Publications

Ihsane, Tabea. 2008. The Layered DP: Form and Meaning of French Indefinites. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Donzé, Anne-Elisabeth, Eric Haeberli, Tabea Ihsane & Wenli Tang. Eds. 2025. Generative Grammar in Geneva, Vol. 12. Special Issue GG@G4G. Studies in honour of Genoveva Puskás. link 

Bril, Marco, Martine Coene, Tabea Ihsane, Petra Sleeman & Thom Westveer. Eds. 2022. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 19, Selected papers from Going Romance Amsterdam. Isogloss 8.5/1. link 

Ihsane, Tabea. Ed. 2020. Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article. Syntax and Semantics. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill (copyright 2021). doi: link

Ihsane, Tabea & Elisabeth Stark. Eds. 2020. Shades of Partitivity: formal and areal properties. Special Issue in Linguistics, volume 58, issue 3. link

Shim, Ji Y., Tabea Ihsane & Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto. Eds. 2017. Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars. Special Issue in Languages 2.3. link 

Smith, Jason & Tabea Ihsane. Eds.  2015. Romance Linguistics 2012. Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. link

Ihsane, Tabea  & Christopher Laenzlinger. Eds. 2010. Generative Grammar in Geneva, Vol. 6.  link

Shlonsky, Ur & Tabea Ihsane. Eds. 2001. Generative Grammar in Geneva, Vol. 2.  link

Paciaroni, Tania, Tabea Ihsane & Elisabeth Stark. In press. Francoprovençal nominal morphology: a Network Morphology account and its typological implications. Italian Journal of Linguistics.

Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen, Tabea Ihsane, David P. Gerards & Francesca Foppolo. 2025. On the rescuing of some-indefinites. Journal of Linguistics. link 

Ihsane, Tabea, David Paul Gerards & Elisabeth Stark. 2025. Indefinite determiners: Why DE can be enough - insights from Francoprovençal. Journal of Linguistics. link 

Ihsane, Tabea, Olivier Winistörfer & Elisabeth Stark. 2023. Francoprovençal: a spatial analysis of 'partitive articles' and potential correlates in Swiss and Italian varieties. Isogloss. 9(1)/4: 1-30. link 

Ihsane, Tabea. 2021. Preverbal subjects with a partitive article: a comparison between Aosta Valley Francoprovençal and French. Studia Linguistica. A Journal of General Linguistics 76.1: 130-166. link

Sleeman, Petra & Tabea Ihsane. 2020. Convergence and divergence in the expression of partitivity: a cross-linguistic experimental study. Linguistics 58.3: 767-804. link

Ihsane, Tabea & Petra Sleeman. 2017. Quel(s) genre(s) pour les noms animés en français? In Alain Berrendonner (ed.), La syntaxe des relations d’accord. Eléments de description et de modélisation. Le Français Moderne, 85.1: 94-108.

Shim, Ji Y. & Tabea Ihsane. 2017. A New Outlook of Complementizers. Languages 2.3:17. link

Shim, Ji Y. & Tabea Ihsane. 2017. English Overt and Null Complementizers. Studies in Generative Grammar 27.3: 515-533. link

Finardi, Kyria R. & Tabea Ihsane. 2016. Processing form and meaning in L2: evidence from the production of a syntactic construction in L2 speech. Linguagem & Ensino. Vol. 19 (1). link

Haeberli, Eric & Tabea Ihsane. 2016. Revisiting the Loss of Verb Movement in the History of English: Evidence From Adverb Placement. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 34: 497–542. link

Sleeman, Petra & Tabea Ihsane. 2016. Gender mismatches in partitive constructions with superlatives in French. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 1.1: 35. 1-25. link

Ihsane, Tabea, Claire Forel & Françoise Kusseling. 2015. Taking into account the discourse: The limits of substitution rules in the treatment of the pronoun en. Linguistica Atlantica 34.1 : 17-28. link

Ihsane, Tabea. 2013. EN pronominalisation in French and the structure of nominal expressions. Syntax 16.3: 217-249. link

Haegeman, Liliane & Tabea Ihsane. 2001. Adult null subjects in the non-pro drop languages: two diary dialects. Language Acquisition 9.4: 329-346. link  

Haegeman, Liliane & Tabea Ihsane. 1999. Subject ellipsis in embedded clauses in English. English Language and Linguistics 3.1: 117-45. link 

Davatz, Jan, Tabea Ihsane & Elisabeth Stark. 2023. Enquêtes dialectologiques à Evolène : les articles dits 'partitifs' et leurs équivalents. In Dorothée Aquino-Weber, Sara Cotelli Kureth, Andres Kristol, Aurélie Reusser-Elzingre & Maguelone Sauzet (eds.), "Coum’on étèila que kòoule… Come una stella cadente… Comme une étoile filante…". Mélanges à la mémoire de Federica Diémoz. Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 65-85. ISBN 978-2-600-06444-6 

Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen & Tabea Ihsane. 2022. On the rescuing of PPIs: some-NPs in English and des-NPs in French. In Gabriela Alboiu, Daniela Isac, Alexandru Nicolae, Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru & Alina Tigău (eds.), A Life in Linguistics. A Festschrift for Alexandra Cornilescu on her 75th birthday, 217-225. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press.

Haeberli, Eric & Tabea Ihsane. 2022. The Recategorization of Modals in English: Evidence from Adverb Placement. In Barbara Egedi & Veronika Hegedus (eds.), Functional Heads over Time: Syntactic Reanalysis and Change, 136-158. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sleeman, Petra & Tabea Ihsane. 2021. The L2 acquisition of the quantitative pronoun in French by L1 speakers of German and the role of the L1. In Giuliana Giusti & Petra Sleeman (eds.), Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case. Linguistische Arbeiten, 205-236. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.

Haeberli, Eric & Tabea Ihsane. 2020. Micro- and Nano-Change in the Verbal Syntax of English. In Andras Barany, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas & Sten Vikner (eds.), Clausal Architecture and Its Consequences: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives, 159-173. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Ihsane, Tabea. 2020. Telicity, Specificity, and Complements with a Plural “Partitive Article” in French. In Tabea Ihsane (ed.), Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article, 227-261. Syntax and Semantics. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill (copyright 2021). link 

Ihsane, Tabea. 2020. Introduction. In Tabea Ihsane (ed.), Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article, 1-16. Syntax and Semantics. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill (copyright 2021). link 

Sleeman, Petra & Tabea Ihsane. 2017. The L2 acquisition of the French quantitative pronoun en by L1 learners of Dutch: vulnerable domains and cross-linguistic influence. In Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips & Jeannette Schaeffer (eds.), Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism. In honor of Aafke Hulk, 303-330. [Studies in Bilingualism 52]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ihsane, Tabea & Petra Sleeman. 2016. Gender agreement with animate nouns in French. In Christina Tortora, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya & Teresa O'Neill (eds), Romance Linguistics 2013. Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013, 159-175. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ihsane, Tabea. Bare nouns with different edges. 2010. In Anna Maria Di Sciullo & Virginia Hill (eds), Edges, Heads and Projections: Interface Properties, 23-45. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ihsane, Tabea. 2009. On the Edge of DP: Different Arguments, Different Edges. In Kleanthes K. Grohmann & Phoevos Panagiotidis (eds), Selected Papers from the 2006 Cyprus Syntaxfest, 266-94. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

Ihsane, Tabea. 2003. Demonstratives and reinforcers in Arabic, Romance and Germanic. In Jacqueline Lecarme (ed.), Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II, 263-85. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. link 

Ihsane, Tabea. 2003. A Typology of Possessive Modifiers. In Martine Coene & Yves D’Hulst (eds), From NP to DP, 23-42. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. link 

Haeberli, Eric & Tabea Ihsane. 2025. Pre-auxiliary Placement of Adverbs in the History of English. Generative Grammar in Geneva, Vol 12. Special issue GG@G4G, Studies in honour of Genoveva Puskás. link 

Bril, Marco, Martine Coene, Tabea Ihsane, Petra Sleeman & Thom Westveer. 2022. Introduction to Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 19, Selected papers from Going Romance Amsterdam. Isogloss 8.5/1: 1-6. link 

Ihsane, Tabea, Jan Davatz, Francesco Pinzin & Elisabeth Stark. 2022. Welcome to the interface for searching the DiFuPaRo-Database. link   Click on the button "About/Guide".

Ihsane, Tabea & Elisabeth Stark. 2020. Introduction to the special issue Shades of Partitivity: formal and areal properties. Linguistics 58.3: 605-619.

Ihsane, Tabea. 2017. On the so-called 'partitive article' in French. Online blog URPP Language and Space, UZH. 25 August.

Shim, Ji Y., Tabea Ihsane & Maria del C. Parafita Couto. 2017. Introducing the Special Issue: Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars. Languages 2.4: 1-5.

Shim, Ji Y. & Tabea Ihsane. 2015. Facts: The interplay between the matrix predicate and its clausal complement. In Alison Biggs, Man Li, Aiqing Wang & Cong Zhang (eds), Newcastle and Northumbria Working Papers in Linguistics 21: 130-144.

Ihsane, Tabea, Claire Forel & Françoise Kusseling. 2014. De la mécanique au sens : le cas du pronom en en français. Actes du Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF 2014). link 

Haeberli, Eric & Tabea Ihsane. 2013. On the Interaction between Syntax and Morphology: New Evidence from the Loss of Verb Movement in English. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Linguists (ICL19), University of Geneva. link 

Ihsane, Tabea. 2005. On the Structure of French du/des ‘of.the’ constituents. Generative Grammar in Geneva, Vol. 4: 195-225. link 

Ihsane, Tabea & Genoveva. 2001. Puskás. Specific is not definite. Generative Grammar in Geneva, Vol. 2: 39-54. link 

Schaber, Jonathan, Johannes Graën, Jan Davatz, Tabea Ihsane, Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto & Elisabeth Stark. 2018-2022. The DiFuPaRo database. University of Zurich. link