If you are feeling generous enough to cite me, please cite me as Benjamin L. Sluckin in your reference section and (Sluckin "year") in your prose.
| Journal * | Sluckin, Benjamin L. 2025. Revisiting the syntax and development of Kiezdeutsch V3: a new perspective. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 37(1),pp.1-61. DOI: 10.1017/S1470542724000114 |
| Journal * | Sluckin, Benjamin L. 2024. The covert perceiver in English Locative Inversion: an alternative to expletive pro. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6(1-2),pp. 192–243. DOI: 10.1075/elt.00058.slu |
| Journal * | Fuß, Eric & Sluckin, Benjamin L. 2024. The evolution of expletives. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6(1-2),pp. 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1075/elt.00052.fus |
| Journal (under review) | Sluckin, Benjamin L. & Fuß, Eric. (under review). (Not) Anything Goes: The syntax and diachrony of the German gehen-middle. Manuscript under peer review. |
| Journal (under review) | Sluckin, Benjamin L. (under review). (Everyone) Everywhere All at Once: A relational account of quantified impersonal -where in English. Manuscript under peer review. |
| Journal (R&R) | Sluckin, Benjamin L. & Kastner, Itamar. (resubmitted after revisions). Everywhere here can say this: The English locative impersonal. Manuscript under peer review. |
| Chapter * | Sluckin, Benjamin L. & Bunk, Oliver . 2023. Non-canonical V3 and Resumption in Kiezdeutsch, with Oliver Bunk. In de Clercq, Karen et al. (eds.), Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages , pp. 327-354. Oxford:OUP |
| Dissertation | Sluckin, Benjamin L. 2021. Non-canonical subjects and subject positions: locative inversion, V2-violations, and feature inheritance. PhD Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. (corrected version, summa cum laude) |
| Chapter * | Sluckin, Benjamin L., Silvio Cruschina & Fabienne Martin. 2021. Locative Inversion in Germanic and Romance: A conspiracy theory. In Sam Wolfe & Christine M. Salvesen (eds.), Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance, pp. 165-194.Oxford: OUP. OUP link Preprint on Researchgate |
* = peer reviewed
| In Prep: | Locative Inversion in the history of English: innovative redistribution of continuous features (working title) |
| In Prep: | Agentive unaccusatives or agentivizing pPs (working title) |
| In Prep: | Tough-movement and its restrictions (working title) |
| In Prep: | Modal passives in Italian (working title) |
| 2021 | PhD Thesis Non-canonical subjects and subject positions: locative inversion, V2-violations, and feature inheritance. PhD Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Artemis Alexiadou (1), Prof. Dr. Eric Fuß (2), Prof. David Willis (3) |
| 2016 | MPhil Thesis Exaptation across grammatical domains: a generative account of source contexts, mechanisms and outcomes. MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge, Supervisor: Dr David Willis |
| 2015 | Undergraduate Thesis Zurück in die Zukunft: a socio-historical linguistic account of the development of the future tense in German. BA dissertation, University of Manchester |
| 2017 | Language Contact as an Accelerator of Change: The Diffusion of the werden Future Tense Periphrasis in German (Updated version of BA thesis) |