Syntax professorship

On this page, you will find information about the Syntax professorship held by Prof. Dr. Katharina Hartmann at the Institute of Linguistics.

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Contact Room: IG 4.257 Tel.: 069 / 798-32386 E-Mail: k.hartmann AT lingua.uni-frankfurt.de Office hours winter term 2025/2026: by appointment Secretariat Birgit Nutz Room: IG 4.316 Tel: 069/798-32218 E-Mail: nutz AT lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

Professor

Staff

Prof. Dr. Katharina Hartmann

Dr. Johannes Mursell

Office hours winter term 25/26:
by appointment

Office hours winter term 25/26:
Monday, 12:30 – 1:30 pm

Student assistants

Thi Bich Phuong Dang
(Student assistant professorship)

Asmia Woldeab
(Student assistant research)

Jill McLendon
(Student assistant research)

Dominik Prochota
(Student assistant research)

Former staff and associated personnel

Anke Himmelreich

Matthias-Schulze-Bünte

Viola Schmitt

Peter W. Smith

Zheng Shen

Research profile

• generative syntax and universal grammar
• Information structure and grammar
• Syntax of the Mabia languages
• Architecture of interfaces
   

Current research projects

Syntactic and morphological interactions of negation – a cross-linguistic study (project in the CRC 1629 NegLaB, PIs: Prof. Dr. Hartmann, Dr. Johannes Mursell)

Negative scope mismatches in coordination (project in the CRC 1629 NegLaB, PIs: Prof. Dr. Hartmann, Prof. Dr. Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen))

Completed research projects

The VP-periphery in Mabia languages (DFG-funded project, PI: Prof. Dr. Hartmann)

BA/Lehramt:

• Fragebildung (Viktor Köhlich, Do 12-14, S 0.107
• Syntax I (Dr. Mursell, Mo 10-12, H 11 (Bockenheim)
• Morphologie I (Janina Rado, Mi 12-14, HZ 6)

MA:

• Introduction to Bantu Syntax (Dr. Mursell, Mi 12-14, IG 4.301)