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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
Personal Information
Date of Birth: July 6th
1975
Place of Birth: Männedorf (CH)
Citizenship: CH
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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)
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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.
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2001: MA in General,
German and African Linguistics. Thesis title:
Theoretical Approaches to Locative Inversion. Thesis
advisor: Peter
Gallmann
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2000: Studies in
General,
German and
African
Linguistics at the University
of Cologne
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1996-2001: Studies in
General (Major),
German and African Linguistics
and Latin Philology,
University of Zürich
Employment
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04/2017-09/2017: Substitute Professor,
Department of Linguistics,
University of Potsdam
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04/2015-09/2018:
Heisenberg fellow
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10/2011-03/2015: Postdoc,
Department of Linguistics,
University
of Leipzig (scholarschip from the
Swiss National Science Foundation)
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02/2010-09/2011: Postdoc,
University of Zurich (individual
project supported by the "Forschungskredit"
of the University of Zurich)
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02/2008-01/2010: Postdoc,
Department of Linguistics,
University of Konstanz
(scholarship from the Swiss National
Science Foundation)
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01/2007-10/2007: Researcher,
School of Teacher
Education,
University of Applied Sciences
Northwestern Switzerland (Pädagogische Hochschule
der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, FHNW)
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08/2006-01/2008:
Lecturer (Oberassistent),
German Department, University
of Zurich
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04/2003-06/2006:
Researcher/PhD student (AiO) in
Linguistics, LUCL,
University of Leiden
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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
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Heisenberg-scholarship from the German
Research Foundation (DFG). Euros (approx) 165’0000 |
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Postdoc-scholarship from the Swiss
National Science Foundation (“Stipendium für fortgeschrittene
Forschende”): CHF 205’568, approx. Euros 170’000 |
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Project grant from the “Forschungskredit”
fund of the University of Zurich: CHF 172’000, approx. Euros 140’000) |
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Postdoc-scholarship from the Swiss
National Science Foundation (“Stipendium für angehende Forschende”):
CHF 84’220, approx. Euros 63’000 |
syntactic theory,
especially:
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movement dependencies,
relative clauses, resumption,
locality, copy theory
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complex predicates, verb clusters,
restructuring, verb projection raising
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syntax semantics
interface: reconstruction, scope, binding
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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)
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syntactic microvariation/dialectology,
esp. Swiss dialects
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empirical methods
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Bantu syntax
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word order, scrambling
Further Research
Interests
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Typology
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grammatical relations (ergativity etc.)
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voice (valency-changing operations like
passive, applicatives, causatives)
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word classes/syntactic categories
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finiteness
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information structure
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Publications
Monographs
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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(to appear c): On the limits of variation in
Continental West-Germanic verb clusters. Evidence from VP-stranding,
extraposition and displaced morphology for the existence of clusters
with 213 order. To appear in Journal of Comparative Germanic
Linguistics.
Prefinal version
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(to appear b):
Unbounded Dependency Constructions in
Germanic. In Michael T. Putnam & Richard Page (eds.): Cambridge
Handbook of Germanic Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.
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(to appear a) 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.
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(2017c) Prolepsis. In Martin
Everaert & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.):
The
Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd
edition. Wiley-Blackwell, volume 5, 3203-3245.
Prefinal version
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(2017b): Displaced morphology in German.
An argument for post-syntactic morphology.
In NELS 47: Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the
North East Linguistic Society. Volume 3, eds. Andrew Larmont and
Katerina Tetzloff, 77-90. Amherst: GLSA.
Prefinal version
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(2017a) (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
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(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
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(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.
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(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
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(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.
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(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
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(2012a): A
derivational ellipsis approach to ATB-movement.
The Linguistic
Review 29(3), 397-438. -
prefinal version.
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(2011e): Silent
resumptives in Zurich German possessor relativization. In Peter
Gallmann & Melanie Wratil (eds.):
Null Pronouns.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 141-221.-
prefinal version
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(2011d): (with
Doreen Georgi): DP-internal double agreement is not double Agree:
Consequences of Agree-based case assignment within DP.
Lingua
121, 2069-2088
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prefinal version
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(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
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(2011b):
Towards a typology of Locative Inversion - Bantu,
perhaps Chinese and English - but beyond?
Language and
Linguistics Compass 5/4, 169-189.
Prefinal
version.
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(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.
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(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:
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(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:
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(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:
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(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.
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(2009a) (with Ellen Brandner):
Crossing the
lake: Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss
German. Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 48,
81-113.
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(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)
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(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.
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(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
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(2006b):
Reconstruction in German relative
clauses. In favor of the
Matching Analysis. Proceedings of SAM2,
Utrecht institute of Linguistics Working Papers, 65-79.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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
Editions
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Talks
- 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.
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- 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.
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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.
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06/2011
(with Josef Bayer & Jana Häussler):
That-trace effects without traces. An
experimental investigation. CGSW 26,
Amsterdam.
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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.
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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).
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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
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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
.
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02/2010: An Alemannic
challenge to the FOFC. DGfS 2010, Berlin.
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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.
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02/2010: (with Roland
Pfau and Markus Steinbach) Sign language agreement is syntactic. the
importance of auxiliaries.
TIN-dag 2010, Utrecht.
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12/2009: (with Claudia Bucheli
Berger) On so-called verb doubling in Alemannic.
General Linguistics Colloquium,
University of Zurich.
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11/2009: ATB as asymmetric extraction +
ellipsis. Guest lecture,
English Department, University of Tübingen.
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09/2009: On a movement paradox in verb
projection raising.
Colloque de
syntaxe et sémantique à Paris, Paris.
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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.
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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.
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05/2009:
Resumptives and ATB - evidence for CP-coordination
and ellipsis.
Comparative Germanic Syntax
Workshop 24, Brussels.
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05/2009: (with Ellen
Brandner): Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in
Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Comparative Germanic Syntax
Workshop 24, Brussels.
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05/2009:
Bewegungsparadoxe bei Verb Projection Raising.
GGS,
Leipzig.
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04/2009: (with Ellen
Brandner): Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in
Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Swiss Workshop in Generative Grammar
(SWIGG), Neuchatel.
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03/2009: Repair-driven verb movement in
English locative inversion. Repair workshop,
DGfS 2009,
Osnabrück.
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03/2009: (with Josef
Bayer): That-trace effects and resumption as the result of
Improper Movement. Repair workshop,
DGfS 2009,
Osnabrück.
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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.
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01/2009: (with Ellen
Brandner): Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in
Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German. Syntax Colloquium, Konstanz.
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11/2008: When Movement
and Base-generation compete: On the definition of the Reference Set,
Scope, and the Typology of resumption. Syntax Colloquium, Konstanz.
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10/2008: Wenn Basisgenerierung und
Bewegung im Wettbewerb stehen: Die Definition von Referenzmenge,
Skopus und die Typologie der Resumption.
Workshop
Perspektiven Minimalistischer Syntax, Leipzig.
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09/2008:
(with Ellen Brandner) Crossing the lake: motion
verb constructiosn in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German.
Workshop European Dialect Syntax III, Venice.
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07/2008: English Locative Inversion as a
V2 residue – a
generalized TP and exceptional verb movement.LAGB
2008, Essex.
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07/2008: English Locative Inversion as a
V2 residue – the role of focus and the EPP. Guest
lecture, University of Tübingen
(invited).
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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.
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05/2008:
Locative inversion in English as a V2 residue. Syntax Colloquium,
University of Konstanz.
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05/2008:
Lokativ-Inversion im Englischen als V2? GGS, Berlin.
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02/2008: Variation in resumption as an
argument for stochastic evaluation.
Descriptive and
Explanatory Adequacy in Linguistics workshop (DEALl II), Leiden.
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02/2008: Locative inversion in English as
V2. TIN-dag
2008, Utrecht.
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10/2007: The syntax of resumption in Swiss
relatives; on oblique case and variation. invited lecture, Geneva.
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10/2007: Resumption as copying. Workshop
on short wh-words, Konstanz.
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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.
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05/2007 (with Guido Seiler): Variation als
Default. Theoretische Implikationen.
GGS
25, Konstanz.
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05/2007 (with Guido Seiler): Variation as
the default or the rule? Swiss relatives, revisited. Formal Approaches
to Variation in Syntax (FAVS),
York.
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02/2006: Principle C effects in German
relative clauses.
TIN-dag 2006
(taalkunde in Nederland),
Utrecht.
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11/2005: Reconstruction for Principle C in
German relatives. In favor of a Matching Analysis. SAM2,
Utrecht.
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06/2005: Long relativization in Zurich
German as resumptive prolepsis. CGSW
(Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop) 20, Tilburg
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05/2005: Über eine Alternative zur langen
A'-Bewegung:
GGS
2005, Tübingen
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04/2005: Long A'-movement in a resumptive
disguise: resumptive prolepsis constructions in German and Dutch:
GLOW 2005, Geneva
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01/2005: On an alternative to long
A'-movement in German and Dutch TIN-dag
2005 (Taalkunde in Nederland) 2005, Utrecht
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12/2004: Control into finite Clauses as
resumption:
Console
XIII, Tromsoe
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11/2004: Control into finite Clauses as
resumption. SAM 1 (Syntax AiO Meeting)
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10/2004: Warum zürichdeutsche Relativsätze
interessant sind. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik, Bern
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07/2004: Matching in Zürich German
relative clauses as distributed deletion; 1st Bilbao-Deusto Conference
in Linguistics, Bilbao
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06/2004: Matching in Zürich German
relative clauses as distributed deletion;
TABU-dag 2004, Groningen
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05/2004: Matching in Zürichdeutschen
Relativsätzen als distribuierte Tilgung,
GGS 2004,
Mannheim
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02/2003: Extending Holmberg's
generalization? Local A-scrambling in Japanese, Russian and Bantu
Inversion, and English possessives. Grammatical Models colloquium,
University of Tilburg.
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06/2001: Nonfinitheit im Amharischen.
Kolloquium der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich.
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04/2001: Empirische und theoretische
Probleme der Lokativinversion. Kolloquium der Allgemeinen
Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich.
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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.)
- 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
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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
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Formale Syntax. BA & MA colloquium,
German Linguistics, University of Zurich.
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2014:
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The syntax of relative clauses. 2-week
advanced course, Eastern Generative Grammar Summer School
(EGG) 2014, Debrecen.
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Head movement. MA
& PhD seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
- 2013:
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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:
- 2012:
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(with Fabian Heck):
Verbcluster (Syntax and morphology of verb clusters),
MA
seminar, General Linguistics, University of Leipzig
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2011/2012:
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2008:
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Basismodul LING synchron
2 (Introduction to linguistics), BA seminar, German Linguistics, University of Zurich:
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2007/2008:
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Basismodul LING synchron 1 (Introduction
to linguistics),
BA
seminar, German Linguistics, University of Zurich.
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Schreiben in Studium und Beruf
(Academic writing),
BA-seminar,
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz.
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2007:
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Schreiben in Studium und Beruf
(Academic writing), BA-seminar, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz.
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2005:
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Syntax 2 (Advanced syntax), BA
seminar, General Linguistics,
University of Leiden
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2004/2005:
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Germaanse Talen (The structure of
Germanic languages), BA
seminar, General Linguistics, University of
Leiden.
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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
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09/2011:
three-day crash course on German grammar and orthography (part of
module 4z "Normen"), Eidgenössisches Hochschulinstitut für
Berufsbildung, Zollikofen.
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02/2011:
three-day crash course on German grammar and orthography (part of
module 4z "Normen"), Eidgenössisches Hochschulinstitut für
Berufsbildung, Zollikofen.
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10/2010: three-day crash course on German
grammar and orthography (part of module 4z "Normen"), Eidgenössisches
Hochschullinstitut für Berufsbildung, Zürich.
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12/2009: crash course/lecture on German
orthography, Berufsschule Aarau
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06/2009:
one-day course on German orthography,
Allgemeine Berufsschule Zürich
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06/2008:
crash course/lecture on German orthography,
Berufsbildungszentrum Goldau
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04/2008:
crash course/lecture on German orthography,
Berufsbildungszentrum Weinfelden
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11/2007:
two-day crash course on German otrthography,
Eidgenössisches Hochschullinstitut für Berufsbildung
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Service
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Bologna-reform
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Bologna-Beauftrager (responsible for the
implementation of the BA/MA-programmes), German department, University
of Zurich. 01/2007-01/2008
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Study advice
-
Bologna-Studienberater (study advisor for
the BA/MA programmes), German department, University of Zurich:
08/2006-01/2008
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Workshop organization
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Generative
Grammatik des Südens (GGS) 44, University of Leipzig, October
20-22, 2016 (co-organizer).
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Annual meeting of the
DGfS, University of Leipzig, March 3-6, 2015 (co-organizer).
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Workshop on Building Blocks, Leipzig,
November 21–22, 2014 (co-organizer)
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28th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop and the Workshop on Opacity in
Grammar, University of Leipzig, October 3-5, 2013 (co-organizer).
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(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
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Editorship
- Graduate school
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University service
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PhD representative on the ULCL board:
09/2003-06/2005
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PhD representative on the science commitee
of the faculty of arts (commissie wetenschapsbeoefening):
09/2003-06/2004
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(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
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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
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Equinox, John
Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter, Narr, OUP etc.
Conferences/Workshops (selection)
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Chicago Linguistic
Society, Comparative Germanic
Syntax Workshop, Console, GLOW,
Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG), NELS,
SinFonIJA;
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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
Active Command/Knowledge of the following Languages
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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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