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UMLV summer school: We're organising a summer school on Understanding and Modelling Linguistic Variability (UMLV) at the University of Potsdam! Bringing together various subdisciplines of linguistics and both theoretical and methodological perspectives, we offer a week full of exciting classes, talks and activities. August 21st-25th, apply here by April 30th.
New paper: Sarvas, Timea. 2022. Scope ambiguities among suffixes in Hungarian: mood and modality at LF. In: Holtz, A., Kovač, I. & Puggaard-Rode, R. (eds): Proceedings of the 30th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, p. 102–124. Leiden Centre of Linguistics.
About Me
I'm an aspiring linguist who gathers (experimental) evidence to test and develop theories of grammar. My goal is to understand the abstract rules that human language is based on, how these rules systematically interact and how much or little they differ across the languages of the world.
I'm currently a doctoral candidate in the DFG-funded CRC 1287 at the University of Potsdam. My dissertation project concerns the variability of sharing constructions, i.e. special types of filler-gap dependencies. I investigate the reconstruction of the displaced element for Binding Principle C to find out more about the underlying syntax of parasitic gaps and ATB-movement. My supervisors are Doreen Georgi and Malte Zimmermann.
Beyond this project, I am interested in the architecture of grammar and methods in experimental syntax. I also enjoy working with understudied languages and have a soft spot for the Uralic language family. My primary focus is syntax, occasionally dabbling in morphology, semantics and psycholinguistics.
Curriculum Vitae
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I studied German as a second language and general linguistics at the University of Tübingen and linguistics at the University of Potsdam, with both places shaping and solidifying my interest in quantitative linguistics. Before committing to syntax, I had a chance to gain insight into various different fields of linguistics through being a student assistant, such as language acquisition, computational linguistics and pragmatics.
Projects
Current
- Reconstruction for Binding Principle C in Sharing Constructions (doctoral dissertation)
- Exhaustivity of embedded questions in Akan (with Nadine Bade)
Past
- (Verbal) affix order in Hungarian
- Case and agreement in Turkish relative clauses (master thesis)
- Object agreement in Tundra Nenets (almost master thesis)
Output
Papers
- Sarvas, Timea. 2022. Scope ambiguities among suffixes in Hungarian: mood and modality at LF. In: Holtz, A., Kovač, I. & Puggaard-Rode, R. (eds): Proceedings of the 30th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, p. 102–124. Leiden Centre of Linguistics.
Talks & Posters
- Sarvas, Timea. 2022. All that glitters is not syntax. On the deceptive comfort of the armchair. Talk presented at LMBB 9, Potsdam.
- Sarvas, Timea. 2022. Scope Ambiguities among Suffixes in Hungarian: Mood and Modality. Talk presented at ConSOLE 30, Nantes.
- Sarvas, Timea & Johannes Rothert. 2020. Challenges for Theories of (Post-) Syntactic Head Movement: Tense and Modality in Hungarian. Poster presented at SinFonIJA 13, Budapest.
Theses
- Sarvas, Timea. 2021. Case and Agreement Patterns in Turkish Nonsubject Relative Clauses. An Experimental Approach. MA Thesis, University of Potsdam.
Contact
Online
Email me at sarvas[at]uni-potsdam[dot]de, or find me on OSF or ResearchGate
Offline
Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, House 14
14476 Potsdam
How to pronounce my name
- [sɒrvɒʃ ti:mɛɒ] if you're addressing me in Hungarian
- [tʰime:a sa:vas] otherwise