Research interests
- Comparative Syntax: verb clusters, infinitives
- Optimality Theory
- Derivational morphology
Employment History
- Since January 2003
Researcher at the SFB 471,
project D2: "Lexikalische und syntaktische Prozesse beim Sprachverstehen",
University of Konstanz
Since October 2002
Lecturer for linguistics at the
Euro Medizinal Kolleg, Stuttgart
October 2002 -- February 2003
Teaching assistent at the
department for English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart
April 2002 - February 2003
Teaching assistent at the
department for German Linguistics, University of Stuttgart
June 2001 - December 2001
Researcher at the department for
English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart
January 2000 - Mai 2001
Researcher at the department for
Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart
Education
- 2002
PhD dissertation "West Germanic IPP-Constructions. An Optimality
Theoretic Approach" University of
Stuttgart. Supervisors: Sten Vikner, Hubert Haider, Hans Kamp
- 1996 - 1999
Member of the graduate programme "Linguistic
Foundations of Natural Language Processing", University of
Stuttgart
- March 1999
Visiting researcher at Rutgers University,
New Brunswick/New Jersey
- 1990 - 1996
"Magisterstudium" in German Language and
Literature ("Germanistik") and
History, University of Stuttgart
- Autumn 1994
Linguistics and History at the University
College of Wales in Bangor, Great Britain
- 1992 - 1993
German Language and
Literature ("Germanistik") and History, University of Konstanz
- 1994-1996
Member of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"