Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Professor of German Linguistics

Department of German Language und Literature I – Linguistics
Albertus-Magnus-Platz

50923 Cologne
Germany

Visitor Address and Office Hours:
Philosophikum, Room 2.116
Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 4884

Office at the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language
Luxemburger Straße 299, room 1.09
Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 89900

Email: Klaus.vonHeusinger(at)uni-koeln.de

Information on lectures and office hours in WiSe 21/22

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Key research areas

Foundations of Linguistics
Semantics and Pragmatics
Contrastive Linguistics (Germanic – Romanic – Altaic)
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Recent Publications

Kaiser, Georg A. & Klaus von Heusinger. 2024. On the emergence of argument encoding in causative constructions in Spanish. In New perspectives on the syntax of causative and restructuring verbs in Romance, eds. Jan Casalicchio and Peter Herbeck. Special issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10((4)/2). 1–34. doi:https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.324
Raffy, Clémentine, Marta Donazzan & Klaus von Heusinger. 2024. The syntax and semantics of laisser and dejar in causative constructions. an experimental investigation. In New perspectives on the syntax of causative and restructuring verbs in Romance, eds. Jan Casalicchio and Peter Herbeck. Special issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10((4)/6,). 1–39. doi:https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.320
Donazzan, Marta, Clémentine Raffy, Bridget Copley & Klaus von Heusinger. 2023. Letting structure speak with authority: constraining agents’ choices with French laisser. In Julie Goncharov & Hedde Zeijstra (eds.), Agency and intentions in language, 88–111. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679818_006
Primus, Beatrice, Franziska Kretzschmar, Klaus von Heusinger & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2022. Relating agent prominence to discourse prominence: DO-clefts in German. Linguistics 60(6). 1811-1853. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0276.
Kizilkaya, Semra, Zarina Levy Forsythe & Klaus von Heusinger.2022. Affectedness and differential object marking in Turkish and Uzbek. Linguistics 60(6). 1907-1941. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0216.
Gianollo, Chiara, Klaus von Heusinger & Maria Napoli (eds.). 2022. Determiners and quantifiers: functions, variation, and change. Leiden: Brill.
von Heusinger, Klaus & Jaklin Kornfilt. 2022. Turkish partitive constructions and (non-)exhaustivity. In Giuliana Giusti & Petra Sleeman (eds.), Partitive determiners, partitive pronouns and partitive case, 263–294. Berlin: De Gruyter. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732221. [pdf]
Caro Reina, Javier, Marco García García & Klaus von Heusinger. 2021. Differential Object Marking in Cuban Spanish. In Johannes Kabatek, Philipp Obrist & Albert Wall (eds.), Differential Object Marking in Romance - The third wave (Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie), 339-368. Berlin: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716207-012. [pdf]
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