Personal

1986
born in Bergen auf Rügen, Germany

Education

10/2017
PhD in Linguistics, Leipzig University
PhD Thesis: "Case Matching Effects in Free Relatives and Parasitic Gaps: A Study on the Properties of Agree"

09/2010
MA in Linguistics and Computer Science
Master's Thesis "Parasitic Gaps in Derivational Grammar", Leipzig University

2005–2010
Study of Linguistics and Computer Science at Leipzig University

07/2005
Abitur (A-levels) at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium, Bergen auf Rügen

Jobs

since 10/2021
postdoctoral researcher in the project "The VP periphery in Mabia languages" funded by the DFG
Institut für Linguistik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
(principal investigator: Katharina Hartmann)

since 10/2021
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Linguistik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Professur Syntax (Prof. Katharina Hartmann)

03/2020–09/2021
postdoctoral researcher in the project "A general theory of multivaluation" funded by the DFG
Institut für Linguistik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
(principal investigator: Katharina Hartmann)

10/2019–02/2020
research assistant at the Institute for Linguistics, Leipzig University

10/2017–09/2019
postdoctoral researcher in the graduate program "Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks (IGRA)" funded by the DFG
Institute for Linguistics, Leipzig University

11/2014–07/2017
research assistant at the Institute for Linguistics, Leipzig University

08/2011–09/2014
research fellow in the project "Local modeling of non-local dependencies" funded by the DFG
Institute for Linguistics, Leipzig University
(principal investigators: Fabian Heck & Gereon Müller)

02/2011–07/2011
employee at le-tex

11/2010–01/2011
research assistant at the Institute for Linguistics, Leipzig University

2007–2010
student assistant at the Institute for Linguistics and Computer Science, Leipzig University

Teaching

2022
Syntax (MA Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

2021
Upward vs. Downward Agreement (EGG 2021 online)

2021
LaTeX Crash Course for Linguists (PhD Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

2021
Optionality in Syntax (BA Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

2021
Morphology (BA Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

2020
Morphology (BA Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, part of the introductory lecture series)

2019
Morphology (MA/PhD Leipzig University)
Academic skills (BA Leipzig University)

2018
Locality in syntactic dependencies (MA/PhD Leipzig University)
Academic skills for linguists (PhD Leipzig University)

2017
The Morphosyntax of Upward Agreement and Downward Agreement (MA/PhD Leipzig University)
Semantics (BA Leipzig University)

2016
Academic Skills (BA Leipzig University)
Semantics (BA Leipzig University)

2015
Verbinitial word order in the world's languages (MA Leipzig University)
Academic Skills (BA Leipzig University)

2013
Formal Semantics (BA Leipzig University)

2011
Introduction to Phonology (BA Leipzig University)

Supervision of Theses

02/2022
Natalia Patiño Mazzotti (BA, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt):
Die Interpretation der Vergangenheit im Spanischen der Andenregion

06/2021
Aya Al Ghanem (MA, Leipzig University):
Scope of Coordination in Syrian and Egyptian Arabic: An Experimental Study

01/2020
Ahmet Bilal Özdemir (MA, Leipzig University):
"Agreement in Adyghe"

01/2020
Limor Naaman (MA, Leipzig University):
"Proxy Control in Hebrew"

09/2019
Lea Huhn (BA, Leipzig University):
"Die Bindungseigenschaften des unpersönlichen Pronomens man im Deutschen"
(The binding properties of the impersonal pronoun man in German)

08/2019
Verena Julia Siebeck (BA, Leipzig University):
"Skalare Implikaturen im Sprachvergleich"
(Scalar implicatures cross-linguistically)

12/2018
Anna-Maria-Horschig (BA, Leipzig University):
"Object marking in Persian and the differences between the spoken and the written language"

12/2018
Helene Springer (BA, Leipzig University):
"Kasuseffekte bei Freien Relativsätzen im Russischen"
(Case effects in free relatives in Russian)

06/2018
Theresa Schmidt (BA, Leipzig University):
"Suppletion und Kongruenz im Choctaw"
(Suppletion and agreement in Choctaw)

09/2016
János Litzinger (BA, Leipzig University):
"Demonstrativpronomen in deutschen 'Donkey-Sätzen'"
(Demonstrative pronouns in German 'Donkey-clauses')

Conference Organization

2022
Optionality and non-optionality of syntactic movement
Workshop at the 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) in Tübingen
(with Johannes Mursell)

2021
"Agreement in Multivaluation Constructions" in Frankfurt
(with Katharina Hartmann, Melissa Jeckel, Johannes Mursell, Zheng Shen)

2015
"What's in a noun?" in Leipzig
(with Gereon Müller, Ludger Paschen)

2013
CGSW 28 + "Opacity in Grammar" in Leipzig
(with Petr Biskup, Doreen Georgi, Fabian Heck, Timo Klein, Gereon Müller, Martin Salzmann, Barbara Stiebels, Nina Topintzi, Jochen Trommer, Philipp Weisser)

2013
Interaction of Syntactic Primitives
Workshop at the 35th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) in Potsdam
(with Doreen Georgi, Timo Klein, Philipp Weisser)

2012
ConSOLE XX in Leipzig
(with Sebastian Bank, Daniela Henze, Stefan Keine, Philipp Weisser, Eva Zimmermann)

2009
Generative Grammatik des Südens in Leipzig
(with Petr Biskup, Doreen Georgi, Marcel Guhl, Fabian Heck, Stefan Keine, Antje Lahne, Denisa Lenertová, Gereon Müller, Andreas Opitz, Hagen Pitsch, Marc Richards, Jochen Trommer, Philipp Weisser, Eva Zimmermann, Gerhild Zybatow)