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Date of Birth: July 6^th1975

Place of Birth: Männedorf (CH)

Citizenship: CH

Education

2006: PhD in Linguistics, University of Leiden. Title: Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in indirect A'-dependencies.Thesis supervisors: 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. MA dissertation on Theoretical Approaches to Locative Inversion. Thesis supervisor: 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
1996: Graduation from Gymnasium at Stiftsschule Einsiedeln (Type A with Latin and Greek)
1993-1994: Senior year Anamoose Public High School (ND, USA)
1988-1996: Secondary School (Gymnasium) at Stiftsschule Einsiedeln
1982-1988: Primary School in Erlenbach/ZH

Employment

10/2011-: Postdoc University of Leipzig (scholarschop from the Swiss National Science Foundation)
02/10-09/11: Postdoc University of Zurich (individual project supported by the "Forschungskredit" of the University of Zurich)
02/08-01/10: Postdoc University of Konstanz (scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation)
01/07-10/07: Researcher, writing advice project ("Schreibberatung"), School of Teacher Education (Pädagogische Hochschule) of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, FHNW)
08/06-01/08: Lecturer (Oberassistent) at the German Department of the University of Zurich
04/03-06/06: Researcher/PhD student (AiO) in Linguistics at the LUCL at the University of Leiden.
04/02 –03/03 Researcher/PhD student (AiO) in Linguistics at the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) of the University of Amsterdam
11/01–03/02 Proofreader at CAT Media AG, Baden, Switzerland

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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, ATB-movement, ellipsis
syntactic microvariation/dialectology, esp. Swiss dialects
OT vs. MP (derivation vs. representation)
empirical methods
Bantu syntax
word order, scrambling

Further Research Interests

Morphology-Syntax Interface
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

(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 Zürich)

Articles

(to appear i): New evidence for post-syntactic verb cluster formation and a right-branching base-order. To appear in Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistik Society.
(to appear h): (with Jana Häussler, Josef Bayer & Markus Bader): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. To appear in Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistik Society.
(to appear g): Repair-driven verb movement in English locative inversion. In P. Brandt & E. Fuss (eds.). Repairs. Berlin: Mouton (Interface Explorations).
(to appear f): (with Josef Bayer): That-trace effects and resumption as the result of Improper Movement. In P. Brandt & E. Fuss (eds.). Repairs. Berlin: Mouton (Interface Explorations).
(to appear e): A derivational ellipsis approach to ATB-movement. The Linguistic Review 2012/2013.
(to appear d): Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in ATB: asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. To appear in Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.
(to appear c) (with Ellen Brandner): Crossing the Lake: Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. In P. Ackema, R. Alcorn, C. Heycock, D. Jaspers, J. v. Craenenbroeck & G. Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.): Comparative Germanic Syntax: The State of the Art. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Linguistics Today).
(to appear b): ATB as asymmetric extraction + ellipsis. In P. Ackema, R. Alcorn, C. Heycock, D. Jaspers, J. v. Craenenbroeck & G. Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.): Comparative Germanic Syntax: The State of the Art. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Linguistics Today).
(to appear a): (to appear a): On three types of variation in resumption - evidence in favor of violable and ranked constraints. To appear in Hans Broekhuis & Ralf Vogel (eds): Linguistic Derivations and Filtering. Equinox.
(2011e): Silent resumptives in Zurich German possessor relativization. In Peter Gallmann & Melanie Wratil (eds.): Null Pronouns. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 141-221.- contact me for an offprint
(2011d) (with Doreen Georgi): DP-internal double agreement is not double Agree: Consequences of Agree-based case assignment within DP. Lingua 121, 2069-2088, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2011.07.010 - contact me for an offprint
(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.
(2011b): Towards a typology of Locative Inversion - Bantu, perhaps Chinese and English - but beyond? Language and Linguistics Compass 5/4, 169-189. Contact me for an offprint.
(2011a): Resolving the movement paradox in Verb Projection Raising. In O. Bonami & P. 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. Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, 64-77. A prefinal version can be found here:
(2009c): Different notions of variation and their reflexes in Swiss German relativization. To appear 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.
(2006d): Long relativization in Zurich German as resumptive prolepsis. Jutta Hartmann & Laszlo Molnarfi (eds). From Afrikaans to Zurich German: Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 201-234.
(2006c): Reconstruction in German restrictive relative clauses. Jeroen van de Weijer and Bettlou Los (eds.): Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 186-196.
(2006b): Reconstruction for Principle C in German relatives. 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; Leiden Papers in Linguistics 3.1 (2006), 17-50.
(2005c): On an alternative to long A’-movement in German and Dutch. Proceedings of Console XIII, 2004, 353-375.
(2005b): On an alternative to long A’-movement in German and Dutch. Proceedings of SAM1 2004, Leiden Papers in Linguistics 2.3 (2005), 107-128.
(2005a): Matching 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) (= 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

(2011): Review of Idan Landau, The locative syntax of experiencers. Journal of Linguistics 47, 524-530. (contact me for an offprint)

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

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. Linguistik Evidence, Tübingen.
02/2012: (with Jana Häussler, Josef Bayer & Markus Bader): That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation. Linguistik 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, 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)

2012:
- (with Fabian Heck): Verbcluster (MA seminar), General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2011/2012:
- Relativsätze (MA seminar), General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2008:
- Basismodul LING synchron 2 (BA seminar), German Linguistics, University of Zurich:
2007/2008:
- Basismodul LING synchron 1 (BA seminar), German Linguistics, University of Zurich.
- Schreiben in Studium und Beruf (academic writing, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz.
2007: Schreiben in Studium und Beruf (academic writing, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz.
2005: Syntaxis 2 (BA seminar), General Linguistics, University of Leiden
2004/2005:
- Germaanse Talen (BA seminar), General Linguistics, University of Leiden.
- Basisliteratuur (BA seminar), General Linguistics, University of Leiden.
2003/2004: Basisliteratuur (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 course on German otrthography, Eidgenössisches Hochschullinstitut für Berufsbildung

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Service

Bologna-Beauftrager (responsible for the implementation of the BA/MA-programmes), German department, University of Zurich. 01/2007-01/2008
Bologna-Studienberater (study advisor for the BA/MA programmes), German department, University of Zurich: 08/2006-01/2008
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
member of the editorial board of the Leiden Papers in Linguistics: 06/2004-02/2006
(together with Luis Vicente) organizer of the first Syntax AiO Meeting in the Netherlands (SAM1), November 2004
09/2004-10/2005 initiator and moderator of the 1166 discussion group that serves as a communication platform for linguists affiliated with ULCL
01/1998-12/1999 student representative Classical Philology, University of Zurich.