Publications
Rehn, Alexandra & Hannah Booth. OCP effects in Germanic possession. To appear in Ermenegildo Bidese & Federica Cognola (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 35). Berlin: Language Science Press. preprint
Rehn, Alexandra. 2024. A new perspective on parallel inflection with reference to Old High German and Alemannic. In Kristin Bech & Alexander Pfaff (eds.). Noun phrases in early Germanic languages. Berlin:Language Science Press.
Rehn, Alexandra, Pfaff, Alexander & Petrova, Svetlana. 2024. The AP-Domain in Germanic. In S. Kuerschner & A. Dammel (Eds.), the Oxford Encyclopedia of Germanic Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
Booth, Hannah & Rehn, Alexandra. 2023. The Possessor Linking Construction in Middle Low German and Alemannic. In: Speyer, Augustin & Jenny Diener (Hrsg.): Syntax aus Saarbrücker Sicht 5, ZDL Beiheft. Stuttgart: Steiner-Verlag. preprint
Rehn, Alexandra & Brandner, Ellen. 2022. Bad data can be good data - The Significance of different Methods for syntactic Theorizing. In: Hörnig, Robin, Sophie von Wietersheim, Andreas Konietzko & Sam Featherston (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020. pdf
Brandner Ellen & Rehn, Alexandra. 2021. Dialectal variation, standardization and models of language change. In: Speyer, Augustin / Julia Hertel (Hg.): Syntax aus Saarbrücker Sicht 4: Beiträge der SaRDiS-Tagung zur Dialektsyntax. Stuttgart: Steiner (Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. Beihefte [Nummer]), 31–66.
Rehn, Alexandra. 2021. Loss, or variation? Functional load in morpho-syntax - Three case studies. In Kranich, Svenja & Brebant, Tine (eds.) Lost in change. Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
Rehn, Alexandra. 2019. Adjectives and the Syntax of German(ic) DPs. University of Konstanz Dissertation. pdf
Rehn, Alexandra. 2017. Zur Steuerung der Adjektivflexion im Alemannischen und Standarddeutschen. In Helen Christen, Peter Gilles & Christoph Purschke (eds.), Räume, Grenzen, Übergänge: Akten des 5. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD), 305-324. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. pdf
Rehn, Alexandra. 2016. The definite article and its positions in the structure of the DP: evidence from Irish English and Alemannic. Caderno de Squibs: Temas em estudos formais da linguagem 2(1). 54-66. pdf
Reviews
Rehn Alexandra. 2017. Review of Giusti, Giuliana. Nominal syntax at the interfaces: A comparative analysis of languages with articles (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015). Studia Linguistica ; 72 (2018), 3. - S. 791-801. - ISSN 0039-3193. - eISSN 1467-9582
Talks and Posters
2023
Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS), Talk (with Hannah Booth): Possession, case and the OCP in the history of High and Low German (Université Paris Cité )
Generative Grammatik des Südens (GGS), Poster: OCP effects in German possession (HU Berlin)
2022
Partition and Individuation in Germanic and Slavic, Talk: The defective German indefinite paradigm - a new perspective from non-standard varieties (University of Stuttgart).
Invited talk as part of the research colloquium at the University of Stuttgart (joint work with Hannah Booth): OCP-effects in Germanic possession: dialectal and diachronic evidence
Talk as part of the DiaLing Group meetings at Gent University: Parallel adjectival inflection - a new perspective from Alemannic pdf
Talk as part of the g4-group meeting at Gent University (with Hannah Booth): OCP-effects in Germanic possession: dialectal and diachronic evidence
2021
Workshop at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) (with Alexander Pfaff): Adjective: The unknown Category.
12th International Conference on Nordic and General Linguistics (NGL), Talk: A new approach to agreement in German DPs. pdf
35th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW), Talk (with Hannah Booth): OCP effects in Germanic possession: dialectal and diachronic evidence. pdf
2020
SaRDiS (Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax) (together with Hannah Booth): Germanic possessor doubling is possessor linking. pdf
Linguistic Evidence, Poster (together with Ellen Brandner): Bad data can be good data – the significance of different methods for syntactic theorizing. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2019
34th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW), Talk: Feature Marking in German DPs, University of Konstanz
2018
Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax (SaRDiS), Workshop together with Ellen Brandner: Parallelen zwischen diachroner Variation und (heutiger) dialektaler Variation
40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Workshop: Lost in Change, Talk: Loss, Optionality, and Free Variation of Categories, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Speaker for the DGfS-Doktorandenforum.Topic: Standard language vs Dialect: Spoken language as research object in linguistics.
2017
Talk at the research colloquium of the department of linguistics: Adjectives and the syntax of the German(ic) DP, University of Konstanz (Germany)
2016
Talk as part of the Teaching Staff Mobility programme (Erasmus+): From Apposition to Attribution. The diachronic development of the adjective and its inflection in German(ic), Ca’Foscari, Venice (Italy)
2015
5. Kongress der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen (IGDD), Talk: Diachrone und dialektale Variation in der deutschen Adjektivflexion (Diachronic and dialectal variation in German adjectival inflection, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg)
48th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Workshop: Parameters in Diachronic Syntax, Talk: A Diachronic and Dialectal Perspective on Variation in German Adjectival Inflection, Leiden University (Netherlands)
New Perspectives on Irish English III (NPIE III), Talk: A new perspective on the use of the definite article in Irish English, University of Limerick (Ireland)
Invited talk, research colloquium: A feature based analysis of German (optional) adjectival agreement, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany)
VII Encuentro Gramatica Generativa (EGG 7), Talk: A feature based analysis of German (optional) adjectival agreement, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Workshop Euorpean Dialect Syntax (Edisyn) VIII, Poster: German adjectival agreement in the light of diachronic an dialectal data, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
2014
41. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Workshop: Empirische Methoden der Variationslinguistik. Talk with Iris Bräuning: Diachrone und dialektale Variation. Empirische Untersuchung morpho-syntaktischer Phänomene am Beispiel der Adjektivflexion und Relativsatzstrategien im Alemannischen, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria)
2013
39. GGS-Tagung (Generative Grammatik des Südens), Talk: Der Endungsverlust am indefiniten Artikel – ein phonologischer oder morpho-syntaktischer Wandel?, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
PhD-Workshop, Talk: Schwankungen in der n-Deklination synchron und diachron, University of Konstanz (Germany)
Workshop Synmorph (Syntax und Morphologie deutscher Dialekte): Talk: Die Adjektivflexion diachron und dialektal, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany)