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Syntax. Variation. Change. Germanic.

Dr. Benjamin L. Sluckin

Lecturer/PostDoc in Linguistics

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

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Dr. Benjamin L. Sluckin
[bɛndʒəmɪn ləʊwəl slu:kɪn]
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I am currently a post-doctoral Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Lecturer without tenure) at the chair for German and Historical Linguistics (Prof. Eric Fuß) (Germanistische Linguistik, insb. Sprachgeschichte/historische Linguistik) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. I defended my PhD at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in October 2021, where I was affiliated with the Leibniz Prize Research Unit for (Experimental) Syntax and Heritage Languages (RUESHeL) led by Prof. Artemis Alexiadou.

Email: benjamin.lowellsluckin AT rub DOT de
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Historical Linguistics in Bochum

Lehrstuhl für germanistische Linguistik
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How to say my weird surname:

[bɛndʒəmɪn ləʊwəl slu:kɪn]

Sluckin has a /u/ vowel - like "fluke" and not /ʌ/ as in "but".

I pronounce the name Sluckin with a intervocalic /k/, hence [slu:kɪn]. This is because English and German speakers are generally unaware that 'c' is really the trasliterated way of writing Slavic /ts/ in Latin-derived writing systems. My grandfather decided that a spelling change or informing everyone that it's /ts/ would be more trouble than it's worth.

So really the name shoud be 'Slutzkin' [slu:tskɪn] and any reader of Polish could tell you that! Indeed, in Cyrillic script, the name is written "слуцкин" or in Hebrew script it's "סלוצקין". Alas, it is still more trouble than it's worth to make people say it "correctly", so just get the vowel right and I'll be happy.