   
• Variation in der linken Satzperipherie des Bairischen (und verwandter Dialekte),
  Workshop Neue Tendenzen in der deutschen Dialektologie: Morphologie und Syntax, Universit&agraphe; degli Studi di Verona, 13-14 December 2007. 
   
• Associating the German Discourse Particle "denn" with the Left Periphery, Workshop on Discourse Particles, Venice, 4 February 2008.
   
• How does the German particle denn reach the left periphery? Berlin, 2-4 Mai 2008.
   
• German denn versus Bavarian -n in questions, Salzburg, 15 Mai 2008.
   
• (with Hans-Georg Obenauer) Discourse Particles, Clause Structure, and Question Types. Particle Workshop, Cambridge 30-31 October 2008.
   
• (with Martin Salzmann) That-trace effects and resumption as the result of Improper Movement DGfS Osnabrück 05.03.2009.
   
• W-Frage, Fragepartikel und W-drop im Bairischen 
  11. Bayerisch-Österreichische Dialektologentagung, Passau 22.-25. September 2010.
   
• (with Hans-Georg Obenauer) On the (In-) Dependence of Interpretation from Syntax-Evidence from Special Questions.
  Sentence Types, Sentence Mood, and Illocutionary Forces. International Conference to Honor Manfred Bierwisch Berlin 04.-06.11.2010.
   
• (with Jana Häussler, Markus Bader & Simon Hopp) Connecting to Illocutionary Force: A Theoretical and Experimental Study of the German Discourse Particle denn. GLOW, Vienna 28.-30.04.2011.
   
• Doubly-Filled Comp, wh head-movement, and chain uniformity. Inaugural Workshop The Representation of Structure in Grammar.Annesso Cartesiano di Villa Salmi, Arezzo. Juli 1-3 2011.
   
• Discourse Particles in Questions. Syntactic Constituency, Scope and Decomposition. Paper presented at the workshop Structures of Meaning - in Honor of Arnim von Stechow, University of Konstanz, 10-11 November 2011.
   
• Syntaktische und phonologische Eigenschaften von W-Operatoren und W-Bewegung im Bairischen Workshop Syntax des Bairischen. Frankfurt, 29.06.2012.
   
• Demystifying Bavarian complementizer agreement GIST 6, Ghent, October 17, 2012.
   
• Klitisierung, Reanalyse, und die Lizensierung von Nullformen: zwei Beispiele aus dem Bairischen. 18.LIPP Symposium. München, 15. November 2012.
   
• (with Andreas Trotzke), Discourse particles, successive-cyclic movement, and the nature of derivations, University of Venice (Ca'Foscari di Venezia), 3 October 2013.
   
• (with Laura Dörre) German adverbs and discourse particles: Corpus-linguistic investigations, Schloss Freudental, 25 January 2014.
   
• (with Andreas Trotzke) Clause structure & utterance meaning: Word order, particles, emphasis, Schloss Freudental, 24 January 2014.
   
• (with Probal Dasgupta & Sibansu Mukhopadhyay) Functional structure and the Bangla discourse particle to, 30th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable(SALA 30), University of Hyderabad, 6-8 February 2014.
   
• (with Andreas Trotzke, Giuseppina Turco) Left peripheral particles, syntactic constituency, and emphasis, Exploring the Interfaces 3: Prosodic and Constituent Structure, McGill University, 8-10 May 2014.
   
• Messages from the Bavarian clitic -n. International Conference on Generative Linguistics and Philosophy in Honor of Günther Grewendorf. University of Frankfurt, 27-29 June 2014.
   
• Functional Structure and the Bangla Discourse Particle to. GGS Konstanz 30-31 Mai 2014
   
• (with Probal Dasgupta) The architectural unity of emphasis, topic and interrogative marking in Bangla. The grammar's reflexes of emphasis: From information structure to the expressive dimension. Konstanz, 29-30 September 2014.
   
• Movement and scope in wh-questions with discourse particles. 30th Comparative Syntax Workshop, 22-23 May 2015, University of Chicago.
   
• Criterial Freezing in the Syntax of Particles. Workshop on Freezing: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Domains 3-4 July 2015, University of Tübingen. [invited lecture].
   
• Minimalist Explorations of the Clausal Periphery. [three invited lectures]. Keio University, Tokyo. 18 July 2015. (Lecture I, Lecture II, Lecture III) 
   
• Reparatur in der Grammatik. Anmerkungen zum Sprachdesign / Repair in Grammar. Notes on the Design of Language. Die Zukunft von Grammatik - Die Grammatik der Zukunft. Symposium anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags von Werner Abraham. 12.-13.02.2016. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. [invited lecture].

• (with Constantin Freitag) How much verb moves to second position? Theoretical and experimental evidence. Verb-Second Workshop, 29.–31.July 2016, Bergische Universität Wuppertal.[invited lecture].                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
• From the Adjunction Theory to the Head Theory of Particles. Workshop DP and CP-Adjunction – and beyond: Interrelation between Syntactic Operations and Semantic / Pragmatic Features, 6-8 October 2016, University of Hamburg. [invited lecture].                                                                                                                                                      
• (with Uwe Braun) German Discourse Particles in Sentential Infinitives. 31st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, 1-3 November 2016. University of Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa.

• (with Anna Czypionka, Maribel Romero & Carsten Eulitz). The licensing of discourse particles in complex questions: Evidence from graded judgments and event-related potentials. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, 30 March - 1 April 2017. Poster                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
• Case deficiency in the verbal and in the adpositional domain. Workshop on Case-impoverished Germanic. Lund, 5-6 October 2017                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
• (with Martin Salzmann and Jana Häussler). That-trace effects without traces: in favor of a phonological EPP. DGfS 2018: 40. Jahrestagung. AG 6 Referential and relational approaches to syntactic asymmetries. Friday 9 March 2018.           
                                                                                                                                                                 
• Particles ex-situ in Emphatic Wh-Questions. GLOW 41. Budapest. Workshop The grammar and pragmatics of interrogatives and their (special) uses. Saturday, 14 April 2018.
   
• The reduction of denn to -n and some of its consequences. Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax (SaRDiS). 20. - 21.11.2020 [invited speaker]
   
• What are discourse particles ? A syntactic account. English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. 27.11.2020 [invited speaker]
   
• Particles as functional heads. Recycling in the syntax of wh-questions. Syracuse/Cornell. Workshop on Word Order and Scrambling. Syracuse University- 08-09 May 2021.
   
• Lecture series Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik – 48. Linguisten-Seminar 2022. Tokyo. 29 August – 01 September 2022.
  •  I. Formale Prinzipien und interpretatorische Lücken. Über den Umgang mit (scheinbaren) Paradoxien. 29 August 2022.
  •  II. Was ist Verb-Zweit?. 30 August 2022.
  •  III. Reanalyse und Grammatikalisierung. 31 August 2022.
     
• Modalpartikeln in deutschen Wh-Fragen. Gesellschaft für Germanistik Osaka-Kobe. Kwansei-Gakuin-University. 02 September 2022. [invited lecture].
   
• Repair in Grammar by Syntactic Epenthesis. Hiroshima University. 05 September 2022. [invited lecture].
   
• Case Deficiency in the Verbal and in the Adpositional Domain. Sophia University, Tokyo. 08. September 2022. [invited lecture].

On Thursday, 19 November 2015, I was surprised by the webschrift Charting the Landscape of Linguistics, ed. by Ellen Brandner, Anna Czypionka, Constantin Freitag & Andreas Trotzke. The fotos which accompany the document inform about the invited speaker and the celebration that followed the event.

• born November 15, 1950 in  Dietfurt / Altmühl  (Bavaria).                                                                       
• 1970-82: university education (German philology, linguistics, philosophy, musicology) at Regensburg, Hamburg (MA), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Konstanz.


• 1982: doctoral dissertation, Konstanz.                                                                                                                   
• 1978-82: scientific staff of research group of Collaborative Research Center 99, University of Konstanz.


• 1982-85: scientific staff of research group Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders, Technical University of Aachen. 
   
• 1985-90: scientific staff, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.


• 1991: habilitation in theoretical linguistics, University of Konstanz.


• 1991-92: visiting professor, University of Duesseldorf.


• 1992-93: visiting professor, University of Vienna.


• 1993-1994: scientific staff, Collaborative Research Center 340, University of Stuttgart.


• 1994-2000: professor of General and Germanic Linguistics, University of Jena.


• 2000-2016: professor of General and Germanic Linguistics, University of Konstanz.


• 2001-2003: head of the department of linguistics.


• 2016: retired.

Besuch bei Richard Strauss:

- Galerie vom 10.5.2022

Previously board member of:

• Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Kluwer.
• Advisory board / Fachbeirat of Zentrum für Allgemeine
  Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin
• Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
• Linguistische Berichte
• Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Currently board member of:

• Linguistik Aktuell/Lingustics Today, John Benjamins
• Biolinguistics

Others:

Dietfurt 

http://www.richard-wagner-web.de/

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http://www.richardstrauss.org/

http://www.rwv-konstanz.de/