Hedde Zeijlstra
@heddezeijlstra.bsky.social
Professor of grammar theory at Linguistics in Goettingen. Author of popular scientific books. Tweets about language and linguistics in English and Dutch.
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Yes! Safae el Khannoussi heeft met haar Oroppa de Librisprijs gewonnen. Zeer terecht!
May 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Yes! Safae el Khannoussi heeft met haar Oroppa de Librisprijs gewonnen. Zeer terecht!
New paper, arguing against the status of v as a phase head. Stefan Keine and I argue that existing evidence in favour of v-phasality at closer inspection rather calls against it. Check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention? - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
The well-known requirement that movement must proceed successive-cyclically through intermediate landing sites is standardly attributed to the presence of locality domains (phases) along the extractio...
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April 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New paper, arguing against the status of v as a phase head. Stefan Keine and I argue that existing evidence in favour of v-phasality at closer inspection rather calls against it. Check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We're hiring! Permanent assistant professor in English linguistics in Goettingen:
linguistlist.org/issues/36-1136
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LINGUIST List 36.1136 Jobs: Language Acquisition, Morphology, Phonology: Research Assistant (Permanent Assistant Professor/Lecturer), Georg August University Goettingen
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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April 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We're hiring! Permanent assistant professor in English linguistics in Goettingen:
linguistlist.org/issues/36-1136
Please spread ..., or apply!
linguistlist.org/issues/36-1136
Please spread ..., or apply!
Reposted by Hedde Zeijlstra
Support: English; Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology: MA / MSc, Georg August Universität Göttingen: 4 PhD positions at Georg August Universität Göttingen (Zeijlstra's ERC project UNPAG)
The Department of English Philology at the Georg-August University Göttingen is offering…
The Department of English Philology at the Georg-August University Göttingen is offering…
Support: English; Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology: MA / MSc, Georg August Universität Göttingen
4 PhD positions at Georg August Universität Göttingen (Zeijlstra's ERC project UNPAG)
The Department of English Philology at the Georg-August University Göttingen is offering 4 PhD positions (f/m/d) with 65% of the regular weekly working hours (currently…
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March 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Support: English; Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology: MA / MSc, Georg August Universität Göttingen: 4 PhD positions at Georg August Universität Göttingen (Zeijlstra's ERC project UNPAG)
The Department of English Philology at the Georg-August University Göttingen is offering…
The Department of English Philology at the Georg-August University Göttingen is offering…
Reposted by Hedde Zeijlstra
Deze cartoon van @anntelnaes.bsky.social werd geweigerd door de Washington Post, de krant die gekocht is door Jeff Bezos. De maker heeft ontslag genomen omdat ze vindt dat vrije pers een voorwaarde is voor de democratie. Wat als we deze cartoon vandaag eens massaal verspreiden?
January 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Deze cartoon van @anntelnaes.bsky.social werd geweigerd door de Washington Post, de krant die gekocht is door Jeff Bezos. De maker heeft ontslag genomen omdat ze vindt dat vrije pers een voorwaarde is voor de democratie. Wat als we deze cartoon vandaag eens massaal verspreiden?
New paper with Kenyon Branan. We argue that traditional "head movement effects" actually do not involve head movement at all. What looks like head movement is the effect of a cyclic linearisation mechanism that does not fully reflect constituency:
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
Head movement and linear edges - lingbuzz/008704
In this paper, we have set out to model classical head movement effects as the consequence of a particular linearization mechanism, rather than a structure-altering transformation. In other words, we ...
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December 27, 2024 at 6:27 PM
New paper with Kenyon Branan. We argue that traditional "head movement effects" actually do not involve head movement at all. What looks like head movement is the effect of a cyclic linearisation mechanism that does not fully reflect constituency:
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...