Publications
(last revision: 02/02/2026)
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Editorial work:
Member of the Advisory Board of the book series Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching (ed. by Manfred Pienemann, Bruno Di Biase, Jörg-U. Kessler), John Benjamins, 2009-
Editor of the book series Studies in Morphology (with Adam Albright and Geert Booij), Springer, 2011-2023
Editor of the book series Linguistische Arbeiten (with Klaus von Heusinger, Agnes Jäger, Gereon Müller, Esther Rinke, Skopeteas Stavros), Max Niemeyer Verlag/Mouton de Gruyter, 2000-
Editor-in-Chief of Morphology (formerly Yearbook of Morphology), 2006-2021
Editor-in-Chief of Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (Journal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), 1998-2003
Member of the Editorial Board of Morphology, 2022-
Member of the Editorial Board of The Mental Lexicon, 2014-
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of English Linguistics, 2013-2018
Member of the Editorial Board (‘Gutachterrat’) of Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2008-2017
Member of the Editorial Board of English Language and Linguistics, 2007-2019
Member of the Board of Consulting Editors of Yearbook of Morphology, 2004-2005
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2003-
Editor of Pidgins and Creoles Archive (internet archive for research papers on pidgins and creoles), 2000-2006
Member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 1997-2002
Monographs:
Plag, Ingo. 2018. Word-formation in English (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Plag, Ingo, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Maria Braun & Mareile Schramm. 2015. Introduction to English Linguistics. Third, revised and enlarged edition. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Bauer, Laurie, Rochelle Lieber & Ingo Plag. 2013. The Oxford reference guide to English morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Plag, Ingo, Maria Braun, Sabine Lappe & Mareile Schramm. 2009. Introduction to English Linguistics. Second revised edition. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Plag, Ingo, Maria Braun, Sabine Lappe & Mareile Schramm. 2007. Introduction to English Linguistics. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word-formation in English (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Plag, Ingo. 1999. Morphological Productivity. Structural Constraints in English Derivation. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Plag, Ingo. 1993. Sentential complementation in Sranan. On the formation of an English-based Creole language. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Edited volumes:
Sandra, Dominiek, Ingo Plag & Dorit Ravit (eds.). 2024. The Role of Morphology in Spelling Performance and Spelling Errors. Special issue of Morphology 34.2.
Kotowski, Sven & Ingo Plag (eds.). 2023. The semantics of derivational morphology: Theory, methods, evidence. Berlin: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111074917 (Open Access).
Pirelli, Vito, Ingo Plag & Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.). 2020. Word knowledge and word usage: A cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110440577 (Open Access).
Arndt-Lappe, Sabine, & Ingo Plag (eds.). 2015. The semantics of derivational morphology. Special issue of Morphology 25.4.
Bhatt, Parth & Ingo Plag (eds.). 2006. The structure of creole words: Segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Bhatt, Parth & Ingo Plag (eds.). 2006. Stress, tone and intonation in creoles and contact languages. Special issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung/Language Typology and Universals 59(2). 131-218.
Plag, Ingo (ed.). 2003. The morphology of creole languages. Special section in Yearbook of Morphology 2002. 1-134. Dordrecht: Foris.
Plag, Ingo (ed.). 2003. Phonology and morphology of creole languages (Linguistische Arbeiten 478). Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Plag, Ingo & Klaus Peter Schneider (eds.). 2000. Language Use, Language Acquisition and Language History... Mostly. Empirical Studies in Honour of Rüdiger Zimmermann. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Adone, Dany & Ingo Plag (eds.). 1994. Creolization and language change. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Software:
Eid, Ghattas, Esther Seyffarth & Ingo Plag. 2022. The Maaloula Aramaic Speech Corpus (MASC): From printed material to a lemmatized and time-aligned corpus. Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.699/
Eid, Ghattas, Esther Seyffarth, Emad Rihan, Werner Arnold & Ingo Plag. 2022. The Maaloula Aramaic Speech Corpus (MASC). Düsseldorf: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6496714.
Arndt-Lappe, Sabine, Ingo Plag, Kai Koch & M. Krot. 2018. Transparent Analogical Modeling of Language (TrAML). Software package. https://github.com/SabineArndtLappe/TrAML
Articles in refereed journals:
Ingo Plag, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Aaron Seiler & Quentin Dabouis. 2026. Modeling the role of prefixation in determining stress assignment in English verbs. Morphology 36, DOI: 10.1007/s11525-026-09457-6
Rüter, Lara & Ingo Plag. 2025. Measuring the similarity between languages: The case of creoles and non-creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.24026.pla
Plag, Ingo, Frank Domahs & Maria Heitmeier. 2024. Morpho-phonology is not independent of semantics: The case of German nominal number marking. Accepted for Publication in The Mental Lexicon.
Sandra, Dominiek, Dorit Ravit & Ingo Plag. 2024. The orthographic representation of a word’s morphological structure: beneficial and detrimental effect for spellers. Morphology 34, 103–123. DOI 10.1007/s11525-024-09424-z
Plag, Ingo, Maria Heitmeier & Frank Domahs. 2024. German nominal number interpretation in an impaired mental lexicon: A naive discriminative learning perspective. The Mental Lexicon. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.23017.pla
Siegelman, N., Elgort, I., Brysbaert, M., Agrawal, N., Amenta, S., Arsenijević Mijalković, J., Chang, C.S., Chernova, D., Chetail, F., Clarke, A.J.B., Content, A., Crepaldi, D., Davaabold, N., Delgersuren, S., Deutsch, A., Dibrova, V., Drieghe, D., Filipović Đurđević, D., Finch, B., Frost, R., Gattei, C.A., Geva, E., Godfroid, A., Griener, L., Hernández-Rivera, E., Ivanenko, A., Järvikivi, J., Kawaletz, L., Khare, A., Lee, J.R., Lee, C.E., Manouilidou, C., Marelli, M., Mashanlo, T., Mišić, K., Miwa, K., Palma, P., Plag, I., Rezanova, Z., Riimed, E., Rueckl, J., Schroeder, S., Sekerina, I.A., Shalom, D.E., Slioussar, N., Slosar, N.M., Taler, V., Thériault, K., Titone, D., Tumee, O., Wetering, R.v.d., Verma, A., Weiss, A.F., Wu, D.H. & Kuperman, V. 2024. Rethinking first language–second language similarities and differences in English proficiency: Insights from the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) Project. Language Learning 74(1). 249-294. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12586
Eid, Ghattas & Ingo Plag. 2023. Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic. Lingua 297, 103612, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103612
Stein, Simon & Ingo Plag. 2022. How relative frequency and prosodic structure affect the acoustic duration of English derivatives. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 13(1): 6, pp. 1–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6445
Engemann, U. Marie & Ingo Plag. 2022. Phonetic reduction and paradigm uniformity effects in spontaneous speech. The Mental Lexicon 16(1). 165-198.
Lieber, Rochelle & Ingo Plag. 2022. The semantics of conversion nouns and -ing nominalizations: A quantitative and theoretical perspective. Journal of Linguistics 58(2). 307–343. DOI: doi:10.1017/S0022226721000311 .
Zee, Tim, Louis ten Bosch, Ingo Plag & Mirjam Ernestus. 2021. Paradigmatic relations interact during the production of complex words: Evidence from variable plurals in Dutch. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720017.
Schmitz, Dominic, Ingo Plag, Dinah Baer-Henney & Simon David Stein. 2021. Durational differences of word-final /s/ emerge from the lexicon: Modelling morpho-phonetic effects in pseudowords with linear discriminative learning. Frontiers in Psychology 12. DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.680889.
Schmitz, Dominic, Dinah Baer-Henney & Ingo Plag. 2021. The duration of word-final /s/ differs across morphological categories in English: Evidence from pseudowords. Phonetica 78(5-6). 571-616. DOI: doi.org/10.1515/phon-2021-2013.
Stein, Simon & Ingo Plag. 2021. Morpho-phonetic effects in speech production: Modeling the acoustic duration of English derived words with linear discriminative learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.678712.
Tomaschek, Fabian, Ingo Plag, R. Harald Baayen & Mirjam Ernestus. 2021. Phonetic effects of morphology and context: Modeling the duration of word-final S in English with naïve discriminative learning. Journal of Linguistics 57, 123-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226719000203
Agbo, Ogechi & Ingo Plag. 2020. The Relationship of Nigerian English and Nigerian Pidgin in Nigeria: Evidence from Copula Constructions in Ice-Nigeria. Journal of Language Contact 13, 351-388.
Günther, Christine, Sven Kotowski & Ingo Plag. 2020. Phrasal compounds can have adjectival heads: Evidence from English. English Language and Linguistics 24(1), 75-95.
Bell, Melanie J., Sonia Ben Hedia & Ingo Plag. 2020. How morphological structure affects phonetic realization in English compound nouns. Morphology, 31, 87–120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-020-09346-6
Gahl, Susanne & Ingo Plag. 2019. Affixal spelling errors in English reflect morphological boundary strength: A case study. The Mental Lexicon 14(1), 1–36.
Lapesa, Gabriella, Lea Kawaletz, Ingo Plag, Marios Andreou, Max Kisselew & Sebastian Pado. 2018. Disambiguation of newly derived nominalizations in context: A Distributional Semantics approach. Word Structure 11(3), 277-312.
Plag, Ingo, Julia Homann & Gero Kunter. 2017. Homophony and morphology: The acoustics of word-final S in English. Journal of Linguistics 53(1), 181–216.
Ben Hedia, Sonia & Ingo Plag. 2017. Gemination and degemination in English pre fixation:
Phonetic evidence for morphological organization. Journal of Phonetics 62, 34-49.
Jäschke, Katja & Ingo Plag. 2016. The dative alternation in German-English interlanguage. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 38(3), 485-521.
Kunter, Gero & Ingo Plag. 2016. Morphological embedding and phonetic reduction: The case of triconstituent compounds. Morphology 26(2), 201-227.
Plag, Ingo. 2014. Phonological and phonetic variability in complex words: An uncharted territory. Italian Journal of Linguistics / Rivista di Linguistica 26(2), 209-228.
Domahs, Ulrike, Ingo Plag & Rebecca Carroll. 2014. Word stress assignment in German, English and Dutch: Quantitysensitivity and extrametricality revisited. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 17, 59-96.
Plag, Ingo. 2013. Forschungsrating der Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Analysen und Reflexionen zur Bewertung von Forschungsleistungen in einer Philologie. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 24, 181-194.
Plag, Ingo. 2013. Forschungsrating der Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Analysen und Reflexionen zur Bewertung von Forschungsleistungen in einer Philologie. Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung 23(2), 177-194.
Arndt-Lappe, Sabine & Ingo Plag. 2013. The role of prosodic structure in the formation of blends. English Language and Linguistics 17(3), 537-563.
Bell, Melanie & Ingo Plag. 2013. Informativity and analogy in English compound stress. Word Structure 6(2), 129–155.
Kösling, Kristina, Gero Kunter, Harald Baayen & Ingo Plag. 2013. Prominence in triconstituent compounds: Pitch contours and linguistic theory. Language and Speech 56(4). 529-554.
Bell, Melanie & Ingo Plag. 2012. Informativeness is a determinant of compound stress in English. Journal of Linguistics 48, 485-520.
Schlücker, Barbara & Ingo Plag. 2011. Compound or Phrase? Analogy in Naming. Lingua 121(9), 1539–1551.
Plag, Ingo, Gero Kunter & Mareile Schramm. 2011. Acoustic correlates of primary and secondary stress in North American English. Journal of Phonetics 39(3), 362–374.
Plag. Ingo. 2011. Creolization and admixture: Typology, feature pools, and second language acquisition. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26(1), 89-110.
Bakker, Peter, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, Mikael Parkvall & Ingo Plag. 2011. Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26(1), 5-42.
Plag, Ingo. 2010. Compound stress assignment by analogy: The constituent family bias. Zeitschrift für Sprachwisenschaft 29(2), 243-282.
Plag, Ingo & Gero Kunter. 2010. Constituent family size and compound stress assignment in English. Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 17, 349-382.
Plag, Ingo. 2009. Creoles, interlanguages, processing and transfer: a response to Sprouse. Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère, 165-170.
Kösling, Kristina & Ingo Plag. 2009. Does branching direction determine prominence assignment? An empirical investigation of triconstituent compounds in English. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 5(2), 201-239.
Plag, Ingo & Harald Baayen. 2009. Suffix ordering and morphological processing. Language 85(1), 109-152.
Plag, Ingo. 2009. Creoles as interlanguages: word-formation. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24(2), 339-362.
Plag, Ingo. 2009. Creoles as interlanguages: phonology. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24(1), 121-140.
Plag, Ingo, Gero Kunter, Sabine Lappe & Maria Braun. 2008. The role of semantics, argument structure, and lexicalization in compound stress assignment in English. Language 84(4). 760-794.
Plag, Ingo. 2008. Creoles as interlanguages: syntactic structures. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23(2), 307-328.
Plag, Ingo. 2008. Creoles as interlanguages: inflectional morphology. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23(1), 109-130.
Plag, Ingo, Gero Kunter & Sabine Lappe. 2007. Testing hypotheses about compound stress assignment in English: a corpus-based investigation. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 3(2), 199-233.
Plag, Ingo. 2006. The variability of compound stress in English: structural, semantic and analogical factors. English Language and Linguistics 10(1), 143-172.
Plag, Ingo. 2004. Syntactic category information and the semantics of derivational morphological rules. Folia Linguistica 38(3-4), 193-225.
Hay, Jennifer & Ingo Plag. 2004. What constrains possible suffix combinations? On the interaction of grammatical and processing restrictions in derivational morphology. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22, 565-596.
Braun, Maria & Ingo Plag. 2003. How transparent is creole morphology? A study of early Sranan word-formation. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle. (eds.). Yearbook of Morphology 2002, 81-104. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Plag, Ingo. 2002. The role of selectional restrictions, phonotactics and parsing in constraining suffix ordering in English. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.). Yearbook of Morphology 2001, 285-314. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Dalton-Puffer, Christiane & Ingo Plag. 2001. Categorywise, some compound-type morphemes seem to be rather suffix-like: on the status of -ful, -type, and -wise in Present Day English. Folia Linguistica 34(3-4), 225-244.
Alber, Birgit & Ingo Plag. 2001. Epenthesis, deletion and the emergence of the optimal syllable in creole. Lingua 111, 811-840.
Plag, Ingo. 2001. The nature of derivational morphology in creoles and non-creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 16(1), 153-160.
Plag, Ingo, Christiane Dalton-Puffer & Harald Baayen. 1999. Morphological productivity across speech and writing. English Language and Linguistics 3(2), 209-228.
Plag, Ingo. 1998. The syntax of some locative expressions in Sranan. Preposition, postposition, or noun?. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13(2), 335-353.
Plag, Ingo. 1998. The polysemy of -ize derivatives. The role of semantics in word formation. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.). Yearbook of Morphology 1997, 219-242. Dordrecht: Foris.
Plag, Ingo. 1998. Letter to the editor. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13(1), 210-212.
Plag, Ingo. 1996. Selectional restrictions in English suffixation revisted: a reply to Fabb (1988). Linguistics 34(4), 769-798.
Neumann, Gabriele & Ingo Plag. 1995. Phrasal verbs in interlanguage: implications for teaching. Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen 1995, 93-105.
Plag, Ingo. 1992. From speech act verb to conjunction. The grammaticalization of taki in Sranan. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 7(1), 55-73.
Articles in refereed collections and handbooks:
Kotowski, Sven & Ingo Plag. 2023. The semantics of derivational morphology: Introduction. In Sven Kotowski & Ingo Plag (eds.), The Semantics of Derivational Morphology: Theory, Methods, Evidence, 1-14. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111074917-001
Plag, Ingo, Lea Kawaletz, Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Rochelle Lieber. 2023. Analogical modeling of derivational semantics: Two case studies. In Sven Kotowski & Ingo Plag (eds.), The Semantics of Derivational Morphology: Theory, Methods, Evidence, 103-142. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111074917-005
Girardi, Elena & Ingo Plag. 2022. Metrical mapping in text-setting: Empirical analysis and grammatical implementation. In Scharinger, Mathias & Richard Wiese (eds.), How Language Speaks to Music: Prosody from a Cross-domain Perspective, 191-222. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770186-008
Gupta, Abhijeet, Fritz Günther, Ingo Plag, Laura Kallmeyer & Stefan Conrad. 2021. Combining text and vision in compound semantics: Towards a cognitively plausible multimodal model. In Evang, Kilian, Laura Kallmeyer, Rainer Osswald, Jakub Waszczuk & Torsten Zesch (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2021), 218–222. Düsseldorf: KONVENS 2021 Organizers.
Plag, Ingo. 2021. Productivity. In Bas, Aarts, April McMahon & Lars Hinrichs (eds.), Handbook of English Linguistics, Second edition, 483-499. Oxford: Blackwell.
Agbo, Ogechi & Ingo Plag. 2021. Code-switching patterns of educated English–Nigerian Pidgin bilinguals in Nigeria. In Aloysius Ngefac (ed.), World Englishes and Creole Languages Today: Context-specific Sociolinguistic and Structural Trends and Pedagogic Issues, 162-183. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Plag, Ingo, Arne Lohmann, Sonia Ben Hedia & Julia Zimmermann. 2020. An <s> is an <s'>, or is it? Plural and genitive-plural are not homophonous. In Livia Körtvélyessy & Pavel Stekauer (eds.), Complex Words, 260-292. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pirelli, Vito, Ingo Plag & Wolfgang U. Dressler. 2020. Word knowledge in a cross-disciplinary world. In Pirelli, Vito, Ingo Plag & Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), Word knowledge and word usage: A cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. Open Access.
Plag, Ingo & Laura W. Balling. 2020. Derivational morphology: An integrative perspective on some fundamental issues. In Pirelli, Vito, Ingo Plag & Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), Word knowledge and word usage: A cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. Open Access.
Plag, Ingo, Marios Andreou & Lea Kawaletz. 2018. A frame-semantic approach to polysemy in affixation. In Olivier Bonami, Gilles Boyé, Georgette Dal, Hélène Giraudo & Fiammetta Namer (eds.), The lexeme in descriptive and theoretical morphology, 546–568. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Plag, Ingo & Sonia Ben Hedia. 2018. The phonetics of newly derived words: Testing the effect of morphological segmentability on affix duration. In Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Angelika Braun, Claudine Moulin & Esme Winter-Froemel (eds.), Expanding the Lexicon: Linguistic Innovation, Morphological Productivity, and Ludicity (The Dynamics of Wordplay v.5), 93-116. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Plag, Ingo. 2016. Research assessment in a philological discipline: Criteria and rater reliability. In Hans-Dieter Daniel, Michael Ochsner, Sven E. Hug (eds.), Research Assessment in the Humanities: Towards Criteria and Procedures, 235-247. Dordrecht: Springer.
Plag, Ingo. 2016. English. In Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen, Franz Rainer (eds.), Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe (HSK Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 40/4), 2411-2427. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kawaletz, Lea & Ingo Plag. 2015. Predicting the semantics of English nominalizations: A frame‐based analysis of ‐/ment/suffixation. In Laurie Bauer, Lívia Körtvélyessy & Pavol Štekauer (eds.), Semantics of Complex Words, 289-319. Dordrecht: Springer.
Winford, Donald & Ingo Plag. 2013. Sranan. In Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, Magnus Huber (eds.), The survey of pidgin and creole languages. Vol. I: English-based and Dutch-based languages, 15-26. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bredel, Ursula, Christina Noack & Ingo Plag. 2013. Morphologie lesen: Stammkonstanzschreibung und Leseverstehen bei starken und schwachen Leser/innen. In Martin Neef, Carmen Scherer (eds.), Die Schnittstelle von Morphologie und geschriebener Sprache, 211-249. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Winford, Donald & Ingo Plag. 2013. Sranan structure dataset. In Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, Magnus Huber (eds.), Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Plag, Ingo. 2011. Pidgins and Creoles. In Manfred Pienemann & Jörg-U. Keßler (eds.), Studying Processability Theory. A T