English CV

PD Dr. Andreas Trotzke
Curriculum vitae
July 20, 2016
* April 15/Duisburg, Germany
Stanford University
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
210 Panama Street
Stanford, CA 94305-4115
USA
E-mail: [email protected]
Education
2016
Habilitation, University of Konstanz
Venia legendi: General and Germanic Linguistics
2010
Dr. phil., University of Freiburg
2008
MA (Magister Artium), University of Freiburg
2003 - 2008
Studies in Germanic Linguistics, Philosophy, and Sociology, University
of Freiburg and University of Münster
Academic Positions
2017
Visiting professor, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité/CNRS, Labex Fondements
Empiriques de la Linguistique
since 2016
Visiting scholar at Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI),
Stanford University (12 months)
since 2016
Associate professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz
2011 - 2016
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of
Konstanz; in addition: Associated Fellow, Zukunftskolleg University of Konstanz (since 2013)
2009 - 2011
Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Potsdam
Short-term research visits
April 2015
Visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
March 2015
Visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics (Computational Psycholinguistics Lab), University of California, San Diego
April 2013
Guest lecturer at the Department of English Studies (Linguistics), University
of Cyprus
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Grants (as Principal Investigator)
as of 2016
DFG grant, one-year fellowship at Stanford University (host: Prof. Christopher
Potts)
2015 - 2016
Project: “The Grammar of Emotions: Emphatic Word Order and Speech Act
Types,“ DFG Excellence Initiative, University of Konstanz; researcher: Dr. Stefano Quaglia
2015 - 2016
Project: „Adjective Sequences“ (together with Department of Linguistics, UC
San Diego, Computational Psycholinguistics Lab), DFG Excellence Initiative,
University of Konstanz
2014 - 2016
Project: “Discourse Particles: The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in Experimental
Pragmatics,” DFG Excellence Initiative, University of Konstanz; researcher:
Laura Dörre, MA
2013 - 2015
Project: “Linguistics Konstanz & Venice (LingKonVen),” German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD), research cooperation with Prof. Anna Cardinaletti
(Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia)
2013 - 2014
Project: “Layered Derivations and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface,” German
Excellence Initiative, Zukunftskolleg Konstanz (research cooperation with
Prof. Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen)
2011 - 2013
Project: “Complex Sentences, Types of Embedding, and Recursivity,” DFG
Excellence Initiative, University of Konstanz
2008 - 2011
Travel grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and
from the Baden-Württemberg State Postgraduate Scholarship Program
Publications
MONOGRAPHS
Trotzke, Andreas. under review. The Grammar of Emphasis: From Information Structure to the Expressive Dimension.
Trotzke, Andreas. to appear. Sprachevolution: Eine Einführung. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Trotzke, Andreas. 2015. Rethinking Syntactocentrism: Architectural Issues and Case Studies at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
EDITED VOLUMES
Trotzke, Andreas & Eva Wittenberg. under review. Adjective Order: Cross-linguistic Perspectives.
Special Issue of Linguistics.
Trotzke, Andreas & Josef Bayer. 2015. Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter.
Bayer, Josef, Roland Hinterhölzl & Josef Bayer. 2015. Discourse-oriented Syntax. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
Sauerland, Uli & Andreas Trotzke. 2011. Biolinguistics Special Issue on Recursion. Biolinguistics 5, 1169.
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ARTICLES (peer-reviewed)
Trotzke, Andreas. under review. Emphatic focus and imperatives. Natural Language Semantics.
Degen, Judith, Andreas Trotzke, Gregory Scontras, Eva Wittenberg & Noah D. Goodman. under
review. Definitely, maybe: Approaching speaker commitment experimentally. Journal of Semantics.
Trotzke, Andreas. 2016. DP-internal modal particles: A case study of German ja. Studia Linguistica.
DOI: 10.1111/stul.12052.
Trotzke, Andreas & Stefano Quaglia. 2015. Particle topicalization and German clause structure. The
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 19, 109-141. DOI: 10.1007/s10828-016-9080-y.
Trotzke, Andreas. 2016. German grammar and mirativity: Experimental evidence. To appear in
Review of Cognitive Linguistics [Special Issue on Mirativity].
Quaglia, Stefano & Andreas Trotzke. 2016. Italian verb particles and clausal positions. To appear in
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Trotzke, Andreas, Markus Bader & Lyn Frazier. 2016. Third factors and the performance interface
in language design. To appear in Anna Maria Di Sciullo (ed.), Biolinguistics: Critical Concepts
in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.
Trotzke, Andreas & Eva Wittenberg. 2016. Expressive particle verbs and conditions on particle
fronting. Journal of Linguistics. DOI: 10.1017/S0022226716000153.
Trotzke, Andreas & Giuseppina Turco. 2015. The grammatical reflexes of emphasis: Evidence from
German wh-questions. Lingua 168, 37-56. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2015.09.003.
Trotzke, Andreas. 2015. How bizarre! A non-syntactic constraint on idiom syntax. In Thomas
Herbst & Peter Uhrig (eds.), Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association: Vol 3, 219230. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Trotzke, Andreas. 2015. DP-internal discourse particles, expressive content, and illocutionary
force. Grazer Linguistische Studien 83, 93-105.
Trotzke, Andreas, Stefano Quaglia & Eva Wittenberg. 2015. Topicalization in German particle verb
constructions: The role of semantic transparency. Linguistische Berichte 244, 407-424.
Bayer, Josef & Andreas Trotzke. 2015. The derivation and interpretation of left peripheral discourse particles. In Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke (eds.), Discourseoriented Syntax, 13-40. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Trotzke, Andreas & Jan-Wouter Zwart. 2014. The complexity of narrow syntax: Minimalism, representational economy, and simplest Merge. In Frederick J. Newmeyer & Laurel B. Preston
(eds.), Measuring Grammatical Complexity, 128-147. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Trotzke, Andreas, Markus Bader & Lyn Frazier 2013. Three factors and the performance interface
in language design. Biolinguistics 7, 1-34.
Trotzke, Andreas & Antje Lahne. 2011. Recursion as derivational layering: An amendment to
Zwart. Biolinguistics 5, 335-346.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Wittenberg, Eva & Andreas Trotzke. 2016. Bericht der AG: Adjective Order: Theory and Experiment. Mitteilungen der DGfS 83, 66-68.
Bayer, Josef, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke. 2015. Issues in discourse-oriented syntax. In
Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke (eds.), Discourse-oriented Syntax, 1-12.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Trotzke, Andreas & Josef Bayer. 2015. Syntactic complexity across interfaces. In Andreas Trotzke &
Josef Bayer (eds.), Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces, 1-8. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Trotzke, Andreas & Markus Bader. 2013. Against usage-based approaches to recursion: The
grammar-performance distinction in a biolinguistic perspective. GLOW Newsletter 70, 183184.
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Brandner, Ellen, Andreas Trotzke, Barbara Sonnenhauser & Martina Werner. 2013. Bericht der AG
3: „NP syntax and information structure”. Mitteilungen der DGfS 77, 33-37.
Trotzke, Andreas. 2012 Review of Lieven Danckaert, Latin Embedded Clauses: The Left Periphery.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. The LINGUIST List 23.4367.
Sauerland, Uli & Andreas Trotzke. 2011. Biolinguistic perspectives on recursion: Introduction to
the special issue. Biolinguistics 5, 1-9.
Trotzke, Andreas. 2010. Rethinking syntactocentrism: An architectural view on minimalist approaches to German left peripheral focus. In Johannes Haack, Heike Wiese, Andreas Abraham & Christian Chiarcos (eds.): Proceedings of KogWis 2010: 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.
Trotzke, Andreas, Uli Sauerland, Mathias Schenner & Rainer Ludwig 2010. Bericht der AG 13:
„ʻ[...] von endlichen Mitteln einen unendlichen Gebrauch machenʼ – Recursion as a Central
Issue in Recent Linguistics“. Mitteilungen der DGfS 71, 57-59.
Trotzke, Andreas. 2008. Rekursive Syntax & FLN? Eine kritische Betrachtung neuerer Diskussionen zur menschlichen Sprachfähigkeit innerhalb des Generativismus. MA thesis, University
of Freiburg.
Talks
2016a
TBA. LMU Munich, 12/16/16.
2016b
TBA. University of Stuttgart, 12/13/16.
2016c
The grammar of emphasis: New evidence from German. ZAS Berlin, 06/27/16.
2016d
Expressive particle verbs at the syntax-semantics interface. Stanford University, 05/24/16.
2016e
Preferences in adjective order: Corpus evidence for a multifactorial approach. DGfS Workshop: Adjective Order – Theory and Experiment, University of Konstanz, 02/23-02/26/16
[with Eva Wittenberg, Emily Morgan & Roger Levy].
2016f
Neuere Beiträge zur Debatte um die evolutionären Ursprünge der menschlichen Sprachfähigkeit. Habilitation lecture, University of Konstanz, 02/03/16.
2015a
Shared intentionality from the perspective of theoretical linguistics. Workshop: Theory of
Language and the Debate on Language Origins, University of Trento, 11/18-11/20/15.
2015b
The grammar of emphasis: From information structure to the expressive dimension. University of Tübingen, 11/10/15.
2015c
Topicalization patterns of expressive particle verbs: Comparative evidence from German
and Italian. 31st Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL 31),
Bar Ilan University, 10/13-10/14/15 [with Stefano Quaglia].
2015d
Emphasis and the syntax of particle verbs. 8th SinFonIJA, University of Ljubljana, 09/2409/26/15 [with Stefano Quaglia].
2015e
O’zapft is! Die Grammatik der Emphase. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
07/22/15.
2015f
Expressive particle verbs as a distinct grammatical class. University of Stuttgart, SFB 732
“Incremental specification in context”, 06/01/15.
2015g
Emphasis and left peripheral particles in German. The 30th Comparative Germanic Syntax
Workshop (CGSW 30), University of Chicago, 05/22-05/23/15.
2015h
The at-issue and non-at-issue meaning of modal particles and their counterparts. 28th
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, USC Los Angeles, 03/19-03/21/15 [with
Laura Dörre, Anna Czypionka & Josef Bayer].
2015i
From information structure to the expressive dimension. 28th CUNY Conference on Human
Sentence Processing, USC Los Angeles, 03/19-03/21/15 [with Giuseppina Turco].
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2015j
The grammar of emotions: Word order, particles, and emphasis. UC San Diego, 03/17/15.
2014a
Mirativity, emphasis, and German word order. International Conference on Evidentiality and
Modality in European Languages, Universidad Complutense Madrid, 10/06-10/08/14.
2014b
Modal particles and their homonyms: Meaning frequency and interpretation. Experimental
Psycholinguistics Conference (ERP) 2014, U Madrid, 10/01-10/03/14 [with Laura Dörre &
Josef Bayer].
2014c
A constructionist approach to idiom formation and interpretation in current minimalism.
6. Internationale Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik (DGKL 6): Constructions & Cognition, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 09/30-10/02/14 [with JanWouter Zwart].
2014d
On emphasis and left peripheral discourse particles. Workshop: The grammar’s reflexes of
emphasis: From information structure to the expressive dimension, University of Konstanz,
09/29-09/30/14 [with Giuseppina Turco].
2014e
DP-internal discourse particles, illocutionary force, and specificity. 7th SinFonIJA, University of Graz, 09/25-09/27/14 [with Yvonne Viesel].
2014f
Die Grammatik der Emotionen: Über emphatische Wortstellungen im Deutschen, University of Vienna, 09/23/14.
2014g
DP-internal discourse particles: The case of ja. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association
of Great Britain (LAGB 2014), University of Oxford, 09/01-09/05/14 [with Yvonne Viesel].
2014h
Left peripheral particles, syntactic constituency, and emphasis. Exploring the Interfaces 3:
Prosody and Constituent Structure, McGill University, 05/08-05/10/14 [with Giuseppina
Turco & Josef Bayer].
2014i
Left peripheral particles, successive-cyclic movement, and emphasis. DGfS 2014, University of Marburg, 03/05-03/07/14.
2014j
DP-internal discourse particles, illocutionary force, and specificity. 40th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG 40), University of Trento, 02/13-02/15/14 [with Yvonne Viesel].
2014k
Clause structure and utterance meaning: Word order, particles, emphasis. Workshop: Discourse Particles: Cross-linguistic Perspectives, Schloss Freudental, 01/24-01/25/14 [with
Josef Bayer].
2014l
Discourse particles in the German DP. Workshop: Discourse Particles: Cross-linguistic Perspectives, Schloss Freudental, 01/24-01/25/14 [with Yvonne Viesel].
2013a
Left peripheral discourse particles end emphasis: A pilot study. Phonology Colloquium,
University of Konstanz, 12/19/13 [with Giusy Turco].
2013b
Discourse particles, successive-cyclic movement, and the nature of derivations. Workshop:
The Role of Modal Particles in Diverse Speech Acts, Università Ca’Foscari Venezia, 10/0310/04/13 [with Josef Bayer].
2013c
Discourse particles and successive-cyclic movement. Syntax Colloquium, University of
Konstanz, 06/25/13 [with Josef Bayer].
2013d
The German left periphery: Information structure and beyond. University of Cyprus, Cyprus, 04/11/13.
2013e
Recursion in biolinguistics: Current issues. University of Cyprus, Cyprus, 04/08/13.
2013f
Against usage-based approaches to recursion: The grammar-performance distinction in a
biolinguistic perspective. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 36, Lund University, Lund, 04/02 -04/06/13 [with Markus Bader].
2012a
A derivational perspective on grammatical complexity: Recursive layering and the syntax-discourse interface. Workshop: Fall Meeting on Formal Linguistics: Language(s) and Cognition, Université Paris 8/CNRS, Paris, 11/29-11/30/12.
2012b
Derivational layering and the syntax-discourse interface. Syntax Colloquium, University of
Konstanz, 11/27/12.
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2012c
Emphatische Topikalisierung im Deutschen. Syntax Colloquium, University of Konstanz,
07/10/12 [with Josef Bayer].
2012d
Derivational layering and the syntax-discourse interface: Some evidence from CED effects. Workshop: Formal Linguistics and the Measurement of Grammatical Complexity, University of Washington, Seattle, 03/23-03/24/12.
2011a
Recursion as derivational layering: An amendment to Zwart. Syntax Colloquium, University of Konstanz, 11/29/11 [with Antje Lahne].
2011b
Performance-grammar correspondence and the Minimalist Program: The case of multiple
center-embedding. Workshop: The Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis?, University of Potsdam,
10/03-10/06/11 [with Markus Bader].
2011c
The non-centrality of recursive self-embedding: Convergent evidence from grammar and
performance. 4th Conference of the International Biolinguistic Network, Université du Québec
à Montreal, 09/25-09/27/11 [with Markus Bader].
2011d
Recursion as an interface phenomenon? Generative Grammatik des Südens (GGS) 2011, University of Stuttgart, 06/04/11.
2011e
Rekursion als Schnittstellenphänomen? Syntax Colloquium, University of Konstanz,
05/31/11.
2010
Rethinking syntactocentrism: An architectural view on minimalist approaches to German
left peripheral focus. KogWis 2010: 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive
Science, University of Potsdam, 10/03-10/06/10.
2009a
Recursive syntax & shared intentionality: An integrating perspective on two recent accounts of language evolution. Promotionskolleg Empirische Linguistik, University of Freiburg, 07/13/09.
2009b
Konzeptuelle Strukturen kollektiver Intentionalität: Implikationen für eine biolinguistische Theorie der Sprachevolution. Oberseminar „Sprache und Gehirn“, University of Freiburg, 07/02/09.
2009c
Recursive syntax & shared intentionality: An integrating perspective on two recent accounts of language evolution. Vortragsreihe „Varianz und Invarianz in der Sprache“, University of Potsdam, 06/18/09.
2008
Language and action in animals: Two Cartesian criteria of the anthropological difference
in recent comparative psychology. Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University of
Berlin, 02/25/08.
Conference Organization
2016
DGfS Workshop: Adjective Order – Theory and Experiment, University of Konstanz, February
23-26. Invited speaker: Guglielmo Cinque (Venice) [with Eva Wittenberg].
2015a
Charting the Landscape of Linguistics: In honor of Josef Bayer, University of Konstanz, November 19. Invited speaker: Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg & Arezzo) [with Ellen Brandner
& Anna Czypionka].
2015b
Haupt- und Nebensatz an der Syntax/Pragmatik-Schnittstelle, University of Konstanz, June 0405. Invited speaker: Joachim Jacobs (Wuppertal) [with Josef Bayer].
2014a
The Grammar’s Reflexes of Emphasis: From Information Structure to the Expressive Dimension,
University of Konstanz, September 29-30. Invited speakers: Silvio Cruschina (Vienna),
Probal Dasgupta (Kolkata), Gisbert Fanselow (Potsdam), Werner Frey (Berlin), Julia
Horvath (Tel Aviv), Giuseppina Turco (Stuttgart) [with Josef Bayer].
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2014b
Discourse Particles: Cross-linguistic Perspectives, University of Konstanz, January 24-25. Invited speakers: Anna Cardinaletti (Venice), Ernestina Carrilho (Lisbon), Elly van Gelderen
(Arizona State University), Alessandra Giorgi (Venice), Roland Hinterhölzl (Venice), Rita
Manzini (Florence), Nicola Munaro (Venice), Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt), Anna Roussou
(Patras) [with Josef Bayer].
2013a
The Role of Modal Particles in Diverse Speech Acts, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, October 03-04. Invited speakers: Marco Coniglio (HU Berlin), Hans-Martin Gärtner (Budapest),
Patrick Grosz (Tübingen), Manfred Krifka (HU Berlin), Hubert Truckenbrodt (ZAS Berlin)
[with Josef Bayer, Anna Cardinaletti & Roland Hinterhölzl].
2013b
DGfS Workshop: NP Syntax and Information Structure, University of Potsdam, March 13-15.
Plenary speakers: Norbert Corver (Utrecht), Ulrike Demske (Potsdam) [with Ellen Brandner, Barbara Sonnenhauser & Martina Werner].
2012
Complex Sentences, Types of Embedding, and Recursivity, University of Konstanz, March 0506. Plenary speakers: Adele E. Goldberg (Princeton), Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Berlin), JanWouter Zwart (Groningen) [with Josef Bayer & Antje Lahne].
2010
DGfS Workshop: ‘[...] von endlichen Mitteln einen unendlichen Gebrauch machen’ – Recursion as
a Central Issue in Recent Linguistics, Humboldt University of Berlin, February 24-26. Plenary speakers: Tecumseh Fitch (Vienna), Angela Friederici (MPI Leipzig), Tom Güldemann
(HU Berlin) [with Uli Sauerland, Mathias Schenner & Rainer Ludwig].
Teaching
University of Konstanz
2015/2016 Seminar: Syntax II
2015
Advanced Seminar: Informationsstruktur [Information structure]
2014/15
Advanced Seminar: Grammatik und Sprechakte [Grammar and speech acts]
2014
Advanced Seminar: Sprachgeschichte des Deutschen [History of German Language]
2013/14
Advanced Seminar: Sprachliche Variation im Germanischen und sprachtypologische Stellung
des Deutschen [Language Variation in Germanic and the Typological Classification of German]
2013
Advanced Seminar: Die expressive Dimension der Sprache [The expressive dimension of language]
2012/13
Lecture: Einführung in die Linguistik [Introduction to Linguistics]
Seminar: Syntax II
Seminar: Pragmatik I [Pragmatics I]
2012
Seminar: Syntax I
Seminar: Struktur und Geschichte des Deutschen II [Structure and History of
German II]
2011/12
Lecture: Einführung in die Linguistik [Introduction to Linguistics]
Seminar: Syntax II
Seminar: Pragmatik I [Pragmatics I]
Advanced Seminar: Recursion in Natural Language; with Josef Bayer
Advanced Seminar: Sprachliche Variation im Germanischen und sprachtypologische Stellung
des Deutschen [Language Variation in Germanic and the Typological Classification of German]
2011
Seminar: Syntax I
Seminar: Semantik I [Semantics I]
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University of Potsdam
2010/11
Seminar: Grammatik und Wortschatz II [Introduction to Linguistics II]
2010
Seminar: Grammatik und Wortschatz I [Introduction to Linguistics I]
2009/10
Seminar: Grammatik und Wortschatz II [Introduction to Linguistics II]
2009
Seminar: Grammatik und Wortschatz I [Introduction to Linguistics I]
University of Münster
2005
Advanced Seminar: Der Sprachgebrauch in den Medien II [Language Use in the Media II;
with Franz Hundsnurscher]
Advanced Seminar: Der Sprachgebrauch in den Medien I [Language Use in the Media I;
with Franz Hundsnurscher]
Guest Lectureships
2013
Seminar: Interface Syntax [University of Cyprus, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann]
Advanced Seminar: Issues in Biolinguistics [University of Cyprus, with Kleanthes K.
Grohmann]
Summer Schools
2012
Summer School: Homo loquens: der sprechende Mensch – Sprache als speziesspezifisches
Charakteristikum [Homo loquens: Talking Man – Language as a Species-specific feature], August 20-26, funded by “Evangelisches Studienwerk” [with Eva Wittenberg (Harvard &
Tufts)].
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