• Form and meaning of imperatives  (designed and taught with Hedde Zeijlstra)
  University of Goettingen | Summer 2022
  Imperatives behave strikingly different from other clause types or speech acts. The goal of the course is to examine the various ways, both syntactic and semantic, in which imperatives are distinctive, and explore theories proposed in the existing literature to account for the observed differences. 

• Linguistic theory: overview  (designed and taught with Hedde Zeijlstra)
  University of Goettingen | Winter 2021/22
  The general idea behind the course is to present what the important insights are behind contemporary syntactic theories.  In this course, we cover the history and development of theories of: case, agreement, and pro-drop. 

• Introduction to English Linguistics (co-taught with Hedde Zeijlstra)

University of Goettingen | Winter 2020/21

• Theories of agreement (designed and taught with Sascha Alexeyenko)

University of Goettingen | Winter 2018/19

A prominent line of inquiry in linguistic research concerns the question of mapping between form and meaning. In this respect, the phenomenon of agreement poses potential challenges for the form-meaning correspondence insofar as the same semantic/grammatical feature has multiple realizations throughout the clause without triggering multiple semantic effects. In this course, we first present the landscape of agreement phenomena from a typological perspective. Based on this, we then discuss various theories of agreement that have been proposed in the literature.