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  • Syntactic ecology

  • Hybrid grammatical systems

  • Language contact

  • Afrikaans varieties (especially Kaaps)

  • Syntax interface

  • Syntactic categories

  • Adpositions and spatial expressions

  • Syncretism

  • Domain combination

  • Event & argument structure

  • Roots

  • Cartography

  • Distributed Morphology

Research Interests

2017.   Spelling Out P: A Unified Syntax of Afrikaans Adpositions and V-Particles. Utrecht: LOT Dissertation Series

Dissertation

Publications

Dissertation
Papers

Accepted for publication. Afrikaans Circumpositions: (Mis-) Matches at the Syntax-Interface. In Acedo-Matellán, V., T. Biberauer, J. Mateu & A. Pineda (eds). Into Adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation. Special edition of Linguistic Variation.

 

2017.   The Secret Nominal Life of Afrikaans Intransitive Adpositions. In T. Biberauer & A. Andrason (eds.). Festschrift for Johan Oosthuizen. Special edition of Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus.

 

In Progress. Language-Internal Morphosyntactic Variation in the P Domain: how Afrikaans adpositions fit into the cartography of space.

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In Progress. Schooled by Afrikaaps: OV and V2 as stable grammatical properties in contact systems

Publications

Research Interests

Idea

Talks

Invited Talks

2017. A No-Category Approach to Analysing P-based V-particles. CRISSP Seminar. February. Brussels, Belgium.

 

2017. A No-Category Approach to Analysing P-based V-particles. SyntaxLab. February. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

 

2016. Deriving Afrikaans Adpositions. Syntax Seminar. May. University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Refereed Talks

2018. Biberauer, T., E. Pretorius, F. Butoni. A Spectacular Vernacular: Initial explorations into some core properties of Afrikaaps grammar. Presentation given at the 7th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP7). 29 November - 1 December. Thohoyandou, South Africa.

 

2018. Biberauer, T. & E. Pretorius. The Syntactic Ecology of Afrikaaps: an initial exploration. Presentation given at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Language Association of Great Britain (LAGB): 11-14 September 2018, Sheffield, England.

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2017. The Emergent Category P: A View from Morphosyntactic Variation in Afrikaans Adpositions. The 6th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP 6): 29 November – 2 December, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

 

2017. To P or not to P: Dissolving an ontologically primitive P with help from syncretism. The 32nd annual Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 32): 13-15 September, Trondheim, Norway.

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2017. Afrikaans Circumpositions. Morphosyntactic Variation in Adpositions Workshop (MorSynVarAd) 8-9 May. Queen's College, Cambridge.

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2016. Afrikaans Axials. The 5th South African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP 5): 24-26 November, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

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2015. Towards a unified syntax of P: A syncretism-driven approach to analysing Afrikaans adpositions and V-particles. The 30th annual Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 30): 22-23 May, Chicago, USA.

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2015. On the status of postpositions in Afrikaans. Talk given the 4th annual South African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP 4): 27-29 November, Grahamstown, South Africa.

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2015. (With K. Huddlestone & M. Du Plessis.) Khoe serial verbs and Germanic particle verbs: Linking variation to spellout. Talk given the 4th annual South African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP 4): 27-29 November, Grahamstown, South Africa.

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2014. Putting all your Ps in one pod. Talk given the 3rd annual South African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP 3): 24-27 November, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

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2013. Having fun with van. Talk given at the LSSA/ SAALA/ SAALT joint annual conference: 1-4 July, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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