Tobias Ungerer, PhD

Tobias Ungerer, PhD

Postdoc in Cognitive Science at Concordia University, Montreal

Publications

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PhD thesis

Ungerer, Tobias. 2022. Structural priming in the grammatical network: A study of English argument structure constructions. University of Edinburgh dissertation. (download here and see below for the published version)

Monographs

  1. Ungerer, Tobias, and Stefan Hartmann. 2023. Constructionist approaches: Past, present, future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009308717 (Open Access)
  2. Ungerer, Tobias. 2023. Structural priming in the grammatical network (Constructional Approaches to Language 35). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.35

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Hartmann, Stefan, and Tobias Ungerer. accepted. “Chaos theory, shmaos theory”: Creativity and routine in English shm-reduplication. In Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Natalia Filatkina (eds.), Dynamics at the lexicon-syntax interface: Creativity and routine in word-formation and multi-word expressions [working title].
  2. Neels, Jakob, Stefan Hartmann and Tobias Ungerer. in press. Doch Quantität vor Qualität? Motivationen und Mechanismen des Wandels in einer konstruktionalen Großfamilie deutscher Quantifizierer und Gradmodifizierer. Germanistische Mitteilungen.
  3. Ungerer, Tobias. 2024. Vertical and horizontal links in constructional networks: Two sides of the same coin? Constructions and Frames. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.22011.ung (see the author manuscript)
  4. Neels, Jakob, Stefan Hartmann and Tobias Ungerer. 2023. A quantum of salience: Reconsidering the role of extravagance in grammaticalization. In Hendrik De Smet, Peter Petré and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds.), Context, intent and variation in grammaticalization, 47–78. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753059-003 (see the dataset)
  5. Ungerer, Tobias. 2023. A gradient notion of constructionhood. Constructions, Special issue “35 years of constructions”. 1–20. https://doi.org/10.24338/cons-543 (see the PDF)
  6. Hartmann, Stefan, and Tobias Ungerer. 2023. Attack of the snowclones: A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns. Journal of Linguistics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226723000117 (see the preprint and the dataset)
  7. Ungerer, Tobias. 2021. Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other. Cognitive Linguistics 32(3). 389–420. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0016 (see the author manuscript and the dataset)
  8. Ungerer, Tobias, and Stefan Hartmann. 2020. Delineating extravagance: Assessing speakers’ perceptions of imaginative constructional patterns. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34. 345–356. https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00058.ung (see the author manuscript and the dataset)

Non-peer-reviewed publications

  1. Ungerer, Tobias. 2022. Extending structural priming to test constructional relations: Some comments and suggestions. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 10(1). 159–182. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2022-0008 (see the author manuscript)

Book reviews

  1. Ungerer, Tobias. 2023. Elaine J. Francis, Gradient acceptability and linguistic theory (Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xv 270. ISBN 9780192898951. English Language & Linguistics 27(2). 430–436. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674323000059 (see the author manuscript)
  2. Ungerer, Tobias. 2022. Review of Sommerer & Smirnova (2020): Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar. Journal of Historical Linguistics 12(2). 317–326. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.20045.ung (see the author manuscript)