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Research Interests
(for a complete list of papers and publications please visit my papers page)
Empirical Syntax
- I investigated and am still investigating the empirical side of case conflicts German free relative constructions. Two papers are available thus far:
- The syntax of German dialects is a rarely exploerd area of research. Together with Tanja Schmid, I did some research
on the dialectal word order variation in 3-verb clusters in German. The work is summarised in
this paper which has been
published in the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
The Syntax-Phonology Interface
- The syntax of weak function words in Germanic, especially weak pronoun object shift (not only) in Scandinavian
is dealt with in the paper "Weak Function Word Shift" which has been presented
at GGS 2003 in Köln (June 2003) and WOTS 7 (September 2003) in Nijmegen. It is submitted to Linguistics
for a special issue on OT syntax, mainly the proceedings of WOTS 7.
The Syntax-Semantics
Interface
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My Ph.D thesis deals with the theory of argument structure
and thematic interpretation:
Polyvalent
Verbs
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The paper "Surface
Matters. Case Conflict in Free Relative Constructions and OT" has appeared in a volume on case theory
at CSLI, "New Perspectives on Case Theory", ed. by Ellen Brandner and Heike Zinsmeister, Stanford: CSLI publications, pp. 269-299.
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The aforementioned study on
German verb clusters
deals with the syntax-semantics interaction, insofar as some ordering possibilities seem to be dependent on information structure.
Optimality Theory
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My opinions on the general architecture of OT syntax have been laid down in two papers:
- Remarks on the Architecture of OT syntax, in:
Reinhard Blutner, Henk Zeevat (eds.), Optimality Theory and Pragmatics,
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 376-404.
- Correspondence in OT syntax and Minimal Link Effects, to appear in:
Arthur Stepanov, Gisbert Fanselow, Ralf Vogel (eds.), Minimality Effects in Syntax,
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
A series of papers deals with the typology of Argument Free relative clauses:
- Case Conflict in German Free Relative Constructions.
An Optimality Theoretic Treatment
(appeared in: Gereon Müller, Wolfgang Sternefeld (eds.), 2001,
Competition in Syntax,
de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 341-375.
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Towards an Optimal Typology of the Free Relative Construction
, in: IATL8. Grosu, Alex, ed., (2001), Papers from the 16th Annual Conference and from the
Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation "The Syntax and Semantics of Relative Clause
Constructions", Tel Aviv University 2000, Israel Association For Theoretical Linguistics, pp. 107-119.
- Free Relative Constructions in OT Syntax,
in: Fanselow, Gisbert & Caroline Féry (eds.), 2002, Resolving Conflicts in Grammars: Optimality Theory in Syntax,
Morphology, and Phonology. Linguistische Berichte, Sonderheft 11. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, pp. 119-162.
- Surface Matters. Case Conflict in Free Relative Constructions and Case Theory
In Ellen Brandner & Heike Zinsmeister (eds.),
New Perspectives on Case Theory, Stanford: CSLI publications, 2003, 269-299.
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