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Personal Information

Date of Birth: July 6^th1975

Place of Birth: Männedorf (CH)

Citizenship: CH

Education

2013: Habilitation, University of Zurich. Thesis title: The importance of dialectal structures for linguistic theory. Case studies in Swiss German syntax. oral presentation: Auseinanderschreiben schreibt man nicht auseinander ('to write as two words is not written as two words');
committee: Wolfgang Behr, Christa Dürscheid, Elvira Glaser, Michael Hess, Elisabeth Stark (external reviewer: Gereon Müller)
2006: PhD in Linguistics, University of Leiden. Thesis title: Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in indirect A'-dependencies. Dissertation advisors: Lisa Cheng and Johan Rooryck. External advisors: Josef Bayer, Aniko Liptak, Henk van Riemsdijk. Additional members of the dissertation committe: Chris Reintges, Mark de Vries, Fred Weerman.
2001: MA in General, German and African Linguistics. Thesis title: Theoretical Approaches to Locative Inversion. Thesis advisor: Peter Gallmann
2000: Studies in General, German and African Linguistics at the University of Cologne
1996-2001: Studies in General (Major), German and African Linguistics and Latin Philology, University of Zürich

Employment

04/2017-09/2017: Substitute Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam
04/2015-09/2018: Heisenberg fellow
- 09/2016-: Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig
- 09/2015-08/2016: Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 04/2015-08/2015: Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig
10/2011-03/2015: Postdoc, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig (scholarschip from the Swiss National Science Foundation)
02/2010-09/2011: Postdoc, University of Zurich (individual project supported by the "Forschungskredit" of the University of Zurich)
02/2008-01/2010: Postdoc, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz (scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation)
01/2007-10/2007: Researcher, School of Teacher Education, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (Pädagogische Hochschule der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, FHNW)
08/2006-01/2008: Lecturer (Oberassistent), German Department, University of Zurich
04/2003-06/2006: Researcher/PhD student (AiO) in Linguistics, LUCL, University of Leiden
04/2002 –03/2003 Researcher/PhD student (AiO) in Linguistics, Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC), University of Amsterdam

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Grants/scholarships

04/2015–09/2018	Heisenberg-scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Euros (approx) 165’0000
10/2011–03/2015	Postdoc-scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (“Stipendium für fortgeschrittene Forschende”): CHF 205’568, approx. Euros 170’000
02/2010–09/2011	Project grant from the “Forschungskredit” fund of the University of Zurich: CHF 172’000, approx. Euros 140’000)
02/2008–01/2010	Postdoc-scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (“Stipendium für angehende Forschende”): CHF 84’220, approx. Euros 63’000

Current Research Areas

syntactic theory, especially:

movement dependencies, relative clauses, resumption, locality, copy theory
complex predicates, verb clusters, restructuring, verb projection raising
syntax semantics interface: reconstruction, scope, binding
coordination, ellipsis, ATB-movement, sharing constructions
inversion constructions
OT vs. MP (derivation vs. representation)
morphology-syntax interface (esp. case and agreement, syncretisms, displaced morphology)
syntax-semantics interface (scope, binding, reconstruction)
syntactic microvariation/dialectology, esp. Swiss dialects
empirical methods
Bantu syntax
word order, scrambling

Further Research Interests

Typology
grammatical relations (ergativity etc.)
voice (valency-changing operations like passive, applicatives, causatives)
word classes/syntactic categories
finiteness
information structure

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Publications

Monographs

(2017): Reconstruction and Resumption in Indirect A'-dependencies. On the Syntax of Prolepsis and Relativization in (Swiss) German and beyond. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
(2012): The importance of dialectal structures for linguistic theory. Case studies in Swiss German syntax (cumulative Habilitation thesis, University of Zurich).
(2006): Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in indirect A’-dependencies. Utrecht: LOT (LOT Dissertation Series 136).
(2001): Theoretical Approaches to Locative Inversion. MA-thesis, University of Zurich.

Articles

For copyright reasons, I am not allowed to upload the final versions of most of my papers, but I will be happy to send you an (electronic) offprint, just drop me a line: martin dot salzmann at-sign uni-leipzig dot de!

(to appear c): Displaced morphology in German. An argument for post-syntactic morphology. In Proceedings of NELS 47.
(to appear b) In favor of a new version of the Matching Analysis. Combining deletion under recoverability with vehicle change. In Reconstruction effects in relative clauses, eds. Manfred Krifka & Matthias Schenner. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
(to appear a) Prolepsis. In Martin Everaert & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.): The Companion to Syntax, 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell. Prefinal version
(2017) (with Doreen Georgi): The matching effect in resumption: a local analysis based on Case attraction and top-down derivation. Natural language and linguistic theory 35(1), 61-98. Prefinal version
(2016c): (with Jutta Hartmann & Andreas Konietzko): On the limits of non-parallelism in ATB-movement. Experimental evidence for strict syntactic identity. In Sam Featherston & Yannick Versley (eds): Quantitative approaches to grammar and grammatical change. Perspectives from Germanic. Berlin: De Gruyter, 51-83. Prefinal version
(2016b): Displaced morphology in German - Evidence for post-syntactic morphology. In Replicative Processes in Grammar. Volume 93 of Linguistische ArbeitsBerichte (LAB), eds. Katja Barnickel et al. Leipzig: Leipzig University, 401-446.
(2016a) (with Ellen Brandner & Gerhard Schaden): Zur Syntax und Semantik des doppelten Perfekts aus alemannischer Sicht. In Alexandra Lenz & Franz Patocka (eds): Syntaktische Variation – areallinguistische Perspektiven. Vienna: Vienna University Press, 13-45. Prefinal version
(2014) (with Doreen Georgi): Case attraction and matching in resumption in relatives. Evidence for top-down derivation. In Anke Assmann, Sebastian Bank, Doreen Georgi, Timo Klein, Philipp Weisser & Eva Zimmermann (eds.): Topics at Infl. Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 92, University of Leipzig, 347–395.
(2013h) New arguments for verb cluster formation at PF and a right-branching VP. Evidence from verb doubling and cluster penetrability. Linguistic Variation 13.1, 81–132. Prefinal version
(2013g): Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in ATB by means of ellipsis. In Yelena Fainleib, Nicholas LaCara & Yangsook Park (eds.): Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Vol 1, 179-192. Amherst, GLSA.
(2013f) (with Jana Häussler, Josef Bayer & Markus Bader): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. In Stefan Keine & Shayne Sloggett (eds.): Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Vol 2, 149-162. Amherst, GLSA.
(2013e): New evidence for verb cluster formation at PF and a right-branching VP. In Stefan Keine & Shayne Sloggett (eds.): Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Vol 2, 135-148. Amherst, GLSA.
(2013d): Rule ordering in verb cluster formation. On the extraposition paradox and the placement of the infinitival particle te/zu. In Anke Assmann and Fabian Heck (eds.): Rule Interaction in Grammar. Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 90, University of Leipzig, 65-121.
(2013c): Repair-driven verb movement in English locative inversion. In Patrick Brandt & Eric Fuß (eds.): Repairs. The added value of being wrong. Berlin: Mouton, 155-206. - prefinal version.
(2013b): (with Josef Bayer): That-trace effects and resumption - How Improper Movement can be repaired. In Patrick Brandt & Eric Fuß (eds.): Repairs. The added value of being wrong. Berlin: Mouton, 275-333. - prefinal version.
(2013a): On three types of variation in resumption: evidence in favor of violable and ranked constraints. In Hans Broekhuis & Ralf Vogel (eds.): Linguistic Derivations and Filtering. Equinox, 76-108. - prefinal version.
(2012c) (with Ellen Brandner): Crossing the Lake: Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. In Peter Ackema, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.): Comparative Germanic Syntax: The State of the Art. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 67-97. - prefinal version.
(2012b): Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in ATB-movement by means of asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. In Peter Ackema, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.): Comparative Germanic Syntax: The State of the Art. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 353-385.- prefinal version.
(2012a): A derivational ellipsis approach to ATB-movement. The Linguistic Review 29(3), 397-438. - prefinal version.
(2011e): Silent resumptives in Zurich German possessor relativization. In Peter Gallmann & Melanie Wratil (eds.): Null Pronouns. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 141-221.- prefinal version
(2011d): (with Doreen Georgi): DP-internal double agreement is not double Agree: Consequences of Agree-based case assignment within DP. Lingua 121, 2069-2088 - prefinal version
(2011c): (with Ellen Brandner): Die Bewegungsverbkonstruktion im Alemannischen – Wie Unterschiede in der Kategorie einer Partikel zu syntaktischer Variation führen. In Elvira Glaser, Jürgen E. Schmidt, and Natascha Frey (eds.): Dynamik des Dialekts – Wandel und Variation. Akten des 3. Kongresses der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD). Stuttgart: Steiner, 47–76. Prefinal version
(2011b): Towards a typology of Locative Inversion - Bantu, perhaps Chinese and English - but beyond? Language and Linguistics Compass 5/4, 169-189. Prefinal version.
(2011a): Resolving the movement paradox in Verb Projection Raising. In favor of base-generation
and covert predicate raising. In Olivier Bonami & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.) Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 8 (2011), 453-485.
(2010) (with Guido Seiler): Variation as the exception or the rule? Swiss relatives revisited. Sprachwissenschaft 35, 79-117. A prefinal version can be found here:
(2009d): When movement and base-generation compete. The definition of the reference set and parameterized preferences for elementary operations. In Bert Botma & Jacqueline van Kampen (eds.): Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 64-77. A prefinal version can be found here:
(2009c): Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization. In Andreas Dufter, Jürg Fleischer & Guido Seiler (eds.): Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar. Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (TiLSM), 135-161. A prefinal version can be found here:
(2009b): When movement and base-generation compete - on the definition of the reference set, the typology of resumption, and ranked economy constraints. Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik 48, 27-63.
(2009a) (with Ellen Brandner): Crossing the lake: Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 48, 81-113.
(2008): Variation in resumption requires violable constraints - a case study in Alemannic relativization. In Hans Broekhuis and Ralf Vogel (eds.): Optimality Theory and Minimalism: Interface Theories (Linguistics in Potsdam 28), 99-132. (A revised version appeared as Salzmann 2013a)
(2006d): Long relativization in Zurich German as resumptive prolepsis. In Jutta Hartmann & Laszlo Molnarfi (eds.): From Afrikaans to Zurich German: Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 201-234. Prefinal version.
(2006c): Reconstruction in German restrictive relative clauses. In Jeroen van de Weijer and Bettlou Los (eds.): Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 186-196. Prefinal version
(2006b): Reconstruction in German relative clauses. In favor of the Matching Analysis. Proceedings of SAM2, Utrecht institute of Linguistics Working Papers, 65-79.
(2006a): Resumptive Pronouns and Matching Effects in Zurich German Relative Clauses as Distributed Deletion. In Noureddine Elouazizi, Frank Landsbergen, Maika Poss & Martin Salzmann (eds.): Leiden Papers in Linguistics 3.1 (2006). Leiden: LUCL, 17-50.
(2005c): On an alternative to long A’-movement in German and Dutch. In Silvia Blaho, Luis Vicente & Eric Schoorlemmer (eds.): Proceedings of Console XIII, 2004. Leiden: LUCL, 353-375.
(2005b): On an alternative to long A’-movement in German and Dutch. In Martin Salzmann & Luis Vicente (eds.): Proceedings of the first Syntax AiO Meeting 2004. Leiden Papers in Linguistics 2.3 (2005). Leiden: LUCL, 107-128.
(2005a): Resumptive Pronouns and Matching effects in Zurich German Relative Clauses as Distributed Deletion. In Asier Alcázar, Irene Barbería, Rebeca Campos, Susana Huidobro (eds.): A new relay on linguistics. Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo 2005-2 (39.2), 238-269 (= Proceedings of the first Bilbao-Deusto Conference in Linguistics 2004, published 2008). A prefinal version can be found here (a revised version appeared as Salzmann 2006a):

Book reviews

(2014): Review of Phil Branigan, Provocative Syntax. Journal of Linguistics 50, 500-507. Prefinal version
(2011): Review of Idan Landau, The locative syntax of experiencers. Journal of Linguistics 47, 524-530. prefinal version

Editions

(2006): (together with Noureddine Elouazizi, Frank Landsbergen & Maika Poss): Leiden Papers in Linguistics 3.1.
(2005): (together with Luis Vicente): Proceedings of the first Syntax AiO Meeting (SAM1), Leiden Papers in Linguistics 2.3.
(2005) (together with Boban Arsenijevic, Noureddine Elouazizi & Frank Landsbergen): Leiden Papers in Linguistics 2.2.
(2004) (together with Boban Arsenijevic, Noureddine Elouazizi & Mark de Vos): Leiden Papers in Linguistics 1.1.

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Talks

06/2017: (with Gerhard Schaden): The Syntax and Semantics of Inflected Participles in Allemannic German. Workshop `The Language Faculty – La faculté de langage dans les facultés de langues’. Université de Nantes.
05/2017: Resumptive Prolepsis - an alternative to long A'-movement in German (and beyond). Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna (invited).
05/2017 : Revisiting the NP vs. DP debate. Workshop Köpfigkeit und/oder grammatische Anarchie? Free University of Berlin (invited).
05/2017: Displaced morphology in German. An argument for post-syntactic morphology. Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, University of Potsdam.
03/2017: Reconciling parasitic participles with displaced morphology: Implications for morphological selection. GLOW 40, Leiden (poster/alternate).
02/2017 (with Doreen Georgi): The matching effect in resumption: a local analysis based on Case attraction and top-down derivation. Workshop on order and direction of grammatical operations, Pavia.
01/2017: On the limits of variation in West-Germanic verb clusters: Evidence from displaced morphology in German for the existence of clusters with 213 order. Colloquium, University of Göttingen (invited).
12/2016: Displaced Morphology in German. Evidence for post-syntactic morphology. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW) 31, Stellenbosch (South Africa).
10/2016: Problems with late merged raising relatives – and why late
merger should be combined with the matching analysis. GGS 2016, Leipzig.
10/2016: Displaced Morphology in German: Evidence for post-syntactic morphology. NELS 47, UMass, Amherst, MA.
04/2016: (with Doreen Georgi): Local modeling of the gap/resumptive complementarity under top-down Case attraction. GLOW 2016, Göttingen.
02/2016: (with Roland Pfau): The order of Agree and Merge – evidence from sign language agreement. Workshop Sign language agreement revisited: new theoretical and experimental perspectives (AG 7), DGfS 2016, Konstanz.
01/2016 (with Doreen Georgi): Complementarity of gaps and resumptives as the result of Case attraction: local modeling under top-down derivation. Séminaire LaGraM, University Paris 8.
12/2015: Displaced Morphology in German: Evidence for post-syntactic morphology. Morphology Days 2015, Leuven.
10/2015: (with Doreen Georgi): Complementarity of gaps and resumptives as the result of Case attraction: local modeling under top-down derivation. The 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2015), Paris.
09/2015: (with Doreen Georgi): Local modeling of the gap/resumptive complementarity under top-down Case attraction. Workshop on Obligatoriness, Eleventh International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Tbilissi, Georgia.
05/2015: 213 verb clusters – Evidence for the existence of a rare cluster type from displaced morphology in German. Workshop on Verb clusters. University of Amsterdam/Meertens Instituut (invited).
02/2015 (with Doreen Georgi): Complementarity of gaps and resumptives as the result of Case attraction: local modeling under top-down derivation. Linguistics Seminar Series, University College London (invited).
12/2014: 213 verb clusters exist. Evidence from new diagnostics to distinguish V(P)R and the 3rd construction: Misplaced z(u) and short relative clause extraposition in (Swiss) German. Dialect Syntax: The State of the Art, Frankfurt.
11/2014: Wenn Deplatziertes genau richtig ist – das Infinitiv-zu im deutschen Verbcluster. Inaugural lecture (as „Privatdozent“), University of Zurich. Stream - Download (mp4)
10/2014 (with Doreen Georgi): Case attraction and matching in resumption: Evidence for top-down derivation. Theory of Grammar Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig.
09/2014 (with Doreen Georgi): Case attraction and matching in resumption: Evidence for top-down derivation. CGSW 29, York.
09/2014: 213 verb clusters exist – Evidence from misplaced z(u) and short relative clause extraposition in German. CGSW 29, York.
09/2014 (with Doreen Georgi): Case attraction and matching in resumption: Evidence for top-down derivation. SinFonIJA, Graz (poster).
09/2014: 213 verb clusters exist – Evidence from misplaced z(u) and short
relative clause extraposition in German. SinFonIJA, Graz.
06/2014: Displaced morphology in German and its implications for the theory of verb clusters. CRISSP Seminar, HUBrussel/KU Leuven, Brussels (invited).
03/2014: Deriving mismatches in ATB-movement: Asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. Séminaire de recherche, Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva (invited).
01/2014: 213 - 3rd construction or verb cluster? Evidence from misplaced z
in favor of a VPR-analysis. Institute Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig.
09/2013: 213 – 3rd construction or Verb Projection Raising? Workshop on Swiss German syntax, Villa Salmi, Arezzo.
09/2013: Rule ordering in verb cluster formation. The placement of the inﬁnitival particle te/zu/z. Workshop on Swiss German syntax, Villa Salmi, Arezzo.
06/2013 (with Ellen Brandner & Gerhard Schaden): German Double and Triple Compound Perfects. Workshop on aorists and perfects across languages. Poitiers.
06/2013: Rule ordering in verb cluster formation. The placement of the infinitival particle te/zu. Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen (invited).
06/2013: Rule ordering in verb cluster formation. The placement of the infinitival particle te/zu. Institute Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig.
03/2013 (with Doreen Georgi): New arguments for top-down derivation in syntax from resumptive drop and case attraction. Top-down-day, University of Leipzig.
03/2013: Rule ordering in verb cluster formation. Workshop on the interaction of syntactic primitives, DGfS 2013, Potsdam.
11/2012: New evidence for postsyntactic verb cluster formation and a right-branching VP – The case of verb doubling. Colloquium, Department of linguistics, Potsdam (invited).
11/2012: (with Jutta Hartmann & Andreas Konietzko): On the Limits of Non-Parallelism in ATB-Movement. Experimental Evidence for strict syntactic Identity. Workshare 2012, Nantes.
11/2012: Deriving morphological and reconstruction asymmetries in ATB-movement: Asymmetric extraction + deletion. Workshare 2012, Nantes.
09/2012 (with Ellen Brandner and Gerhard Schaden): Zur Syntax und Semantik des doppelten Perfekt aus alemannischer Sicht. IGDD2012, Kiel.
07/2012: Economy issues in the analysis of resumption. Why movement and base-generation sometimes compete and why they sometimes don't. Resumptive pronoun workshop, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (invited).
03/2012: Trying to make sense of verb cluster variation. DGfS 2012, Frankfurt.
02/2012: (with Jutta Hartman & Andreas Konietzko): On the limits of Non-Parallelism in syntax. Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen.
02/2012: (with Jana Häussler, Josef Bayer & Markus Bader): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen.
01/2012: New evidence for postsyntactic verb cluster formation and a right-branching base order. Institute Colloqium, University of Leipzig.
11/2011: New evidence for postsyntactic verb cluster formation and a right-branching base order. The 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. University of Toronto.
11/2011 (with Josef Bayer, Markus Bader & Jana Häussler): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. The 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. University of Toronto.
06/2011 (with Josef Bayer & Jana Häussler): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. CGSW 26, Amsterdam.
06/2011 (with Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach): A non-hybrid approach to sign language agreement. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory. Venice.
06/2011 (with Josef Bayer & Jana Häussler): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. GGS, Stuttgart.
05/2011 (with Josef Bayer & Jana Häussler): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. Kolloquium, University of Leipzig (invited).
02/2011: Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in ATB: A derivational ellipsis account. Invited Lecture, University of Cologne (Linguistischer Arbeitskreis).
12/2010: Evidence for semantically active covert head-mvt – Scope in Verb Projection Raising. Workshop on Verb movement: Its nature, triggers and effects. Amsterdam.
11/2010: Why resumptive pronouns are distributed the way they are and why Swiss German happens to be interesting in this respect. Invited lecture, University of Goettingen.
10/2010: ATB as Asymmetric Extraction + Derivational Ellipsis. The 41st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Upenn, Philadelphia.
08/2010 (with Doreen Georgi): DP-internal double agreement is not double Agree: a uniﬁcation with possessor agreement.GLOW-in-Asia VIII, Beijing
06/2010 (with Sjef Barbiers, Ellen Brandner, Olaf Koeneman, Marika Lekakou, Cecilia Poletto, and Gerhard Schaden): Meso-comparative syntax of perfect doubling. 4th European Dialect Syntax Meeting, San Sebastian.
06/2010 (with Doreen Georgi): Unifying double agreement and possessor agreement. 4th European Dialect Syntax Meeting, San Sebastian.
05/2010 (with Doreen Georgi): Double agreement in possessor doubling - against DP-over-NP and in favor of NP-over-DP. GGS, Berlin.
04/2010: ATB as asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. GLOW 33, Wroclaw.
04/2010: ATB as asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. SWIGG/KWIGG, Konstanz.
03/2010: ATB as asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. Syntaxcolloquium, University of Leipzig (invited).
03/2010 (with Doreen Georgi): Double agreement in possessor doubling: against DP-over-NP and in favor of NP-over-DP. Syntaxcolloquium, University of Leipzig .
02/2010: An Alemannic challenge to the FOFC. DGfS 2010, Berlin.
02/2010: (with Claudia Bucheli): From directional preposition to purpose marker to infinitive marker – on the diachrony and geography of the particles introducing complements of motion verbs in Alemannic. DGfS 2010, Berlin.
02/2010: (with Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach) Sign language agreement is syntactic. the importance of auxiliaries. TIN-dag 2010, Utrecht.
12/2009: (with Claudia Bucheli Berger) On so-called verb doubling in Alemannic. General Linguistics Colloquium, University of Zurich.
11/2009: ATB as asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. Guest lecture, English Department, University of Tübingen.
09/2009: On a movement paradox in verb projection raising. Colloque de syntaxe et sémantique à Paris, Paris.
09/2009 (with Ellen Brandner): Die Bewegungsverbkonstruktion im Alemannischen: Wie Unterschiede in der Kategorie einer Partikel zu syntaktischer Variation führen. 3. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD), Zurich.
09/2009: On so-called verb doubling in Swiss German. The hybrid particle go and its implications for the verbal complex and verb projection raising. Workshop on Agreement, doubling, and the DP, Leiden.
05/2009: Resumptives and ATB - evidence for CP-coordination and ellipsis. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 24, Brussels.
05/2009: (with Ellen Brandner): Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 24, Brussels.
05/2009: Bewegungsparadoxe bei Verb Projection Raising. GGS, Leipzig.
04/2009: (with Ellen Brandner): Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Swiss Workshop in Generative Grammar (SWIGG), Neuchatel.
03/2009: Repair-driven verb movement in English locative inversion. Repair workshop, DGfS 2009, Osnabrück.
03/2009: (with Josef Bayer): That-trace effects and resumption as the result of Improper Movement. Repair workshop, DGfS 2009, Osnabrück.
02/2009: When movement and base-generation compete – on the definition of the Reference Set, the typology of resumption, and ranked economy constraints. TIN-dag 2009, Utrecht.
01/2009: (with Ellen Brandner): Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Syntax Colloquium, Konstanz.
11/2008: When Movement and Base-generation compete: On the definition of the Reference Set, Scope, and the Typology of resumption. Syntax Colloquium, Konstanz.
10/2008: Wenn Basisgenerierung und Bewegung im Wettbewerb stehen: Die Definition von Referenzmenge, Skopus und die Typologie der Resumption. Workshop Perspektiven Minimalistischer Syntax, Leipzig.
09/2008: (with Ellen Brandner) Crossing the lake: motion verb constructiosn in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Workshop European Dialect Syntax III, Venice.
07/2008: English Locative Inversion as a V2 residue – a generalized TP and exceptional verb movement.LAGB 2008, Essex.
07/2008: English Locative Inversion as a V2 residue – the role of focus and the EPP. Guest lecture, University of Tübingen.
07/2008: Why resumptive pronouns are distributed the way they are and why Swiss German happens to be interesting in this respect. Fachbereichskolloquium, University of Konstanz.
05/2008: Locative inversion in English as a V2 residue. Syntax Colloquium, University of Konstanz.
05/2008: Lokativ-Inversion im Englischen als V2? GGS, Berlin.
02/2008: Variation in resumption as an argument for stochastic evaluation. Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy in Linguistics workshop (DEALl II), Leiden.
02/2008: Locative inversion in English as V2. TIN-dag 2008, Utrecht.
10/2007: The syntax of resumption in Swiss relatives; on oblique case and variation. invited lecture, Geneva.
10/2007: Resumption as copying. Workshop on short wh-words, Konstanz.
06/2007 (mit Gerd Bräuer, Monique Honegger, Afra Sturm und Nina Zimnik): Didactical writing approaches in the context of «dual literacy» in teacher education. 4th International Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, Bochum.
05/2007 (with Guido Seiler): Variation als Default. Theoretische Implikationen. GGS 25, Konstanz.
05/2007 (with Guido Seiler): Variation as the default or the rule? Swiss relatives, revisited. Formal Approaches to Variation in Syntax (FAVS), York.
02/2006: Principle C effects in German relative clauses. TIN-dag 2006 (taalkunde in Nederland), Utrecht.
11/2005: Reconstruction for Principle C in German relatives. In favor of a Matching Analysis. SAM2, Utrecht.
06/2005: Long relativization in Zurich German as resumptive prolepsis. CGSW (Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop) 20, Tilburg
05/2005: Über eine Alternative zur langen A'-Bewegung: GGS 2005, Tübingen
04/2005: Long A'-movement in a resumptive disguise: resumptive prolepsis constructions in German and Dutch: GLOW 2005, Geneva
01/2005: On an alternative to long A'-movement in German and Dutch TIN-dag 2005 (Taalkunde in Nederland) 2005, Utrecht
12/2004: Control into finite Clauses as resumption: Console XIII, Tromsoe
11/2004: Control into finite Clauses as resumption. SAM 1 (Syntax AiO Meeting)
10/2004: Warum zürichdeutsche Relativsätze interessant sind. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik, Bern
07/2004: Matching in Zürich German relative clauses as distributed deletion; 1st Bilbao-Deusto Conference in Linguistics, Bilbao
06/2004: Matching in Zürich German relative clauses as distributed deletion; TABU-dag 2004, Groningen
05/2004: Matching in Zürichdeutschen Relativsätzen als distribuierte Tilgung, GGS 2004, Mannheim
02/2003: Extending Holmberg's generalization? Local A-scrambling in Japanese, Russian and Bantu Inversion, and English possessives. Grammatical Models colloquium, University of Tilburg.
06/2001: Nonfinitheit im Amharischen. Kolloquium der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich.
04/2001: Empirische und theoretische Probleme der Lokativinversion. Kolloquium der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich.
01/2001: Zur theoretischen Modellierung von Lokativinversion. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, Universität zu Köln.

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Teaching (General and German linguistics)

see this page for details (program, handouts etc.)

2017:
- Kasus und Kasustheorien (Case and theories of Case). MA seminar, General Linguistics, University of Potsdam
- Syntax des Deutschen (German Syntax). BA seminar/lecture, General Linguistics, University of Potsdam
- Syntax des Deutschen (German Syntax). BA tutorial (2x), General Linguistics, University of Potsdam
2016/2017:
- The syntax of the noun phrase. MA & PhD seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2015
- Sharing constructions: movement, multidominance or ellipsis? MA & PhD seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2014/2015:
- (with Doreen Georgi) Long A’-movement from a local perspective. MA & PhD seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
- Formale Syntax. BA & MA colloquium, German Linguistics, University of Zurich.
2014:
- The syntax of relative clauses. 2-week advanced course, Eastern Generative Grammar Summer School (EGG) 2014, Debrecen.
- Head movement. MA & PhD seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2013:
- Wo ist die Morphologie? Zum Platz der Morphologie in der Grammatik (The place of morphology in grammar), MA seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2012/2013:
- Kongruenz (Syntax of Agreement), MA seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2012:
- (with Fabian Heck): Verbcluster (Syntax and morphology of verb clusters), MA seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2011/2012:
- Relativsätze (Relative clauses), MA seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2008:
- Basismodul LING synchron 2 (Introduction to linguistics), BA seminar, German Linguistics, University of Zurich:
2007/2008:
- Basismodul LING synchron 1 (Introduction to linguistics), BA seminar, German Linguistics, University of Zurich.
- Schreiben in Studium und Beruf (Academic writing), BA-seminar, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz.
2007:
- Schreiben in Studium und Beruf (Academic writing), BA-seminar, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz.
2005:
- Syntax 2 (Advanced syntax), BA seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leiden
2004/2005:
- Germaanse Talen (The structure of Germanic languages), BA seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leiden.
- Basisliteratuur (Foundational texts in linguistics), BA seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leiden.
2003/2004:
- Basisliteratuur (Foundational texts in linguistics), BA seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leiden.

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Teacher education

09/2011: three-day crash course on German grammar and orthography (part of module 4z "Normen"), Eidgenössisches Hochschulinstitut für Berufsbildung, Zollikofen.
02/2011: three-day crash course on German grammar and orthography (part of module 4z "Normen"), Eidgenössisches Hochschulinstitut für Berufsbildung, Zollikofen.
10/2010: three-day crash course on German grammar and orthography (part of module 4z "Normen"), Eidgenössisches Hochschullinstitut für Berufsbildung, Zürich.
12/2009: crash course/lecture on German orthography, Berufsschule Aarau
06/2009: one-day course on German orthography, Allgemeine Berufsschule Zürich
06/2008: crash course/lecture on German orthography, Berufsbildungszentrum Goldau
04/2008: crash course/lecture on German orthography, Berufsbildungszentrum Weinfelden
11/2007: two-day crash course on German otrthography, Eidgenössisches Hochschullinstitut für Berufsbildung

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Service

Bologna-reform
- Bologna-Beauftrager (responsible for the implementation of the BA/MA-programmes), German department, University of Zurich. 01/2007-01/2008
Study advice
- Bologna-Studienberater (study advisor for the BA/MA programmes), German department, University of Zurich: 08/2006-01/2008
Workshop organization
- Generative Grammatik des Südens (GGS) 44, University of Leipzig, October 20-22, 2016 (co-organizer).
- Annual meeting of the DGfS, University of Leipzig, March 3-6, 2015 (co-organizer).
- Workshop on Building Blocks, Leipzig, November 21–22, 2014 (co-organizer)
- 28th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop and the Workshop on Opacity in Grammar, University of Leipzig, October 3-5, 2013 (co-organizer).
- (with Henk van Riemsdijk & Tom Leu): Workshop on Swiss German syntax. Arezzo, September 6-8, 2013.
- (with Luis Vicente) organizer of the first Syntax AiO Meeting in the Netherlands (SAM1), November 2004
Editorship
- co-founder of the Leiden Papers in Linguistics: 06/2004
- member of the editorial board of the Leiden Papers in Linguistics: 06/2004-02/2006
Graduate school
- faculty member of the DFG graduate school 2011 `Interaktion grammatischer Bausteine` (interaction of grammatical building blocks, IGRA), University of Leipzig. 04/2014-
University service
- PhD representative on the ULCL board: 09/2003-06/2005
- PhD representative on the science commitee of the faculty of arts (commissie wetenschapsbeoefening): 09/2003-06/2004
- (together with Luis Vicente) organizer of the ULCL syntax reading group: 9/2003-10/2004
- student representative Classical Philology, University of Zurich, 01/1998-12/1999

Reviewing

Journals

Acta Linguistica Hungaria, Glossa, Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Language, Lingua, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistic Variation, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik

Volumes

Equinox, John Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter, Narr etc.

Conferences/Workshops (selection)

Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Console, GLOW, Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG), NELS, SinFonIJA 2017;
The impact of pronominal form on interpretation workshop (Tübingen 2013), What drives syntactic computation? Alternatives to formal features (Leipzig, 2015), ICLaVE 8 (University of Leipzig, 2015), DGfS Workshop on One-to-may Relations in Morphology, Syntax and Semantics (Stuttgart 2018), etc.

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Non-indoeuropean Languages I have worked on