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, hyperraising, pseudo-incorporation, differential object marking, the person case constraint, person feature systems, omnivorous 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.
Output
Under review
Direction towards Person: Canonical inverse and reverse PCC in Adyghe. resubmitted.
lingbuzz/005552
[with Ahmet Bilal Özdemir & Marie-Luise Popp]
Decomposing logophoric pronouns: a presuppositional account of logophoric dependencies. resubmitted.
lingbuzz/007679
[with Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh & Silvia Silleresi]
How can genericity be expressed? A four-language experimental study using Thurstone Scaling. in revisions.
[with Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Vina Tsakali, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland & Maria Teresa Guasti]
Kein subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children's behavior with negative indefinites. in revisions.
[with Cory Bill, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Johannes Hein & Uli Sauerland]
Is DP conjunction always complex? The view from child Georgian and Hungarian. submitted.
[with Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Tamar Makharoblidze & Lilla Pintér]
Resumption as a novel DP/NP diagnostic. submitted.
[with Abigail Bimpeh & Reginald Duah]
Accepted / to appear
2024
2023
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Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch, and English child language
Languages, 8(3), 179, (2023).
DOI: 10.3390/languages8030179
[with Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona Ilic, Paloma Jeretic & Astrid van Alem]
Pseudo-noun Incorporation and Differential Object Marking
Monograph for the series
Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, (2023).
Oxford University Press.
link publisher
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Negative concord in the acquisition of English and German: Some
results from a corpus study
Proceedings of CLS 58, 167-182, (2023).
chicagolinguisticsociety.org
[with Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona Ilic, Paloma Jeretic]
2022
An experimental study on kind and generic readings across languages: bare plural vs. definite plural
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 23, 353-359, (2022).
events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2022/Proceedings/
[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
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 23, 38-44, (2022).
events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2022/Proceedings/
[with Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Tamar Makharoblidze]
Pseudo-incorporation vs. Differential Argument Marking in Korean
Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XIII., 75-90, (2022).
lingbuzz/006855
[with Hyunjung Lee]
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Determiner Removal in Balinese non-pivot agents
Syntax 25(2), 276-298, (2022).
DOI: 10.1111/synt.12231
[with Sören Tebay]
Past (selected)
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A repair for PCC and inverse contexts in Adyghe
Proceedings of NELS 50, 183-196, (2020).
lingbuzz/005256
[with Ahmet Bilal Özdemir & Marie-Luise Popp]
Pseudo-noun incorporation: A DP/VP approach
Proceedings of NELS 50, 173-182, (2020).
lingbuzz/005405
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Person mismatch agreement
Proceedings of NELS 48, (2018).
paper
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Variable verb positions in German exclamatives
Linguistische Berichte 25, 71-90. (2018).
paper
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Presentations
2024
Quantifying kind/generic statement preferences across four languages
Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG) 49. IUSS Pavia. February 12-13, 2024.
program
[with Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Vina Tsakali, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland, Maria Teresa Guasti]
DP/NP distinctions in Kwa languages
Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos). Leiden University. May 23-24, 2024.
program
[with Abigail Bimpeh, Reggie Duah]
Stripping with(out) additives
Form and Meaning of Coordination Workshop. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
[with Marie-Luise Schwarzer]
Same but different: Conjunctive expressions in Georgian and Hungarian
Form and Meaning of Coordination Workshop. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
[with Aurore Gonzalez and Cory Bill]
Say-complementation and the clausal determiner in Kwa
Definiteness across domains, 6th Network Meeting. Humboldt University Berlin. September, 2024.
[with Abigail Bimpeh, Reggie Duah]
Overt PAST on irregular verbs in child English due to secondary feature negligence
GALA 16. NOVA University of Lisbon. September 12-14, 2024.
program
[with Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie]
2023
Two types of definites – cross-linguistic experimental study
Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) 6. Universität Zürich. November 6-8, 2023.
program
[with Florian Schwarz, Agata Renans, Hasiyatu Abubakari, Dorothy Ahn, Fenna Bergsma, Nattanu Chanchaochai, Reginald Duah, Ljudmila Geist, Mira Grubic, Sampson Korsah, Suet-Ying Lam, CecileMeier, Yağmur Sağ, Ankana Saha, Radek Šimík, Alexandra Simonenko]
Differential case marking in Korean: bare nouns vs. numeral classifiers and demonstratives
Definiteness across domains, 4th Network Meeting. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. September 9-11, 2023.
program
[with Hyunjung Lee]
Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch, and English child language
Syntax Kolloquium, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. invited talk. May 12, 2023.
slides
The anaphor, the logophor and the phi-features
GGS 47, Workshop in honor of Gisbert Fanselow. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. April 27-29, 2023.
poster
Errors of redundancy in child English past tense formation
GLOW 46. Universität Wien & Universität Graz. April 12-14, 2023.
poster
[with Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou]
Number and definiteness in kinds across languages: Insights from an experimental study
DGfS 45. Universität zu Köln. March 8-10, 2023.
slides
[with Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Vina Tsakali, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland, Maria Teresa Guasti]
Genericity and the too-many-structures puzzle: A cross-linguistic study on English, German, Italian, and Greek
Definiteness across domains, 3rd Network Meeting. Bergische Universität Wuppertal. March 4-6, 2023.
[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
Definiteness across domains, 3rd Network Meeting. Bergische Universität Wuppertal. March 4-6, 2023.
program
Pseudo-noun incorporation and differential object marking: A cross-linguistic study
Syntax Reading Group, Yale University. invited talk. February 10, 2023.
slides
As complex as they appear: Children's comprehension of conjunctive expressions in Georgian
NELS 53. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. January 12-14, 2023.
poster
[with Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Tamar Makharoblidze]
An experimental study on kind and generic readings across languages: bare plural vs. definite plural
NELS 53. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. January 12-14, 2023.
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
Amsterdam Colloquium 23. University of Amsterdam. December 19-21, 2022.
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
Amsterdam Colloquium 23. University of Amsterdam. December 19-21, 2022.
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
Definiteness across domains, 2nd Network Meeting. Potsdam University. December 15-16, 2022.
program
[with Abigail Bimpeh, Reggie Duah]
Negative concord in Dutch, English and German child language
CGSW 36. Chicago University. October 14-15, 2022.
[with Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona Ilic, Paloma Jeretic, Astrid van Alem]
Do child languages have negative concord? A corpus study
GALA 15. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. September 22-24, 2022.
poster
[with Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona Ilic, Paloma Jeretic]
Strict logophors
Sinn und Bedeutung 27. Charles University, Prague. September 14-16, 2022.
slides
[with Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh, Silvia Silleresi]
Redundant errors in child language
IGRA Kolloquium, Universität Leipzig. invited talk. July 13, 2022.
[with Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou]
Weak and strong definiteness: thoughts on size
Definiteness across domains, 1st Network Meeting. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. June 29- July 1, 2022.
program
Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: variation and competition
WCCFL 40. Stanford University. May 13-14, 2022.
osf.io/p8gsv
[with Abigail Bimpeh, Itai Bassi, Silvia Silleresi]
Implicit arguments and their morpho-syntactic effects
Syntax Kolloquium, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. invited talk. May 9, 2022.
Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: variation and competition
GLOW 45. Queen Mary University of London. April 26-29, 2022.
[with Abigail Bimpeh, Itai Bassi, Silvia Silleresi]
Past (selected)
C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis
GLOW 44. organized by the GLOW board. April 15-17, 2021.
[with Maria Kouneli]
<v,t>-type complementation in Kipsigis
WCCFL 39. University of Arizona. April 8-11, 2021.
[with Maria Kouneli]
Verb-y and noun-y complementation in Kipsigis
DGfS 43. Universität Freiburg im Breisgau. February 24-26, 2021.
[with Maria Kouneli]
Pseudo-noun incorporation: A DP/VP approach
NELS 50. MIT. October 25-27, 2019.
Adyghe cislocative: Canonical inverse but non-canonical PCC marker
NELS 50. MIT. October 25-27, 2019.
[with Bilal Özdemir and Marie-Luise Popp]
Pseudo-noun incorporation and the DP/NP-distinction
DGfS 41. Universität Bremen. March 6-8, 2019.
How to agree with a QNP
LingLunch, UConn. invited talk. April 17, 2018.
[with Jelena Stojković]
On pure focus movement in Syntax - Observations from Limbum
GLOW 41. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. April 11-13, 2018.
handout
[with Jude Nformi]
Person Mismatch Agreement
NELS 48. University of Iceland. October 27-29, 2017.
Revisiting Chain Shifts with Minimize Satisfaction
Resolving Conflicts across Borders. CAAS Dubrovnik. October 20-21, 2017.
[with Jelena Stojković]
Person Mismatch Coordination
CGSW 32. NTNU Trondheim. September 14-15, 2017.
Variable verb positions in German exclamatives
DGfS 39. Universität des Saarlandes. March 8-10, 2017.
Exclamatives and Factivity
Sinn und Bedeutung 20. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. September 9-12, 2015.
Mail | Imke Driemel
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
Germany |
Office | Mohrenstraße 40/41, Room 116 |
E-mail | imke.driemel (at) hu-berlin (dot) de |
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