Elisabeth Stark

Full Professor of Romance Linguistics

Romanisches Seminar
Zürichbergstrasse 8
CH - 8032 Zürich
+41 (0)44 634 41 60

Office ZUG F 33

estark@rom.uzh.ch

• Vice President Research, Junior Scholars and Innovation Vice President Research
• Member of the URPP "Language and Space" URPP "Language and Space"
• Member of the Zurich Center for Linguistics LiZZ 
• Collaborator of the NCCR "Evolving Language", Project "Reception", WP "ProsodytoMeaning"
• Member of the Competence centre "Language&Medicine" 
• Member of academia-net
• Member of the Digital Society Initiative
• Member of the Competence Center — Citizen Science
• Liaison professor ("Vertrauensdozent") for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Consultation hours:

• Appointments can be scheduled for Fridays. To schedule an appointment, please contact Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark (estark@rom.uzh.ch).

Navigation

• Interview with Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark and Simone Ueberwasser, M.A. on the corpus "What's Up, Switzerland? https://www.orca.nrw/content/d88767ab-dfca-44c0-b61e-ef37ffeadbe5#

• October 14, 2023: Presentation at the conference Par-delà la dialectologie : de l'étude de la variation vers la gestion de la complexité, Centre d'études francoprovençales René Willien, Saint-Nicolas (Aosta Valley), with Tabea Ihsane and David Gerards: "Présence/absence de marquage en nombre dans les syntagmes nominaux des langues romanes : quel rôle pour le DE en francoprovençal ?".

• September 26, 2023: Presentation at the Deutscher Romanistentag, University of Leipzig, with Tabea Ihsane: "Systems of 'number marking' and indefinite determiners in Romance" (Workshop: Präsenz und Virtualität von Determinierern in der Romania).

• June 8, 2023: Keynote lecture at the Colloque international: La catégorie du nombre: langues romanes, langues germaniques. Diachronie, synchronie, typologie, dialectologie, épistémologie, terminologie (PDF, 339 KB), Sorbonne Université, June 7-10 2023, Paris: „L’interaction entre le (marquage du) nombre et la détermination nominale dans le domaine de l’indéfini“. https://colloquenombre.wordpress.com
• July 18-20, 2022: Participation at the Association for French Language Studies Conference 2022, University of Exeter, with Delia Strebel and Tabea Ihsane: "Variation dans la détermination nominale en français oral : Fautes ou témoins de contact ?".
• July 5, 2022: Talk at the Linguistischen Kolloquium der Romanistik (LKR), Universität zu Köln: "Du message SMS au message WhatsApp: l'omission du sujet en 'diachronie courte' de l'écrit électronique mobile".

• June 2-3, 2022: Participation at the VI Wedisyn Meeting - Westmost Europe Dialect Syntax, University of Zurich, with Delia Strebel and Tabea Ihsane: "The distribution of partitive articles in quantity expressions and negative sentences with pas 'not' in colloquial Swiss French and neighboring Francoprovençal varieties".

• June 2, 2022: Elisabeth Stark gives a keynote lecture "Du message SMS au message WhatsApp: L'omission du sujet en 'diachronie courte' de la communication électronique mobile" at the Colloque international DIACHRO X – Le français en diachronie (PDF, 1 MB), Université Sorbonne (Paris), 31 May - 2 June 2022.

• The SINERGIA  project «MULTICAST A MULTIdisCiplinary Approach to prediction and treatment of Suicidality», in which Elisabeth Stark is a project partner, was approved by the SNSF in December 2021.
  PIs are Birgit Kleim (UZH MeF/PhF), Sebastian Olbrich (UZH, MeF), Guido Seiler (PhF), Katharina Schultebraucks (Columbia University Data Science Institute); the funding amount is 3'143'164 CHF.

• The flagship project  "STRESS", in which the chair of Elisabeth Stark is involved as an associated research group, was approved in November 2021 by the Hochschulmedizin Zürich (HMZ).

• Dr David Paul Gerards' dissertation on "Bare Partitives in Old Spanish and Old Portuguese", co-supervised by Elisabeth Stark, was awarded the prestigious Elise-Richter-Prize at the XXXVII Romanistentag in Augsburg (4-7 October 2021) after having previously been awarded the Faculty Prize of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Zurich. 

  

• December 2020: A UZH-HU collaborative project headed by Artemis Alexiadou (HU Berlin), Marianne Hundt and Elisabeth Stark (UZH) was newly approved: 'Indefinite definite articles in Romance and English' (IDARoE)

• In the context of the "Initiative Geisteswissenschaften", a video of an interview with Elisabeth Stark has been published: Vom Verständnis für Sprache(n).

• By July 2020, Elisabeth Stark has been elected as a liaison professor ("Vertrauensdozent") for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Germany's largest, oldest and most prestigious scholarship foundation). In this role, she mentors approximately 15 scholarship holders studying at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich.

• In the context of the podcast "Universities' responsibility in times of global distortions", a talk is newly published, with the contribution of Elisabeth Stark: "Linguistics discourse and health crises":
  https://tube.switch.ch/cast/videos/917fd12d-673f-4a08-965c-ee82526d97bd

• The Swiss WhatsApp corpus is online, available as open access resource and with more than 5 mio tokens in all four national languages of Switzerland, the only WhatsApp corpus of this kind. Please find the documentation and access to the corpus here.

• To appear: a special issue in the journal Linguistics: Shades of partitivity: Formal and areal properties. 

• Elisabeth Stark gives a keynote lecture at the next "Women in Big Data"-conference in Zürich, June 29-30, 2020, more information: https://www.wibd.ch ! postponed !

• With the project Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI) new laboratories for linguistic research are built at UZH. Link to the article in UZH-News, Website LiRI

Guest Lecture HS2019

• 28th November, 12:15 - 13:45 - KOL-F-123 - Luise Esher (CNRS): "Diversité et évolution du prétérit dans les parlers occitans"

Guest Lectures FS2019

• 09th April, 14:00 - 16:00, Heiko Hausendorf (UZH): "Interaktionslinguistik"
• 16th April, 14:00 -16:00, Crispin Thurlow (Universität Bern): "Discourse analysis" 

Guest Lectures HS2018

• 30th October, 14:15 - GLT-A-01 - Françoise Gadet (Paris Nanterre): "Le corpus MPF : nouvelles données, nouvelles questions"

Guest Lectures HS2017

• 30th November, 12:15 - KOL-F-123 - L'ordre des mots en français et les autres langues romanes: Prof. Pierre Larrivée (Caen), "Le français a-t-il jamais été une langue V2 ? Nouvelles perspectives des textes légaux".

Guest Lectures FS2017

• 7th March, 14:00 - ZUG-D31 - Grammaire et écriture: Prof. Dr. Trudel Meisenburg (Osnabrück), "A propos de l'évolution de l'orthographe française".
• 6th April, 12:15 - SOD-1-105 - UFSP Sprache und Raum: Prof. Dr. Anne Carlier (Lille), "The development of the partitive article in Romance: a typological perspective".

Guest Lectures HS2016

• 6th October, 12:15 - KOL-F-123 - Les langues romanes constituent-elles un 'type': Prof. ém. Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris), "Les créoles à base française sont-ils des langues romanes ?".
• 13th October - Prof. Federica Diémoz (Neuchâtel), "La pertinence des données graphiques non-standard pour la recherche grammaticale"
• 10th November, 16:15 - KOL-F-123 - Colloque URPP Language and Space: Prof. Luigi Rizzi (Geneva), "Intervention effects in adult grammars and language acquisition: theory and experimentation".
• 24th November, 12:15 - KOL-F-123 - Les langues romanes constituent-elles un 'type': Prof. Uli Reich (Berlin), "Romania Infinita: El problema del control tipológico de una familia histórica de lenguas".

Guest Lectures FS2016

• 23rd February, 14:00 - ZUG-D-31 - Prof. Giuliana Giusti (Venise), "Free not-so-free adjectival word order in Latin".
• 14th April, 12:15 - KOL-N-1 - La Référence: Prof. Klaus von Heusinger and Dr. Chiara Gianollo (Cologne), "Dereferentialisierung - von indefiniten Pronomen zu Polaritätsausdrücken".
• 19th April, 14:00 - ZUG-D-31 - La variation régionale du français: Prof. André Thibault (Paris), "La syntaxe du factitif en francophonie et ses corrélats en créole".

Guest Lectures HS2015

• 8th October, 12:15, ZUG-D31 - Prof. Ur Shlonsky (Genève), "Au sujet du sujet dans les langues romanes".
• 8th October, 16:15, KOL-F-123 - Prof. Naomi Baron (Washington D.C.), "The Real Linguistic Impact of Electronically-Mediated Communication. What changed, What Didn't".
• 27th October, 14:00, KO2-F-175 - Prof. Federica Diémoz (Neuchâtel),
• "La morphosyntaxe du système pronominal en francoprovençal : défis de la variation".

• Gabriela Soare-Länzlinger, Substitute for the chair of Elisabeth Stark
• Dr. Harald Völker, Research Associate for teacher training in linguistics (PHZH)
• Gabrielle Aguila-Multner, French (Assistant)
• Delia Strebel, French (Assistant)
• Claudia Neuhaus, French (Assistant)
• Sofia Koukas (Student Assistant)

Secretary

• Gabrielle Hess (ghess[at]rom.uzh.ch)

Collaborators in the project Distribution and Function of 'Partitive Articles' in Romance (DiFuPaRo): a microvariation analysis:

• Tabea Ihsane
• Tania Paciaroni

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark (1969) 

ShortCVStark (PDF, 49 KB)

1988-1994: Studies in Romance languages and German studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.

1993: State exam (for teaching at high schools) French / German.

Winter term 1993/1994: Masters degree in Romance Linguistics (Subject: "Mehrfache Herausstellungen nach links im Französischen". supervisor: Prof. Wolf-Dieter Stempel).

Summer term 1996: PhD in Romance Linguistics (Subject: "Voranstellungsstrukturen und topic-Markierung im Französischen mit einem Ausblick auf das Italienische", supervisor: Prof. Wolf-Dieter Stempel).

April 1994-1998: Researcher at the Department of Romance Linguistics at the University of Munich.

1998-2003: Research Assistant 

Summer 2003: "Habilitation" (post-doctoral research) in Romance linguistics, granting authorization to teach Romance Philology (thesis: "Indefinitheit und Textkohärenz in alttoskanischen Texten")

Winter 2003/2004: Substitute (Chair) at the Department of French and Italian at the Institute of Romance Studies at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin.

April 2004-January 2008: Full Professor of Romance Linguistics (emphasis on Italian Studies) at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Since February 2008: Full Professor of Romance Linguistics (specialising in French Linguistics)

• Morphosyntax of nominal expressions and its typological implications in Romance

• Language Change: Grammaticalization and reanalysis

• Spoken language description and problems of varieties and registers; language use in the new media (cf. http://www.sms4science.ch/).
• Syntax and syntactic theories: Word order and information structure, agreement phenomena within nominal expressions in synchrony and diachrony, syntax theories and their application to Romance languages

INVITED TALKS (SELECTION)

• 8.6.2023, Keynote lecture at the Colloque international: La catégorie du nombre: langues romanes, langues germaniques. Diachronie, synchronie, typologie, dialectologie, épistémologie, terminologie (PDF, 339 KB), Sorbonne Université, June 7-10 2023, Paris: „L’interaction entre le (marquage du) nombre et la détermination nominale dans le domaine de l’indéfini“. https://colloquenombre.wordpress.com

• 29.11.2022, with David Gerards, Research Colloquium: Latest developments in syntax, semantics and pragmatics, Universität Stuttgart: "Non-maximal definites in Romance (focus on Francoprovençal)" (PDF, 586 KB).
• 5.7.2022, Linguistisches Kolloquium der Romanistik (LKR), Universität zu Köln: "Du message SMS au message WhatsApp: l'omission du sujet en 'diachronie courte' de l'écrit électronique mobile".
• 3.6.2022, with Delia Strebel and Tabea Ihsane, VI Wedisyn Meeting - Westmost Europe Dialect Syntax, University of Zurich, June 2-3 2022: "The distribution of partitive articles in quantity expressions and negative sentences with pas 'not' in colloquial Swiss French and neighboring Francoprovençal varieties"
• 2.6.2022, Keynote lecture at the Colloque international DIACHRO X – Le français en diachronie (PDF, 1 MB), Université Sorbonne, 31 May - 2 June 2022, Paris: "Du message SMS au message WhatsApp : L’omission du sujet en ‘diachronie courte’ de la communication électronique mobile" (PDF, 1 MB)
• 1.12.2021, with David P. Gerards, Keynote lecture in the Workshop on Partitivity of the international conference "Going Romance", 1st and 2nd december 2021, Amsterdam (Tabea Ihsane, Petra Sleeman): "Non-maximal definites in Romance"
• 12.03.2021, with Harald Völker and Marie Burkhardt, Le plurilinguisme suisse sur le banc d'essai. Dialogue initié par le Romanisches Seminar de l'Université de Zurich en collaboration avec le Collegium Romanicum, online, "Enseignement du français langue étrangère : Littérature et 'plurigrammaticalisme'" (PDF, 1 MB)
• 08.07.2019, Talk at the academic celebration in honor of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolf-Dieter Stempels 90^th anniversary at Munich (LMU München), "Partitivausdrücke und Romanische Dialektologie reloaded: Eindrücke aus dem Frankoprovenzalischen".
• 26.10.2018, Linguistic Research Colloquium, Université de Lille (Anne Carlier), "Pourquoi des 'articles partitifs' dans les langues romanes? Approche morphologique comparative".
• 20.06.2018, 25^th LIPP-Symposium, Munich, "Digital French - a new variety?".
• 17.05.2018, Les formes réfléchies du verbe: construction et polyvalence, Fribourg (Prof. Richard Huyghe), "L'expression de la réciprocité dans trois langues romanes (Fribourg)" (PDF, 580 KB)
• 15.03.2018, Keynote at the Troisième colloque international DIA du français actuel - Le français innovant, Université Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Florence Lefeuvre), "Le français numérique – une variété innovante?" (PDF, 160 KB).
• 16.06.2017, RED2017, Bologna: The grammar of reference and quantification: functions, variation, and change (Profs. Klaus von Heusinger, Carla Gianollo), Critical assessment of Mario Squartini: "Romance indefinite determiners at the interface of quantification, reference and classification: troubles with plurals (and zeros)".
• 21.04.2017, with Kathrin Neuburger, International Workshop "Unité et diversité dans le marquage différentiel de l'objet", Inalco (Alexandru Mardale),  "Differential object marking in Corsican: The syntax of à"
• 15.03.2017, Forum Young Romance studies, Göttingen (Caroline Bacciu et al.), "'Romanische Sprachwissenschaft? Romanistische Linguistik? Romance linguistics? Oder doch Romance studies?' Transformationen einer Disziplin und Herausforderungen an ein neues Fach" Göttingen, Text (PDF, 559 KB) and Göttingen, Handout (PDF, 242 KB)
• 12.05.2016, PLIN Linguistic Day, Louvain (Amélie Cougnon), "The relevance of text messages for grammatical research"
• 10.05.2016, Research seminar of the Linguistic Department of the University of Geneva (Ur Schlonsky), "Is past participle agreement in French also a normative artefact?" (Genf, Handout) (PDF, 192 KB) 
• 18.07.2015, Keynote at the Journées PFC, Vienna (Elissa Pustka), 16-18th July 2015: "La grammaire normative face à la réalité d’usage – l’accord du participe passé dans les corpus oraux du français contemporain"
• 17.-19.06.2015, Keynote at the annual convention of the Association for French Language Studies, Caen (Pierre Larrivée): "Caractéristiques du français non-standard − ce qu'on croit et ce qu'on voit (dans les données)"
• 25./26.09.2014, Keynote at the international colloquium: "Les relations d'accord dans la syntaxe du français" - Université de Fribourg (Alain Berrendonner): "Règles et régularités de l'accord en français contemporain"
• 12.11.2013, University of Geneva, Linguistics Department (Tabea Ihsane): "Morphosyntactic Variation in a ‘Simplified Register’ (text messages): Between Universal Grammar and Register-Specific Phenomena"
• 24.10.2013, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, "Morphosyntax französischsprachiger SMS in der Schweiz: Stabilität und registerspezifische Variation" 
• 20.09.2012, Deutscher Frankoromanistentag, Leipzig: "Morphosyntax französischsprachiger SMS in der Schweiz: grammatische Variation und Stabilität"
• 07.09.2012, Colloquium "Réanalyses", Neuchatel: "Réanalyses dans la graphie – ‘l’écrit spontané’ des SMS et le statut des pronoms clitiques du français contemporain"
• 04.05.2012, Workshop, "Frequenza, forme e funzioni delle costruzioni scisse nelle lingue romanze e germaniche"
• 04.06.2012, "Frequency, Form and Function of Cleft Constructions in the Swiss SMS Corpus" in Basel.
• 15.03.2012, Seminar at the Centre of research for Cognition and Learning (CeRCA), Université de Poitiers (Josie Bernicot): "L'analyse morphosyntaxique SMS : variation et stabilité grammaticale"
• 16.01.2012, Colloquium of Romance Linguistics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Andreas Dufter): "What has (not) Changed in SMS-Writing - Grammar and the New Media"
• May 2011, Invited speaker at the International Workshop, Deixis and Pronouns in Romance languages at Copenhagen University: "Subject Clitics in French Text Messages? Does Technical Change Provoke and / or Reveal Linguistic Change?"
• December 2010, Invited Speaker (with Natascha Pomino) at the International Workshop on 'Approaches to the Lexicon': "Agreement Phenomena and NA / AN Combinations in Romance", Copenhagen.
• December 2010, invited to give a guest lecture "SMS4science.ch: the Swiss SMS Corpus - a Multilingual Challenge" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in co-operation with the doctoral program Linguistics (University of Zurich) and the LIPP (LMU).
• April 2009 (Prof. Dr. Marie-José Béguelin), guest lecture at the University of Neuchâtel: "La réciprocité dans les langues Romanes - les correlations - explanandum ou explanans  de la linguistique?"
• June 2008 (Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger), International Workshop / Symposium SFB 732/C2 "Case Variation", University of Stuttgart: "What is Marked by Differential Object Marking in Romance?"
• May 2008 (Dr. Ileana Comorovksi - Prof. Bernard Combettes), international colloquium "Les (in) Definis : du latin au français", ATILF (opening lecture): "La détermination et le rôle du genre : regard comparatif sur l'histoire des syntagmes nominaux indéfinis dans les langues romanes"
• Nov / Dec 2007 (Prof. Marcus Maia, Prof. Sonia Cyrino), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil: "The Role of the Plural System in Romance"
• April 2006 (Prof. Stephen Nichols), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA: "The Emergence of the PI System in Romance"
• April 2006 (Prof. Stephen Nichols), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA: "Boccaccio Writes History: Linguistics and Literary 'Key Texts' in Historical Grammar"

CONFERENCE LEADERSHIP AND ORGANISATION (selection)

• 01.12.2017, Left Periphery Reloaded (PDF, 751 KB) workshop in Zurich, with the contribution of Prof. Luigi Rizzi, University of Geneva, and organized by the ZüKL.
• 11.06.2017, Workshop "Bare nouns and partitive articles: Distangeling functions" with Tabea Ihsane in Zurich at the SLE 2017
• 25./26.11.2016, International Workshop "Partitivity and Language Contact" in Zurich, directed by Dr. Tabea Ihsane, David Paul Gerards and Prof. Elisabeth Stark.
• 15.06.2016, "MiMoGa" international workshop in Zurich, directed by Dr. Mathieu Avanzi, Dr. Benjamin Massot and Prof. Elisabeth Stark.
• 12.-14.06.2016, International congress "DIA-IV" took place in Zurich, directed by Prof. Johannes Kabatek, Prof. Martin Glessgen, Dr. Harald Völker and Prof. Elisabeth Stark.
• 12./13.12.2014, International Exploratory Workshop "Partitivity in Romance and Beyond" (funded by SNSF) in Zurich, directed by Dr. Giorgio Iemmolo and Prof. Elisabeth Stark.
• 05./06.12.2014, 5^th and concluding colloquium of the Sinergia project "SMS Communication in Switzerland: Facets of Linguistic Variation in a Multilingual Country" under the heading "Language Contact and Grammatical Variation in Swiss Text Messages", directed by Prof. Elisabeth Stark. Please find more information here: Program SMS Workshop 5 (PDF, 137 KB)
• 16./17.12.2013, Workshop on "Mass vs. Count in Romance and Germanic Languages"  - Collaborative Research Pole "Language and Space" (SPuR), University of Zurich. http://www.spur.uzh.ch/veranstaltungen.html#5
• 22.-27.07.2013, 19^th International Congress of Linguists conference taking place in Geneva, Prof. Elisabeth Stark ran a workshop on "Register variation and syntactic theory" along with Liliane Haegeman (Ghent), and Tim Stowell, (UCLA): www.cil19.org/en/workshops/register-variation-and-syntactic-theory
• 24./25.02.2012, Workshop on "Negation and Clitics in Romance"
• 28.06.2011, the Swiss National Science Foundation awarded a CHF 1.7 million grant over three years to run a Sinergia project: "SMS communication in Switzerland: Facets of linguistic variation in a multilingual country". Main applicant: Elisabeth Stark (University of Zurich). Co-applicants: Christa Dürscheid, Matthias Grunert (UZH); Marie-José Béguelin, Simona Pekarek Doehler (Université de Neuchâtel); Bruno Moretti (University of Bern); Beat Siebenhaar (University of Leipzig). This grant allows us to carry out research on the grammatical properties of Swiss SMS, the linguistic structure of SMS in the dialects of Switzerland, and an exploration of code switching in Swiss SMS. A total of 7 PhD students have been funded for three years; along with the project leaders and their international partners, they will develop key findings about the linguistic properties of this ubiquitous form of communication in Switzerland. Further information can be obtained from Elisabeth Stark or the project coordinator, Charlotte Meisner. http://www.sms4science.ch/
• 08./09.10.2010, Workshop on "Mismatches" for NEREUSnetwork members at the Romance Department of the University of Zurich.
• 18.-21.03.2009, together with Prof. Natascha Pomino (Zurich), Prof. Elisabeth Stark led the session "El sincretismo en la gramática del español " at the 17^th German Hispanistentag at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
• 31.10.2008, Prof Elisabeth Stark initiated and guided the first international Día de lingüística iberoamericana at the Romance Studies Department, University of Zurich (partially funded by UZH’s University Foundation)
  Día de Lingüística (23.5KB) 
• 02.2005, together with Prof. Leiss (LMU Munich), International workshop at the 27^th Annual Meeting of the DGfS in Cologne: "Origin and Function of Nominal Determination".
• 10.2004, together with Prof. Georg Kaiser (Konstanz) and Prof. Klaus von Heusinger (Stuttgart), International Workshop NEREUS II at the Freie University of Berlin: "Specificity and the Evolution / Emergence of Nominal Determination Systems in Romance"
• 10.2001, Workshop, together with Prof. Wandruszka (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), at the XXVII. German Romanistentag, Munich, on "Syntactic Theories: Models, Methods, Motives".

Editorial boards of Langages and Linguisticae Investigationes, and of the book series Linguistische Arbeiten (Mouton de Gruyter) and Orbis Romanicus. Studia philologica Monacensia (Tübingen: Narr).

BOOKS/CORPORA:

Ihsane, Tabea / Stark, Elisabeth (Eds.) (2020), Shades of Partitivity: Formal and areal properties, in: Linguistics 58 (3) (Special issue).

Stark, Elisabeth / Ueberwasser, Simone / Göhring, Anne (2014-2020), Korpus “What’s up, Switzerland?”, University of Zurich, www.whatsup-switzerland.ch.

Massot Benjamin / Stark, Elisabeth et al. (Eds.) (2018), in: Lingvisticæ Investigationes 41 (1).

Dufter, Andreas / Stark, Elisabeth (Eds.) (2017), Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter ('Manuals of Romance Linguistics', 17).

Stark, Elisabeth / Ruef, Beni / Ueberwasser, Simone (2009-2014), Swiss SMS Corpus. University of Zurich.  https://sms.linguistik.uzh.ch

Stark, Elisabeth / Meisner, Charlotte / Völker, Harald (Eds.) (2014a), "Negation and Clitics in French: Interaction and Variation", in: Journal of French Language Studies 24 (1) (Special issue). Journal of French Language Studies 24 (1)

Stark, Elisabeth / Meisner, Charlotte / Völker Harald (Eds.) (2014b), “Jespersen revisited: Negation in Romance and beyond”, in: Lingua 147 (Special issue).

Glaser, Elvira / Kolmer, Agnes / Meyer, Martin / Stark, Elisabeth (Eds.) (2014c), Sprache(n) verstehen, Zürich: vdf Hochschulverlag.  Sprache(n) verstehen

Stark, Elisabeth / Pomino, Natascha (Eds.) (2011a), El sincretismo en la gramática del español, Madrid/Frankfurt a.M.: Vervuert ('Lingüística Iberoamericana', 43).

Stark, Elisabeth / Pomino, Natascha (Eds.) (2011b), Proceedings of the V NEREUS International Workshop “Mismatches in Romance”, Konstanz: Universität Konstanz ('Arbeitspapiere / Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft', 125).

Stark, Elisabeth / Schmidt-Riese, Roland / Stoll, Eva (Eds.) (2008), Romanische Syntax im Wandel, Tübingen: Narr.

Stark, Elisabeth / Abraham, Werner / Leiss, Elisabeth (Eds.) (2007), Nominal Determination.Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins ('Studies in Language Companion Series', 89).

Stark, Elisabeth (2006), Indefinitheit und Textkohärenz. Entstehung und semantische Strukturierung indefiniter Nominaldetermination im Altitalienischen, Tübingen: Niemeyer ('Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie', 336).

von Heusinger, Klaus / Kaiser, Georg A. / Stark, Elisabeth (Eds.) (2005), Specificity and the evolution/emergence of nominal determination systems in Romance. Selected papers from the international workshop NEREUS II, October 2004 in Berlin, Konstanz: Universität Konstanz ('Arbeitspapiere / Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft', 119).

Stark, Elisabeth / Wandruszka, Ulrich (Eds.) (2003), Syntaxtheorien: Modelle, Methoden, Motive, Tübingen: Narr ('Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik', 469).

Stark, Elisabeth (1997), Voranstellungsstrukturen und topic-Markierung im Französischen. Mit einem Ausblick auf das Italienische, Tübingen: Narr ('Romanica Monacensia', 51). 

ARTICLES:

Davatz, Jan / Stark, Elisabeth (accepted a), "Romanian niște between non-specific and specific interpretations", in: Rosemeyer, Malte et al. (Eds.), Romance Indefinites: From Semantics to Pragmatics, Berlin: Language Science Press.

Stark, Elisabeth / Stuntebeck, Franziska (accepted b), “L’omission des arguments verbaux dans les messages WhatsApp suisses. Les nouveaux médias et la notion de variété”, in: Gadet, Françoise et al. (Eds.), Actes du colloque DIA V, Paris 2018, Presses Chambéry: Universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc (PUSMB).

Binder, Larissa / Stark, Elisabeth / Ueberwasser, Simone (accepted c), "Gendered Hate Speech in Swiss WhatsApp Messages“, in: Giusti, Giuliana / Iannàccaro, Gabriele (Eds.), LIGHTS 2018. Selected Proceedings: Linguaggio, parità di Genere e parole d’odio/Language, Gender and HaTe Speech, Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari. https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/ 

Ihsane, Tabea / Winistörfer, Olivier / Stark, Elisabeth (2023a), "Francoprovençal: a spatial analysis of 'partitive articles' and potential correlates in Swiss and Italian varieties", in: Isogloss 9 (1)/4, 1-30.https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.257

Binder, Larissa / Stark, Elisabeth (2023b), "Differential object marking in French: myth or reality?", in: Irimia, Monica Alexandrina / Mardale, Alexandru (Eds.), Differential Object Marking in Romance. Towards microvariation, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins ('Linguistik Aktuell', 280), 56-84. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.280.03bin

Davatz, Jan / Ihsane, Tabea / Stark, Elisabeth (2023c), "Enquêtes dialectologiques à Evolène : les articles dits 'partitifs' et leurs équivalents", in: Aquino-Weber, Dorothée / Cotelli Kureth, Sara / Kristol, Andres / Reusser-Elzingre, Aurélie (Eds.), « Coum’on étèila que kòoule… Come una stella cadente… Comme une étoile filante… ». Mélanges à la mémoire de Federica Diémoz, Genève: Droz ('Recueil de travaux publiés par la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines'), 65-85.

Homan, Stephanie / Gabi, Marion / Klee, Nina / Bachmann, Sandro / Moser, Ann-Marie / Duri, Martina / Michel, Sofia / Bertram, Anne-Marie / Maatz, Anke / Seiler, Guido / Stark, Elisabeth / Kleim, Birgit (2022a), "Linguistic features of suicidal thoughts and behaviors: A systematic review, in: Clinical Psychology Review 95.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2022.102161

Stark, Elisabeth / Gerards, David (2022b), "Zum Geburtstag viel Glück – weak and not so weak definites in German", in: Gianollo, Chiara / Jędrzejowski, Łukasz / Lindemann, Sofiana I. (Eds.), Paths through meaning and form: Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Cologne, 232-235. "Zum Geburtstag viel Glück – weak and not so weak definites in German" (PDF, 144 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2022c), "Warum es nur eine Linguistik gibt. Keine Interdisziplinarität ohne starke Disziplinen", in: Brommer, Sarah / Roth, Kersten Sven / Spitzmüller, Jürgen (Eds.), Brückenschläge. Linguistik an den Schnittstellen, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (‘Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik’, 583), 19-38.  https://elibrary.narr.digital/book/10.24053/9783823395188

Stark, Elisabeth (2022d), “Hanging Topics and Frames in the Romance Languages: Syntax, Discourse, Diachrony”, in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.  https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.652

Chantal, Oderbolz / Stark, Elisabeth / Meyer, Martin (2022e), "Neural Signatures of Prosodic Processing", in: Ravignani, Andrea et al. (Eds.), The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE). Kanazawa, Japan 2022, Nijmegen: JCoLE. 562-565.  https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3398549_9/component/file_3405708/content

Gerards, David P. / Stark, Elisabeth (2022f), "Non-Maximal Definites in Romance", in: Isogloss 8(5)/5, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.236

Haegeman, Liliane / Stark, Elisabeth (2021a), “Register-specific subject omission in English and French and the syntax of coordination", in: Wolfe, Sam / Meklenborg, Christine (Eds.), Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 15-43. "Register-specific subject omission in English and French and the syntax of coordination" (PDF, 184 KB)

Review: Medicom, Pierre-Yves (2022), "Review of Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance", in: Linguist List 33.547. "Review of Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance"

Davatz, Jan / Stark, Elisabeth (2021b), “Niște en roumain – quantifieur ou déterminant ?”, in: Schøsler, Lene / Härmä, Juhani (Eds.) (in collaboration with Jan Lindschouw), Actes du XXIXe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes (Copenhague, 1-6 juillet 2019), Strasbourg: Éditions de Linguistique et de Philologie ('Bibliothèque de Linguistique Romane', 17,1), 401-414. "Nişte en roumain – quantifieur ou déterminant ?"

Stark, Elisabeth / Binder, Larissa (2021c), “L'inversion du sujet clitique en français oral : ultime apanage des interrogatives ?”, in: Langue française 212 (Variantes formelles de l'interrogation, numéro spécial dirigé par Pierre Larrivée et Alexander Guryev), 25-40.

Stark, Elisabeth / Davatz, Jan (2021d), "Unexpected Partitive Articles in Francoprovençal", in: Studia Linguistica 76 (1) (special issue edited by Francesco Pinzin and Cecilia Poletto), 101-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/stul.12186

Kliesch, Maria / Pfenninger, Simone / Wieling, Martijn / Stark, Elisabeth / Meyer, Martin (2021e), "Cognitive Benefits of Learning Additional Languages in Old Adulthood? Insights from an Intensive Longitudinal Intervention Study", in: Applied Linguistics, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab077

Stark, Elisabeth (2020a), “Le français numérique n'est pas innovant – le cas des ellipses syntaxiques”, in: Diémoz, Federica / Dostie, Gaétane / Haderman, Pascale / Lefeuvre, Florence (Eds.), Le français innovant,  Bern et al.: Lang, 184-203. "Le français numérique n'est pas innovant - le cas des ellipses syntaxiques" (PDF, 610 KB)

Ihsane, Tabea / Stark, Elisabeth (2020b), “Introduction”, in: Ihsane, Tabea / Stark, Elisabeth (Eds.), Shades of Partitivity: Formal and areal properties, in: Linguistics 58 (3) (Special issue), 605-619. "Introduction: Shades of partitivity: Formal and areal properties" (PDF, 1 MB)

Stark, Elisabeth / Widmer, Paul (2020c), “Breton a-marking of (internal) verbal arguments: A result of language contact?”, in: Ihsane, Tabea / Stark, Elisabeth (Eds.), Shades of Partitivity: Formal and areal properties, in: Linguistics 58 (3) (Special issue), 745-766. "Breton a-marking of (internal) verbal arguments: A result of language contact?"

Gerards, David / Stark, Elisabeth (2020d), “Why ‘Partitive Articles’ Do Not Exist in (Old) Spanish”, in: Ihsane, Tabea (Ed.), Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article, Leiden/Boston: Brill ('Syntax and Semantics', 43), 105-139. "Why 'Partitive Articles' Do Not Exist in (Old) Spanish" (PDF, 772 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth / Gerards, David (2020e), “‘Partitive Articles’ in Aosta Valley Francoprovençal – Old Questions and New Data”, in: Ihsane, Tabea (Ed.), Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article, Leiden/Boston: Brill ('Syntax and Semantics', 43), 301-334. "'Partitive Articles' in Aosta Valley Francoprovençal – Old Questions and New Data" (PDF, 749 KB)

Georgi, Doreen / Stark, Elisabeth (2020f), “Past participle agreement in French – one or two rules?”, in: Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier / Pomino, Natascha / Remberger, Eva-Maria (Eds.), Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter ('Linguistische Arbeiten', 576), 19-47. "Past participle agreement in French - one or two rules?" (PDF, 372 KB)

Ruzsics, Tatyana / Lusetti, Massimo / Göhring, Anne / Samardžić, Tanja / Stark, Elisabeth (2019a), “Neural text normalization with adapted decoding and POS features”, in: Natural Language Engineering 25 (5), 585-605. "Neural text normalization with adapted decoding and PoS features" (PDF, 450 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2019b), “‘Romance linguistics’ oder ‘Romance studies'? Transformationen einer Disziplin und Herausforderungen an ein neues Fach”, in: Bacciu, Caroline / Cárdenas Isasi, Jaime / Dreyer, Antje / Gottschalk, Aenne / Ordóñez, Ximena / Troncoso, Ana (Eds.), Transformationen. Wandel, Bewegung, Geschwindigkeit. Contributions to the XXXIII. Forum Junge Romanistik in Göttingen (15.-17. March 2017), Göttingen: AVM-Verlag, 41-50. "'Romance linguistics' oder 'Romance studies'? Transformationen einer Disziplin und Herausforderungen an ein neues Fach" (PDF, 355 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2019c), “Kommentar zum Beitrag von Jörg Dünne“, in: Bacciu, Caroline / Cárdenas Isasi, Jaime / Dreyer, Antje / Gottschalk, Aenne / Ordóñez, Ximena / Troncoso, Ana (Eds.), Transformationen. Wandel, Bewegung, Geschwindigkeit. Contributions to the XXXIII. Forum Junge Romanistik in Göttingen (15.-17. March 2017), Göttingen: AVM-Verlag, 55-57. "Kommentar zum Beitrag von Jörg Dünne" (PDF, 311 KB)

Pomino, Natascha / Stark, Elisabeth (2019d), “Proper name-marking via liaison in French”, in: Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 72 (4), 627-652.

Stark, Elisabeth / Robert-Tissot, Aurélia / Frick, Karina (2018a), “Determiner Ellipsis in Electronic Writing – Discourse or Syntax?”, in: Gärtig, Anne-Kathrin / Bauer, Roland / Heinz, Matthias (Eds.), Pragmatik – Diskurs – Kommunikation. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Gudrun Held, Wien: Praesens, 186-198. "Determiner Ellipsis in Electronic Writing - Discourse or Syntax?" (PDF, 276 KB)

Massot, Benjamin / Stark, Elisabeth (2018b), “Microvariation morphosyntaxique galloromane: Enjeux et défis”, in: Lingvisticæ Investigationes 41 (1) (Special issue), 1-15.

Cardinaletti, Anna / Laca, Brenda / Stark, Elisabeth / Van Peteghem, Marleen (2018c), “Morfologia e Sintassi - Presentazione”, in: Antonelli, Roberto / Glessgen, Martin / Videsott, Paul (Eds.), Atti del XXVIII Congresso internazionale di linguistica e filologia romanza (Roma, 18-23 luglio 2016), vol. 1, Strasbourg: Éditions de Linguistique et de Philologie, 515-525. "Morfologia e sintassi - Présentation" (PDF, 578 KB)

Lusetti, Massimo / Ruzsics, Tatyana / Göhring, Anne / Samardžić, Tanja / Stark, Elisabeth (2018d), “Encoder-Decoder Methods for Text Normalization”, in: Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA), Association for Computational Linguistics, 18-28. "Encoder-Decoder Methods for Text Normalization" (PDF, 308 KB) 

Stark, Elisabeth (2018e), “Sprache, Grammatik, Variation – viticulture linguistique”, in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch 69, 96-118. https://doi.org/10.1515/roja-2018-0004

Stark, Elisabeth (2017a), “Pertinence de l'analyse grammaticale en linguistique variationnelle”, in: Langage & Société 160-161 (2), 283-298. "Pertinence de l'analyse grammaticale en linguistique variationnelle" (PDF, 206 KB)

Dufter, Andreas / Stark, Elisabeth (2017b), “Introduction”, in: Dufter, Andreas / Stark, Elisabeth (Eds.), Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax ('Manuals of Romance Linguistics', 17), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 1-24.

Stark, Elisabeth / Ueberwasser, Simone (2017c), “What’s up, Switzerland? Language, Individuals, and Ideologies in mobile messaging”, in: Babylonia 2, 64-65. "What's up, Switzerland? Language, Individuals, and Ideologies in Mobile Messaging" (PDF, 726 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth / Ueberwasser, Simone (2017d), “What’s up, Switzerland? A corpus-based research project in a multilingual country”, in: Linguistik Online 84 (5). "What's up, Switzerland? A corpus-based research project in a multilingual country"

Stark, Elisabeth / Robert-Tissot, Aurélia (2017e), “Subject drop in Swiss French text messages”, in: Linguistic Variation 17 (2) (Register Variation and Syntactic Theory, special issue edited by Diane Massam and Tim Stowell), 251-271. "Subject drop in French text messages" (PDF, 330 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth / Meier, Petra (2017f), “Argument Drop in Swiss WhatsApp Messages. A Pilot Study on French and (Swiss) German”, in: Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur 127 (3), 224-252."Argument Drop in Swiss WhatsApp Messages. A Pilot Study on French and (Swiss) German" (PDF, 346 KB)

Avanzi, Mathieu / Stark, Elisabeth (2017g), “A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French object clitic clusters”, in: Belgian Journal of Linguistics 31 (1), 76-103. "A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French object clitic clusters" (PDF, 288 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2016a), “Relative Clauses”, in: Ledgeway, Adam / Maiden, Martin (Eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1029-1040.

Stark, Elisabeth (2016b), “Nominal morphology and semantics – Where’s gender (and ‘partitive articles’) in Gallo-Romance?”, in: Fischer, Susann / Navarro, Mario (Eds.), Proceedings of the VII Nereus International Workshop "Clitic Doubling and other issues of the syntax/semantic interface in Romance DPs". Konstanz: Universität Konstanz ('Arbeitspapiere / Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft', 128), 131-149. "Nominal morphology and semantics – Where's gender (and 'partitive articles') in Gallo-Romance?" (PDF, 1 MB)

Pomino, Natascha / Stark, Elisabeth (2016c), “Plural marking in French NA/AN combinations: What liaison can tell us”, in: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 35 (2), 137-169. "Plural marking in French NA/AN combinations: What liaison can tell us"

Stark, Elisabeth (2015a), “‘De l’oral dans l’écrit’? – Le statut variationnel des SMS (textos) et leur valeur pour la recherche linguistique”, in: Kragh, Kirsten J. / Lindschouw, Jan (Eds.), Les variations diasystématiques et leurs interdépendances dans les langues romanes. Actes du Colloque DIA II à Copenhague (19-21 nov. 2012), Strasbourg: Éditions de Linguistique et de Philologie, 395-405. "'De l'oral dans l’écrit'? – Le profil variationnel des SMS (textos) et leur valeur pour la recherche linguistique" (PDF, 221 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2015b), “L’accord du participe passé dans la langue standard et en français vernaculaire”, FRACOV, Paris: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Index FRACOV

Meisner, Charlotte / Robert-Tissot, Aurélia / Stark, Elisabeth (2015c), “L’absence et la présence du ne de négation”, in Encyclopédie Grammaticale du Français. EGF

Stark, Elisabeth / Meisner, Charlotte / Völker, Harald (2014a), “Introduction to the special issue: ‘Negation and Clitics in French: Interaction and Variation’”, in: Stark, Elisabeth / Meisner, Charlotte / Völker, Harald (Eds.), Negation and Clitics in French: Interaction and Variation, in: Journal of French Language Studies 24 (1) (Special issue), 1-7.

Neuburger, Kathrin A. / Stark, Elisabeth (2014b), “Differential Object Marking in Corsican: Regularities and triggering factors”, in: Linguistics 52 (2), 365-389.

Stark, Elisabeth (2014c), reprint of Stark 2012, in: Cougnon, Louise-Amélie / Fairon, Cédrick (Eds.), SMS communication. A linguistic approach, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 191-215.

Stark, Elisabeth (2014d), “Frequency, form and function of Cleft constructions in the Swiss SMS corpus”, in: De Cesare, Anna-Maria (Ed.), Frequency, Forms and Functions of Cleft Constructions in Romance and Germanic. Contrastive, Corpus-Based Studies, Berlin/Munich/Boston: de Gruyter, 325-344.

Stark, Elisabeth (2014e), “Réanalyses dans la graphie : ‛l’écrit spontané’ dans les SMS et le statut des pronoms clitiques du français contemporain”, in: Langages 196, 131-148. "Réanalyses dans la graphie – 'l'écrit spontané' des SMS et le statut des pronoms clitiques du français contemporain" (PDF, 419 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2013a), “Clitic subjects in French text messages: Does technical change provoke and/or reveal linguistic change?”, in: Kragh, Kirsten J. / Lindschouw, Jan (Eds.), Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 147-169. "Clitic subjects in French text messages: Does technical change provoke and/or reveal linguistic change?" (PDF, 226 KB)

Dürscheid, Christa / Stark, Elisabeth (2013b), “Anything goes? SMS, phonographisches Schreiben und Morphemkonstanz”, in: Neef, Martin / Scherer, Carmen (Eds.), Die Schnittstelle von Morphologie und geschriebener Sprache, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter ('Linguistische Arbeiten', 551), 189-209. "Anything goes? SMS, phonographisches Schreiben und Morphemkonstanz" (PDF, 160 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth / Riedel, Isabelle (2013c), “L’accord du participe passé dans les SMS francophones du corpus SMS suisse”, in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch 63 (1), 116–138. "L’accord du participe passé dans les SMS francophones du corpus SMS suisse" (PDF, 2 MB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2012), “Negation marking in French text messages”, in: Lingvisticæ Investigationes 35 (2), 341-366.

Stark, Elisabeth (2011a), “Fonction et développement du marquage différentiel de l'objet direct (MDO) en roumain, en comparaison avec l'espagnol péninsulaire”, in: Société de Linguistique de Paris (Ed.), Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 19: L'évolution grammaticale à travers les langues romanes, Leuven: Peeters, 35-61. "Fonction et développement du marquage différentiel de l'objet direct (MDO) en roumain, en comparaison avec l'espagnol péninsulaire" (PDF, 324 KB)

Pomino, Natascha / Stark Elisabeth (2011b), “Introducción. ¿Una forma + varias funciones = sincretismo?”, in: Stark, Elisabeth / Pomino, Natascha (Eds.), El sincretismo en la gramática del español, Madrid/Frankfurt a.M.: Vervuert ('Lingüística Iberoamericana', 43), 9-28. "Introducción. ¿Una forma + varias funciones = sincretismo?" (PDF, 510 KB)

Dürscheid, Christa / Stark, Elisabeth (2011c), “sms4science: An International Corpus-Based Texting Project and the Specific Challenges for Multilingual Switzerland”, in: Thurlow, Crispin / Mroczek, Kristine (Eds.), Digital Discourse. Language in the New Media, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 299-320. "SMS4science: An international corpus-based texting project and the specific challenges for multilingual Switzerland" (PDF, 2 MB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2011d), “L’expression de la réciprocité dans trois langues romanes”, in: Mayerthaler, Eva / Pichler, Claudia E. / Winkler, Christian (Eds.), Was grammatische Kategorien miteinander machen. Festschrift für Ulrich Wandruszka, Tübingen: Narr ('Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik', 527), 183-199. "L’expression de la réciprocité dans trois langues romanes" (PDF, 128 KB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2011e), “La morphosyntaxe dans les SMS suisses francophones: Le marquage de l’accord sujet – verbe conjugué”, in: Linguistik online 48 (4). La morphosyntaxe dans les SMS suisses francophones

Mensching, Guido / Stark, Elisabeth (2011f), Zur Rezension von Frank Jablonka zu Noam Chomsky (2010): Raison et liberté. Sur la nature humaine, l'éducation et le rôle des intellectuels. Préface de Jacques Bouveresse. Paris: Édition Agone, in: PhiN: Philologie im Netz 54/2010, 60-61, in: PhiN 57, 85-86. 

Stark, Elisabeth / Pomino, Natascha (2010), “How the Latin neuter pronominal forms became markers of non-individuation in Spanish”, in: Stathi, Katerina / Gehweiler, Elke / König, Ekkehard (Eds.), Grammaticalization : Current Views and Issues, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins ('Studies in Language Companion Series', 119), 273-293. "How the Latin neuter pronominal forms became markers of non-individuation in Spanish" (PDF, 2 MB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2009a), “Romance restrictive relative clauses between macrovariation and universal structures”, in: PhiN: Philologie im Netz 47, 1-15. [http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin47/p47t1.htm]

Stark, Elisabeth (2009b), “Neutrum und Individuum: Zentrale Konzepte in der Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen”, in: Romanische Forschungen 121 (3), 273-319. "Neutrum und Individuum: Zentrale Konzepte in der Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen" (PDF, 7 MB)

Stark, Elisabeth / Pomino, Natascha (2009c), “Adnominal Adjectives in Romance. Where Morphology seemingly meets Semantics”, in: Espinal, María T. / Leonetti, Manuel / McNally, Louise (Eds.), Proceedings of the IV Nereus International Workshop “Definiteness and DP Structure in Romance Languages”, Konstanz: Universität Konstanz ('Arbeitspapiere / Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft', 124) 113-135. "Adnominal Adjectives in Romance. Where Morphology seemingly meets Semantics" (PDF, 3 MB)

Stark, Elisabeth / Pomino, Natascha (2009d), “Losing the ‘neuter’: The case of the Spanish demonstratives”, in: Probus 21 (2), 217-247. "Losing the 'neuter': The case of the Spanish demonstratives" (PDF, 3 MB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2008a), “The role of the plural system in Romance”, in: Detges, Ulrich / Waltereit, Richard (Eds.), The Paradox of Grammatical Change. Perspectives from Romance, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins ('Current Issues in Linguistic Theory', 293), 57-84. "The role of the plural system in Romance" (PDF, 6 MB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2008b), “Typological correlations in nominal determination in Romance”, in: Müller, Henrik Høeg / Klinge, Alex (Eds.), Essays on Nominal Determination. From morphology to discourse management, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins ('Studies in Language Companion Series', 99), 45-61. "Typological correlations in nominal determination in Romance" (PDF, 3 MB)

Dufter, Andreas / Stark, Elisabeth (2008c), “Double indirect object marking in Spanish and Italian”, in: Seoane, Elena / López-Couso, María José (Eds.), Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins ('Typological Studies in Language', 77), 111-129. "Double indirect object marking in Spanish and Italian" (PDF, 4 MB) 

Pomino, Natascha / Stark, Elisabeth (2008d), “Sobre los demostrativos ‘neutros’ del español: esto, eso y aquello”, in: Company Company, Concepción / Moreno de Alba, José G. (Eds.), Actas del VII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, Mérida (Yucatán), 4-8 de septiembre de 2006, Madrid: Arcos, 943-965. "Sobre los demostrativos 'neutros' del español: esto, eso y aquello"

Dufter, Andreas / Stark, Elisabeth (2007), “La linguistique variationnelle et les changements linguistiques ‘mal compris’: Le cas du ne de négation”, in: Combettes, Bernard / Marchello-Nizia, Christiane (Eds.), Etudes sur le changement linguistique en français, Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 115-128. "La linguistique variationnelle et les changements linguistiques 'mal compris': Le cas du ne de négation"

Stark, Elisabeth (2004), “L’italiano parlato – varietà storica o variazione universale?”, in: Leoni, Federico Albano / Cutugno, Francesco / Pettorino, Massimo / Savy, Renata (Eds.), Il parlato italiano. Atti del convegno nazionale, Napoli, 13-15 febbraio 2003 (CD-ROM), Neapel: M. D’Auria Editore, CIRASS, E09. "L'italiano parlato – varietà storica o variazione universale?" (PDF, 2 MB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2002a), “Einzelaspekt: Wortstellung und Informationsstruktur”, in: Kolboom, Ingo / Kotschi, Thomas / Reichel, Edward (Eds.), Handbuch Französisch. Sprache – Literatur – Kultur – Gesellschaft. Für Studium, Lehre, Praxis, Berlin u.a.: Erich Schmidt, 301-309.

Stark, Elisabeth (2002b), “Indefiniteness and Specificity in Old Italian Texts”, in: Journal of Semantics 19 (3), 315-332. "Indefiniteness and Specificity in Old Italian Texts" (PDF, 3 MB)

Dufter, Andreas / Stark, Elisabeth (2002c), “La variété des variétés: combien de dimensions pour la description ? Quelques réflexions à partir du français”, in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch 53, 81-108. DOI: 10.1515/9783110179590.81. "La variété des variétés: combien de dimensions pour la description? Quelques réflexions à partir du français" (PDF, 4 MB)

Stark, Elisabeth (2001), “Textkohäsion und Textkohärenz”, in: Haspelmath, Martin / König, Ekkehard / Oesterreicher, Wulf / Raible, Wolfgang (Eds.), Language Typology and Language Universals / Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung. An International Handbook, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter ('HSK', 20,1), 634-656 . DOI: 10.1515/9783110114232.1.toc (Neuauflage 2008). "Textkohärenz und Textkohäsion" (PDF, 6 MB)

Schrott Angela / Stark, Elisabeth (2000), “Szenen einer Adoption – Aspekte der konversationellen Erzählung”, in: Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur 110 (1), 1-13. "Szenen einer Adoption – Aspekte der konversationellen Erzählung" (PDF, 1 MB)

Reviewer services

Peer-reviewed journals: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (NLLT), Linguistische Berichte, Revue romane, Studies in Language, Journal of French Language Studies, TRANEL, Written Language and Literacy, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Oxford University Press, Linguisticae Investigationes, Journal of Pragmatics

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF/FNS), German Research Foundation (DFG), French National Research Agency (ANR), American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), Romanian National Council for Scientific Research, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Mentor in the Mentoring Program ("Aachener Mentoring Modell": http://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/cczs/) of the RWTH University of Aachen

Member of the scientific board of the "Hermann-Paul-Centrum für Linguistik" (Freiburg im Breisgau)

Member of Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), Collegium Romanicum (CR), Deutscher Romanistenverband (DRV), Deutscher Italianistenverband (DIV), Deutscher Hispanistenverband (DHV), Asociación de la História de la lengua española (AHLE), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana (SILFI), Sociéte de Linguistique Romane (SLR), NEREUS, Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Schweizerische Sprachwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (SSG), the PRIMA panel of the SNSF

MASTER THESES

2022

Delia Strebel: "'Trop du travail' et 'pas du plaisir'. L'emploi inattendu de l''article partitif' après des quantifieurs et des marqueurs de négation en français parlé de la Suisse romande"

Claudia Neuhaus: "'Tu la vu Susanne?'. L'accord du participe passé dans les messages WhatsApp suisses francophones"

Joan Miralles: "Fréquence de l'omission du ne de négation et des dislocations dans un corpus de jeux de rôle : quel est l'impact du roleplay?"

2020

Lea Nägeli: "Analyse comparative des erreurs orthographiques en français et espagnol langues étrangères. La relation ente code phonique et code graphique et leur influence sur les erreurs d’orthographe"

Claudio Wechsler: "L'inversion des clitiques sujet en français parlé - Étude de corpus"

2018

Jan Davatz: "Der Indefinitmarker niște als Pendant zum französischen article partitif? Eine semantische und syntaktische Analyse"

Larissa Binder: "Le marquage différentiel de l’objet en français : mythe ou réalité?"

Deborah Wyss: "L'ellipse de l'article dans les messages WhatsApp de la Suisse"

2017

Lee Barasch: "La (non-) réalisation des pronoms personnels sujet de la deuxième personne du singulier dans les structures interrogatives dans l'acquisition bilingue français - suisse allemand (SG)"

2015

Petra Meier: "Omission des arguments verbaux dans les messages WhatsApp (français et allemands)" (Verbal Arguments Drop in WhatsApp messages (French and German))

Fabiola Reust (Lizenziat = MA): "L’ellipse de l’article dans les SMS suisses français" (Article omission in Swiss French text messages)

Alexander Torea (Lizenziat = MA): "Formes, fréquence et fonctions des phrases clivées dans le corpus SMS suisse sms4science.ch" (Forms, frequency and functions of cleft constructions in the Swiss SMS corpus sms4science.ch)

2013

Laurine Pittoni (Lizenziat = MA): "Les mots composés dans l’acquisition du langage chez les enfants bilingues (français – allemand)" (Examining the acquisition of German and French compound words in bilingual children)

Olivia Inauen (Lizenziat = MA): "Les anglicismes dans les SMS francophones et germanophones de la Suisse. Une étude comparative des emprunts lexicaux et de l’alternance codique sous considération particulière de la fréquence, de la forme et d’aspects sociolinguistiques" (Anglicisms in French and German Swiss text messages. Comparative studies on loan words and code-switching, with special attention to form and sociolinguistic aspects)

Isabelle Riedel (Lizenziat = MA): "L’étude de l’accord du participe passé dans des SMS suisses francophones" (A study of past participle agreement in French Swiss text messages)

2012

Aurélia Robert-Tissot (MA): "Les pronoms personnels clitiques en français et en roumain. Analyses morphosyntaxiques" (Clitic pronouns in French and Romanian. Morphosyntactic analyses)

Lisa Gubler (MA): "L’omission du ne de négation dans les SMS suisses francophones" (The omission of the negative particle ne in Swiss text messages)

2011

Mario Wicki (Lizenziat = MA): "Les anglicismes dans la presse francophone : une étude comparée des anglicismes en France (Le Monde) et en Suisse (Le Temps)"(Anglicisms in French print media : a comparative study of anglicims in France (Le Monde) and Switzerland (Le Temps))

Karin Villiger (Lizenziat = MA) : "Le passé simple dans les quotidiens de Suisse romande Le Temps, 24 heures et 20 minutes" (The simple past in the daily newspapers from the French speaking part of Switzerland Le Temps, 24 heures, 20 minutes)

2010 

Theo Zimmermann (Lizenziat = MA): "Le 'langage SMS' – une nouvelle variété écrite de la langue française? Une analyse empirique basée sur un corpus de 30.000 SMS sous considération particulière de la relation phonie – graphie" 

2008 

Anne Kathrin Neuburger (MA): "Differentielle Objektmarkierung im Korsischen”

Charlotte Meisner (MA): "Die Realisierung und Auslassung der Negationspartikel ne im gegenwartssprachlichen Französisch: Eine  Analyse sprachinterner und externer Faktoren anhand eines Korpus und einer Sprecherbefragung"

DOCTORAL THESES AND POST-DOCTORAL PROJECTS (Habilitation)

In preparation:

Delia Strebel: "Relativization strategies compared – A comparative study of West Germanic and Romance (non-)standard varieties"

Iulia Petrariu (co-supervision): "From Latin cases to Romanian prepositions"

Chantal Oderbolz (co-supervision): "From prosody to meaning - neural signatures of prosody in spoken language"

2021

Maria Kliesch: "New languages and old brains: A dynamic approach to language learning in third age"

2020

David Paul Gerards (co-supervision): "Bare Partitives in Old Spanisch and Old Portuguese"

2018

Giuseppe Samo, Geneva (member of the promotion committee): "A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2"

2017

Alexandre Guryev, Neuchâtel (member of the promotion committee): "La forme des interrogatives dans le corpus suisse de SMS en français : étude multidimensionnelle" 

Frédéric André, Paris-Sorbonne (member of the promotion committee): "Pratiques scripturales et écriture SMS. Analyse linguistique d'un corpus de langue française" 

Frédérique Berthelot, Genève (member of the promotion committee): "Movement of and out of subjects in French"

2016

Albert Wall (member of the promotion committee): "Bare nouns in Brazilian Portuguese"

2015

Aurélia Robert-Tissot: "L’omission du sujet dans les SMS francophones suisses" 

2013

Charlotte Meisner: "La variation pluridimensionnelle : une analyse de la négation en français"

María Victoria Weber-Antón (co-supervision): "Poesía popular entre la inmediatez y la distancia comunicativas : Cuartetas de lo quintos de San Cebrián de Campos (Palencia). Análisis lingüístico y edición"

Veronika Jansen, Wuppertal (co-supervision): "Die Dislokation im simultan-bilingualen Erstspracherwerb bei deutsch-französisch aufwachsenden Kindern" 

2009

Davide Garassino, Pavia, Italy (co-supervision): "Certus, Diversus e Varius: storia ed analisi di alcuni aggettivi fra latino ed italiano antico" 

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