Publications

Ingo Plag

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Editorial work:

Editor of the book series 'Linguistische Arbeiten' (with Klaus von Heusinger, Gereon Müller, Beatrice Primus, Elisabeth Stark, Richard Wiese), Max Niemeyer Verlag/Mouton de Gruyter, 2000-

Editor-in-Chief (with Geert E. Booij and Adam Albright) of Morphology (formerly Yearbook of Morphology), 2006-

Editor-in-Chief of Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (journal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), 1998-2003

Member of the Advisory Board of the book series ‘Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching’ (ed. by Manfred Pienemann, Bruno Di Biase, Jörg-U. Kessler), John Benjamins, 2009-

Member of the Editorial Board (‘Gutachterrat’) of Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2008-

Member of the Editorial Board of English Language and Linguistics, 2007-

Member of the Board of Consulting Editors of Yearbook of Morphology, 2004-2005

Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2003-

Member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 1997-2002

Editor of Pidgins and Creoles Archive (internet archive for research papers on pidgins and creoles), 2000-2006  

Monographs :

Plag, Ingo, Maria Braun, Sabine Lappe, and Mareile Schramm. 2009. Introduction to English Linguistics. Second revised edition. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Plag, Ingo, Maria Braun, Sabine Lappe, and Mareile Schramm. 2007. Introduction to English Linguistics. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

[see reviews of this book on Linguist List, in Canadian Journal of Linguistics]

Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[see reviews of this book in Journal of Linguistics 41, 2005, 218-220, by Bozena Cetnarowska, in Language 82, 2006 by Marcus Callies, and on Linguist List, by Evanthia Petropoulou]

Plag, Ingo. 1999. Morphological Productivity. Structural Constraints in English Derivation. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Plag, Ingo. 1993. Sentential complementation in Sranan. On the formation of an English-based Creole language. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Edited volumes:

Bhatt, Parth, and Ingo Plag (eds.). 2006. The structure of creole words: Segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Bhatt, Parth, and Ingo Plag (eds.). 2006. Stress, tone and intonation in creoles and contact languages. Special issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung/Language Typology and Universals 59.2, 131-218.

Plag, Ingo (ed.). 2003. The morphology of creole languages. Special section in Yearbook of Morphology 2002, 1-134. Dordrecht: Foris.

Plag, Ingo (ed.). 2003. Phonology and morphology of creole languages. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Plag, Ingo, and Klaus Peter Schneider (eds.). 2000. Language Use, Language Acquisition and Language History.. Mostly. Empirical Studies in Honour of Rüdiger Zimmermann. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Adone, Dany, and Ingo Plag (eds.). 1994. Creolization and language change. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Articles in refereed journals:

Plag. Ingo. 2011. Creolization and admixture: Typology, feature pools, and second language acquisition. Revised version to appear in Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.

Plag, Ingo. 2010. Creoles, interlanguages, processing and transfer: a response to Sprouse. Language, Interaction and Acquisition 2.

Plag, Ingo. 2010. Compound stress assignment by analogy: The constituent family bias. Zeitschrift für Sprachwisenschaft 29.2.

Plag, Ingo, and Gero Kunter. 2010. Constituent family size and compound stress assignment in English. Linguistische Berichte, Sonderheft 17.

Kösling, Kristina, and Ingo Plag. 2009. Does branching direction determine prominence assignment? An empirical investigation of triconstituent compounds in English. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 5.2, 205-243.

Plag, Ingo, and Harald Baayen. 2009. Suffix ordering and morphological processing. Language 85.1, 109-152.

Plag, Ingo. 2009. Creoles as interlanguages: word-formation, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24.2., 339-362.

Plag, Ingo. 2009. Creoles as interlanguages: phonology, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24.1, 121-140.

Plag, Ingo, Gero Kunter, Sabine Lappe, and Maria Braun. 2008. The role of semantics, argument structure, and lexicalization in compound stress assignment in English. Language 84.4, 760-794.

Plag, Ingo. 2008. Creoles as interlanguages: syntactic structures, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23.2, 307-328.

Plag, Ingo. 2008. Creoles as interlanguages: inflectional morphology, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23.1, 109-130.

Plag, Ingo and Gero Kunter. 2007. Revised and expanded version to be submitted. The phonetics of primary and secondary stress in English. Ms.

Plag, Ingo, Gero Kunter, and Sabine Lappe. 2007. Testing hypotheses about compound stress assignment in English: a corpus-based investigation, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 3.2, 199-233.

Plag, Ingo. 2006. The variability of compound stress in English: structural, semantic and analogical factors, English Language and Linguistics 10.1, 143-172.

Plag, Ingo. 2004. Syntactic category information and the semantics of derivational morphological rules, Folia Linguistica 38: 3-4, 193-225

Hay, Jennifer, and Ingo Plag. 2004. What constrains possible suffix combinations? On the interaction of grammatical and processing restrictions in derivational morphology, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22, 565-596.

Braun, Maria, and Ingo Plag. 2003. How transparent is creole morphology? A study of early Sranan word-formation, in Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle. (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2002, 81-104. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Plag, Ingo. 2002. The role of selectional restrictions, phonotactics and parsing in constraining suffix ordering in English, in Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle. (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2001, 285-314. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, and Ingo Plag. 2001. Categorywise, some compound-type morphemes seem to be rather suffix-like: on the status of -ful, -type,  and -wise in Present Day English, Folia Linguistica XXXIV/3-4. 2000), 225-244.

Alber, Birgit, and Ingo Plag. 2001. Epenthesis, deletion and the emergence of the optimal syllable in creole, Lingua 111, 811-840.

Plag, Ingo. 2001. The nature of derivational morphology in creoles and non-creoles, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 16.1, 153-160.

Plag, Ingo, Christiane Dalton-Puffer, and Harald Baayen. 1999. Morphological productivity across speech and writing, English Language and Linguistics 3, 209-228.

Plag, Ingo. 1998. The syntax of some locative expressions in Sranan. Preposition, postposition, or noun? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13.2, 335-353.

Plag, Ingo. 1998. The polysemy of -ize derivatives. The role of semantics in word formation, in Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle. (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 1997, 219-242. Dordrecht: Foris.

Plag, Ingo. 1998. Letter to the editor, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13.1, 210-212.

Plag, Ingo. 1996. Selectional restrictions in English suffixation revisted: a reply to Fabb. (1988), Linguistics 34.4, 769-798.

Neumann, Gabriele, and Ingo Plag. 1995. Phrasal verbs in interlanguage: implications for teaching, Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen 1995, 93-105.

Plag, Ingo. 1992. From speech act verb to conjunction. The grammaticalization of taki in Sranan, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 7.1, 55-73.

Articles in refereed collections and handbooks:

Plag, Ingo. 2009. Pidgins and Creoles, to appear in Manfred Pienemann and Jörg-U. Keßler (eds.) Studying Processability Theory. A Textbook. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 17 pp.

Winford, Donald, and Ingo Plag. 2009. Modern Sranan (typological features), to appear in Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Magnus Huber, and Martin Haspelmath (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Winford, Donald, and Ingo Plag. 2009. Modern Sranan (survey article), to appear in Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Magnus Huber, and Martin Haspelmath (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Kunter, Gero, and Ingo Plag. 2007. What is compound stress?, in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, University of Saarbrücken, 6-10 August 2007. Saarbrücken: Universität Saarbrücken.

Plag, Ingo. 2006. Productivity, in Bas Aarts and April McMahon (eds.), Handbook of English Linguistics, 537-556. Oxford: Blackwell.

Plag, Ingo, and Mareile Schramm. 2006. Early creole syllable structure: A cross-linguistic survey of the earliest attested varieties of Saramaccan, Sranan, St. Kitts and Jamaican, in Parth Bhatt and Ingo Plag (eds.), The structure of creole words: Segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects, 131-150. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Plag, Ingo. 2005. Productivity, in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, Vol. 10, 121-128. Oxford: Elsevier.

Plag, Ingo. 2005. Morphology in pidgins and creoles, in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, Vol. 8, 304-308. Oxford: Elsevier.

Lappe, Sabine and Ingo Plag. 2003. Rules versus analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan, in Plag, Ingo. (ed.), 71-90.

Plag, Ingo. 2002. On the role of grammaticalization in creolization. A reassessment, in Glenn Gilbert (ed.), Pidgin and creole linguistics in the 21st century. Essays at millennium's end. 229-246. New York: Lang.

Plag Ingo. 1998. Morphological haplology in a constraint-based morpho-phonology, in Wolfgang Kehrein and Richard Wiese (eds.), Phonology and Morphology of the Germanic Languages, 199-215. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Article/book chapter reprints:

Plag, Ingo. 2009. Word Formation in English. pp. 44-51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted in Patrick Griffiths, Aileen Bloomer and Andrew Merrison (eds.) Introducing Language in Use: a reader. London: Routledge.

Plag, Ingo, and Mareile Schramm. 2009. Early creole syllable structure: A cross-linguistic survey of the earliest attested varieties of Saramaccan, Sranan, St. Kitts and Jamaican, in Parth Bhatt and Ingo Plag (eds.), The structure of creole words: Segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects, 131-150. Tübingen: Niemeyer. Reprinted in John Holm and Susanne Michaelis (eds.) Contact languages. Critical Concepts in Linguistics. 5 volumes. London: Routledge.

Plag, Ingo. 2004. The polysemy of -ize derivatives. The role of semantics in word formation, from Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle. (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 1997, 219-242. Dordrecht: Foris. Reprinted in Francis Katamba (ed.), Morphology: Critical concepts in linguistics. Vol. 5: Morphology: Its relation to semantics and the lexicon. London: Routledge, 102-127.

Plag, Ingo. 1995. Creolization and language change. A comparison. Summary of Plag (1994, in Adone/Plag (eds.)), in Philip Baker (ed.), From contact to Creole and beyond, 17-19. London: University of Westminster Press.

Articles in edited volumes:

Lappe, Sabine, and Ingo Plag. 2007. The variability of compound stress in English: Towards an exemplar-based alternative of the compound stress rule. In Proceedings of the ESSLLI workshop on exemplar-based models of language acquisition and use. Dublin, Ireland, August 2007.

Plag, Ingo, and Christian Uffmann. 2000. Phonological restructuring in creole. The development of paragoge in Sranan, In Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh und Edgar Schneider (eds.), Degrees of restructuring in creole languages, 309-336. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Plag, Ingo. 2000. Irregular past tense formation in English interlanguage, in Plag/Schneider (eds.), 134-149.

Plag, Ingo. 2000. On the mechanisms of morphological rivalry: A new look at competing verb-deriving affixes in English, in Bernhard Reitz and Sigrid Rieuwerts (eds.), Anglistentag 1999 Mainz, 63-76. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Plag, Ingo. 1999. More on infinitives in creole. The nature of Sranan fu and its complements in Pauline Christie, Barbara Lalla, Velma Pollard, and Lawrence Carrington (eds.), Studies in Caribbean Language II. Papers from the Ninth Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, 1992, 250-264. St. Augustine: Society for Caribbean Linguistics.

Plag, Ingo. 1999. Where does the English element of Sranan come from? Some phonological evidence from early St. Kitts and Barbados texts, in Philip Baker and Adrienne Bruyn (eds.), St Kitts and the Atlantic Creoles. The late 18th century texts of Samuel Augustus Mathews in perspective, 173-191. London: University of Westminster Press.

Plag, Ingo und Rüdiger Zimmermann. 1998. Wortstellungsprobleme in der Lernersprache Englisch. Frontierung und Inversion, in Wolfgang Börner und Klaus Vogel (Hrgg.), Kontrast und Äquivalenz. Beiträge zu Sprachvergleich und Übersetzung, 208-232. Tübingen: Narr.

Plag, Ingo. 1996. Individuelle Schreibstrategien beim Verfassen mutter- und fremdsprachlicher Texte. Deutsch/Englisch), in Wolfgang Börner und Klaus Vogel (Hrsgg.), Texte im Fremdsprachenerwerb: Verstehen und Produzieren, 237-252. Tübingen: Narr.

Plag, Ingo. 1995. The emergence of taki as a complementizer in Sranan: Evidence for gradual creolization?, in Jacques Arends (ed.), Creolization: The early stages, 113-148. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Plag, Ingo. 1994. Avoidance in oral L2 production. The encoding of new referents in English interlanguage narratives, in Guillermo Bartelt (ed.), The dynamics of language processing. Essays in honor of Hans W. Dechert, 33-44. Tübingen: Narr.

Plag, Ingo. 1994. On the diachrony of Creole complementizers. The development of Sranan taki and dati, Amsterdam Creole Studies XI, 40-66. Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Plag, Ingo. 1994. Creolization and language change. A comparison, in Adone/Plag (eds.), 3-21.

Plag, Ingo. 1992. 'There was a man picking pears': Participial -ing-clauses in native language, interlanguage, and larget language, in Christian Mair & Manfred Markus. (eds.), New departures in contrastive linguistics. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Anglistische Reihe Bd. 4), 223-235, Innsbruck: Universität Innsbruck.

Reviews:

Plag, Ingo. 2008. Review of Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt. Morphosyntactic persistence in spoken English. A corpus study at the intersection of variationist sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 177). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter 2006. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissesenchaft 27, 293-296.

Plag, Ingo. 2007. Review of Harald Baayen and Robert Schreuder (eds.). Morphological structure in language processing. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, Language 83.1, 196-199.

Plag, Ingo. 2005. Review of Lieber, Rochelle: Morphology and Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 24, 144-145.

Plag, Ingo. 2005. Review of Caroline Féry & Ruben van de Vijver. (eds.): The syllable in Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 24, 142-143.

Plag, Ingo. 2004.  Review of Hubert Devonish, Talking rhythm, stressing tone: The role of prominence in Anglo-West-African Creole Languages. Kingston: Arawak Publications, 2002. English World-Wide 25:2, 313-318.

Plag, Ingo. 2004.  Review of Carlin, Eithne B. and Jacques Arends. (eds.): Atlas of the Languages of Suriname. Leiden: KITLV Press 2000, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 23, 144-145.

Plag, Ingo. 2003. Review of Adams, Valerie Complex Words in English. Harlow: Pearson Education/Longman, 2001., English Language and Linguistics 7, 161-163.

Plag, Ingo. 2002. Review of The Syllable. Views and Facts. Edited by Harry van der Hulst and Nancy Ritter.. Studies in Generative Grammar 45. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999., Language 78, 606-607.

Plag, Ingo. 2001. Review of Sebba, Mark Contact languages: Pidgins and Creoles. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997, Carrier Pidgin 27. 1999),13-15.

Plag, Ingo. 2000. Review of Rudolf Obendorfer Weak forms in present-day English. Studia Anglistica Norvegica 8. Oslo: Novus Press, 1998 Anglia 118.3, 430-432.

Plag, Ingo. 2000. Review of Edward Finegan, Language. Its Structure and Use. 3rd edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999. English Language and Linguistics 4.1, 126-129.

Plag, Ingo. 2000. Review of Muthmann, Gustav Reverse English Dictionary. Based on Phonological and Morphological Principles. Topics in English Linguistics 29. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. Language 76.2, 482-483.

Plag, Ingo. 2000. Review of Claire Lefebvre Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar. Cambridge studies in linguistics 88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Journal of Linguistics 36, 176-180.

Plag, Ingo. 1999. Review of Changing meanings, changing functions. Papers relating to grammaticalization in contact languages. Westminster Creolisitics Series 2. Edited by Philip Baker and Anand Syea. London: University of Westminster Press, 1996. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14, 202-208.

Plag, Ingo. 1998. Review of Dalton-Puffer, Christiane The French Influence on Middle English Morphology: A Corpus-based Study of Derivation. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. Language 74, 392-395.

Plag, Ingo. 1998. Review of Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.). Focus on the USA. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1996, English World-Wide 18, 129-132.

Plag, Ingo. 1997. Rezension von Michaelis, Susanne, Komplexe Syntax im Seychellen-Kreol. SriptOralia 49), Tübingen 1993 Zeitschrift für französiche Sprache und Literatur 17, 107-110.

Plag, Ingo. 1996. Review of Jacques Arends, Matthias Perl (eds.). 1995. Early Suriname Creole texts. A collection of 18th century Sranan and Saramaccan texts. Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana 49. Frankfurt, Madrid: Vervuert, Iberoamericana 20, 110-113.

Plag, Ingo. 1995. Review of Kouwenberg, Silvia A grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole. Mouton grammar library; 12), Berlin, New York 1994, Language 71.4, 850.

Plag, Ingo. 1995. Review of Meyer, Ralf Compound comprehension in isolation and in context. The contribution of conceptual and discourse knowledge to the comprehension of novel noun-noun compounds. Linguistische Arbeiten, Band 299), Tübingen 1993, Language 71, 417-418.

Plag, Ingo. 1993. Rezension von Herbst et al. Terminologie der Sprachbeschreibung, Ismaning 1991, Kritikon Litterarum 20, 85-88.