Publications

Theses

2012Salzmann, Martin. The importance of dialectal structures for linguistic theory. Case studies in Swiss German syntax. Zurich: University of Zurich cumulative habilitation thesis.
2001Salzmann, Martin. Theoretical Approaches to Locative Inversion. Zurich: University of Zurich MA-thesis.

Monographs

2017Salzmann, Martin. Reconstruction and Resumption in Indirect A’-dependencies. On the Syntax of Prolepsis and Relativization in (Swiss) German and beyond. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Prefinal version
2006Salzmann, Martin. Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in indirect A’-dependencies (LOT Dissertation Series 136). Utrecht: LOT.

Journal Papers

2024Paparounas, Lefteris & Martin Salzmann. The syntax of Greek discontinuous reciprocals. Syntax.
2024Paparounas, Lefteris & Martin Salzmann. First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 42(1). 323–382.
2023Martin Salzmann, Marta Wierzba & Doreen Georgi. Condition C in German A′-movement: Tackling challenges in experimental research on reconstruction. Journal of Linguistics 59(3), 577-622. 
2023Salzmann, Martin. Experiencer intervention in English tough-movement. Evidence from extraction of the tough-adjective against syntactic and semantic intervention accounts. Syntax 26(2). 223–249.
2023Paparounas, Lefteris & Martin Salzmann. First Conjunct Clitic Doubling, the Person Case Constraint, and First Conjunct Agreement: Insights from Modern Greek. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1).
2021Georgieva, Ekaterina, Martin Salzmann & Philipp Weisser. Negative verb clusters in Mari and Udmurt and why they require postsyntactic top-down word formation. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 39. 457-503.
2020Salzmann, Martin. The NP vs. DP debate. Why previous arguments are inconclusive and what a good argument could look like. Evidence from agreement with hybrid nouns. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1), 83.
2019Salzmann, Martin & Gerhard Schaden. The syntax and semantics of past participle agreement in Alemannic. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4(1), 105.
2019Salzmann, Martin. Displaced Morphology in German verb clusters. An argument for post-syntactic morphology. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 22. 1–53. Prefinal version
2019Salzmann, Martin. On the limits of variation in Continental West-Germanic verb clusters. Evidence from VP-stranding, extraposition and displaced morphology for the existence of clusters with 213 order. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 22. 55–108. Prefinal version
2018Pfau, Roland, Martin Salzmann & Markus Steinbach. The syntax of sign language agreement. Common ingredients, but unusual recipe. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3(1), 107.
2017Georgi, Doreen & Martin Salzmann. The matching effect in resumption: a local analysis based on Case attraction and top-down derivation. Natural language and linguistic theory 35(1). 61-98. Prefinal version
2013Salzmann, Martin. New arguments for verb cluster formation at PF and a right-branching VP. Evidence from verb doubling and cluster penetrability. Linguistic Variation 13.1. 81–132. Prefinal version
2012Salzmann, Martin. A derivational ellipsis approach to ATB-movement. The Linguistic Review 29(3). 397-438. – prefinal version.
2011Georgi, Doreen & Martin Salzmann. DP-internal double agreement is not double Agree: Consequences of Agree-based case assignment within DP. Lingua 121. 2069-2088. – prefinal version
2011Salzmann, Martin. Towards a typology of Locative Inversion – Bantu, perhaps Chinese and English – but beyond? Language and Linguistics Compass 5/4. 169-189. Prefinal version.
2010Salzmann, Martin & Guido Seiler. Variation as the exception or the rule? Swiss relatives revisited. Sprachwissenschaft 35. 79-117. Prefinal version

Refereed Book Chapters

to appearSalzmann, Martin. Word order in the German middle field – scrambling. In Katharina Hartmann, Johannes Mursell & Susi Wurmbrand (eds.), Handbook of Germanic Syntax. Berlin: De Gruyter.
2022Salzmann, Martin. The NP vs. DP-debate and notions of headedness. In Ulrike Freywald, Horst Simon, & Stefan Müller (eds.), Headedness and/or grammatical anarchy?, 55-71. Berlin: Language Science Press.
2019Salzmann, Martin. A new version of the Matching Analysis. Combining deletion under recoverability with vehicle change. In Manfred Krifka & Matthias Schenner (eds.), Reconstruction effects in relative clauses, 187-223. Berlin: De Gruyter. Prefinal version
2017Salzmann, Martin. Prolepsis. In Martin Everaert & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd edition, volume 5, 3203-3245. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Prefinal version
2016Hartmann, Jutta, Andreas Konietzko & Martin Salzmann. On the limits of non-parallelism in ATB-movement. Experimental evidence for strict syntactic identity. In Sam Featherston & Yannick Versley (eds), Quantitative approaches to grammar and grammatical change. Perspectives from Germanic, 51-83. Berlin: De Gruyter. Prefinal version
2016Brandner, Ellen, Martin Salzmann & Gerhard Schaden. Zur Syntax und Semantik des doppelten Perfekts aus alemannischer Sicht. In Alexandra Lenz & Franz Patocka (eds), Syntaktische Variation – areallinguistische Perspektiven, 13-45. Vienna: Vienna University Press. Prefinal version
2013Salzmann, Martin. Repair-driven verb movement in English locative inversion. In Patrick Brandt & Eric Fuß (eds.), Repairs. The added value of being wrong, 155-206. Berlin: Mouton. – prefinal version.
2013Bayer, Josef & Martin Salzmann. That-trace effects and resumption – How Improper Movement can be repaired. In Patrick Brandt & Eric Fuß (eds.), Repairs. The added value of being wrong, 275-333. Berlin: Mouton. – prefinal version.
2013Salzmann, Martin. On three types of variation in resumption: evidence in favor of violable and ranked constraints. In Hans Broekhuis & Ralf Vogel (eds.), Linguistic Derivations and Filtering, 76-108. Sheffield: Equinox. – prefinal version.
2012Brandner, Ellen and Martin Salzmann. Crossing the Lake: Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. In Peter Ackema, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), Comparative Germanic Syntax: The State of the Art, 67–97. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. prefinal version
2012Salzmann, Martin. Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in ATB-movement by means of asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. In Peter Ackema, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van
Craenenbroeck & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), Comparative Germanic Syntax: The State of the Art, 353–385. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. prefinal version
2011Salzmann, Martin. Silent resumptives in Zurich German possessor relativization. In Peter Gallmann & Melanie Wratil (eds.), Null Pronouns, 141-221. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.- prefinal version
2011Brandner, Ellen & Martin Salzmann. Die Bewegungsverbkonstruktion im Alemannischen – Wie Unterschiede in der Kategorie einer Partikel zu syntaktischer Variation führen. In Elvira Glaser, Jürgen E. Schmidt, and Natascha Frey (eds.), Dynamik des Dialekts – Wandel und Variation. Akten des 3. Kongresses der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD), 47–76. Stuttgart: Steiner. Prefinal version
2009Salzmann, Martin. Whe movement and base-generation compete. The definition of the reference set and parameterized preferences for elementary operations. In Bert Botma & Jacqueline van Kampen (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, 64–77. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
2009Salzmann, Martin. Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization. In Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer & Guido Seiler (eds.), Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar, 135-161. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Prefinal version here:
2006Salzmann, Martin. Long relativization in Zurich German as resumptive prolepsis. In Jutta Hartmann & Laszlo Molnarfi (eds.), From Afrikaans to Zurich German: Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax, 201-234. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Prefinal version.
2006Salzmann, Martin. Reconstruction in German restrictive relative clauses. In Jeroen van de Weijer and Bettlou Los (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, 186-196. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Articles in Proceedings (Abstracts Peer-reviewed)

to appearBenz, Johanna & Martin Salzmann. Evidence from German for N-stranding NP-ellipsis. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2024). Chichago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
2024Paparounas, Lefteris & Martin Salzmann. First Conjunct Clitic Doubling: Evidence for Agree-Based Approaches. In Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley (eds.), Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 216-225.
2024Lee, Jonathan Him Nok , Mark Liberman & Martin Salzmann. Do we EXPECT TO find phonetic traces for syntactic traces? Proceedings of Interspeech 2024, 4258-4262.
2024Benz, Johanna, Gesoel Mendes & Martin Salzmann. Against Evacuation Movement in NP-Ellipsis. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference; University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 30.1, 21–30.  
2023Paparounas, Lefteris & Martin Salzmann. Reciprocal = Floating quantifier + anaphor: Evidence from Greek discontinuous reciprocals. In Suet-Ying Lam & Satoru Ozaki (eds.), NELS 53: Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, volume 1, 35-44. Amherst, GLSA.
2022Paparounas, Lefteris & Martin Salzmann. First Conjunct Clitic Doubling. Implications for theories of the PCC and approaches to first conjunct agreement. In Akshay Aitha, Steven Castro & Brianna Wilson (eds.), Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2020). Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 329-344. Prefinal version:
2021Wierzba, Marta, Martin Salzmann & Doreen Georgi. An experimental investigation of reconstruction for Condition C in German A’-movement. InSanghee Kim, Naomi Kurtz, Matthew Hewett & Corinne Kasper (eds.), Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2020). Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 479-491. 
Prefinal version:
2021Salzmann, Martin. Against intervention accounts of experiencer intervention in English tough-movement. Evidence from extraction of the tough-adjective. InSanghee Kim, Naomi Kurtz, Matthew Hewett & Corinne Kasper (eds.), Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2020). Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 425-440. Prefinal version:
2020Georgieva, Ekaterina, Martin Salzmann & Philipp Weisser. Ellipsis does not bleed Lowering: Evidence from do-support and fragment answers in Finno-Ugric. In Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song & Ayana Whitmal (eds), NELS 50: Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 3, 1-10. Amherst: GLSA. Prefinal version
2019Georgieva, Ekaterina, Martin Salzmann & Philipp Weisser. An argument for postsyntactic lowering of negation in Udmurt and Mari verb clusters. In Maggie Baird and Jonathan Pesetsky (eds.), NELS 49: Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 2, 11–20. Amherst: GLSA. Prefinal version.
2019Georgi, Doreen, Martin Salzmann & Marta Wierzba. Condition A Reconstruction in German A’-movement. An empirical investigation. In Maggie Baird and Jonathan Pesetsky (eds.), NELS 49: Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 2, 1–10. Amherst: GLSA. Prefinal version.
2017Salzmann, Martin. Displaced morphology in German. An argument for post-syntactic morphology. In Andrew Larmont and Katerina Tetzloff (eds.), NELS 47: Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 3, 77-90. Amherst: GLSA. Prefinal version
2013Salzmann, Martin. Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in ATB by means of ellipsis. In Yelena Fainleib, Nicholas LaCara & Yangsook Park (eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 1, 179-192. Amherst: GLSA.
2013Salzmann, Martin, Jana Häussler, Josef Bayer & Markus Bader. That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. InStefan Keine & Shayne Sloggett (eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 2, 149-162. 
Amherst: GLSA.
2013Salzmann, Martin. New evidence for verb cluster formation at PF and a right-branching VP. InStefan Keine & Shayne Sloggett (eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 2, 135-148. Amherst: GLSA.
2011Salzmann, Martin. Resolving the movement paradox in Verb Projection Raising. In favor of base-generation and covert predicate raising. In Olivier Bonami & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 8 (2011), 453-485.
2005Salzmann, Martin. On an alternative to long A’-movement in German and Dutch. In Silvia Blaho, Luis Vicente & Eric Schoorlemmer (eds.), Proceedings of Console XIII, 2004, 353-375. Leiden: LUCL.

Working Papers and other Articles

2024Salzmann, Martin. On Gisbert Fanselow’s (2001/2003) approach to Scrambling. Prospects for base-generation. In Artemis Alexiadou, Doreen Georgi, Fabian Heck, Gereon Müller & Florian Schäfer (eds.), Gisbert Fanselow’s contributions to syntactic theory. Linguistische ArbeitsBerichte 96, 121–132. Leipzig: University of Leipzig.
2024Morgenroth, Lisa & Martin Salzmann. Reanalyzing syntactic ergativity in Control and conjunction reduction. In Silke Fischer, Doreen Georgi, Fabian Heck, Johannes Hein, Anke Himmelreich, Andrew Murphy & Philipp Weisser (eds.), Strict Cycling: A Festschrift for Gereon Müller. Linguistische ArbeitsBerichte 97, 341–364. Leipzig: University of Leipzig.
2020Salzmann, Martin. Unbounded Dependency Constructions in Germanic. In Michael T. Putnam & Richard Page (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics, 436-460. Cambridge: CUP. Prefinal version.
2016Salzmann, Martin. Displaced morphology in German – Evidence for post-syntactic morphology. In Katja Barnickel et al. (eds.), Replicative Processes in Grammar. Linguistische ArbeitsBerichte 93, 401-446. Leipzig: University of Leipzig.
2014Georgi, Doreen & Martin Salzmann. Case attraction and matching in resumption in relatives. Evidence for top-down derivation. In Anke Assmann, Sebastian Bank, Doreen Georgi, Timo Klein, Philipp Weisser & Eva Zimmermann (eds.), Topics at Infl. Linguistische ArbeitsBerichte 92, 347–395. Leipzig: University of Leipzig.
2013Salzmann, Martin. Rule ordering in verb cluster formation. On the extraposition paradox and the placement of the infinitival particle te/zu. In Anke Assmann and Fabian Heck (eds.), Rule Interaction in Grammar. Linguistische ArbeitsBerichte 90, 65-121. Leipzig: University of Leipzig.
2009Salzmann, Martin. movement and base-generation compete – on the definition of the reference set, the typology of resumption, and ranked economy constraints. Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik 48. 27-63.
2009Brandner, Ellen & Martin Salzmann. Crossing the lake: Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 48. 81-113.
2008Salzmann, Martin. Variation in resumption requires violable constraints – a case study in Alemannic relativization. In Hans Broekhuis and Ralf Vogel (eds.), Optimality Theory and Minimalism: Interface Theories (Linguistics in Potsdam 28), 99-132. Potsdam: University of Potsdam. (A revised version appeared as Salzmann 2013a)
2006Salzmann, Martin. Reconstruction in German relative clauses. In favor of the Matching Analysis. Proceedings of SAM2,  Utrecht institute of Linguistics Working Papers. 65-79.
2006Salzmann, Martin. Resumptive Pronouns and Matching Effects in Zurich German Relative Clauses as Distributed Deletion. In Noureddine Elouazizi, Frank Landsbergen, Maika Poss & Martin Salzmann (eds.), Leiden Papers in Linguistics 3.1 (2006),17-50. Leiden: LUCL.
2005Salzmann, Martin. On an alternative to long A’-movement in German and Dutch. In Martin Salzmann & Luis Vicente (eds.), Proceedings of the first Syntax AiO Meeting 2004. Leiden Papers in Linguistics 2.3 (2005), 107-128. Leiden: LUCL.
2005Salzmann, Martin. Resumptive Pronouns and Matching effects in Zurich German Relative Clauses as Distributed Deletion. In Asier Alcázar, Irene Barbería, Rebeca Campos, Susana Huidobro (eds.), A new relay on linguistics. Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo 2005-2 (39.2), 238-269. (= Proceedings of the first Bilbao-Deusto Conference in Linguistics 2004, published 2008). Prefinal version here (a revised version appeared as Salzmann 2006a):

Book Reviews

2018Salzmann, Martin. `Marek Konopka & Angelika Wöllstein (Hg.). 2017. Grammatische Variation. Empirische Zugänge und theoretische Modellierung (Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache 2016). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. xvi, 356 S.’ Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 10(1-2). 145-151.
2014Salzmann, Martin. Review of `Phil Branigan, Provocative Syntax.’ Journal of Linguistics 50. 500-507. Prefinal version
2011Salzmann, Martin. Review of `Idan Landau, The locative syntax of experiencers.’ Journal of Linguistics 47. 524-530. prefinal version

Edited Volumes

2006Elouazizi, Noureddine, Frank Landsbergen, Maika Poss & Martin Salzmann. Leiden Papers in Linguistics 3.1.
2005Salzmann, Martin & Luis Vicente. Proceedings of the first Syntax AiO Meeting (SAM1), Leiden Papers in Linguistics 2.3.
2005Arsenijevic, Boban Noureddine Elouazizi, Frank Landsbergen & Martin Salzmann. Leiden Papers in Linguistics 2.2.
2004Arsenijevic, Boban, Noureddine Elouazizi, Martin Salzmann & Mark de Vos. Leiden Papers in Linguistics 1.1.