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Marta Wierzba
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Publications
Journal papers
2022
2021
2020
2019
2017
2015
Conference proceedings and articles in collections
2020
2020
2020
2019
2014
2014
2013
Edited volumes
2019
Theses
2017
2014
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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