Qualifications:

1. •    Dissertation, Universität Tübingen, 2005
   

2. •    Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
   

3. •    Habilitation, Universität Tübingen, 2010
   

4. •    Acting professor, Universität Göttingen, 2010/11
   

Areas of main interest, research specialization:

•Syntax, semantics and their interface(s) (varieties, morphology, information structure etc.)

•Language change - corpus linguistics and theoretical modelling of historical processes

•Germanic and Romance linguistics

•Comparative syntax & semantics