Publications

Tönnis, S. (2021). German es-Clefts in Discourse. A Question-Based Analysis Involving Expectedness. PhD thesis. Graz University. (pdf)

De Veaugh-Geiss, J. P., Tönnis, S., Onea, E., and Zimmermann, M. (2018). That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in clefts. Semantics and Pragmatics, 11. doi: 10.3765/sp.11.3. (pdf)

Tönnis, S. (2024). Cleft Sentences Reduce Information Density in Discourse. In Lemke, R., Schäfer, L. and Reich, I. (eds.), Information Structure and Information Theory, pp. 147–175, Berlin: Language Science Press, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.12784266. (pdf)
Zimmermann, M., De Veaugh-Geiss, J. P., Tönnis, S., and Onea, E. (2020). (Non-)exhaustivity in focus partitioning across languages. In Hegedus, V. and Vogel, I. (eds.), Approaches to Hungarian, vol. 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference, pp. 208-230. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, Philadelphia. doi: 10.1075/atoh.16.10zim

Tönnis, S. and Tonhauser, J. (2022). German clefts address unexpected questions. In Starr, J.R., Kim, J., and Öney, B. (eds.), Proceedings of SALT 32, pp. 661–684. doi: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5359. (pdf)
Tönnis, S. (2022). It Is Not the Obvious Question That a Cleft Addresses. In Özgün, A., Simpson, A., and Zinova, Y. (eds.), Proceedings of TbiLLC 2019. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-98479-3_7. (pdf)
Tönnis, S., Fricke, L. M., and Schreiber, A. (2018). Methodological Considerations on Testing Argument Asymmetry in German Cleft Sentences. In Fuß, E., Konopka, M., Trawinski, B., and Waßner, U. H. (eds.), Grammar and Corpora 2016, pp. 231-240. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. doi: 10.17885/heiup.361.c4703. (pdf)
De Veaugh-Geiss, J. P., Tönnis, S., Onea, E., and Zimmermann, M. (2018). An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in es-clefts. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, vol. 21, pp. 347-366. (pdf)
Fricke, L. M. and Tönnis, S. (2018). “Es ist dies”: A Special Use of German Prefield-es. In Fuß, E., Konopka, M., Trawinski, B., and Waßner, U. H. (eds.), Grammar and Corpora 2016, pp. 221-230. Heidelberg University Publishing. doi: 10.17885/heiup.361.c4702 (pdf)
Tönnis, S., Fricke, L. M., and Schreiber, A. (2016). Argument Asymmetry in German Cleft Sentences. In Köllner, M. and Ziai, R. (eds.), Proceedings of ESSLLI 2016 Student Session, pp. 208-218. (pdf)