Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp

Professor of German Linguistics

Institute for German Language and Literature I
Albertus Magnus Platz
D-50923 Cologne

Office: Philosophikum, Room 2.119
Tel: +49 221 470-5235
Fax: +49 221 470- 5107
E-Mail: sophie.repp[xxx]uni-koeln.de

Office secretary: Karin Barber
Mail: Barber[xxx]uni-koeln.de
Tel.: +49 221 470-5226
Office: Philosophikum, Room 2.221

Recent Publications

• Ljudmila Geist & Sophie Repp (Subm.). Responding to negative biased questions in Russian. Proceedings of Formal Description of Slavic Languages 14.
• Ljudmila Geist & Sophie Repp (Subm.). Negative polar questions in Russian: Question bias and question concern.
• Katharina Schaebbicke, Heiko Seeliger & Sophie Repp (2021). The diverse landscape of negative polarity items: On the use of German NPIs as experimental diagnostics. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
• Repp, Sophie & Katharina Spalek (2021). The role of alternatives in language. Frontiers in Communication. 6:682009. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.682009.
• Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger (2020). Prosodic prominence in polar questions and exclamatives. Frontiers in Communication 5, Article 53, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00053
• Repp, Sophie & Volker Struckmeier (2020). Syntax. Eine Einführung. (Syntax. An Introduction). J.B. Metzler
• Loos, Cornelia, Markus Steinbach & Sophie Repp (2020). Affirming and rejecting assertions in German Sign Language (DGS). In: M. Franke et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. Vol. 2. Osnabrück University & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1–19.
• Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2020). Competing prominence requirements in verb-first exclamatives with contrastive and given information. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020. 1-4.
• Repp, Sophie (2020). The prosody of wh-exlamatives and wh-questions in German: speech act differences, information structure and sex of speaker. Language and Speech, 63(2) 306 –361. Online first: May 2019; https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919846147