Uni-Tübingen

Jakob Zehentner

Researcher
Project B6 “Syntax Interacts with Common Ground: Non-Canonical Inversion Structures”, CRC 1718 “Common Ground: Cognition – Grammar – Communication”

Contact:

jakob.zehentnerspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Short Professional 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