Hedde Zeijlstra, Professor of Linguistics

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The team​

Secretaries:

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• Jessica Fenske-Schöbitz (SEP Göttingen​)

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• Julia Steinmetz (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

​Associate professor:

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• Hildegard Farke (SEP Göttingen​)

Assistant professor:

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• Sascha Alexeyenko (SEP Göttingen​)

Postdocs (Göttingen):

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• Julie Goncharov (DFG-project Action Sensitivity in Grammar)

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• Gurmeet Kaur (DFG-project Adressee in Syntax)

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• Daniele Panizza (DFG project The interpretation and processing of quantifiers in structurally ambiguous sentences; Insights from child language)

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• Sandhya Sundaresan (Joint AHRC-DFG project Locality and the argument/adjunct distinction: Structure-building vs. structure-enrichment)

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• Seid Tvica (DFG project Asymmetries in spoken and sign languages)​

Postdocs (External):

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• Kenyon Branan (Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin; Joint AHRC-DFG project Locality and the argument/adjunct distinction: Structure-building vs. structure-enrichment)

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• Elise Newman (Edinburgh; Joint AHRC-DFG project Locality and the argument/adjunct distinction: Structure-building vs. structure-enrichment)

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Scientific coordinator:

 

• Yana Strakatova (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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PhD students (as main supervisor):

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• Sumrah Arshad (SEP Göttingen)

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• Svetlana Berikashvili (Lehmann-Haupt International Doctoral Program)

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• Carina Kauf (DFG project Past tense in Tense and Modality)

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• Neha Kulshreshta (DFG project Asymmetries in spoken and sign languages)​

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• Gautam Ottur (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Feras Saeed (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Marten Stelling (Joint Niedersachsen-Israel project The landscape of n-words: On the cross-linguistic variation of negatively marked expressions)

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PhD students (as RTG speaker):

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• Katja Friedewald (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Lieke Hendriks (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Karen Hovind (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Judith Kalinowski (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Marianthi Koraka (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Andrea Matticchio (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Irene Pagliai (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Prudence de Pontbriand (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Maik Thalmann (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Zhao Zeqi (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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Language proficiency lecturers:

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• Seda Canpolat (coordinator, SEP Göttingen)

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• Sigrun Meinig (SEP Göttingen)

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• Joe Pfänder (SEP Göttingen)

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• Gordon Ross (SEP Göttingen)

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• Jeff Stone (SEP Göttingen)

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Adjunct faculty:

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• Stefanie Bode (SEP Göttingen)

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• John Coates (SEP Göttingen)

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• Joachim Tuschinsky (SEP Göttingen)

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Previous PhD students

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• Louise Raynaud (Göttingen): The features of binding and person licensing. Defended August, 2020. Supervisors: Sandhya Sundaresan, Hedde Zeijlstra.

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• Jovana Gajic (Göttingen): Negative coordination. Defended February, 2020. Supervisors: Viola Schmitt, Hedde Zeijlstra.

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• Guru Jegan Murugesan (Leipzig): Predicting the Anaphor Agreement Effect and its violations. Defended July, 2019. Supervisors: Sandhya Sundaresan, Hedde Zeijlstra.

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• Basima Mahmood (Göttingen): Language change and (ir)regularization. Defended April. 2018. Supervisors: Daniele Panizza, Hedde Zeijlstra.

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• Seid Tvica (University of Amsterdam): Testing the Rich Agreement Hypothesis. Defended March 2017. Supervisors: Olaf Koeneman, Kees Hengeveld and Fred Weerman).

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• Matthias Passer (University of Amsterdam): Nominal classification. Defended December, 2016. Supervisors Kees Hengeveld, Hedde Zeijlstra.

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• Jing Lin (University of Amsterdam): The acquisition of negative polarity items. Defended December, 2015. Supervisors: Fred Weerman, Hedde Zeijlstra.

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• Hadil Karawani (University of Amsterdam): Mood for Modality. Defended June, 2014. Supervisors: Josep Quer, Frank Veldman.