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Stefan Müller
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I am a linguist working at the @HumboldtUni. My main topics are German syntax and morphology. I am cofounder of @langscipress, a community-run open access […]

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When I retire, I will start a collection of versions of the Argument Realization Principle in HPSG.

This one (wrongly) predicts that only elements that are final in the ARG-ST can be extracted.
AVM for the Argument Realization Principle
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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New version of my paper on phrasal constructions in TAG.

https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009130

#grammatik #linguistik #argumentstruktur #cxg #konstruktionsgrammatik #ConstructionGrammar #HPSG #lexikalismus
Analysis of [dass] er ihm den Teich leer fischt ‘that he fishes the pond empty for him’, an example in which the benefactive and the resultative construction interact
October 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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This is really funny. In Chomskyan times, Chomsky revised his framework every three years so that all computational linguists got frustrated since it takes about three years to develop a computational system with certain basic assumptions. (talk to Ed Stabler or […]

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In Lakretz, Hupkes, et al. (2021), we proceeded to test the prediction both in LSTMs and with human subjects. We did indeed find the predicted inner/outer agreement asymmetry both in machines and (more weakly) in humans. This suggests that agreement might be implemented by means of sparse feature-carrying mechanisms in humans as well. Lakretz’ study took about four years to run. By the time it was completed, it presented a detailed analysis of a model, the LSTM, that many in NLP would find obsolete. Its focus on a single grammatical construction might look quaint, now that
July 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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2/ They produce unciteable webpages (no page number) and unreadable PDFs:

Perfectly typeset trees (vector graphics) and perfectly written glossed examples were turned into pixel graphics.
June 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I do not get it. Why should I (or my institution) pay for this? Why isn't it possible to read the normal PDFs online? Why do they put the cut out figures into their PDFs? Why this small font?

I guess the idea is that they want to sell the physical book to me. But […]

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May 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Published online 1986. You are a lair!
April 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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1/ I wonder why I wrote all my papers. Ok, at least they are cited, but then: why is all the content ignored. I developed a lexical analysis of Persian complex predicates in my paper. This can deal with all the cases that are cited in the piece below. There is no […]

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A long-lasting question has been whether Persian CPs are generated as lexical units or as phrases (Goldberg 1996, 2003; Folli et al. 2005; Müller 2010); in other words, whether they are the outcome of morphological or syntactic rules. If CPs are single lexical units, the internal structure of CPs should be inaccessible to syntactic rules (Steele 1989; Bresnan & Mchombo 1995; Booij 2007: 67), meaning that other elements should not separate the parts of a compound. This assumption, however, is in apparent contradiction with Persian CPs which can be easily separated by words belonging to various parts of speech (Megerdoomian 2012), such as the adverb in example (1), as well as adjectives, noun phrases, and prepositional phrases. Some scholars have argued, therefore, that CPs are in fact phrases (Karimi-Doostan 1997; Megerdoomian 2002, 2012). Karimi-Doostan (2011) claims that the morphosyntactic properties of the NVE are mainly responsible for CP separability and argues that only NVEs that are predicative nouns (e.g., komak‘help’ vs. non-predicative nouns like guš‘ ear’) can be separated from the verb. However, this argument fails according to Fleischhauer & Neisani (2020) who claim that separation is related to compositionality. They, however, limit their arguments to adjectives, suggesting that Persian CPs that are compositional (termed “light verb constructions ”) can be internally modified by adjectives.
April 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Wow. I am impressed by nolingsel.sty a #texlive package that deals with ligatures. Did not know how many ligatures are possible in principle.

I am quite good in spotting misplaced ligatures in German, but some effects in English are rather minimal. Do you see […]

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March 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Google Scholar assigns 73 citations of my textbook to a coauthored handbook article with a similar title. What do I do? Merge this item with the textbook item or leave it like this. If I leave it like this, my hindex is increased by one. Which is sort of sheeting […]

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March 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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From 2000 to 2003 I worked with the LKB and now I am looking at the ERG to see how some MRS things are done. It is fun to see the output. Something I worked a lot with back then.

#blastfromthepast #grammarengineering #grammar #linguistics
March 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Academia seems to have develeoped into a junk platform. It offers Dorothee Beerman's paper about infinitives under the label of political science and if you download the pdf you get some lecture notes by Peter Gallmann.

=:-(

I guess this would not change if you bought their premium package.
March 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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The fun of #typography back then.

The dots on the u in ü were drawn by hand. The trees as well.
February 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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2/ I wrote them an email. There was a drop down menu with one option and it did not fit my case. If there is only one option and it is obligatory that you chose it, why are they asking. =:-(

#cup
January 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Cambridge! I hate this! I want the complete book. Why do you offer single chapters in the first place? Talk to your customers. Really.

#cup
January 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Why are commercial publishers not able to provide #bibtex entries?

Find four mistakes in this item:

One is the div stuff. Why is it there? Is nobody checking the output of the code they are writing?
January 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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No! The fact that the paper ends on page 1445 was not counted among the five mistakes you are supposed to find. Bloody hell!

Dear computer scientists, the last page of a paper is not the first page of the next paper minus one. At least not always.
December 6, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Working with #degruyter is always fun. Find at least fife mistakes.

#bibtex
December 6, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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Are you interested in islands? This is a very carefully written book about #islands describing many experiments and debunking some myths about them. A must read for everybody working in Generative Grammar.

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/362

#syntax #grammar
November 15, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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2/ OK. I tried to write an article for them, but now they realized that they sent me an invitation to a wrong journal. =:-)

Maybe I mentioned the word #grammar too often.

#journalspam #spam
October 30, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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Yes! Now I can combine my two main interests: ecology and grammar theory. The journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences thinks that my paper on #HPSG and #ConstructionGrammar qualifies me to publish with them.

If I had more time, I would try to publish something […]

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October 29, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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This book will appear soon.

Werner Frey's book from 1993.

#degruyter
October 13, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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Hubert Haider: "If you cann't convince them, confuse them!"

https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008473
October 6, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Interesting. #science does not even provide paper titles any more. Strange.
September 26, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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The HPSG handbook is published for about three years now.

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/259

It has 35.000 downloads (complete book and chapters, robots excluded) and 500 citations. 44 citations of the main book.

This is not bad, is it? I guess this […]

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September 1, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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What are companies doing with standards? They break them. Why is #degruyter doing this?

https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=unified
July 16, 2024 at 1:19 PM