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e-mail

marta.wierzba@mailbox.org

Publications

Journal papers

2022

Condition C in German A′-movement: Tackling challenges in experimental research on reconstruction (with Martin Salzmann and Doreen Georgi). Journal of Linguistics.

2021

The German additive particle ‘noch’: testing the role of topic situations (with Mira Grubic). Glossa 6:1.

2020

Factors influencing the acceptability of object fronting in German (with Gisbert Fanselow). The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 23.

2019

Presupposition accommodation of the German additive particle auch (= ‘too’) (with Mira Grubic). Frontiers in Communication 4.

2017

Expression of information structure in West Slavic: Modeling the impact of prosodic and word order factors (with Radek Šimík). Language 93:3.

2015

The role of givenness, presupposition, and prosody in Czech word order: An experimental study (with Radek Šimík). Semantics & Pragmatics 8:3.

Conference proceedings and articles in collections

2020

An experimental investigation of reconstruction for Condition C in German A’-movement (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann). Submitted to Digital Repository of CLS 56.

2020

The ordering of interface mapping rules in German object fronting. In: Gerrit Kentner and Joost Kremers (eds.). Prosody in Syntactic Encoding (Linguistische Arbeiten 573). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.

2020

Condition A reconstruction in German A’-movement: an empirical investigation (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann). In: Proceedings of NELS 49.

2019

Experimenting with Lurchi: V2 and agreement violations in poetic contexts (with Jana Häussler, Anne Mucha, Andreas Schmidt, and Thomas Weskott). In: J.M.M. Brown, Andreas Schmidt, and Marta Wierzba (eds.). Of Trees and Birds: A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

2014

Givenness and the position of the direct object in the Czech clause (with Radek Šimík and Beste Kamali). In: Cassandra Chapman, Olena Kit, and Ivona Kučerová (eds.). Proceedings of FASL 22.

2014

Pronominal F-markers in Basaá (with Tim Leffel and Radek Šimík). In: Hsin-Lun Huang, Ethan Poole, and Amanda Rysling (eds.). Proceedings of NELS 43, Volume 1.

2013

Subparts of contrastive topics and the syntax-information structure interface. In: Enrico Boone, Martin Kohlberger, and Maartje Schulpen (eds). Proceedings of ConSOLE XX.

Edited volumes

2019

Of Trees and Birds: A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow (with J.M.M. Brown and Andreas Schmidt). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

Theses

2017

Revisiting prosodic reconstruction: an interface-based approach to partial focus and topic fronting in German. PhD thesis, University of Potsdam.

2014

What is special about fronted focused objects in German? A study on the relation between syntax, intonation, and emphasis. MA thesis, University of Potsdam.

2011

Teile kontrastiver Topiks im deutschen Vorfeld. BA thesis, University of Potsdam.

Presentations

2020

Re-opening QUDs: Which alternatives play a role? (with Mira Grubic) Focus Alternatives: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (FATEP), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. (handout)

2020

A paradigm for testing contrastive topic projection. Linguistic Evidence, Universität Tübingen. (slides)

2020

An experimental investigation of reconstruction for Condition C in German A’-movement (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann). Linguistic Evidence, Universität Tübingen. (handout)

2019

Focus projection: extending the empirical data base. Phonology colloquium, Goethe Universität Frankfurt. (slides)

2019

An experimental investigation of reconstruction for Condition C in German A’-movement (with Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann). 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-March 2020

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 (at the University of Potsdam)

winter semester 2020/2021

Introduction to syntax (online course via Moodle and BigBlueButton), BA level

summer semester 2020

Introduction to morphology (online course via Moodle), BA level
Slavic languages (online course), BA level

winter semester 2019/2020

Introduction to syntax, BA level,
Collecting judgment data in linguistic research, BA level

summer semester 2019

The syntax of German (with Andreas Schmidt), BA level
The expression of focus in German, BA level

winter semester 2018/2019

Introduction to syntax, BA level
Acceptability ratings in linguistic research, MA level

summer semester 2018

Introduction to morphology, BA level
Slavic languages, BA level

winter semester 2017/2018

Introduction to phonology, BA level
Introduction to syntax, BA level

summer semester 2017

Acceptability ratings in linguistic research, MA level
The expression of focus in German, BA level

winter semester 2016/2017

Introduction to syntax, BA level

summer semester 2016

Introduction to semantics, BA level

winter semester 2015/2016

Introduction to syntax, BA level

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

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