Syntax professorship

On this page, you will find information about the Syntax professorship held by Prof. Dr. Katharina Hartmann at the Institute of Linguistics.

Team & office hours • research • teaching • news

Contact Room: IG 4.257 Tel.: 069 / 798-32386 E-Mail: k.hartmann AT lingua.uni-frankfurt.de Office hours (starting October 14, 2024 w/o registration): Thursdays, 4-5pm Secretariat Birgit Nutz Room: IG 4.316 Tel: 069/798-32218 E-Mail: nutz AT lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

Professor

Staff

Prof. Dr. Katharina Hartmann

Dr. Johannes Mursell

Dr. Anke Himmelreich

Office hours winter term 24/25:
Thursday, 4 – 5pm

Office hours winter term 24/25:
Wednesday, 12:30 – 1:30 pm

Office hours winter term 24/25:
by appointment via e-mail

Student assistants

Thi Bich Phuong Dang
(Student assistant professorship)

Asmia Woldeab
(Student assistant research)

Emir Sultan Berber
(Student assistant research)

Dominik Prochota
(Student assistant research)

Former staff and associated personnel

Matthias-Schulze-Bünte

Viola Schmitt

Peter W. Smith

Research profile

• generative syntax and universal grammar
• Information structure and grammar
• Syntax of the Mabia languages
• Architecture of interfaces
   

Current research

The VP-periphery in Mabia languages (DFG-funded project, PI: Prof. Dr. Hartmann)

Syntactic and morphological interactions of negation – a cross-linguistic study (project in the CRC 1629 NegLaB, PIs: Prof. Dr. Hartmann, Dr. Johannes Mursell)

Negative scope mismatches in coordination (project in the CRC 1629 NegLaB, PIs: Prof. Dr. Hartmann, Prof. Dr. Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen))

BA/Lehramt:

• Deskriptive Syntax (Prof. Dr. Hartmann, Mon 10-12, IG 411)
• Deskriptive Syntax (Viktor Köhlich, Tue 10-12, H6 Bockenheim)
• Syntax I (Dr. Mursell, Wed 10-12, H11 (Bockenheim)
• Die Verbindung von Empirie und Theorie in der Syntax (Dr. Himmelreich, Thu 12-14, IG 4.301)

MA:

• DP-Structure (Prof. Dr. Hartmann, Thu 10-12, IG 4.301)
• Syntax Colloquium (Prof. Dr. Hartmann, Mon 16-18, IG 4.301)
• Topics in the Syntax of Yorùbá (Daniel Aremu, Wed 12-14, Neue Mensa 133)