Jakob Zehentner

Researcher in Project B6

PhD Student

› Project B6: Syntax Interacts with Common Ground: Non-Canonical Inversion Structures

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Short Bio

Jakob Zehentner studied Linguistics (BSc) at the University of Salzburg and German Linguistics (MA) at the University of Tübingen. Since October 2025 he has been a researcher in Project B6 of the CRC 1718 at the University of Tübingen, where, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Katrin Axel-Tober, he is preparing a dissertation on inversion structures with approximative adverbs (German kaum, English barely) and their communicative effects.

Research Interests

Syntax (of German and English)
Syntax–semantics interface and syntax–pragmatics interface
Historical linguistics (of the Germanic languages)

Education

MA in German Linguistics, University of Tübingen (2023–2026)
BSc in Linguistics, University of Salzburg (2020–2023)

Selected Publications/Projects

Projekt B6 “Syntax im Zusammenspiel mit Common Ground: Nicht-kanonische Inversionsstrukturen”, SFB 1718 “Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation” – Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter