Nominal Modification

The Research Training Group on Nominal Modification at the Goethe University Frankfurt

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Principal Investigators

Dr. Peter Smith

Dr. Beata Moskal

Prof. Dr. Sven Grawunder

Postdoctoral Researchers

Heidi Klockmann


e-mail: heidi.e.klockmann @ uia.no
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Current position: Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, at University of Agder (Norway)


Doctoral Researchers

3.Cohort


Anna Preßler

Office: IG 5.253
Telephone:+49(0)69/79 8-32214
e-mail: Pressler [at] lingua [dot] uni [minus] frankfurt [dot] de
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Dissertation: The impact of prosodic factors in the positioning of a sub-class of French attributive adjectives
Research Interests: Phonology, Syntax, Morphology and the interfaces that exist between those three


Emine Şahingöz

e-mail: sahingoez [at] em [dot] uni [minus] frankfurt [dot] de
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Dissertation: Expressing Definiteness in Ossetic – The Development from Definite Particle to Stress Shift
Research Interests: Caucasian languages, Indoeuropean languages, Ossetic, Corpuslinguistics, Morphology, Typology, Language documentation, Language contact
Current position: Consultant for RMU R3 Support, Research Support, Goethe University Frankfurt


Sebastian Bredemann


e-mail: Bredemann [at] lingua [dot] uni [minus] frankfurt [dot] de
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Dissertation: Suppletive allomorphy in phonology: interactions of subcategorization, featurerealization and phonological markedness
Research Interests: Alliterative concord, theoretical phonology, Optimality theory, the morphology/phonology interface


Ahmad Al-Bitar


e-mail: ahmad[full stop ]aalbitar[at]outlook[full stop]com
Dissertation: Definite Nominal Modification
Research Interests: Degree semantics, definiteness, intensional semantics, syntax-semantics interface, semantics-pragmatics interface,


Emma Merritt



Research Interests: Language acquisition, multilingualism, syntax, and phonology


Joana Ferreira


e-mail: joana.silferreira [at] gmail [dot]com
Research Interests: Dynamic Semantics, Formal Semantics, Syntax, Syntax-semantics Interface, Empirical Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Typology



2.Cohort


Priscilla Lola Adenuga


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Dissertation: The syntax and morphology of nominal modifications in Ògè (submitted)
Research Interests: Syntax and Semantics



Fenna Bergsma

e-mail: f [dot] bergsma [at] uva [dot] nl
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Research Interests: Morphosyntax, Nanosyntax, grafting/multidominance, syncretism, free relatives
Current position: Instructor at University of Amsterdam


Abigail Anne Bimpeh


e-mail: bimpeh [at] leibniz [minus] zas [dot] de
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Dissertation: Logophoricity in Ewe: An Empirical-Semantic Assessment of  (submitted)
Research Interests: Semantics, syntax and syntax-semantics interface
Current position: Post-doctoral researcher at the t Leibniz dream project- Leibniz zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin


Astrid Gößwein


e-mail: goesswein [at] lingua [dot] uni [minus] frankfurt [dot] de
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Dissertation: Processing and complexity in prenominal participle constructions in German
Research Interests: Psycholinguistics, syntax, experimental syntax, morphology, argument structure, agreement, language variation and change
Current position: Data Scientist/Consultant at DataSpark GmbH & Co. KG 



Lydia Grohe


e-mail: grohe [at] lingua [dot] uni [minus] frankfurt [dot] de
Dissertation: The acquisition of double prenominal adjectives
Research Interests: Language Acquisition (Mono- and Bilingual), Syntax-Semantics-Interface, Speech and Language Disorders and Therapy
Current position: Instructor at the Department of Psycholinguistics and Didactics of German, Goethe University Frankfurt


Yat Han Lai


e-mail: lai [at] lingua [dot] uni [minus] frankfurt [dot] de
Dissertation: Word Order and Information Structure in Cantonese: An experimental approach
Research Interests: Sentence processing, Experimental syntax, Typology

Melanie Hobich

e-mail: hobich [at] lingua [dot] uni [minus] frankfurt [dot] de
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Dissertation: The was für construction from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective
Research Interests: Syntax, Language variation and change, Information Structure, Syntax-Prosody Interface, Syntax-Semantics Interface, spoken language, corpus linguistics, acquisition… (and much more)
Current position: Instructor at the Department of Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt


Ruby Sleeman


e-mail: rubysleeman [at] gmail [dot] com
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Dissertation: Ordering ordinals and superlatives in Dutch
Research Interests: Formal syntax (minimalism), semantics, ordinal numerals, adjectives, microvariation/dialectal variation, typology


Sanja Srdanović


e-mail: sanjaradman91 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Dissertation: The referential properties of Serbian possessive constructions (submitted)
Research Interests: Syntax of the Nominal Domain, Slavic languages, Empirical Linguistics, Possessives, Binding, Nominalization
Current position: Data Scientist/Consultant at DataSpark GmbH & Co. KG 


1.Cohort

Seyna Maria Carlucci-Dirani



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Dissertation: Why two definite articles? How the information structure governs morpho-syntactic variation- a re-search on the definite article forms in South Hessen
Research Interests: Syntax of Germanic Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Syntax of German Dialects, Syntax-Semantics Interface


Sarah Duong Phu


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Dissertation: Discontinuous noun phrases in Vietnamese
Research Interests: discontinuous noun phrases, information structure, Vietnamese grammar, classifiers, intonation in tone languages, corpus linguistics


Eugenia Fahrbach



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Dissertation: Variation in enclitic possessive constructions in Southern Italian dialects: a syntactic analysis
Research Interests: (Southern) Italian dialects, Syntax, Romance Linguistics, (In)Alienable Possession


Mariam Kamarauli


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Dissertation: The Nominal Domain in Georgian. A Diachronic Analysis
Research Interests: Diachronic development of the Georgian language, Caucasian linguistics, Morphosyntax, Syntax, Typology, General Comparative Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Statistics
Current position:  Lecturer and course coordinator at the Department of Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt



Maria Kofer



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Dissertation: Definiteness and nominal modification in the Balkan languages
Research Interests: General Comparative Linguistics, Areal Typology, Balkan Lingusitics, Corpus Linguistics, Morphosyntax


David Lahm



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Dissertation: The Underspecified Semantics of “different”
Research Interests: Polyadic and Plural Quantification, Formal Syntax and Semantics, Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms and Underspecified Semantics, Mathematical and Philosophical Logic


Nicolas Lamoure



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Dissertation: Nominal Coordination in Italian, French and German-Internal and external agreement of D>N&>N constructions
Research Interests: Syntax of the Nominal Domain, Nano Syntax, Cartography, Minimalism, Adjectives, Proper Names, Articles, Coordination, Bare Arguments, Iron Maiden
Current position: Scientific staff (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Goethe University Frankfurt


Carolin Reinert


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Dissertation: The Compositionality of Adjective Noun Constructions
Research Interests: Adjective-Noun Constructions, Formal Semantics, Type Theory, Syntax/Semantics Interface
Current position: Scientific assistant (wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) at the Projekt ‘Propositionalism’, Department of Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt


Anja Kovač (Šarić)


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Dissertation: Double genitives, possessives and nominalizations: evidence for the DP hypothesis in Serbian
Research Interests: Syntax of the Nominal Domain, Slavic Languages, Numerals, Agreement, Syntax-Semantics Interface
Current position: Co-founder of and English Language Instructor at INTELLECTA (Serbia)


Yranahan Traoré



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Dissertation: The Morphology and the Phonology of the Nominal Domain in Tagbana
Research Interests: Segmental and Tonal Phonology, Nominal Phrases and Prosodic Domains in Tagbana Languages


Sabrina Weber



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Dissertation: Nominal Modification in Language Production: Extraposition of Prepositional Phrases in German
Research Interests: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Experimental Syntax, Multilingualism


Merle Weicker



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Dissertation: The role of semantic complexity for the acquisition of adjectives
Research Interests: Language Acquisition (Monolingual and Bilingual Children, Children with Specific Language Impairment), On- and Offline Methods, Syntax-Semantics-Interface
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher and scientific staff (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Psycholinguistics and Didactics of German, Goethe University Frankfurt