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Susi Wurmbrand

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Susi Wurmbrand
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Education
ThesisInfinitives (1998)
Doctoral advisor
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Websitesusiwurmbrand.com

Susi Wurmbrand (German pronunciation: [ˈsuːsi ˈvʊʁmbʁant]) is an Austrian linguist specializing in syntax.[1]

Education and career

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Wurmbrand received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 with a thesis titled Infinitives supervised by Noam Chomsky, Alec Marantz and David Pesetsky.[2] In 2018 she received her Habilitation from the University of Vienna.[3]

She is currently a Privatdozentin at the University of Vienna[4] and a recurring visiting professor at Harvard University.[5] She has previously held faculty positions at McGill University and University of Connecticut.[3]

Honors

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Wurmbrand is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics,[6] an Associate Editor of Language,[7] and a co-editor of the book series Open Generative Syntax published by Language Science Press.[8]

In 2020 she was elected member of Academia Europaea[9] and was elected Chair of GLOW in 2022.[10]

She has been a member of the Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics of the Linguistic Society of America.[11]

Selected works

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  • Wurmbrand, Susanne (1998). Infinitives (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Wurmbrand, Susanne (2001). Infinitives: Restructuring and clause structure. Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Wurmbrand, Susanne (2004). "Two types of restructuring: Lexical vs. functional". Lingua. 114 (8): 991–1014. doi:10.1016/S0024-3841(03)00102-5.
  • Bobaljik, Jonathan David and Susi Wurmbrand (2005). The domain of agreement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23.4: 809-865.
  • Wurmbrand, Susanne (2006). "Licensing Case". Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 18 (3): 175–236. doi:10.1017/S1470542706000079.
  • Wurmbrand, Susi. (2007). How complex are complex predicates. Syntax 10: 243-288.
  • Wurmbrand, Susi. (2014). Tense and aspect in English infinitives. Linguistic Inquiry 45.3: 403-447. doi: 10.1162/LING_a_00161
  • Wurmbrand, Susi. (2017). Verb clusters, verb raising, and restructuring. In: The Blackwell Companion to Syntax 2, ed. by Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Lohninger, Magdalena, Iva Kovač, and Susi Wurmbrand. (2022). From Prolepsis to Hyperraising. Philosophies 7.2: 32.
  • Wurmbrand, Susi und Magdalena Lohninger. (In press). An implicational universal in complementation—Theoretical insights and empirical progress. In: Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research: Theoretical and Empirical Issues, ed. by Jutta Hartmann and Angelika Wöllstein. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

References

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  1. ^ "Susi Wurmbrand". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  2. ^ Wurmbrand, Susanne (1998). Infinitives (Thesis thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/9592.
  3. ^ a b "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org.
  4. ^ "Academic Staff - Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, UniWien". ufind.univie.ac.at. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  5. ^ "Susi Wurmbrand". linguistics.fas.harvard.edu.
  6. ^ "The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics editorial team". Springer. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  7. ^ "Editorial Team | LANGUAGE". languagelsa.org. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  8. ^ "Open Generative Syntax | Language Science Press". langsci-press.org. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  9. ^ "Academia Europaea membership page". Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  10. ^ "GLOW board list 2022".
  11. ^ "Past Members of COGEL (formerly COSWL) | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org.
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