Dr. Giuseppe Varaschin
Faculty of Language Sciences
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin Germany
email: giuseppe.varaschin (at) hu-belin.de
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My work engages with core issues in theoretical syntax and semantics, especially anaphora, locality, argument structure, and the role of structure, interpretation and use in the explanation of linguistic universals.
A central concern in my research is how grammatical systems accommodate both general principles and fine-grained variation. I approach these questions through theory-driven analysis grounded in cross-linguistic data, drawing insights from both generative and model-theoretic formalisms. I am especially interested in the architecture of grammars and the formal foundations of linguistic theories, e.g., in exploring how constraints on the descriptive vocabulary of syntactic theory (e.g. syntactic features) can predict patterns of variation across and within languages. In my dissertation and other publications (e.g. my recent book Deconstructing Syntactic Theory, OUP 2005 ), I worked on formalizing and expanding the empirical coverage of a parallel architecture of grammar with an expanded lexicon including words and phrasal units (Culicover & Jackendoff, 2005).
My recent work addresses topics such as nominal structures, the syntax and semantics of epithets/slurs, and the interplay between morphosyntactic form and social meaning. I am currently working in Project A04 of the Register CRC at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where I am also lecturer. I was formerly a Humboldt Research Fellow hosted at the same institution.
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