This page contains the following informations:

• areas of research and interest
• projects / grants

Areas of research and interest:

• Syntactic Theory
  • Syntax-Semantics Interface
  • Syntax-Morphology Interface
  
  
• German(ic) Syntax
  • Word Order
  • Case
  • Complementation
  • Dialects
  • Bavarian
  
  
• South Asian
  • Bengali (Bangla)
  
  
• Psycholinguistics
  • Language Comprehension
  • Syntactic Parsing
  • Language and Brain
  
  

Projects / Grants:

1. Language comprehension and Variable Word Order: Syntactic and Extra-syntactic Aspects in Processing German Sentences (DFG; Ba 1178/4-3)
   (with Dr. phil. Markus Bader and Dr. med. Jens-Max Hopf)
   researcher: Jana Häußler, MA
   
   
2. The Syntax-Morphology Interface: Case, Agreement, and the Licensing of Arguments (Kurt-Lion Foundation, Konstanz/Tel-Aviv)
   (with Prof. Alexander Grosu, PhD)
   
   
3. Dialect Grammar, Free Variation and Change: Do we Need a Concept of Microvariaton ? (SFB 471, A17)
   researcher: Dr. Ellen Brandner
   
   
4. Lexical Features and Variable Syntactic Processes (SFB 471, A18)
   researcher: Dr. Susanne Trissler
   
   
5. Lexical and Syntactic Processes in Language Comprehension (SFB 471, D2)
   with PD Dr. Markus Bader
   researchers: Dr. Tanja Schmid, Jana Häußler