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Hedde Zeijlstra

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Professor of grammar theory at Linguistics in Goettingen. Author of popular scientific books. Tweets about language and linguistics in English and Dutch. heddezeijlstra.org

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Hedde Zeijlstra @heddezeijlstra.bsky.social · May 19

Hoera!

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · May 19

Yes! Safae el Khannoussi heeft met haar Oroppa de Librisprijs gewonnen. Zeer terecht!

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Hedde Zeijlstra @heddezeijlstra.bsky.social · Apr 22

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!

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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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Hedde Zeijlstra @heddezeijlstra.bsky.social · Apr 3

We're hiring! Permanent assistant professor in English linguistics in Goettingen:

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Please spread ..., or apply!

LINGUIST List 36.1136 Jobs: Language Acquisition, Morphology, Phonology: Research Assistant (Permanent Assistant Professor/Lecturer), Georg August University Goettingen

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Hedde Zeijlstra @heddezeijlstra.bsky.social · Mar 20

Come do your PhD with us!

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Mar 20

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…

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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Claudia de Breij @claudiazelf.bsky.social · Jan 4

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?

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Hedde Zeijlstra @heddezeijlstra.bsky.social · Dec 29

It's similar in spirit (no movement but direct linearization), but different in the sense that each head is linearized separately. I.e., projection lines aren't linearized by/as one morphological unit.

Hedde Zeijlstra @heddezeijlstra.bsky.social · Dec 27

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:

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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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Hedde Zeijlstra @heddezeijlstra.bsky.social · Dec 27

We’re hiring a lecturer in English language proficiency:

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https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.html?details=3002

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