Publikationen

Monografie

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2025, Oktober. Wie Informationsdichte Extraposition beeinflusst. Eine Korpusuntersuchung an wissenschaftlichen Texten des frühen Neuhochdeutschen. Heidelberg: Winter.

Artikel

Voigtmann, Sophia, und Joanna Wall. Submitted. Nominal vs. Pronominal Object Order in Historical German: A Unified Processing Perspective.

Voigtmann, Sophia. Im Druck (erwartet 2026). Processing German past tenses: The impact of sentence onset and dialect. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft.

Voigtmann, Sophia. Im Druck (erwartet 2026). The Object Order in the German Middle Field through the lens of Information Theory: A diachronic study. Journal of Germanic Linguistics.

Ortmann, Katrin, Sophia Voigtmann, Stefanie Dipper und Augustin Speyer. 2024. ?An information-theoretic account of constituent order in the German middle field”. In Information structure and information theory, herausgegeben von Robin Lemke, Lisa Sch?fer und Ingo Reich, 55–86. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13383787

Voigtmann, Sophia, und Augustin Speyer. 2023. ?Where to place a phrase? An informational and generative approach to phrasal extraposition“. Journal of Historical Syntax. Proceedings of the 22nd Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference 7 (19): 1–48. https://doi.org/10.18148/HS/2023.V7I6-19.151.

Speyer, Augustin, und Sophia Voigtmann. 2023. ?Factors for the integration of causal clauses in the history of German“. In Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights, herausgegeben von Lukasz Jedrzejowski und Constanze Fleczoreck, 311–45. John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi.org/10.1075/slcs.231.11spe.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2022. ?Informational aspects of the extraposition of relative clauses“. In Language Change at the Interfaces. Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena, herausgegeben von Marco Coniglio, Chiara de Bastiani, und Nicholas Catasso, 235–52. Amsterdam / Philadlphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi.org/10.1075/la.275.08voi.

Voigtmann, Sophia, und Augustin Speyer. 2022. ?Information density as a factor for syntactic variation in Early New High German“. In Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020, 113–33. Tübingen, Germany. http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-75912.

Voigtmann, Sophia, und Augustin Speyer. 2021. ?Information density and the extraposition of German relative clauses“. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650969.

Speyer, Augustin, und Sophia Voigtmann. 2021. ?Informationelle Bedingungen für die Selbst?ndigkeit kausaler Satzaussagen. Eine diachrone Sichtweise“. Herausgegeben von Robert Külpmann und Rita Finkbeiner. Neues zurSelbst?ndigkeit von S?tzen. Hamburg: Buske.

Herausgeberschaften

Speyer, Augustin, und Sophia Voigtmann (Hrsg). im Druck. ?Syntax aus Saarbrücker Sicht 7. Beitr?ge der SaRDiS-Tagung zur Dialektsyntax“. Stuttgart: Steiner.

Speyer, Augustin, und Sophia Voigtmann (Hrsg). im Vorbereitung. ?Syntax aus Saarbrücker Sicht 8. Beitr?ge der SaRDiS-Tagung zur Dialektsyntax“. Stuttgart: Steiner.

Vortr?ge und Posterpr?sentationen

 2026

Voigtmann, Sophia und Joanna Wall. April 2026. How Processing and Prediction influence German Object Order. Perspectives on Germanic syntax, Pavia.

Voigtmann, Sophia und Joanna Wall. Juni 2026. The change in German nominal and pronominal double object order: A unified, processing strategy-related proposal. 27th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS27), Padua.

Voigtmann, Sophia und Joanna Wall. August 2026. German Object Order in New High German: The Role of Processing and Prediction. SLE 2026, Osnabrück.

2025

Voigtmann, Sophia und Joanna Wall. 2025, November. New Perspectives on the Order of Pronominal Objects in New High German. Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax (SaRDiS 2025), Saarbrücken.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2025, August.  The German Object Order from the Information Theoretic Perspective. 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2025), Bordeaux, Frankreich.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2025, Februar. It’s All in the Past. An Experimental and Rational Approach to the Influence of the Sentence Onset on Past Tense Choice in German. Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS), Saarbrücken, Deutschland.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2025, Februar. The Object Order in the German Middle Field through the Lens of Information Theory: A Diachronic Study. Posterpr?sentation. Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS), Saarbrücken, Deutschland.

 2024

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2024. Information Theoretical Perspectives on German Word Order Variation since the 15th Century. AMLaP 2024, Edinburgh, UK.

Voigtmann, Sophia und Augustin Speyer. 2024. The Impact of Information Theory on Word Order in German since the 15th Century. DiGS25, Mannheim, Deutschland.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2024. The influence of orality on scientific writing in New High German. HiSoN 2024 Conference, Zürich, Schweiz.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2024. A corpus linguistic study on NP extraposition in German scientific writing from 1650 to 1900. Linguistic Evidence 2024, Potsdam, Deutschland.

 2023

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2023. Where do all the NPs go? – A corpus linguistic study on NP extraposition in German scientific writing from 1650 to 1900. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL26), Heidelberg.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2023. How information density influences NP extraposition in early New High German. Posterpr?sentation. LingCologne2023, K?ln.

 2022

Voigtmann, Sophia and Katrin Ortmann. 2022. Relative Clause Adjacency as a Characteristic of 18th Century German. Posterpr?sentation. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25), Oxford UK.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2022. Information Density and the Extraposition of Relative Clauses. Guest Lecture SFB 1287. Potsdam, online.

Ortmann, Katrin, Voigtmann, Sophia, Dipper, Stefanie & Augustin Speyer. 2022. An Information-Theoretic Account of Constituent Order in the German Middle Field. Posterpr?sentation. 44. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Tübingen, online.

2021

Voigtmann, Sophia & Augustin Speyer. 2021. Where to place a phrase? An informational and generative approach to phrasal extraposition. DiGS 2020, Konstanz, online.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2021. Information Density as a Measurement of Processing Difficulties in Historical Data. Workshop?Cognitive Mechanisms driving language change“. SLE 2021, Athen, online.

 2020

Voigtmann, Sophia & Augustin Speyer. 2020. Information Density as a factor for syntactic variation in Early New High German. Posterpr?sentation. LE 2020, Tübingen.

 2019

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2019. Information Density and the Extraposition of German Relative Clauses. Posterpr?sentation. RAILS 2019, Saarbrücken.

Voigtmann, Sophia, Richard Gebracht, Dietrich Klakow & Augustin Speyer. 2019. Extraposition and Information Density in Early New High German Corpora. SLE 2019, Leipzig.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2019. Information Density and the Extraposition of German Relative Clauses. Posterpr?sentation. International Corpus Linguistics Conference CL19, Cardiff, UK.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2019. Informational aspects of the extraposition of relative clauses. 41. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Bremen.