Dr. Thomas Gamerschlag

Fields of Interest

-    lexical semantics, especially of verbs

-    lexical decomposition and frame representation

-    argument structure and linking, typologically and theoretically

-    complex predicates (particle/prefix verbs, V-V compounds and serial verb constructions, control verb constructions)

-    the grammar of Korean and Japanese

Presentations

‘An analysis of the  evidential use of German perception verbs’ (with W. Petersen) 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Hertfordshire, July 8, 2010.

‘An analysis of inferential evidentials as dimensional shifts’ (with W. Petersen) 8th Conference on Semantics and Formal Modelling, Nancy, March 26, 2010. [slides]

‘A frame-theoretic account of inferential evidentials based on German perception verbs’  (with W. Petersen), Second Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition and Science 2009, Düsseldorf, August 24, 2009.

‘A lexical resource of stative verbs’. (with R. Osswald and B. Schwarze) Poster presented at DGfS-Jahrestagung, Berlin, February 24 - 26, 2010. [poster]

‘Stative dimensional verbs’. The 18th International Congress of Linguistics. Seoul, July 26, 2008. [handout]

‘Die Rolle von Funktionalbegriffen bei der Klassifikation von Nomen und Verben.’ (with A. Ortmann), ZAS-Semantikzirkel, June 25, 2007.

‘Zu einer parallelen Klassifikation von Nomen und Verben’ (with A. Ortmann) Wuppertaler Linguistisches Forum, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, May 10, 2007.

‘The role of functional concepts in the classification of nouns and verbs’ (with A. Ortmann)  presented at DGfS-Jahrestagung Siegen, March 1, 2007 and First Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition and Science 2007’, Düsseldorf, August 22, 2007. [handout]

‘Imperatives and Control in Korean (and Japanese)’, Berlin, ZAS-Workshop on imperatives, November 25, 2005.

‘Lexikalische, syntaktische und morphologische Faktoren der Komplementkontrolle des Koreanischen’, GGS, Tübingen, May 8, 2005.

Publications & Manuscripts

Gamerschlag, T. (2007). Semantic and structural aspects of complement control in Korean. In B. Stiebels (Ed.), Studies on complement control (pp. 81-123). ZAS Papers in Linguistics  47. [paper]

Gamerschlag, T. (2005). Komposition und Argumentstruktur komplexer Verben. Eine lexikalische Analyse von Verb-Verb-Komposita und Serialverbkonstruktionen. Studia grammatica 61. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.

Naumann, R. & Gamerschlag, T. (2002). Constraining the Combinatorial Patterns of Japanese V–V Compounds: An Analysis in Dynamic Event Semantics. Journal of Semantics, 20(3), 275-296.

Gamerschlag, T. (2002). Complex predicate formation and argument structure of Japanese V‑V compounds. In N. Akatsuka & S. Strauss (Eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10 (pp. 533-545). Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Gamerschlag, T. (2000): Deriving argument structure in Japanese V-V compounds. Working Papers of the SFB 282 Theory of the Lexicon, No. 114. University of Düsseldorf. [paper]

Gamerschlag, T. (1996): Kasus, Alternationen und Argumentlinking im Japanischen. Working Papers of the SFB 282 Theory of the Lexicon, No. 80. University of Düsseldorf.