David Müller 

I'm a 3rd year PhD at the linguistics department of the University of Geneva.

In my MA I focused on the German particle überhaupt (any/even/at all) and its interaction with the meaning of purpose clauses. Since then, I’ve been thinking about sentences like Hugo made a pasta salad, only to forget it in the fridge. This led to a project on contrast and but with Flavia Naehrlich.

I was also part of Isabelle Charnavel’s project on bound indexicals (only I did my homework), which led to work on German pronoun doubling in relative clauses (ich, der ich der König bin) with Tom Meadows. More recently, I’ve been thinking about modified pronouns as in Drunk me is an idiot. and about what this tells us about the meaning of referential expressions and the syntax of pronouns.