Info
Marta Wierzba
Postdoctoral research/teaching associate at the Department of Linguistics
University of Potsdam
Contact
office
Campus Golm, house 14, room 3.32
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25
14476 Potsdam
phone
(+49) (0)3319772955
Publications
Journal papers
Accepted
Factors influencing the acceptability of object fronting in German (with Gisbert Fanselow). The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
2019
2017
2015
Conference proceedings
Forthcoming
Condition A reconstruction in German A’-movement: an empirical investigation (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann). In: Proceedings of NELS 47.
Forthcoming
The ordering of interface mapping rules in German object fronting. In: Gerrit Kentner and Joost Kremers (eds.). Special Issue on Prosody in Syntactic Encoding (Proceedings of DGfS 39, AG 6).
2014
2014
2013
Theses
2017
2014
2011
Teile kontrastiver Topiks im deutschen Vorfeld. BA thesis, University of Potsdam.
Presentations
2019
An experimental investigation of reconstruction for Condition C in German A’-movement. GLOW 42, University of Oslo. (handout, poster)
2019
Revisiting prosodic reconstruction. Linguistics colloquium, UC Santa Cruz. (handout)
2018
Condition C reconstruction in German: Methodological insights and theoretical implications (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann). Workshop on Condition C reconstruction, Queen Mary University of London. (handout)
2018
Reconstruction in German A-bar-movement – an experimental investigation (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann). NELS 49, Cornell University. (poster, handout)
2018
Reconstruction in German A-bar-movement – an experimental investigation (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann). CGSW 33, Göttingen. (handout)
2017
Modeling gradient acceptability of left-peripheral movement. Word order in the left periphery (WOLP), Oslo. (slides)
2017
Wh-movement and sentence stress. Prosody and Meaning, Konstanz. (slides, poster)
2017
The ordering of syntax-prosody-interpretation mapping rules. 39th annual meeting of the DGfS, Saarbrücken. (slides)
2017
Object fronting and contrast in German and Swedish. Grammar seminar, Lund. (slides)
2016
An experimental view on the syntactic flexibility of German idioms. Current Trends in Figurative Language Research, Tübingen. (slides)
2016
An experimental view on the syntactic flexibility of German idioms. Budapest-Potsdam-Lund Colloquium, Budapest. (slides)
2016
Towards an efficient evaluation method of generative theories using gradient data and regression. 38th annual meeting of the DGfS, Konstanz. (abstract)
2015
Factors influencing the acceptability of left-peripheral movement in German (with Gisbert Fanselow and Luis Vicente). Poster presented at the final conference of the SFB 632: Advances in Information Structure Research 2003-2015, Berlin. (poster)
2015
Expression of information structure in West Slavic: Modeling the impact of prosodic and word order factors (with Radek Šimík). The final conference of the SFB 632: Advances in Information Structure Research 2003-2015, Berlin. (handout, slides)
2014
Expression of information structure in Slavic: Experiments and modeling (with Radek Šimík). Kolloquium Slawistische Linguistik, HU Berlin. (slides)
2014
Focused object fronting is emphatic – an effect of syntax or prosody? Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen. (slides)
2014
The relation between information structure, prosody and word order in Slavic – a crosslinguistic experimental study (with Radek Šimík). Phonology-syntax circle, ZAS Berlin. (handout, slides)
2013
The interaction of factors facilitating displacement to the left periphery (with Gisbert Fanselow and Luis Vicente). Research Day (ATALA – Labex EFL): Quantitative approaches in corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics: Word order and constituent order, Paris. October 18, 2013. (slides)
2013
Prosodic marking of givenness in Czech (with Radek Šimík and Beste Kamali). FASL 22, McMaster University, Hamilton. May 3, 2013. (handout, slides)
2012
Subparts of contrastive topics and the syntax-information structure interface. ConSOLE XX, Leipzig. January 7, 2012. (handout, slides)
CV
Employment
2015-currently
Research/teaching associate at the Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam
2011-2015
Collaborative Research Centre 632: Information Structure
Project A1: The Syntactic Expression of Information Structure and the Architecture of Grammar
Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Gisbert Fanselow, Dr. Luis Vicente
Teaching
summer semester 2019
The syntax of German, BA level, University of Potsdam
The expression of focus in German, BA level, University of Potsdam
winter semester 2018/2019
Introduction to syntax, BA level, University of Potsdam
Acceptability ratings in linguistic research, MA level, University of Potsdam
summer semester 2018
Introduction to morphology, BA level, University of Potsdam
Slavic languages, BA level, University of Potsdam
winter semester 2017/2018
Introduction to phonology, BA level, University of Potsdam
Introduction to syntax, BA level, University of Potsdam
summer semester 2017
Acceptability ratings in linguistic research, MA level, University of Potsdam
The expression of focus in German, BA level, University of Potsdam
winter semester 2016/2017
Introduction to syntax, BA level, University of Potsdam
summer semester 2016
Introduction to semantics, BA level, University of Potsdam
winter semester 2015/2016
Introduction to syntax, BA level, University of Potsdam
Guest lectures
20-24 February 2017
Guest lectures (funded by Erasmus+) on “The expression of focus in German” / “Acceptability ratings in linguistic research” at Lund University
19-23 November 2012
Guest lectures on “Focus and the left periphery” at Palacký University, Olomouc