CV
Areas of expertise:
Syntax, morphology, syntax and its interfaces with morphology, the lexicon and interpretation, Diachronic Syntax, Language Breakdown and Development, Heritage Languages.
Awards
- 11-12/00 Stanley J. Seeger Research Fellowship from Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.
- DFG AL 554/8-1 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. 3/2014.
- Member of the Leopoldina, National Academy of Sciences, 11/2014.
- Degree of doctor honoris causa at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, March 2016.
- Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, March 2018.
Education and professional experience
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1986-1990 |
Philology, specialization in Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece. |
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1990-1991 |
MA, Linguistics, University of Reading, UK. |
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08/92-12/94 |
Ph.D. student at the Center for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals ('Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung' (ZAS)) Berlin. |
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12/1994 |
Ph.D., Linguistics, Universität Potsdam. |
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1/95-3/99 |
Research associate at ZAS. |
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4/99-9/99 |
Research associate, Dept. of Theoretical Linguistics, Unversity of Tübingen. |
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07/1999 |
Habilitation (Linguistics), Universität Potsdam. |
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10/99-3/00 |
Managing Director of ZAS. |
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04/00-06/00 |
Research associate at the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Potsdam. |
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7/00-12/00 |
Heisenberg Fellow (University of Potsdam, MIT and Princeton University). |
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1/01-09/01 |
Replacement of the Dept. Chair at the Institute of English Linguistics, Universität Stuttgart. |
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10/01-09/02 |
Heisenberg Fellow (University of Pennsylvania, University of Potsdam). |
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10/02-09/15 |
Professor of Theoretical and English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart. |
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07/2007 |
Visiting Professor, Stanford University, USA, LSA Summer School. |
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10/15-
12/15- |
Professor of English Linguistics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Vice Director, Leibniz-ZAS. |
Projects (as PI):
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1998-2000 |
Greek Ministry of Development, special research grant for Greek scientists abroad |
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2000- 2002 |
DFG Heisenberg Fellowship. Research Project: Facets of Unaccusativity |
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1/03-3/06 |
Director of the Graduate Program (GRK 609) Linguistic Representations and their Interpretation, Universität Stuttgart. |
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2004-2007 |
DFG grant AL 554/3-1 Basis and boundaries of unaccusativity. |
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2006 |
DFG AL 554/4-1 GLOW Summer School. |
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2007 |
DFG (GZ 4851-339-07) Conference on nominalizations across languages. |
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7/06-09/15 |
Director of the collaborative research center Incremental Specification in Context (SFB 732), Universität Stuttgart. |
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2006-2010 |
C1 The syntax of nominal modification and its interaction with nominal structure. SFB 732. |
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2006-3.2016 |
B1 The form and interpretation of nominals, SFB 732. |
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2010-2015 |
B6 Underspecification in Voice systems and the syntax-morphology interface SFB 732. |
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2010-2013 |
DFG DO 536/10-1 Prosodische Phrasierung in der auditorischen und visuellen Satzverarbeitung 'Prosodic phrasing in auditory and visual sentence processing' (with Dogil & Kotchoubey). |
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2010-2011 |
DAAD ID-50726640 Nominalizations: explorations at the syntax-lexicon and the syntax-semantics interface (Collaboration Stuttgart/Tromsø;). |
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2011-2012 |
DAAD ID-50740971 Nominalizations: explorations at the syntax-lexicon and the syntax-semantics interface (Collaboration Stuttgart/Paris). |
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2013-2019
2014-2015 |
AL 554/7-1, 7-2 The Acquisition of Voice alternations by Greek-German bilingual children. DAAD ID 57067847 Die Syntax-Morphologie Schnittstelle: Evidenz von Multilingualism (Collaboration Stuttgart/Trondheim). |
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2014-2017 |
AL 554/10-1 Neue Wege in der Kontrolletheorie (with Dr. Silke Firscher). |
Scientific Boards:
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2016- : 2015- : |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of AcqVA Member of the Scientific Board of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld. |
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2013- : |
Member of the Advisory Board of Language Science Press. |
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2012- : |
Member of the Network Language, Variation, and Migration, Universität Potsdam. |
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6/11-10/11: |
Member of the Evaluation Panel of Nordic Centers of Excellence (Norwegian Research Council). |
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2010- : |
Series Editor Brill Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory. |
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2010- : |
Member of Academia Net, http://www.academia-net.de/. |
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2006-2010: |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of NORMS (Nordic Center of Excellence in Micro-comparative syntax). |
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2002-2006: |
Member of the Center of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld. |
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2000- : |
Series Editor at Mouton de Gruyter: Interface Explorations (with Tracy A. Hall). |
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1999-2009: |
Member of the Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Board (positions held: Newsletter editor 1999-2002; Secretary 2002-2005, Chairperson 2005-2009). |
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2003-2004: |
Member of the Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenshaft ‘German Linguistic Society’ (Treasurer). |
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2002-2003: |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenshaft. |
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currently member of the editorial board of English Language and Linguistics, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Syntax. |
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