Publications and Talks

Revisiting the syntax and development of Kiezdeutsch V3: a new perspective , submitted to Journal of Germanic Linguistics

Everywhere here can say this: The English locative impersonal, with Itamar Kastner (Edniburgh), submitted to English Language and Linguistics

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

Non-canonical subjects and subject positions: locative inversion, V2-violations, and feature inheritance. PhD Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Locative Inversion in Germanic and Romance: A conspiracy theory, with Silvio Cruschina (Helsinki) and Fabienne Martin (HU-Berlin), In Sam Wolfe & Christine M. Salvesen (eds.), Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance, pp. 165-194.Oxford: OUP.

Locative Inversion in the history of English: innovative redistribution of continuous features (working title)

The covert perceiver in French and English locative inversion (working title), with Fabienne Martin (HU Berlin)

Agentive unaccusatives or agentivizing pPs (working title)

Locative Inversion in the history of English: a spoonful of innovation and a pinch of continuity @ The Theory and Historical Development of Expletives (and non-referential arguments) workshop, University of Bochum.

with Itamark Kastner, Everywhere in the UK quantifies over individuals: a new locative impersonal subject @ Syntactic Change in Progress workshop at DiGS 22, University of Konstanz.

with Itamar Kastner, A locative human impersonal subject: Metonymy-driven change at the interfaces @ Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.

with Itamark Kastner, Everywhere we checked talks like this @ University of Glasgow.

with Itamark Kastner, Everywhere in the world quantifies over individuals @ Paper Brown Bag, NYU, New York.

Locative Inversion is a conspiracy: a formal typology @ Sentence Grammar/Discourse Grammar IV, University of Oslo, Norway.

Some methodological and theoretical concerns when dealing with a "residual" V2 pattern @ Secrets of Success. Or: How to preserve a Verb Second word order? University of Oslo, Norway.

Revisiting V3 in Kiezdeutsch: a preverbal subject constraint across different types of V3 @ DiGS, 2018 in York.

Information Structure Change in an Emerging Grammar : V1 and V3 in Kiezdeutsch, Colloque Information Structure and Language Change, Normandie Université, Université de Caen Normandie, France.

Single Specifiers and Phasehood in the Voice/vP domain and beyond: problems for SOV V2, presented at ' PhD Workshop', Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, Germany.

V2, non-V2, and resumption: A comparison of American Norwegian and Kiezdeutsch, with Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal, @ V3 and Resumptive Adverbials, University of Ghent, Belgium.

Verb third in Kiezdeutsch: The development of an (optional) subject position?, presented at 'Manchester Forum in Linguistics', University of Manchester, UK.

*Locatives, V2, and Subject Positions: FinP as a Gatekeeper in the History of English, Presented at 'DAAD-University of Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies: Research network 'Morphosyntactic change through corpora in German and beyond, Workshop 2: Complementizers and the left periphery', University of Cambridge, UK.

Feature Economy and Grammar Competition in language and dialect contact, presented at ‘Language Contact from an I Language Perspective’, IKER(Center for the Study of the Basque Language and its Texts), San Sebastian-Donostia.

Understanding exaptation from an acquisitionist parametric perspective, presented at Linguistik Meetup Berlin-Potsdam, FU-Berlin.

The exaptive reanalysis of V2 as locative inversion in the history of English: an emergentist parametric approach, presented at SUM-UP 2016, Summer School on Word order variation and change. Diachronic insights into Germanic diversity”, Potsdam.

Cross-linguistic influence in the word order of heritage speakers: thoughts on the syntax-discourse interface. University of Cambridge.

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)

Exaptation across grammatical domains: a generative account of source contexts, mechanisms and outcomes. MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge, Supervisor: Dr David Willis

Zurück in die Zukunft: a socio-historical linguistic account of the development of the future tense in German. BA dissertation, University of Manchester

Language Contact as an Accelerator of Change: The Diffusion of the werden Future Tense Periphrasis in German (Updated version of BA thesis)