Graduate advising

I advise students who work on theoretical syntax and morphology. Their work is often based on data from fieldwork on understudied languages. 

PhD supervisor at the University of Leipzig:

• Leonie Barabas-Weil 

Research areas: syntax, agreement, case, fieldwork on Turkana (Eastern Nilotic) 

• Sasha Belkind 

Research areas: syntax, agreement, case, ditransitive constructions, fieldwork on Khanty (Finno-Ugric)

• Nadja Fiebig

Research areas: syntax-morphology interface, syntax-semantics interface, gender, pluractionality, fieldwork on Kipsigis and Pokot (Kalenjin; Southern Nilotic)

• Armel Jolin 

Research areas: syntax-phonology and morphology-phonology interface, grammatical tone, fieldwork on Kipsigis and Pokot (Kalenjin; Southern Nilotic)

• Helene Streffer

Research areas: syntax-morphology interface, DP structure, multiple exponence, discontinuous exponence, fieldwork on Turkana (Eastern Nilotic) and Didinga (Surmic)