Josef Bayer (Linguist)

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Josef Bayer (* 1950 in Dietfurt an der Altmühl ) is a German linguist and professor emeritus at the University of Konstanz , where he held the chair for general linguistics and German linguistics from 2000 to 2016 . His research focus is syntax including its role in human language processing.

Life

After his habilitation in theoretical linguistics in Konstanz, Bayert held visiting professorships in Düsseldorf and Vienna before he was appointed professor for general and German linguistics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where he worked from 1994 to 2000. He has been invited to the University of Verona as a visiting professor for several years.

Bayer's contributions to syntax are essentially assigned to the theoretical framework of generative grammar . With the article Comp in Bavarian Syntax from 1984, dialect syntax was integrated into a formal and comparative research framework for the first time. Since the 1990s, focus and modal particles as well as question sentences have also been a focus in his contributions to generative grammar theory

Bayer examined the importance of linguistic and psycholinguistic models for the theory of human language processing in papers on aphasic disorders and in experimental papers on time-bound language comprehension.

In an article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 2019, Bayer argued that the supposedly gender-appropriate redesign of the language is based on incorrect linguistic analyzes. Bayer occasionally acts as a guest author for Axis des Guten and Tichy's Insight .

Publications (selection)

  • Bader, M. & J. Bayer 2006. Case and Linking in Language Comprehension: Evidence from German . Berlin: Springer.
  • Bayer, J. 1984. COMP in Bavarian syntax. The Linguistic Review 3, 209-274.
  • Bayer, J. 1996. Directionality and Logical Form: On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  • Bayer, J. 2017. Prima la musica, dopo le parole: A small note on a big topic. In G. Sengupta et al. (eds.) Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax: Essays in Honor of R. Amritavalli . Singapore: Springer. 195-213.
  • Bayer, J. 2018. Criterial freezing in the syntax of particles. In J. Hartmann et al. (eds.). Freezing: Theoretical Approaches and Empitical Domains . Berlin & New York: de Gruyter. 225-263.
  • Bayer, J., M. Bader & M. Meng. 2001. Morphological underspecification meets oblique case: syntactic and processing effects in German. Lingua 111, 465-514.
  • Bayer, J. & LL-S. Cheng. 2017. Wh -in-situ. In M. Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk (eds.). The Blackwell Companion to Syntax . Oxford: Blackwell. 4979-5022.
  • Bayer, J. & P. ​​Dasgupta. 2016. Emphatic topicalization and the structure of the left periphery: Evidence from German and Bangla. Syntax : A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research 19, 309-353.
  • Bayer, J. & C. Friday 2020. How much verb moves to second position? In H. Lohnstein & A. Tsiknakis (eds.). Verb Second - Grammar Internal and Grammar External Interfaces. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter. 77-122.
  • Bayer, J., J. Haussler & M. Bader. 2016. A New Diagnostic for Cyclic Wh-Movement. Discourse Particles in German Questions. Linguistic Inquiry 47: 591-629.
  • Bayer, J., R. Hinterhölzl & A. Trotske. (eds.) 2015. Discourse-oriented Syntax . Amsterdam: John Benjamin.
  • Bayer J. & H.-G. On top. 2011. Discourse particles, clause structure, and question types. The Linguistic Review 28, 449-491.
  • Bayer, J. & V. Struckmeier. (eds.) 2017. Discourse Particles: Formal Approaches to their Syntax and Semantics . Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • Czypionka, A. & J. Bayer. 2018. Inverse Case Attraction: experimental evidence for a syntactically guided process. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics . 21: 135-188.
  • Hopf, J.-M., J. Bayer, M. Bader & M. Meng. 1998. Event-related brain potentials and case information in syntactic ambiguities. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 10: 2. 264-280.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monograph Directionality and Logical Form from 1996, as well as Bayer & Obenauer (2011), Bayer, Häussler & Bader (2016), Bayer, Hinterhölzl & Trotske (eds.) (2015) and Bayer & Struckmeier (eds.) (2017). A language focus in Bayer's work is Bengali (Bangla), s. Work on word order, questions and modal particles: Bayer (1996), Bayer & Cheng (2017), Bayer & Dasgupta (2016)
  2. ↑ Languages ​​always change - but never in the direction of nonsense . Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 10, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bayer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Dietfurt an der Altmühl