Jean-Pierre Koenig
PhD
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Interim until Summer 2027)
Professor
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.