Syntax, semantics, and the lexicon: Papers by and in honor of Ilse Zimmermann (Open Slavic Linguistics) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Łukasz Jędrzejowski is Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation at the University of Agder. He has worked on synchronic and diachronic morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages. His particular research interests include adverbial clauses, subordinate wh-clauses, habituality, and processes of language change.

Uwe Junghanns is Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Göttingen. He has worked on lexical and compositional semantics, information structuring, non-finite clauses, periphrastic constructions, subject realization, ditransitives, predicatives, clitics, reflexive marking, decausatives, and impersonals. He has been (co-)editor of a number of conference volumes as well as special issues of journals. Uwe Junghanns is an Ordinary Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, co-founder of the “Formal Description of Slavic Linguistics” conference series, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics.

Kerstin Schwabe was Ilse Zimmermann's first doctoral student. She completed her doctorate in 1987 at the Central Institute for Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences on the specifics of situational ellipses. The specificity of such ellipses, for example Schnell einen Krankenwagen (lit. ‘quickly an ambulance’), lies precisely in the interaction of sound-meaning mapping, one of Ilse Zimmermann's favourite topics.

Carla Umbach is a Senior Researcher at the University of Cologne. Her field of research is semantics, with a cognitive science background. She has recently been working on equative comparison, kind formation by similarity, and depictive manner complements. In German, the adverbs so and wie play a prominent role for these phenomena, creating a close link to Ilse Zimmermann's work in this area. Carla Umbach teaches semantic classes at the University of Cologne.