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I am a Full (W3) Professor for Empirical English Linguistics (EEL) at the Department of English and American Studies of the HU Berlin.
Broadly speaking, my research lies at the interface of lexicon/syntax/semantics/pragmatics, and their bearing on questions in language processing, acquisition and use. More specifically, I have worked on issues including structural dependencies (polarity sensitivity, obligatory relative clauses), logical vs. non-at-issue/social meanings (negation, modality, adverbs, conditionals), as well as doubling phenomena (negative concord, modal concord) and register with a focus on varieties of English, German and Chinese. Whereas I started out as a theoretical linguist, I currently use a mixture of cross-, theoretical-, socio- and psycholinguistic methods, aiming to combine existing insights with new thematic developments and methodological advances.
Service:
2025-: Co-Editor-in-Chief, Linguistics Vanguard
2024-2026: Board member, SFB1412 Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
2024-2026: Member of the KLS (Kommission für Lehre und Studium), Department of English and American Studies, HU Berlin
2021-2024: Chair of the Ethics Committee, Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities Faculty of Language, HU Berlin
2022: Chair of the program committee, DGfS2023 (the 45. annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society), University of Cologne
2019-2022: Member of the committee for research data management, Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities, HU Berlin
2017-2020: Member of the Steering Committee for the DFG-priority program SPP1727 XPrag.de