Jean-Pierre Koenig
PhD
Specialties
Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Interface between Syntax and Semantics. Descriptions of understudied languages (particularly Northern Iroquoian), Formal models of linguistic knowledge (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar; formal semantics); psycholinguistics; corpus linguistics.
Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Selected Publications
- Koenig, Jean-Pierre and Karin Michelson (2025). 'The expression of quantity in Oneida: A study in syntactic and semantic variation', Linguistic Typology. 29(1): 167-208.
- Salehi, Ali and Jean-Pierre Koenig (2023). 'Argument realization and argument referencing in Soranî Kurdish', Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stefan Müller and Elodie Winkel eds., University Library, Frankfurt/Main, p.101-121.
- Koenig, Jean-Pierre and Karin Michelson (2023). 'Semantic transparency and Oneida morphological parts of speech', Linguistics. 61(1): 197-230.
- Soper, Elizabeth and Jean-Pierre Koenig (2023). 'Modeling the Role of Polysemy in Verb Categorization.', Experiments in Linguistic Meaning. 2: 278-287.
- Jin, Yanwei and Jean-Pierre Koenig (2021). 'The grammatical representation of expletive negation', Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stefan Müller and Nurit Melnik eds., University Library, Frankfurt/Main, p.47-67.
- Stefan Müller, Anne Abeillé, Robert Borsley, and Jean-Pierre Koenig (2021). Head-driven Phrase-Structure Grammar: the handbook, Stefan Müller, Anne Abeillé, Robert Borsley, and Jean-Pierre Koenig, eds. Language Science Press: Berlin.
- Abeillé, Anne and Jean-Pierre Koenig (2021). Section on Le verbe in Grande Grammaire du français, Anne Abeillé and Danièle Godard eds. Actes Sud: Paris, pp.125-263.
- Koenig, Jean-Pierre and Karin Michelson (2021). Specialized-domain grammars and the architecture of grammars: Possession in Oneida. Journal of Linguistics. 57: 635-674.
- Jin, Yanwei and Jean-Pierre Koenig (2021). 'A cross-linguistic study of expletive negation'. Linguistic Typology. 25: 39-78.
- Jin, Yanwei and Jean-Pierre Koenig (2020). 'English Speakers Produce and Understand Expletive Negation’, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada.
- Diaz, Thomas, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Karin Michelson (2019). Oneida prepronominal prefixes in Information-based Morphology. Morphology. 29: 431-473.
- Yi, EunKyung, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Douglas Roland (2019). 'Semantic similarity to high-frequency verbs affects syntactic frame selection.' Cognitive Linguistics. 30: 601-628.
- Brocher, Andreas, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Stefani Foraker, and Gail Mauner (2018). 'About sharing and commitment: The retrieval of biased and balanced irregular polysemes.' Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 33: 443-466.