Recent papers/manuscripts:

Haslinger, Nina & Viola Schmitt (2025).  Revisiting the role of structural complexity in symmetry breaking. To appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29.  paper 

Haslinger Nina, Alain Hien, Emil Eva Rosina, Viola Schmitt & Valerie Wurm  (2025).  A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universal quantifiers across languages.  Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. paper 

Haslinger,  Nina, Emil Eva Rosina, Viola Schmitt & Valerie Wurm (2025). On the relation between distributivity and maximality. Semantics & Pragmatics 18. paper 

Mayr, Clemens & Viola Schmitt (2024).  Non- de dicto construals as a unified phenomenon. Proceedings of SALT  34, paper 

Anvari, Amir & Viola Schmitt (2024). Is Paris a part of France.  Ms 

Schmitt, Viola (2023).  Are there pluralities of worlds?  Journal of Semantics. paper 

Prinzhorn, Martin & Viola Schmitt (2023).  Partial control and plural predication. To appear in: S. Laszakovits & Z. Shen (eds.), The size of things II: Movement, features and interpretation, Language Science Press. paper 

Schmitt, Viola & Frank Sode (2022).  Modal comparisons across individuals require (a notion of) relative intensities. submitted. draft

Dočekal,  Mojmír, Nina Haslinger,  Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Iveta Šafratová, Viola Schmitt,  Marcin Wągiel & Valerie Wurm (2022): Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from Czech and German.  In:  D. Gutzmann & S. Repp (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26, paper 

Haslinger, Nina & Viola Schmitt (2022). Syntactic conditions on cumulative readings of German jeder (`every') DPs. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.  paper 

Haslinger, Nina & Viola Schmitt (2022.). What embedded counterfactuals can tell us about the semantics of attitudes. Linguistics Vanguard. paper 

Haslinger Nina & Viola Schmitt (2021).  Counterfactual attitude contents and the semantics of plurals in belief contexts.  In: P. Grosz, L. Martí, H. Pearson, Y. Sudo & S. Zobel (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, paper 

Haslinger Nina, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt & Valerie Wurm (2021). Cumulation cross-linguistically. In: M. Dočekal  & M. Wągiel (eds.), Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond, Language Science press. paper 

Haslinger, Nina & Viola Schmitt (2021).  Distinguishing belief objects. In: M. Dočekal  & M. Wągiel (eds.), Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond, Language Science press. paper 

Haslinger, Nina & Viola Schmitt (2020). The status of discourse referents in Hob-Nob sentences. Ms

Haslinger, Nina  & Viola Schmitt (2020). Cumulative readings of modified numerals: A plural projection approach.  In: M. Franke,  N. Kompa, M. Liu, J.L. Mueller & J. Schwab (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. paper 

Schmitt, Viola (2020).  Cumulation across attitudes and plural projection.  Journal of Semantics. link to paper 

Schmitt, Viola (2020). Boolean and non-Boolean conjunction.  In: D. Gutzmann, L. Matthewson, C. Meier,  H. Rullmann & T.E. Zimmermann (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.  older draft version

Haslinger, Nina, Valentin Panzirsch, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt & Valerie Wurm (2019).  A plural analysis of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from two cross-linguistic asymmetries.  draft 

Haslinger, Nina & Viola Schmitt (2019). Asymmetrically distributive universals and plural projection. Ms

Haslinger, Nina & Viola Schmitt (2019).  Strengthened disjunction or non-classical conjunction? Snippets 37- Special Issue in Honor of Uli Sauerland:43-45. paper

Schmitt, Viola (2019). Pluralities across categories and plural projection. Semantics and Pragmatics 12. paper 

Schmitt, Viola (2018). `Review of Olga Kellert, Interrogative und Exklamative '. To appear in Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur.

Haslinger, Nina & Viola Schmitt (2018). Scope-related cumulativity asymmetries and cumulative composition. Proceedings of SALT 28 (eds. Sireemas Maspong, Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir, Katherine Blake & Forrest Davis), 197-216.  paper

Schmitt, Viola & Frank Sode (2018). An anti-intellectualist treatment of German wissen (`know‘). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21 (eds.  Robert Truswell, Chris Cummins, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern & Hannah Rohde), 1091 -1108. paper

Flor, Enrico, Nina Haslinger, Magdalena Roszkowski, Eva Rosina & Viola Schmitt (2017). `Distributive and non-distributive conjunction: Formal semantics meets typology.'  Accepted for publication in:  M. Mitrovic (ed.), Logical vocabulary and logical change, Benjamins. draft

Schmitt, Viola (2017). Cross-categorial plurality and plural composition. Ms, University of Vienna (This is a longer version of the 2018 paper.) paper

Flor, Enrico, Nina Haslinger, Hilda Koopman, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski & Viola Schmitt (2017): Cross-linguistic evidence for a non-distributive lexical meaning of conjunction. In: Alexandre Cremers, Thom van Gessel & Floris Roelofsen (eds.): Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, 255-264.  link to proceedings

Haslinger, Nina & Viola Schmitt (2017): Acquisition of semantic type flexibility: The case of conjunction. In: Clemens Mayr & Edwin Williams (eds.): 11-11-2017. Festschrift für Martin Prinzhorn (= Wiener Linguistische Gazette 82), 109-118.  link to Festschrift

Schmitt, Viola, Edgar Onea & Friederike Buch (2017): Restrictions on complement anaphora. Proceedings of SALT 27.  paper

Mayr, Clemens & Viola Schmitt (2017):  Asymmetric coordination. In Martin Everaert & Henk C. van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition, 1-32. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom070

Haslinger, Nina & Viola Schmitt (2017): Stressed non-Boolean und (and) in German. Snippets 31:13-14. paper

Older papers/manuscripts:

Köpping, Jan & Viola Schmitt (2015).  Two theories of plurality and NPI-licensing. Ms, University of Frankfurt, University of Vienna. draft

Hartmann, Katharina & Viola Schmitt (2014). Violations of the  right-edge-constraint in RNR. Snippets 27.

Kriz, Manuel & Viola Schmitt (2013), `Adverbial conjunctions. Exposition of a problem'. Ms., University of Vienna, University of Frankfurt.  paper

Schmitt, Viola (2013). More Pluralities. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Vienna. https://othes.univie.ac.at/28744/

Prinzhorn, Martin & Viola Schmitt (2010). `Discontinuous DP-coordination in German'. In: J. v. Craenenbroeck & J. Rooryck (eds.), Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2010, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 161-200.

Mayr, Clemens & Viola Schmitt (2010), `Order and the coordinate structure constraint'. Ms., ZAS, University of Vienna. paper

Prinzhorn, Martin, Viola Schmitt & Sarah Zobel (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14. https://www.univie.ac.at/sub14/

Mayr, Clemens & Viola Schmitt (2008). `On Extending the Application-domain of the CSC'. Proceedings of WCCFL 27, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla, 318-325.

Schmitt, Viola (2006). Hessian headed relative clauses and the syntactic role of the relative pronoun. MA-thesis, University of Vienna.

Prinzhorn, Martin & Viola Schmitt (2005).  `A note on relative pronouns in German'. In: H. Broekhuis, N. Corver, R.Huybregts, U. Kleinhenz  & J. Koster (eds.),  Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 505-513.