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I'm a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded LeibnizDream project at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I'm also a member of the DFG-funded network Definiteness across domains.
I work on a variety of topics in a wide range of languages, including complementation, pseudo-incorporation, differential object marking, the person case constraint, person feature systems, agreement, coordination, information structure, speech acts, definiteness, and allocutivity. My work involves solutions that take the morpho-syntactic and the semantic side into account. Lately, I've been investigating the acquisition of negative indefinites, past tense, conjunction, logophoric pronouns, and generic statements.
I received my PhD from Universität Leipzig. You can find my CV here.
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Under review
- in revision. Direction towards Person: Canonical inverse and reverse PCC in Adyghe. lingbuzz/005552 [with Ahmet Bilal Özdemir & Marie-Luise Popp]
- in revision. C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis. lingbuzz/005661 [with Maria Kouneli]
Recent
- to appear. <v,t>-type complementation in Kipsigis. To appear in Proceedings of WCCFL 39. lingbuzz/006045 [with Maria Kouneli]
- to appear. Errors of multiple exponence in child language. To appear in Proceedings of WCCFL 40. lingbuzz/006784 [with Artemis Alexiadou, Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie]
- to appear. Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: variation and competition. To appear in Proceedings of WCCFL 40. lingbuzz/006770 [with Abigail Bimpeh, Itai Bassi, Silvia Silleresi]
- to appear. Negative concord in the acquisition of English and German: Some results from a corpus study. To appear in Proceedings of CLS 58. lingbuzz/007243 [with with Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona Ilic, Paloma Jeretic]
- to appear. Strict logophors in Ewe, Yoruba, and Igbo. To appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27. lingbuzz/007141 [with Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh, Silvia Silleresi]
Past (selected)
- Pseudo-noun Incorporation and Differential Object Marking (2023). Monograph for the series Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics at Oxford University Press. link publisher
- Gender and allocutivity (2023). In: Proceedings of (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 12, ed. by Akshay Aitha, Matteo Fiorini and Sreekar Raghotham, 85-104. link volume [with Gurujegan Murugesan]
- An experimental study on kind and generic readings across languages: bare plural vs. definite plural (2022). In: Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 23, ed. by Marco Degano, Tom Roberts, Giorgio Sbardolini and Marieke Schouwstra, University of Amsterdam, 353-359. link volume [with Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Vina Tsakali, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland, Maria Teresa Guasti]
- As complex as they appear: Children’s comprehension of conjunctive expressions in Georgian (2022). In: Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 23, ed. by Marco Degano, Tom Roberts, Giorgio Sbardolini and Marieke Schouwstra, University of Amsterdam, 38-44. link volume [with Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Tamar Makharoblidze]
- Pseudo-incorporation vs. Differential Argument Marking in Korean (2022). In: Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XIII., ed. by Yuqiao Du, Zhuo Chen, Xiangyu Li, Zetao Xu, Victor Junnan Pan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 75-90. lingbuzz/006855 [with Hyunjung Lee]
- A dedicated topic position in Kipsigis (2022). In: Proceeding of TripleA 8, ed. by Henrison Hsieh, NUS Scholar Bank, 1-20. link volume [with Maria Kouneli]
- Determiner Removal in Balinese non-pivot agents (2022). Syntax 25(2), 276-298. open access. DOI: 10.1111/synt.12231 [with Sören Tebay]
- Pseudo-incorporation and its movement patterns (2020). Glossa 5(1), 106. DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.1120
- A repair for PCC and inverse contexts in Adyghe (2020). In: Proceedings of NELS 50, ed. by Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song, and Ayana Whitmal, 183-196, GLSA: Amherst, MA. lingbuzz/005256 [with Ahmet Bilal Özdemir & Marie-Luise Popp]
- Pseudo-noun incorporation: A DP/VP approach (2020). In: Proceedings of NELS 50, ed. by Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song, and Ayana Whitmal, 173-182, GLSA: Amherst, MA. lingbuzz/005405
- How to agree with a QNP (2019). Glossa 4(1), 25. DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.584 [with Jelena Stojković]
- Focus in Limbum (2019). In: African linguistics across the disciplines: Selected papers from the 48th ACAL, ed. by Lotven, Samson, S. Bongiovanni, P. Weirich, R. Botne, and S. Obeng, 219-237, Berlin: Language Science Press. link volume [with Laura Becker & Jude Nformi]
- Person mismatch agreement (2018). In: Proceedings of NELS 48, ed. by Sherry Hucklebridge and Max Nelson, GLSA: Amherst, MA. paper
- Focus strategies in Limbum (2018). In: Proceedings of TripleA 4, ed. by E. Bogal-Allbritten and E. Coppock, Tübingen: University of Tübingen. 17-30. volume [with Jude Nformi]
- Variable verb positions in German exclamatives (2018). In: M. Antomo and S. Müller (eds.). Linguistische Berichte, Sonderhefte 25: Non-canonical verb positioning in main clauses, 71-90. paper
- The Syntax of Conjunct Extraposition (2016). In: K. Bellamy, E. Karkovskaya and G. Saad (eds.). Proceedings of ConSOLE XXIV. Leiden: Leiden University Center of Linguistics, 63-87. volume
- Factivity in German Exclamatives (2016). In: N. Bade, P. Berezovskaya and A. Schöller (eds.). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20, Tübingen: University of Tübingen. 198-216. volume
Presentations
2023
- Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch, and English child language (2023). Syntax Kolloquium. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. invited talk. May, 12th. slides
- The anaphor, the logophor and the phi-features (2023). Generative Grammatik des Südens (GGS) 47, Workshop in honor of Gisbert Fanselow. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. April, 27th-29th. program
- Errors of redundancy in child English and beyond (2023). Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 46. Universität Wien & Universität Graz. April, 12th-14th. [with Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou] poster
- Number and definiteness in kinds across languages: Insights from an experimental study (2023). 45. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Universität zu Köln. March, 8th-10th. [with Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Vina Tsakali, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland, Maria Teresa Guasti] slides
- Genericity and the too-many-structures puzzle: A cross-linguistic study on English, German, Italian, and Greek (2023). Definiteness across domains, 3rd Network Meeting. Bergische Universität Wuppertal. March, 4th-6th. [with Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Vina Tsakali, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland, Maria Teresa Guasti]
- What's in a bare noun? Silent vs. no articles (2023). Definiteness across domains, 3rd Network Meeting. Bergische Universität Wuppertal. March, 4th-6th. program
- Pseudo-noun incorporation and differential object marking: A cross-linguistic study (2023). Syntax Reading Group. Yale University. invited talk. February, 10th. slides
- As complex as they appear: Children's comprehension of conjunctive expressions in Georgian (2023). Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 53. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. January, 12th-14th. poster [with Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Tamar Makharoblidze]
- An experimental study on kind and generic readings across languages: bare plural vs. definite plural (2023). Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 53. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. January, 12th-14th. poster [with Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Vina Tsakali, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland, Maria Teresa Guasti]
2022 (selected)
- As complex as they appear: Children's comprehension of conjunctive expressions in Georgian (2022). Amsterdam Colloquium (AC) 23. University of Amsterdam. December, 19th-21st. osf.io/5hgfz [with Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Tamar Makharoblidze]
- An experimental study on kind and generic readings across languages: bare plural vs. definite plural (2022). Amsterdam Colloquium (AC) 23. University of Amsterdam. December, 19th-21st. osf.io/nva3c [with Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Vina Tsakali, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland, Maria Teresa Guasti]
- What resumption can tell us about definites in Ewe and Akan (2022). Definiteness across domains, 2nd Network Meeting. Potsdam University. December, 15th-16th. program [with Abigail Bimpeh, Reggie Duah]
- Negative concord in Dutch, English and German child language (2022). Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW) 36. Chicago University. October, 14-15th. [with Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona Ilic, Paloma Jeretic, Astrid van Alem]
- Do child languages have negative concord? A corpus study (2022). Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 15. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. September, 22th-24th. poster [with Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona Ilic, Paloma Jeretic]
- Strict logophors (2022). Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 27. Charles University, Prague. September, 14th-16th. slides [with Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh, Silvia Silleresi]
- Redundant errors in child language (2022). IGRA Kolloquium. invited talk. Universität Leipzig. July, 13th. [with Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou]
- Weak and strong definiteness: thoughts on size (2022). Definiteness across domains, 1st Network Meeting. Humboldt University, Berlin. July, 1st. program
- Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: variation and competition (2022). West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 40. Stanford University. May 13th-14th. osf.io/p8gsv [with Abigail Bimpeh, Itai Bassi, Silvia Silleresi]
- Implicit arguments and their morpho-syntactic effects (2022). Syntax Kolloquium. invited talk. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. May 9th.
- Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: variation and competition (2022). Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 45. Queen Mary University of London. April 26th-29th. [with Abigail Bimpeh, Itai Bassi, Silvia Silleresi]
Past (selected)
- C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis (2021). Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 44. Virtual conference organized by the GLOW board. April 15th- 17th. [with Maria Kouneli]
- <v,t>-type complementation in Kipsigis (2021). West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 39. University of Arizona. April 8th- 11th. [with Maria Kouneli]
- Verb-y and noun-y complementation in Kipsigis (2021). 43. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Universität Freiburg im Breisgau. February 24th- 26th. [with Maria Kouneli]
- Pseudo-noun incorporation: A DP/VP approach (2019). Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 50. Massachusetts Institute of Technology . October 25th-27th.
- Adyghe cislocative: Canonical inverse but non-canonical PCC marker (2019). Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 50. Massachusetts Institute of Technology . October 25th-27th. [with Bilal Özdemir and Marie-Luise Popp]
- Pseudo-noun incorporation and the DP/NP-distinction (2019). 41. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Universität Bremen. March 6th- 8th.
- How to agree with a QNP (2018). LingLunch. University of Connecticut. April 17th. [with Jelena Stojković]
- On pure focus movement in Syntax - Observations from Limbum (2018). Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 41. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. April 11th-13th. handout [with Jude Nformi]
- Person Mismatch Agreement (2017). Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 48. University of Iceland, Reykjavik. October 27th-29th.
- Revisiting Chain Shifts with Minimize Satisfaction (2017). Resolving Conflicts across Borders. CAAS, Dubrovnik. October 20th-21st. [with Jelena Stojković]
- Person Mismatch Coordination (2017). Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW) 32. NTNU Trondheim. September 14th-15th.
- Variable verb positions in German exclamatives (2017). 39. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken. March 8th-10th.
- German Conjunct Extraposition (2016). ConSOLE XXIV. University of York. January 6th-8th.
- Exclamatives and Factivity (2015). Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 20. University of Tübingen. September 9th-12th.
Contact information
Imke Driemel Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik Unter den Linden 6 D-10099 Berlin Germany |
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