Habilitation projects

PhD projects

Rebecca Arkell

Exploring Linguistic Variation in Cape Verdean Creole: A Study of Communities of Practice on the Island of Santiago

supervised by Marco Coniglio (University of Göttingen), Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen), Felix Ameka (Leiden University)
funded by the DFG (RTG 2636)

Marie Benzerrak

Word order and Information Structure in Bocota (Chibchan Panama)

supervised by Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen) and Claudine Chamoreau (CNRS, Paris) (Cotutelle: University of Göttingen & INALCO, Paris)
funded by the DFG (Chibergis)

Saverio Dalpedri

Studies on deverbal *-tó- in two ancient Indo-European languages

supervised by Götz Keydana and Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen)
funded by the UGOE

Issouf Diarrassouba

Dialectometric study of the Manding dialects of Ivory Coast

supervised by Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen), Firmin Ahoua (Université Houphouet Boigny), and Wilbert Heeringa (Fryske Akademy)

Tekla Gabunia

The development of clitics in Georgian

supervised by Götz Keydana and Guido Mensching (University of Göttingen)
funded by the DFG (RTG 2636)

Magret Hegret

Functions of iconicity: A cross-modal and cross-linguistic perspective

supervised by Guido Mensching and Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen)
funded by the DFG (RTG 2636)

Lieke Hendriks

Diachrony of split NP / DP constructions

supervised by Marco Coniglio and Goetz Keydana (University of Göttingen)
funded by the DFG (RTG 2636)

Karen Hovind

Wh-less degree questions

supervised by Uwe Junghanns and Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen)
funded by the DFG (RTG 2636)

Madeline Ladore

The semantics of plural morphology in select Niger-Congo; Kwa languages

supervised by Hedde Zeijlstra and Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen)
funded by the DFG (RTG 2636)

Prudence de Pontbriand

Null objects

supervised by Goetz Keydana and Guido Mensching (University of Göttingen)
funded by the DFG (RTG 2636)

Yasaman Sanei

Left Branch Extraction in hyperbata

supervised by Marco Coniglio and Götz Keydana (University of Göttingen)
funded by the DFG (RTG 2636)

Witold Tokarski

The Vocalic Systems of Greek Dialects in the Late Archaic Period - an Optimality-Theoretic Analysis

supervised by Götz Keydana and Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen)

Christine Teichert

Relativierungsstrategien im Niederdeutschen

supervised by Marco Coniglio and Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen)

Yunhuan Wang

Semantics of Bare Noun in Chinese from a Typological Perspective

supervised by Stavros Skopeteas, Götz Keydana and Clemens Steiner-Mayr (University of Göttingen)
funded by the CSC

Completed PhD projects

Yidong Yu

Pluralizing Entities and Events in Yucatec Maya

supervised by Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen), Scott AnderBois (Brown University), and Götz Keydana (University of Göttingen)
funded by the DFG (Yucatec Maya: Variation in Space and Time)
Oral examination: 1.9.2022

Nina Adam

Optimal Clitic Positioning in Czech and Beyond: Clitic syntax, morphology, and prosody from a constraint-based perspective

supervised by Stavros Skopeteas, Götz Keydana, and Uwe Junghanns (University of Göttingen)
funded by the UGOE
Oral examination: 25.10.2022

Roberto Herrera

Morphosyntax and information structure in Maleku

supervised by Claudine Chamoreau (CNRS, Paris) and Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen) (Cotutelle: University of Göttingen & INALCO, Paris)
funded by the ELDP
Oral examination: 11.12.2024

Thomas Laurs

Schwierigkeit lateinischer Texte

supervised by Peter Kuhlmann and Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen)
Oral examination: 13.12.2024