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I'm a lecturer in theoretical and comparative syntax at the University of York. I'm also associated with the ERC-funded LeibnizDream project and 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, logophoricity, hyperraising, pseudo-incorporation, differential object marking, genericity, 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 morphology, and conjunction patterns.

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. in revisions. lingbuzz/005552
    [with Ahmet Bilal Özdemir & Marie-Luise Popp]
  • Decomposing logophoric pronouns: a presuppositional account of logophoric dependencies. in revisions. lingbuzz/007679
    [with Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh & Silvia Silleresi]
  • How can genericity be expressed? A four-language experimental study using Thurstone Scaling. resubmitted.
    [with Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Vina Tsakali, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland & Maria Teresa Guasti]
  • Resumption as a novel DP/NP diagnostic. in revisions.
    [with Abigail Bimpeh & Reginald Duah]
  • Is DP conjunction always complex? The view from child Georgian and Hungarian. submitted.
    [with Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Tamar Makharoblidze & Lilla Pintér]

Accepted / to appear

  • Kein subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children's behavior with negative indefinites.
    Language Acquisition. Early access: DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2024.2354219
    [with Cory Bill, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Johannes Hein & Uli Sauerland]
  • Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari: A Cyclic Agree analysis
    Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. accepted. lingbuzz/007981
    [with Gurujegan Murugesan & Andrew Murphy]
  • Errors of multiple exponence in child English: A study of past tense formation
    Morphology. accepted. lingbuzz/008255
    [with Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie & Artemis Alexiadou]
  • Resolution agreement in German and Dutch: Implications for person feature decomposition
    The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. accepted. lingbuzz/007829
  • C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis
    Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. accepted. lingbuzz/005661
    [with Maria Kouneli]
  • Errors of multiple exponence in child language
    Proceedings of WCCFL 40. to appear. lingbuzz/006784
    [with Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou]
  • Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: variation and competition
    Proceedings of WCCFL 40. to appear. lingbuzz/006770
    [with Abigail Bimpeh, Itai Bassi, Silvia Silleresi]
  • <v,t>-type complementation in Kipsigis
    Proceedings of WCCFL 39. to appear. lingbuzz/006045
    [with Maria Kouneli]

2024

2023

Past (selected)

  • 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]
  • A dedicated topic position in Kipsigis
    Proceeding of TripleA 8, 1-20, (2022). scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/231238
    [with Maria Kouneli]
  • Determiner Removal in Balinese non-pivot agents
    Syntax 25(2), 276-298, (2022). DOI: 10.1111/synt.12231
    [with Sören Tebay]
  • Pseudo-incorporation and its movement patterns
    Glossa 5(1), 106. (2020). DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.1120
  • 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
  • How to agree with a QNP
    Glossa 4(1), 25. (2019). DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.584
    [with Jelena Stojković]
  • Focus in Limbum
    Proccedings of ACAL 48, 219-237, (2019). langsci-press.org/catalog/book/226
    [with Laura Becker & Jude Awasom Nformi]
  • Person mismatch agreement
    Proceedings of NELS 48, (2018). paper
  • Focus strategies in Limbum
    Proceedings of TripleA 4, 17-30. (2018). publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/83115
    [with Jude Awasom Nformi]
  • Variable verb positions in German exclamatives
    Linguistische Berichte 25, 71-90. (2018). paper
  • Factivity in German Exclamatives
    Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20, 198-216. (2016). ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/259

Presentations

2025

  • DP/NP distinctions in Kwa languages
    ZYKLOP-Kolloquium, Leipzig University. invited talk. January 8, 2025.
  • tba
    Seminar series, University of Manchester. invited talk. spring semester, 2025.
  • tba
    Seminar series, University College London. invited talk. spring semester, 2025.

2024

  • Omnivory and what it can tell us about Agree and phi-features
    Puzzles of Agreement: Syntactic, Semantic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives, online conference organized by the University of Bucharest, UMass Amherst, ZAS Berlin and the University of Toronto. invited talk. October 24-25, 2024. program
  • 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]
  • Say-complementation and the clausal determiner in Kwa
    Definiteness across domains, 6th Network Meeting. Humboldt University Berlin. September 1-2, 2024.
    [with Abigail Bimpeh, Reggie Duah]
  • 'say'-clauses in subject position: observations from Kwa languages
    Annual Meeting of the LAGB. Newcastle University. August 27-30, 2024. program
    [with Abigail Bimpeh, Reggie Duah]
  • Stripping with(out) additives
    Form and Meaning of Coordination Workshop. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. July 4-6, 2024.
    [with Marie-Luise Schwarzer]
  • Same but different: Conjunctive expressions in Georgian and Hungarian
    Form and Meaning of Coordination Workshop. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. July 4-6, 2024.
    [with Aurore Gonzalez and Cory Bill]
  • 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]

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]

Past (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]
  • 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. handout
    [with Maria Kouneli]
  • “Say”-based complementation: Insights from Kipsigis
    BCGL 13. KU Leuven. December 16-18, 2020. handout
    [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.

Contact information

Mail Imke Driemel
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
YO10 5DD
York, UK
Office V/C/222
Office hours Mondays, 11-12, book appointment
E-mail imke.driemel (at) york (dot) ac (dot) uk
Phone +44 (0)1904 32 2202
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