Work in progress
Morphology —like syntax— is in the eye of the beholder
(note: Parallel Domains workshop presentation below) pdf
Attributes: Towards a typology of modifiers in the nominal domain
(together with Volker Struckmeier) pdf
(To be) published
Linearization as Repair
(to be published in: E. Fuss & P. Brandt, Repairs) pdf
(2009) Phases and cycles: Some problems with phase theory
(together with Günther Grewendorf) The Linguistic Review pdf
(2009) Recursive linearisation The Linguistic Review pdf
(2009) A prosodic approach to particle verbs
Linguistische Berichte pdf
(2007) Masdar formation pdf
in: H. Motzki and E. Ditters, Approaches to Arabic Linguistics:
Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday.
Leiden: Brill.
(2006–2007) Minimalism and Arabic pdf
Reciprocals pdf Reflexives pdf
in: K. Versteegh et.al. (ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
(2005) Adjectival constructs in Arabic Linguistische Berichte pdf
(2003) The Arabic noun phrase: a minimalist approach pdf
PhD Thesis, University of Nijmegen.
(2003) Adjectival Agreement in the Arabic Noun Phrase pdf
in: M. van Koppen, J. Sio and M. de Vos, Proceedings of ConSOLE XI
Selected handouts and presentations
Morphology —like syntax— is in the eye of the beholder pdf
Parallel Domains, 5–7 May 2011, Los Angeles
Rethinking Linearisation pdf
GGS Tagung, 21–24 May 2009, Leipzig
Linearisation as repair pdf DGfS 3–6 März 2009, Osnabrück
Partikelverben und Deverbalnomen. Oder: Wie man die Morphologie/Syntax los wird.
Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, Cologne, 3 December 2008
Zu strukturellem Kasus und Phasentheorie pdf
Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, Cologne, 11 July 2007
Zu Ergänzungen in der Nominalphrase pdf (together with Amina Hallab)
Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, Cologne, 20 June 2007
Zur Wortbildung arabischer Deverbalnomen pdf
GGS Tagung Konstanz, 18–20 May 2007 (print version)
Discussion of Chomsky’s (2005) On Phases paper pdf
Class notes 2005/2006
Linearisation as syntax-phonology mapping pdf
GGS Tagung Stuttgart, 26–28 May 2006
Arabic deverbal nouns handout, poster
Workshop DP/QP/Nominalisations, Saarbrücken, 16–17 December 2005
Adjectival constructs in Arabic pdf
Mediterranean Syntax Meeting, Rhodes, 23–25 June 2005
Arabic pidgins and Arabic colloquials: a syntactic comparison pdf
Second International Conference on Contrastive
Rhetoric at the American University in Cairo, 23–25 March 2001.
Older manuscripts
Genitives: a recursive linearization approach pdf
Recursive linearization pdf
A recursive linearization approach to Arabic noun phrases pdf