John R. te Velde

I am a Professor of German at Oklahoma State University specializing in formal syntactic theory; in particular, syntactic properties of West Germanic left-periphery, V3 in varieties of West Germanic and in Standard German, V2 properties, coordinate structures, left-edge ellipsis, left-displacement.

Curriculum Vitae

Contact

Email: forljrv at okstate dot edu

Office: Gundersen 303C

Phone: 405-744-9544

Mailing address:
c/o Department of Foreign Languages
309 GU
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK, 74078-1054

Teaching

German language courses, German history, phonetics and phonology of German, syntactic theory, history of the German language.

Publications

Monograph

• Deriving Coordinate Symmetries. A phase-based approach integrating Select, Merge, Copy and Match. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006.

Translation

• Stalin’s Mass Repression and the Cold War Paradigm, by Marc Junge, Professor of History, Universität Bochum. 2016.

Articles

• Chomsky’s Phase Theory and the derivation of coordinate symmetries: The burden on working memory, recently submitted.
• (with Nora Vosburg): Plautdietsch: A remarkable story of language maintenance and change, to appear in The Emergence of Grammars. A Closer Look at Dialects between phonology and morphosyntax, Michela Russo, ed., published by Nova Science (Hauppauge, NY).
• German V2 and the PF-interface. Evidence from dialects. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 29.2 (2017): 146-193.
• Temporal Adverbs in the Kiezdeutsch Left Periphery: combining late merge with deaccentuation for V3. Studia Linguistica 71.2 (2017): 301-336.
• Meeting Interface Requirements on Coordinate Structures: the need for interface input at Selection. Linguistische Berichte 233/2013: 69-108.
• West Germanic Left-Dislocated Adverbial Clauses: The role of the semantic interface. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 18,2 (2013):163-206.
• Towards an account of adverbials in the Vor-Vorfeld: Beyond V2-syntax. Tampa Papers in Linguistics 1 (2010):62-86.
• Using Phase Theory for Deriving Coordinate Symmetries. To appear, Fuzhen Si (ed.)
• Using the Survive Principle for Deriving Coordinate (A)Symmetries. In Towards a Derivational Syntax. Survive Minimalism, Michael T. Putnam (ed.), 169-192. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009.
• A Conjunction Conspiracy at the West Germanic Left Periphery. In Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger, Florian Schäfer (eds.), 119-148. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009.
• Silence at the Seams of Sentences: the case of coordinate ellipsis. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Chicago Linguistic Society (2004), published 2008 in Vol 2, pp. 21-35.
• Unifying Prosody and Syntax for Right- and Left-Edge Coordinate Ellipsis. Lingua 115 (2005) 483-502.
• The Right-Node-Raising Construction: A Derivational Approach Interfacing Syntax and Prosody. Proceedings of the Western Conference On Linguistics (WECOL) 2000, Vol. 12: 492 - 506. Fresno: California State University, Department of Linguistics.
• Phases in the Derivation of Elliptical Coordinate Constructions in Germanic. In: Abraham, Werner & C. Jan-Wouter Zwart (eds.) Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology, 305 - 327. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001. (= Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 45.)
• Feature-driven Coordination: (A)symmetry and Matching. Proceedings of WECOL 1999, Vol. 11:480-494. Fresno: California State University, Department of Linguistics.
• Asymmetrische Koordination? Jain! Another Look at Subject and Object Gaps in Coordinate Structures. Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik 43 (1999): 155-172. Groningen: Germanistisch Instituut.
• Assumptions about the Structure of Coordination. In: Schwabe, Kerstin & Niina Zhang, eds. Ellipsis in Conjunction, 51-78. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000. (=Linguistische Arbeiten 418.)
• Gespräche in Berlin zum Thema Ausländer: Deutschland zwischen Festungsmentalität und Multi-Kulturalität. Schatzkammer XXIV: 1 - 24 (Fall, 1998).
• Deriving Conjoined XPs: a minimal deletion approach. In: Abraham, Werner and Elly van Gelderen, eds. German: Syntactic Problems -- Problematic Syntax, pp. 231-260. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1997.
• Coordination and Antisymmetry Theory: Some Evidence from Germanic. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literature 8.2 (1996): 135-175.
• Coordinate Ellipsis in German: Old Problems from a New (Minimalist) Perspective. In: Rauch, Irmengard and Gerald F. Carr, eds. Insights in Germanic Linguistics II: Classic and Contemporary, pp. 275-296. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996. (=Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 94.)
• Arguments for Two Verb-Second Clause Types in Germanic: A Comparison of Yiddish and German. In: Salmons, Joseph and Rosina Lippi-Green, eds. Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and Diachronic, pp. 35-63. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1996. (=Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 137.)
• Feature Checking and Germanic Verb Second: Comparing Yiddish, German and English. Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik 37 (1994): 247-263. Groningen: Germanistisch Instituut.
• Gespräche in Berlin über Ausländer in Deutschland: Asylchancen, doppelte Staatsangehörigkeit und Feindlichkeiten. Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte XX,1 (Spring, 1994): 45-60.
• The Black Sea Germans in the Dakotas: Factors in Ethnic Language Maintenance and Loss. In: Salmons, Joseph, ed. The German Language in America, 1683-1991. pp. 65-86, Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1993.
• Subject-Object and Coordinate Asymmetries and the Syntactic Structure of German. In: Lippi-Green, Rosina, ed. Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics. pp. 127-140. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1992.
• Problems with Movement Theories of Verb-Second in German: A View From a Theory of Coordinate Ellipsis. In: Rauch, Irmengard, Gerald Carr and Robert Kyes, eds. On Germanic Linguistics. Issues and Methods, pp. 339-363. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. (=Trends in Linguistics--Studies and Monographs, 68.)
• Coordinate Ellipsis and the ECP. In: Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics 1 (1988): 282-288. Fresno: California State University, Department of Linguistics, 1988.

Reviews

• Ingo Reich & Augustin Speyer (eds.), Co- and Subordination in German and other languages. (345 pp., Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag GmbH, 2016.) Journal of Germanic Linguistics 31.2: 199-209.
• Heike Wiese. Kiezdeutsch. Ein Neuer Dialekt Entsteht. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2012. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 25.4 (2013):413-418.
• Ritva Laury (ed.) Cross-linguistic Studies of Clause Combining. The multifunctionality of conjunctions. [Typological Studies in Language 80.] (xiv, 253pp. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2008.) Posted April, 2011.
• Sophie Repp. Negation in Gapping. [Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics.] (xi, 266pp, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.) Journal of Germanic Linguistics 22.2 (2010): 193-199.
• Winfried Lechner. Ellipsis in Comparatives. [Studies in Generative Grammar 72]. ix, 285 pp. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. In: Journal of Germanic Linguistics 17, 4 (2006).
• Anna Maria Di Sciullo (ed.), Asymmetry in Grammar. Vol. 1: Syntax and semantics (vi, 402pp). Vol. 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition. (vi, 306pp, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.) To appear in Studies in Language.
• Susanne Wurmbrand, Infinitives: Restructuring and clause structure. (x, 371pp, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.) Journal of Germanic Linguistics 15, 1 (2003) pp. 85 - 93.
• Lutz, Uli, Gereon Müller & Arnim von Stechow (eds.). Wh-Scope Marking. (vi, 483pp, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000.) Studies in Language 26, 3 (2002) pp. 691 - 706.
• Rûÿiçka, Rudolf. Control in Grammar and Pragmatics. A cross-linguistic study. (x, 206pp. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company). Studies in Language 25, 2 (2001) pp. 391 - 397.
• Eckardt, Regine. Adverbs, Events, and Other Things. Issues in the Semantics of Manner Adverbs. (Linguistische Arbeiten, 379.) Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998. In: Michigan Germanic Studies 23:2 (Fall, 1997) pp. 196 - 202.
• Schmidt, Claudia Maria. Satzstruktur und Verbbewegung. Eine minimalistische Analyse zur internen Syntax der IP (Inflection-Phrase) im Deutschen. In: American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 9, 2 (Fall, 1997) pp. 274 – 280.
• Brigitta Haftka, ed. Was determiniert Wortstellungsvariation? Studien zu einem Interaktionsfeld von Grammatik, Pragmatik und Sprachtypologie. In: Studies in Language 20, 3 (1996) pp. 696-707.
• John Anderson, Linguistic Representation. Structural Analogy and Stratification. In: Studies in Language 19, 2 (1995): 525-572.
• Robert Freidin, Foundations of Generative Syntax. In: Studies in Language 19, 1 (1995) pp. 278-286.
• Peter Rolf Lutzeier, Major Pillars of German Syntax. An Introduction to CRMS-Theory. In: American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 4, 2 (1992) pp. 188 – 194.