Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
    Assistant Professor of Linguistics
    Swarthmore College
    500 College AV
    Swarthmore, PA 19081
    610-328-0888
    vleesch1@swarthmore.edu

Research interests:

• German Syntax:
     Infinitive constructions
     Binding
     Possessor datives
     VP-fronting
     Auxiliary selection

• Syntax-Phonology Interface: Third tone patterns in Mandarin Chinese

• Agreement Morphology in German Sign Language

Teaching:

Fall 2008 – Semantics, Phonetics & Phonology, Historical/Comparative Ling
Spring 2009 – Introduction to Linguistics

CV:

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Papers:

Sandhi Sans Derivation: Third Tone Patterns in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]

Binding, Phases, and Locality [PDF]

Review of Datives and Other Cases: Between Argument Structure and Event Structure [PDF]

German Possessor Datives: Raised and Affected [PDF]

Agentivity versus Auxiliary Choice: Evidence from Pronominal Binding in German AcI-constructions [PDF]

Binding by Phase: (Non-) Complementarity in German [PDF]

Third Tone Prominence [PDF]

Handouts:

Third Tone Patterns in Mandrin Chinese: A New Perspective [PDF]

A-movement out of Control Clauses: Evidence for VO Order in Dutch and German [PDF]

The Syntax of Opacity in German: Evidence from Possessor Raising and Binding [PDF]

What Moves in German VP-Fronting? [PDF]

Introducing Possessor Datives – High or Low? [PDF]

Binding, Possessor Raising, and the Typology of Clause Size [PDF]

Agentivity vs. Auxiliary Choice: Evidence from Pronominal Binding in German AcI-constructions [PDF]

Dissertation:

"Beyond Coherence: The Syntax of Opacity in German". Click here for more information.

 

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Last updated November 12, 2009