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  • Publications

     

    Books - authored

     

    2004      Breul, Carsten. Focus Structure in generative grammar: An integrated syntactic, semantic and intonational approach. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

    1997      Breul, Carsten. Grammatik und Bedeutung der kausalen Satzverbände: Because, as, since und for im schriftsprachlichen Englisch. Tübingen: Niemeyer

     

    Book - edited

     

    2010      Breul, Carsten & Göbbel, Edward (eds.). Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

     

    Articles

     

    2022      Breul, Carsten. "If a man buys a horse, ... you have no argument against material implication: On a flaw in the foundations of the restrictor approach to conditionals". Linguistische Berichte 269: 43-54. [download pre-publication typescript] [see also https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/005357]

    2021      Frisch, Stefanie & Breul, Carsten & Diehr, Bärbel & Kastens, Claudia & Becker, Annette. "Developing and assessing reading comprehension in primary learners of English as a foreign language". In: Frisch, Stefanie & Rymarczyk, Jutta (eds.). Current research into young foreign language learners' literacy skills. Berlin: Peter Lang. 53-82.

    2020      Breul, Carsten. "A lexicalist and word-based approach to the semantic composition of German and English clauses in the perfect". Linguistische Berichte 262: 157-198. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2019      Breul, Carsten. "Relevance theory and literary studies - and some thoughts on Paul Torday's The irresistible inheritance of Wilberforce". In: Chihaia, Matei & Rennhak, Katharina (eds.). Relevance and narrative research. Lanham (MD): Lexington Books. 61-79.

    2019      Diehr, Bärbel & Becker, Annette & Breul, Carsten & Frisch, Stefanie & Kastens, Claudia & Rumlich, Dominik. "Kohärenz im Englischstudium für die Primarstufe: Das Lehr-Lern-Konzept des Wuppertaler Projekts EULE". In: Hellmann, Katharina & Kreutz, Jessica & Schwichow, Martin & Zaki, Katja (eds.). Kohärenz in der Lehrerbildung: Theorien, Modelle und empirische Befunde. Wiesbaden: Springer VA. 199-213.

    2017      Breul, Carsten & Wegner, Dennis. "German and English past participles in perfect and passive contexts: an identity view". Sprachwissenschaft 42;1: 1-58.

    2014      Breul, Carsten. "The perfect participle paradox: Some implications for the architecture of grammar". English language and linguistics 18;3: 449-470. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2014      Breul, Carsten. "On narrow focus in situ and ex situ in German and English". Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 33;1: 45-76. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2013      Breul, Carsten. "Zu Artikeln und dem logisch-semantischen Typ von Nomina". Linguistische Berichte 235: 309-336. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2013      Breul, Carsten. "Language in aviation: The relevance of linguistics and relevance theory". LSP Journal: Language for special purposes, professional communication, knowledge management and cognition 4;1: 71-86. [download]

    2011      Breul, Carsten. "On English and German resultative and causative-resultative derived verbs". Poznań studies in contemporary linguistics 47;4: 732-757. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2011      Breul, Carsten. "Who did want to understand it?: A semantic, pragmatic and intonational analysis of a neglected construction". Anglistik: International journal of English studies 22;2: 137-150. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2010      Breul, Carsten & Göbbel, Edward & Thiel, Alexander. "Introduction". In: Breul, Carsten & Göbbel, Edward (eds.). Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1-14.

    2010      Breul, Carsten. "On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure". In: Breul, Carsten & Göbbel, Edward (eds.). Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 277-303. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2008      Breul, Carsten. "On identifiability and definiteness in English and German: An example of contrastive information structure analysis". Languages in contrast 8;2: 263-285. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2008      Breul, Carsten. "On a contrast between English and German copular sentences". Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 56;3: 237-254. [Special Issue: English in contrast. Eds. Ekkehard König & Volker Gast.] [download pre-publication typescript]

    2007      Breul, Carsten. "A relevance-theoretic view on issues in the history of clausal connectives". In: Lenker, Ursula & Meurman-Solin, Anneli (eds.). Connectives in the history of English. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 167-192. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2007      Breul, Carsten. "Focus structure, movement to spec-Foc and syntactic processing". In: Schwabe, Kerstin & Winkler, Susanne (eds.). On Information structure, meaning and form: Generalizations across languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 255-274. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2005       Breul, Carsten. "IN-/un- Dubletten im heutigen britischen Englisch: Eine empirische Studie zum Gebrauch von Negationspräfixen". Sprache und Datenverarbeitung 29: 5-28. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2001      Breul, Carsten. "Focus structure and the referential status of indefinite quantificational expressions". ZAS papers in linguistics 23: 23-38. [download]

    2000      Breul, Carsten. "Non-stranded preposition + relative who(m): Syntactic discussion and corpus-related problems". Studia anglica posnaniensia 35: 137-151. [download pre-publication typescript]

    1999      Breul, Carsten. "Clause embedding versus clause combining: A Hallidayan distinction revised". In: Neumann, Fritz-Wilhelm & Schülting, Sabine (eds.). Anglistentag 1998 Erfurt: Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. 41-54. [download]

    1998      Breul, Carsten. "On adverbial clauses and their status within concepts of hypotaxis, subordination and clause embedding". Studia neophilologica 70: 129-137. [download pre-publication typescript]

    1997       Breul, Carsten. "Explanation versus argument, cause versus reason, and their linguistic correlates". In: Weingartner, Paul & Schurz, Gerhard & Dorn, Georg (eds.). The role of pragmatics in contemporary philosophy: Papers of the 20th International Wittgenstein Symposium August 10-16, 1997 Kirchberg am Wechsel. Vol. 1. Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society 5. Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 1997. 134-139. [download]

     

    Reviews

     

    2020      Breul, Carsten. "Friginal, Eric & Mathews, Elizabeth & Roberts, Jennifer. 2019. English in global aviation: context, research, and pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury." Journal of multilingual and multicultural development 41: 905-907. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2020.1805158

    2006      Breul, Carsten. "Pustet, Regina. 2003. Copulas: Universals in the categorization of the lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press." Journal of pragmatics 38: 269-275. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2005      Breul, Carsten. "Meyer, Charles F. 2002. English corpus linguistics: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press." Studies in language 29: 261-264. [download pre-publication typescript]

    2004      Breul, Carsten. "van Gelderen, Elly. 2002. An introduction to the grammar of English: Syntactic arguments and socio-historical background. Amsterdam: Benjamins." Studies in language 28: 443-450. [download pre-publication typescript]

    1999      Breul, Carsten. "Declerck, Renaat. 1997. When-clauses and temporal structure. London: Routledge". Anglia 117: 427-430. [download pre-publication typescript]