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PD Dr. Martin Salzmann
University of Leipzig
Department of Linguistics

Beethovenstrasse 15
D-04107 Leipzig
Germany

office: H1 5.04

phone: +49(0)341-9737608
mail: martin dot salzmann at-sign uni-leipzig dot de

 

Current Position

Heisenberg-fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig

Areas of Specialization

Syntactic theory, syntax-morphology interface, syntax-semantics interface, micro-variation

Education

Employment

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Grants/scholarships

  • 04/2015–12/2018

Heisenberg-scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). EUR (approx) 385’0000

  • 10/2011–03/2015

Postdoc-scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (“Stipendium für fortgeschrittene Forschende”): CHF 205’568, approx. EUR 170’000

  • 02/2010–09/2011

Project grant from the “Forschungskredit” fund of the University of Zurich: CHF 172’000, approx. EUR 140’000)

  • 02/2008–01/2010

Postdoc-scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (“Stipendium für angehende Forschende”): CHF 84’220, approx. EUR 63’000

 

 

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
  • case and agreement
  • word order, scrambling, inversion constructions, information structure
  • DP-syntax, possession
  • OT vs. MP (derivation vs. representation)
  • bottom-up vs. top-down derivation
  • morphology-syntax interface (esp. syncretisms, displaced morphology, post-syntactic operations)
  • syntax-semantics interface (scope, binding, reconstruction)
  • tense, aspect, event structure
  • syntactic microvariation/dialectology, esp. Swiss dialects
  • empirical methods
  • Bantu syntax

 Further Research Interests

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

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Publications

Theses/Monographs

Manuscripts/unpublished

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!

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 Presentations

  • 06/2019: (with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Negative verb clusters in Meadow Mari and Udmurt. 3rd SOUL (Syntax of Uralic Languages), Tartu.
  • 06/2019: (with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Negation, Adverbial Clitics and the Insertion of a Dummy Copula: Arguments for postsyntactic verb cluster formation in Mari and Udmurt. 3rd Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC), Budapest.
  • 05/2019: (with Philipp Weisser): The Direction of Allomorphy as a Test for the Direction of Head-Formation.  Workshop on Connecting roots and affixes, Masaryk University, Brno.
  • 05/2019: (with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Negation in Mari/Udmurt verb clusters. An argument for postsyntactic Lowering. GLOW 42, Oslo.
  • 05/2019: (with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Condition C reconstruction in German A’-movement: experimental results. GLOW 42, Oslo (poster).
  • 04/2019: Theories of resumption and locality. Roundtable on Islands, Extraction and Resumption, University of Tübingen (invited).
  • 03/2019: (with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Ambiguous heads. Optional Clitic Placement in Negated Udmurt Verb Clusters. Workshop on Contrast and opposition in „free“ phenomena, DGfS 41, Bremen.
  • 03/2019: The DP vs. NP-debate. Why previous arguments for the DP-hypothesis fail and what a good argument for it should look like. Workshop New horizons in the study of nominal phrases, DGfS 41, Bremen.
  • 11/2018: (with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Condition C reconstruction in German: Methodological insights and theoretical implications. Workshop on Condition C Reconstruction. Queen Mary University of London (invited).
  • 11/2018: (with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): Two Ways of Repairing the Non-Finality Requirement. Prosodic Inversion and BE-Support in Mari. Workshop on repair in morphosyntax (WORM), Leipzig University.
  • 10/2018: (with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Reconstruction in German wh-movement. An experimental investigation. NELS 49, Cornell University (poster).
  • 10/2018: (with Ekaterina Georgieva and Philipp Weisser): A Reverse Wackernagel Clitic: Negation in Udmurt and Mari Verb Clusters – An argument for the ordering of post-syntactic movement operations NELS 49, Cornell University (alternate/poster).
  • 09/2018: (with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Reconstruction in German wh-movement. An experimental investigation. CGSW 33, Göttingen.
  • 09/2018: Apparent intervention in German Tough-Movement and its Implications. CGSW 33, Göttingen.
  • 09/2018: (with Gerhard Schaden): Inflected participles in Alemannic. Workshop on Implicit Subjects and Non-Finite Verb-Forms, Paris 8.
  • 07/2018: (with Doreen Georgi & Marta Wierzba): Reconstruction in German A‘-movement. An experimental investigation. SynSem-Colloquium, University of Potsdam.
  • 05/2018: Intervention in tough-movement - evidence from German. Kolloquium Syntax and its interfaces, University of Leipzig.
  • 05/2018: Displaced morphology in German. An argument for post-syntactic morphology.Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart.
  • 03/2018: (with Jana Häussler and Josef Bayer): That-trace effects in German. Unrelated to subjecthood, unrelated to extraction. Workshop on Referential and relational approaches to syntactic asymmetries, DGfS 2018, Stuttgart.
  • 02/2018: Intervention in tough-movement. Evidence from German. Not another workshop on verb raising, Leiden (invited).
  • 01/2018: Doubling in morphosyntax and what it tells us about grammar. Workshop on Patterns of repetition in language use, Leipzig (keynote).
  • 09/2017: (with Gerhard Schaden): The Syntax and Semantics of Inflected Participles in Allemannic German. Workshop Participles: form, use and meaning, 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich.
  • 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: (with Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach): Sign language agreement. Common ingredients, but unusual recipe. GLOW 40, Leiden University.
  • 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 (invited).
  • 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.)

  • 2019
    • Einführung in die moderne Syntax des Deutschen (Introduction to modern German syntax). BA seminar, German Linguistics, University of Potsdam
    • Theoretische und empirische Aspekte der deutschen Syntax (Theoretical and empirical aspects of German syntax). MA seminar, German Linguistics, University of Potsdam
    • Zweifelsfälle der deutschen Grammatik (Tough nuts of German grammar). MA seminar, German Linguistics, University of Potsdam
    • Aktuelle Fragen zur deutschen Grammatik (Current issues in German grammar). MA-Colloquium, German Linguistics, University of Potsdam
  • 2018/2019:
    • Incorporation and complex Predicates. MA & PhD seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
  • 2018:
    • (with Jana Häussler and Philipp Weisser): Theoretical and psycholinguistic approaches to case and word order. MA & PhD seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
  • 2017/2018:
    • Advanced topics in German syntax. MA & PhD seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
  • 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
  • Editorship
  • Graduate school
  • 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 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, OUP etc.

Conferences/Workshops (selection)

  • regularly: Chicago Linguistic Society, Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Console, GLOW, Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG), NELS, SinFonIJA;
  • 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), Object Agreement Across Barriers (OOAB, Zagreb, 2019) etc.

 

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Non-indoeuropean Languages I have worked on

  • Turkish

  • Amharic

  • Swahili and Bantu languages in general

  • Twi

  • Kiranti languages of Nepal

  • Greenlandic Eskimo

  • //Ani (Khoisan)

Active Command/Knowledge of the following Languages

  • Zurich German: native

  • German: native

  • English: fluent

  • Dutch: fluent

  • French: good

  • Latin: still pretty good

  • Classical Greek: almost gone

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Linguistic Links

societies

AVT (Dutch Linguistic Society)

LOT (Dutch Graduate School of Linguistics)

DGFS (German Linguistic Society)

GGS (Generative Grammatik des Südens)

GLOW (Generative linguistics of the old world)

linguistlist

resources

Distributed Morphology

Ethnologue

lingBuzz

ROA

Snippets

Semantics Archive

ANS (Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst)

LEO

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Other Links

media

Deutschlandfunk

Swiss Radio (SRF)

LinnRadio

NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)

Radio Swiss Classic

Radio Swiss Pop

 

 

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