Papers etc.

2024

Oliver Bott, Torgrim Solstad & Jens Michaelis. Processing Non-Culminating Accomplishments across Languages [ abstract , poster ]. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024), Rotterdam, July 24-27, 2024. Published version [ permalink ] appeared in: L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey & E. Hazeltine (eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 3319-3326, 2024.

2023

Oliver Bott, Matthias Schrumpf, Jens Michaelis & Torgrim Solstad. Are discourse expectations modulated by being linguistically creative? A production and perception study on Implicit Causality [ abstract ]. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023), Sydney, July 26-29, 2023. Published version [ permalink ] appeared in: M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes & D. C. Ong (eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 412-419, 2023.

2020

Hans-Martin Gärtner & Jens Michaelis. Verb Second declaratives, assertion, and disjunction revisited. Final version [ doi ] appeared in R. Woods & S. Wolfe (eds.), Rethinking Verb Second, pp. 281-296, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020.

2014

Makoto Kanazawa, Gregory M. Kobele, Jens Michaelis, Sylvain Salvati & Ryo Yoshinaka. The Failure of the Strong Pumping Lemma for Multiple Context-Free Languages [ abstract , pdf ]. Final version [ doi ] appeared in Theory of Computing Systems, 55(1):250-278, 2014.
Hans-Martin Gärtner & Jens Michaelis. In Defense of Generalized Wh-Clustering [ abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 46), Chicago, IL, April 8-10, 2010. A revised version appeared in: R. Baglini, T. Grinsell, J. Keane, A.R. Singerman & J. Thomas (eds.), CLS 46-1, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: The Main Session, pp. 137-146, The Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, 2014.

2012

Gregory M. Kobele & Jens Michaelis. CoTAGs and ACGs [ abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at the conference Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2012), Nantes, July 2-4, 2012. Revised version [ doi ] appeared in: D. Béchet & A. Dikovsky (eds.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, LNCS Vol. 7351, pp. 119-134, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.
Gregory M. Kobele & Jens Michaelis. On the Form-Meaning Relations Definable by CoTAGs [ abstract , pdf ]. Appeared in Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+11), Paris, pp. 207-213, ACL, 2012.
Tonio Wandmacher, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Uwe Mönnich, Jens Michaelis & Kai-Uwe Kühnberger. Adaptation of Ontological Knowledge from Structured Textual Data [ abstract , doi ]. Appeared in: A. Mehler, K.-U. Kühnberger, H. Lobin, H. Lüngen, A. Storrer und A. Witt (eds.), Modeling, Learning, and Processing of Text-Technological Data Structures, Studies in Computational Intelligence Vol. 370, pp. 129-153, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

2011

Makoto Kanazawa, Jens Michaelis, Sylvain Salvati & Ryo Yoshinaka. Well-Nestedness Properly Subsumes Strict Derivational Minimalism [ abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at the conference Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2011), Montpellier, June 29-July 2, 2011. Revised version [ doi ] appeared in: S. Pogodalla & J.-P. Prost (eds.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, LNCS/LNAI Vol. 6736, pp. 112-128, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.
Gregory M. Kobele & Jens Michaelis. Disentangling Notions of Specifier Impenetrability: Late Adjunction, Islands, and Expressive Power [ abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at the 12th Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL 12), Nara, September 6-8, 2011. Revised version [ doi ] appeared in: M. Kanazawa, A. Kornai, M. Kracht & H. Seki (eds.), The Mathematics of Language, LNCS/LNAI Vol. 6878, pp. 126-142, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

2010

Hans-Martin Gärtner & Jens Michaelis. On Modeling the Distribution of Declarative V2-Clauses. The Case of Disjunction. Appeared in S. Bab & K. Robering (eds.), Judgements and Propositions. Logical, Linguistic, and Cognitive Issues, pp. 11-25, Logos, Berlin, 2010.
Hans-Martin Gärtner & Jens Michaelis. On the Treatment of Multiple-Wh-Interrogatives in Minimalist Grammars. Appeared in T. Hanneforth & G. Fanselow (eds.), Language and Logos, pp. 339-366, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2010.

2009

Gregory M. Kobele & Jens Michaelis. Two Type 0-Variants of Minimalist Grammars [ abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at FG-MoL 2005, Edinburgh, August 5-7, 2005. Appeared in J. Rogers (ed.), Proceedings of FG-MoL 2005. The 10th conference on Formal Grammar and The 9th Meeting on Mathematics of Language, pp. 81-91, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 2009. Published within the CSLI Publications Online Proceedings series of FG Conferences.
Jens Michaelis. An Additional Observation on Strict Derivational Minimalism [abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at FG-MoL 2005, Edinburgh, August 5-7, 2005. Appeared in J. Rogers (ed.), Proceedings of FG-MoL 2005. The 10th conference on Formal Grammar and The 9th Meeting on Mathematics of Language, pp. 101-111, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 2009. Published within the CSLI Publications Online Proceedings series of FG Conferences.

2008

Hans-Martin Gärtner & Jens Michaelis. A Note on Countercyclicity and Minimalist Grammars [ abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at the Conference on Formal Grammar (FGVienna), Vienna, August 16-17, 2003. Appeared in G. Penn (ed.), Proceedings of FGVienna. The 8th Conference on Formal Grammar, pp. 95-109, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 2008. Published within the CSLI Publications Online Proceedings series of FG Conferences.

2007

Hans-Martin Gärtner & Jens Michaelis. Some Remarks on Locality Conditions and Minimalist Grammars. Appeared in U. Sauerland & H.-M. Gärtner (eds.), Interfaces + Recursion = Language? Chomsky's Minimalism and the View from Syntax and Semantics, pp. 161-195. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2007.
Hans-Martin Gärtner & Jens Michaelis. Locality Conditions and the Complexity of Minimalist Grammars. A Preliminary Survey. Appeared in Model-Theoretic Syntax at 10, Proceedings of the ESSLLI-Workshop, pp. 87-98. Dublin, August 13-17, 2007
Jens Michaelis & Uwe Mönnich. Towards a Logical Description of Annotation Graphs. Appeared in LDV Forum, 22:68-83, 2007.
Uwe Mönnich, Jens Michaelis, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Tonio Wandmacher & Kai-Uwe Kühnberger. Information extraction from annotation graphs serving for the adaptation of ontologies - position paper. Appeared in P. Geibel & B. Jain (eds.), LNVD 2007. Learning from Non-Vectorial Data, Proceedings of the KI-2007 Workshop, pp. 93-98. Osnabrück, September 10, 2007.

2005

Hans-Martin Gärtner & Jens Michaelis. A Note on the Complexity of Constraint Interaction: Locality Conditions and Minimalist Grammars [ abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at the conference Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2005), Bordeaux, April 28-30, 2005. Revised version [ doi ] appeared in: P. Blache, E. Stabler, J. Busquets & R. Moot (eds.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, LNCS/LNAI Vol. 3492, pp. 114-130, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

2002

Jens Michaelis. Implications of a Revised Perspective on Minimalist Grammars [ abstract , pdf ]. Draft, Potsdam University, 2002.
Jens Michaelis. Notes on the Complexity of Complex Heads in a Minimalist Grammar [ abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at the Sixth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+6), Venezia, May 20-24, 2002. Corrected version of the paper as it appeared in the workshop proceedings.

2001

Jens Michaelis. Observations on Strict Derivational Minimalism [ abstract ]. Paper presented at the FGMOL `01, joint conference of the sixth conference on Formal Grammar and the seventh meeting of the Association for Mathematics of Language, Helsinki, August 10-12, 2001. A somewhat extended and revised version [ pdf , doi ] appeared in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 53:192-209, 2004.
Jens Michaelis. On Formal Properties of Minimalist Grammars. Linguistics in Potsdam 13, Universitätsbibliothek, Publikationsstelle, Potsdam, 2001. [Dissertation] /* Requests for (hard)copies could now be sent directly to me */
Jens Michaelis. Transforming Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems into Minimalist Grammars [ abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at the conference Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2001), Le Croisic, June 27-29, 2001. Revised version [ doi ] appeared in P. de Groote, G. Morrill & C. Retoré (eds.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, LNCS/LNAI Vol. 2099, pp. 228-244, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2001.

2000

Hans-Peter Kolb, Jens Michaelis, Uwe Mönnich & Frank Morawietz. An Operational and Denotational Approach to Non-Context-Freeness [ abstract , pdf ]. Revised version [ doi ] appeared in Theoretical Computer Science, 293(2):261-289, 2003.
Jens Michaelis, Uwe Mönnich & Frank Morawietz. Algebraic Description of Derivational Minimalism [ abstract , pdf ]. Revised version appeared in Algebraic Methods in Language Processing, pp. 125-141. Proceedings of the 16th Twente Workshop on Language Technology (TWLT 16) joint with the 2nd AMAST Workshop on Language Processing, Iowa City, IA, May 20-22, 2000.
Jens Michaelis, Uwe Mönnich & Frank Morawietz. Derivational Minimalism in Two Regular and Logical Steps [ abstract , pdf ]. Appeared in Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+5), pp. 163-170, Paris, May 25-27, 2000.
Jens Michaelis, Uwe Mönnich & Frank Morawietz. On Minimalist Attribute Grammars and Macro Tree Transducers [ abstract , pdf ]. Revised version appeared in C. Rohrer, A. Rossdeutscher & H. Kamp (eds.), Linguistic Form and its Computation, CSLI Studies in Computational Linguistics, pp. 287-326, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 2001.

1999

Jens Michaelis. On Varieties of Minimalist Requirements [ abstract ]. Talk held at the workshop Komplexitätstheoretische Eigenschaften von Grammatikformalismen, Tübingen, June 18-19, 1999.
Jens Michaelis & Christian Wartena. LIGs with Reduced Derivation Sets. Appeared in G. Bouma, E. Hinrichs, G.-J.M. Kruijff & R.T. Oehrle (eds.), Constraints and Resources in Natural Language Syntax and Semantics, Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism, volume II, pp. 263-279, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 1999.

1998

Jens Michaelis. Derivational Minimalism Is Mildly Context-Sensitive [ abstract , pdf ]. Paper presented at the conference Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL '98), Grenoble, December 14-16, 1998. Revised version [ doi ] appeared in M. Moortgat (ed.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, LNCS/LNAI Vol. 2014, pp. 179-198, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2001.
Jens Michaelis & Christian Wartena. Unidirectional Inheritance of Indices. A Weakly Context Free Facet of LIGs [ abstract , ps ]. Appeared in G. Bouma, G.-J.M. Kruijff & R.T. Oehrle (eds.), Proceedings of the FHCG '98, pp. 258-267. Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Categorial Grammar. Saarbrücken, August 14-16, 1998.

1997

Jens Michaelis & Christian Wartena. How linguistic constraints on movement conspire to yield languages analyzable with a restricted form of LIGs [ abstract , ps ]. Appeared in G.-J.M. Kruijff, G.V. Morrill & R.T. Oehrle (eds.), Formal Grammar 1997. Linguistic Aspects of Logical and Computational Perspectives on Language, pp. 158-168. Proceedings of the Conference, Aix-en-Provence, August 9-10, 1997.

1996

Jens Michaelis & Marcus Kracht. Semilinearity as a Syntactic Invariant [ abstract , ps ]. Paper presented at the conference Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL '96), Nancy, September 23-25, 1996. Revised version [ doi ] appeared in C. Retoré (ed.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, LNCS/LNAI Vol. 1328, pp. 329-345, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1997.

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