Englisches Seminar

Keynote speakers

Anikó Lipták

Anikó Lipták, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics at Leiden University. She studies syntactic rules in grammar, with special attention to crosslinguistic variation and the interface between syntax and information structure, as well as between syntax and word formation. Currently, her focus is on the structure of sentences that appear in some kind of abbreviated form.

Anne Abeillé

Anne Abeillé, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at Université Paris Cité. She specialises in French grammar and syntactic theory, in particular developing formal models for syntactic analysis, empirically analysing Romance syntactic phenomena, and producing linguistic resources such as the French treebank.

Benjamin Bruening

Benjamin Bruening, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics in 2001 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The focus of his linguistic research is syntax and its interactions with morphology and semantics.

Richard Stockwell

Richard Stockwell, Ph.D., is a Lecturer at Ulster University. He studied at the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a postdoctoral Junior Research Fellow of Christ Church, University of Oxford. He works on syntax and semantics. Topics include ellipsis, dialect syntax, free relative clauses, and Condition C reconstruction.