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Gisbert Fanselow’s work has been invaluable and inspiring to many ­researchers working on syntax, morphology, and information ­structure, both from a ­theoretical and from an experimental perspective. This ­volume comprises a collection of articles dedicated to Gisbert on the occasion of his 60th birthday, covering a range of topics from these areas and beyond. The contributions have in ­common that in a broad sense they have to do with language structures (and thus trees), and that in a more specific sense they have to do with birds. They thus cover two of Gisbert’s major interests in- and outside of the linguistic world (and ­perhaps even at the interface).

Das evozierte, ereigniskorrelierte Potential des EEG ist ausführlich in der Untersuchung der Sprachverarbeitung verwendet worden. Aber was ist das ERP? In dieser Arbeit wird eine ausführliche Besprechung aktueller Theorien bezüglich der Neurophysiologie der späten ERP-Komponenten unternommen. In einer Serie von Experimenten wird dann getestet, wie weit domänenübergreifende Perspektiven auf ERP-Komponenten auf durch Sprache induzierte Hirnaktivität anwendbar sind. Eine Reihe von Analysenmethoden (inklusive einiger, die zuvor keine Verwendung in der Untersuchung der auditiven Satzverarbeitung gefunden hatten) wie single-trial-Analysen und Independent Component Analysis demonstrieren den Grad, zu dem solche allgemeinen Theorien das sprachrelatierte EEG erklären können., The evoked, event-related potential of the EEG has been extensively employed to study language processing. But what is the ERP? An extensive discussion of contemporary theories about the neurophysiology underlying late ERPs is given. Then, in a series of experiments, domain-general perspectives on ERP components are tested regarding their applicability for language-related brain activity. A range of analysis methods (some of which have not been previously applied to the study of auditory sentence processing) such as single-trial analyses and independent component decomposition, demonstrate the degree to which domain general mechanisms explain the language-related EEG.