| RESEARCH
INTEREST?
Optimality Theory, Syntax, Semantics
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EDUCATION? |
| 2003 | Ph.D.
(Linguistics) |
| 2002
| Winner
of the Bevier Fellowship 2002-2003, The Graduate School, Rutgers University
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| 1998
- 2003 | Graduate
Fellow student at Rutgers
University. Ph.D. program in Linguistics |
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1998 |
Magister Artium (Master of
Arts) |
| 1991
- 1998 | University
of Cologne, Germany.
German Philology, Philosophy, Spanish Philology |
| 1988
| Master
of Fine Arts (Dance) |
| 1985
- 1988 | Folkwang
Hochschule Essen Werden (School of Arts), Germany. Major discipline Dance. Director
Pina Bausch - Classical Ballet, Modern
Dance, Folkloric Dances, Flamenco, Choreography |
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PUBLICATIONS. RECENT PAPERS? |
| 2003 | "Phrase
Structure Directionality: Having a few Choices", Ph.D dissertation,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ |
| 2003 | "How
to be Universal when you are Existential? Negative Polarity Items in the Comparative:
Entailment along a Scale.In:
Journal of Semantics 20 No. 2: 193-237 |
| 2000
| "Specifiers
and Adjuncts", ms, Rutgers University - ROA 413-09100 |
| 1997
| "Was der
Germane optimal findet". In: Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik
41. Werner Abraham (ed.); 170-202. |
| 1997
| "Die
Struktur deutscher Saetze in der Optimalitaetstheorie", Magisterarbeit der
Philosophischen Fakultaet zu Koeln, University of Cologne |
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SOME INVITED TALKS. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS?
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| April
2002 | "Phrase
Structure Directionality: Having a few Choices", HUMDRUM, University
of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA |
| November
1999 | "Verb
Second as Conflict Resolution", Third Workshop on Optimality Theory Syntax, University
of Stuttgart |
| April
1998 | "Verb
Second - Cross-linguistic Uniformity and Variation", Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
NJ |
| May
1997 | "Was
der Germane optimal findet", GGS Wien, University of Vienna |
| October
1997 | "Verb
Second - Cross-linguistic Uniformity and Variation", Workshop on Optimality Theory
Syntax, University of Stuttgart |
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE? |
| 2000
- 2002 | Teaching
Assistant, Rutgers University, Linguistics Department. |
| Spring
2001 | Teaching
Assistant, Rutgers University, Linguistics Department. "Introduction to the Study
of Language", section 03
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| Summer
2002 | Teaching
Assistant, Rutgers University, German Department. "Intermediate German"
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| Summer
2002 | German
and Spanish Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University World Languages Institute,
"Languages across the Curriculum", Instructor K. Sanchez |
| Summer
2002 | German
Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University World Languages Institute, "Methods of
Foreign Language Teaching", Instructor K. Sanchez |
| Summer
2001 | Teaching
Assistant, Rutgers University, German Department. "Intermediate German"
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| Summer
2001 | German
Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University World Languages Institute, "Methods of
Foreign Language Teaching", Instructor K. Sanchez |
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Summer 2000 |
Teaching Assistant, Rutgers
University, German Department. "Intermediate German" |
| 1993
- 1998 | Teaching
Assistant, University of Cologne. "Syntax", "Semantics", "Morphology", "Phonology"
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| 1994
- 1998 | Reader
for ZEITSCHRIFT fuer DEUTSCHE SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT ("Journal of German Linguistics")
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| 1998 | Translation
into German, "Comparing Italian and American Higher Educational Systems",
for Ernest Lepore, Acting Director, Center for Cognitive Science & Lab of
Vision Research, Rutgers University. |
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| 1988
- 1991 | Member
of the Modern Dance Company NEUER TANZ, Düsseldorf,
Germany. Directors Wanda Golonka and Va Wölff. Performances of LEITZ, DIE
BÖSE MINUTE ("The bad Minute"), DIE SCHIEFE ("The Oblique"), RÄUMEN
("Spaces/to leave, to clear"), DAS GELAGE ("The Feast") |
| 1988
| Solo
Choreography YELLOW BASKET |
| 1987 | Choreography
DIE HOSE ("The Pants"); performed by Hans Georg Lenhart |
| 1986 | Solo
Choreography FRAEULEIN Z ("Miss Z") |