Prof. Dr. Beatrice Primus
Department of German Language and Literature I
Linguistic
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Primus has passed away on the 29th of November 2019.
please find the orbituary here
Recent publications
- Kretzschmar, Franziska / Graf, Tim / Philipp, Markus / Primus, Beatrice (2019): An experimental investigation of agent prototypicality and agent prominence in German. In: Gattnar, A. et al. (eds.) Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory. Tübingen: University of Tübingen, 101-123. https:publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/87132
- Primus, Beatrice (2019): Die Kommasetzung im Deutschen und Englischen. Deutschunterricht 4/2019, 35-44.
- Primus, Beatrice (2018): Grammatiktheorie und Psycholinguistik. In: Wöllstein, Angelika et al. (Hrsg.) Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 9-46. DOI: 10.1515/9783110490992-002
- Graf, Tim / Philipp, Markus / Xiaonan, Xu / Kretzschmar, Franziska / Primus, Beatrice (2017): The interaction between telicity and agentivity: Experimental evidence from intransitive verbs in German and Chinese. Lingua, 84-106. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2017.08.006.
- Philipp, Markus / Graf, Tim / Kretzschmar, Franziska / Primus, Beatrice (2017): Beyond verb meaning: experimental evidence for incremental processing of semantic roles and event structure. Frontiers in Psychology, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01806
Key research areas
- Syntax, semantics and pragmatics
- Language typology
- Writing system
Current research projects
- Agentivity as a key to prominence: Experimental approaches to argument alternations in German.
Collaborative Research Centre 1252 – Prominence in Language. In cooperation with Markus Philipp. - Agentivity, Animacy and Telicity. Pragmatic inferences in intransitive clauses.
DFG priority program 1727 XPrag.de: New Pragmatic Theories based on Experimental Evidence. In cooperation with Markus Philipp.