Note: I will be on maternity leave until the end of July 2022. During this time, I will check my emails infrequently. In urgent matters, please contact stand-in professor: Dr. Philipp Weisser the Postdoc of the research group: Astrid van Alem for administrative issues: my assistant Dr. Anja Gollrad (anja.gollrad[at]uni-potsdam.de)
I am an Associate Professor in "Variation and Variability in morphosyntactic/morphological systems" at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam . I received my PhD in 2014 from Leipzig University . Before coming to Potsdam as an assistant professor in 2016, I spent the academic year 2015/16 as a maître de conférence at the ENS, Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. I study the syntactic and morphological properties of language from a cross-linguistic perspective with a focus on non-Indo-European l
Areas of interest: case and agreement (differential argument encoding, case stacking, scale effects, syncretism, portmanteaux, syntactic vs. semantic agreement) dependency formation (movement vs. base-generation, postsyntactic operations) locality (long movement, switch reference, non-local case assignment, reflexes of movement, resumption, islands) extraction asymmetries (sharing constructions such as ATB-movement, subjects vs. non-subjects) NP-syntax (possession, DP vs. NP) grammatical function changing (