This year’s syntax guru, Gereon Müller, arrives on Monday, March 22, for his four week residence in the department. Professor Müller is professor linguistics and coordinator of the linguistics department at the University of Leipzig. He has done important work on rule interaction, making fundamental contributions to our understanding of what a syntactic derivation is. He is an expert on all things movement: how to treat the A/A’ distinction, island effects, interactions with anaphora, etc., etc. He has also done extensive work on inflectional morphology, including several papers on syncretism. You can get a more complete picture of his work here.
Gereon will be floating in the department. This coming week, he will be housed in Seth’s office from Monday to Thursday, and in Kyle’s office on Friday. Make appointments by writing: gereon.mueller@uni-leipzig.de.
