I am
- a linguist. Current fields of research:
- comparative grammar
- diachronic/ historical linguistics, esp. syntactic change
- the role of economy
principles in
structural description and in parametric change
- theory of generative syntax and the interface interpretation of semantics and pragmatics
- the role of functional projections in grammaticalisation processes
- variation in the
C-Domain
- chairperson of GeSuS e.V. ; head of the section for promotion of young scientists and former editor in chief for the journal Sprache & Sprachen.
- former lecturer at the BU Wuppertal (German and English Linguistics)
- former substitute professor at the BU Wuppertal, the LMU Munich, the University of Freiburg, the University of Bochum and the University of Tübingen
- former research associate in the DFG-project on grammaticalisation at the University of Frankfurt/ Main, Institute of Linguistics; (teaching: grammaticalisation; descriptive and generative syntax).
- former postdoc in the graduate
program 'Clause types:
Variation and Interpretation' at the University of Frankfurt/
Main.
- former assistant professor at the Institut für Linguistik/ Germanistik of the University of Stuttgart (teaching: formal linguistics, generative syntax, diachronic linguistics and syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, clause mood)