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Andreas Trotzke
Curriculum vitae
November 6, 2013
* April 15, Duisburg, Germany
University of Konstanz
Department of Linguistics
Box D 191
Universitätsstraße 10
78457 Konstanz
Germany
Phone: +49 7531 88 4752
E-mail: andreas.trotzke@uni-konstanz.de
WWW: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/trotzke
Education
12/2010 PhD (Dr. phil.), Linguistics
10/2008 - 3/2011 PhD student, Hermann Paul School of Linguistics (University of Basel
& University of Freiburg)
6/2008 MA (Magister Artium), German Linguistics, Philosophy, and Sociology
4/2006 - 9/2008 Studies in German Linguistics, Philosophy, and Sociology, University
of Freiburg
10/2003 - 3/2006 Studies in German Linguistics, Philosophy, and Sociology, University
of Münster
Academic Positions
since 11/2013
Associated fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
since 4/2011
Postdoctoral staff, Department of Linguistics, University of
Konstanz
4/2009 - 3/2011 Lecturer in Linguistics, German Department, University of Potsdam
3/2005 - 3/2006 Student Assistant in Linguistics, German Department, University of
Münster
Grants
2013 - 2014 Project: “Layered Derivations and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface,”
German Excellence Initiative, University of Konstanz
2013 - 2014 Project: “Linguistics Konstanz & Venice (LingKonVen),” German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD)
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2011 - 2013 Project: “Complex Sentences, Types of Embedding, and Recursivity,”
German 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
submitted
in press
2013a
2013b
2013c
Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces. Book proposal submitted to Mouton de
Gruyter [with Josef Bayer].
The complexity of narrow syntax: Minimalism, representational economy,
and simplest Merge. Submitted to Frederick J. Newmeyer & Laurel B. Preston
(eds.), Measuring Linguistic Complexity. Oxford: Oxford University Press
[with Jan-Wouter Zwart].
Three factors and the performance interface in language design. Biolinguistics
7, 1-34 [with Markus Bader & Lyn Frazier].
Against usage-based approaches to recursion: The grammar-performance
distinction in a biolinguistic perspective. GLOW Newsletter 70, 183-184 [with
Markus Bader].
Bericht der AG 3: „NP syntax and information structure”. Mitteilungen der
DGfS 77, 33-37 [with Ellen Brandner, Barbara Sonnenhauser & Martina Werner].
2012 Review of Lieven Danckaert, Latin Embedded Clauses: The Left Periphery. Amsterdam:
Benjamins. The LINGUIST List 23.4367.
2011a Recursion as derivational layering: An amendment to Zwart. Biolinguistics 5,
335-346 [with Antje Lahne].
2011b
2011c
2010a
2010b
2010c
Biolinguistics Special Issue on Recursion. Biolinguistics 5, 1-169 [with
Uli Sauerland].
Biolinguistic perspectives on recursion: Introduction to the special issue. Biolinguistics
5, 1-9 [with Uli Sauerland].
Rethinking Syntactocentrism: Lessons from Recent Generative Approaches
to Pragmatic Properties of Left-Periphery-Movement in German. Dissertation,
University of Freiburg. Online-Publikation: http://www.freidok.unifreiburg.de/volltexte/7918.
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: Potsdam
University Press.
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 [with Uli Sauerland, Mathias Schenner & Rainer Ludwig].
2008 Rekursive Syntax & FLN? Eine kritische Betrachtung neuerer Diskussionen
zur menschlichen Sprachfähigkeit innerhalb des Generativismus. Magisterarbeit,
University of Freiburg. Online-Publikation: http://www.freidok.unifreiburg.de/volltexte/7187.
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Talks
2013a
Discourse particles, successive-cyclic movement, and the nature of derivations.
Workshop: The Role of Modal Particles in Diverse Speech Acts, Università Ca’Foscari
Venezia, 10/03-10/04/13 [with Josef Bayer].
2013b Discourse particles and successive-cyclic movement. Syntax Colloquium, University
of Konstanz, 06/25/13 [with Josef Bayer].
2013c
The German left periphery: Information structure and beyond. University of Cyprus,
Cyprus, 04/11/13.
2013d Recursion in biolinguistics: Current issues. University of Cyprus, Cyprus,
04/08/13.
2013e
2012a
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].
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.
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.
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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
2014 Discourse Particles: Cross-linguistic Perspectives, University of Konstanz, January 24-
25. Plenary 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].
2013 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 05-06. Plenary speakers: Adele E. Goldberg (Princeton), Uli Sauerland
(ZAS, Berlin), Jan-Wouter 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
2013/14 Advanced Seminar: Sprachliche Variation im Germanischen und sprachtypologische
Stellung des Deutschen [Language Variation in Germanic and the Typological Classification
of German]; with Josef Bayer
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
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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
University of Potsdam
Seminar: Semantik I [Semantics I]
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 & Summer Schools
2013 Seminar: Interface Syntax [University of Cyprus, April 2013, with Kleanthes K.
Grohmann]
Advanced Seminar: Issues in Biolinguistics [University of Cyprus, April 2013,
with Kleanthes K. Grohmann]
2012 Summer School: Homo loquens: der sprechende Mensch – Sprache als speziesspezifisches
Charakteristikum [Homo loquens: Talking Man – Language as a Speciesspecific
feature], August 20-26, funded by “Evangelisches Studienwerk” [with
Eva Wittenberg (Harvard & Tufts)].
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