Germanic Grammar and Syntax – Grammatik und Syntax

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Research interests

Sabrina Bertollo: Temporary Assistant Professor
Sibilla Cantarini: Associate Professor
Andrea Padovan: Associate Professor

Stefan Rabanus: Full Professor
Alessandra Tomaselli: Full Professor

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
Language contact	Andrea Padovan Stefan Rabanus Alessandra Tomaselli	Theory of language contact in Northern Italy: (morpho-)syntactic, phonological and lexical phenomena in language contact situations. Focus on Germanic (Standard German, German dialects, German minority languages), Romance (Standard Italian, Northern Italian dialects, Ladin) and Slavic (Slovenians dialects).
Syntax/Morphology	Sabrina Bertollo Sibilla Cantarini Andrea Padovan Stefan Rabanus Alessandra Tomaselli	Synchronic and diachronic aspects of German syntax (V2; syntactic features of pronominal elements; complementation). Morphosyntax of prefix verbs in German. Comparative syntax of the German dialects and the Germanic languages from the generative perspective. Inflectional morphology with special emphasis on language change. Predicative roots and their syntax. The syntax of adverbial clauses