Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate

Introductory and Undergraduate

“Visual Storytelling for Language Documentation”
UG Scholars Programme, School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures,
The University of Manchester (with Margit Bowler)
2020-21 2nd semester, 2019-20 2nd semester

“The Study of Meaning”
Department of Linguistics and English Language, The University of Manchester
2022-23 2nd semester, 2019-20 2nd semester, 2018-19 2nd semester

“Typology”
Department of Linguistics and English Language, The University of Manchester
2025-26 2nd semester, 2024-25 2nd semester, 2022-23 1st semester, 2019-20 1st semester, 2018-19 1st semester

“Introduction to Linguistics”
Tübingen University Hospital, School for Logopaedics
2017-18, 2016-17, 2015-2016

“Introduction to Linguistics”
English Department, Universität Tübingen
(with Andreas Konietzko/ Jutta Hartmann & Andrea Weber)
Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013

“Compositionality in Natural Language”
English Department, Universität Tübingen
Spring 2012

“Syntax in First Language Acquisition”
English Department, Universität Tübingen
Fall 2011

“Syntax and Semantics”
English Department, Universität Tübingen
Spring 2010

Other

“LaTeX for Linguists” (one-day workshop)
English Department, Universität Tübingen
Spring 2019, Spring 2018

Advising

Doctoral

– Mikyala Oliver (in progress), “Polysemous Quantity Expressions in Swahili”, The University of Manchester (with Andrew Koontz-Garboden, co-supervisor). 

– Siena Weingartz (in progress), “Comparatives in Ndebele and the Theory of Antonyms”, The University of Manchester (with Andrew Koontz-Garboden, co-supervisor). 

– Eve Suharwardy (in progress), “Topics in the Syntax and Semantics of Comparatives: The View from Malay”, (with Andrew Koontz-Garboden, co-supervisor). 

– Shatha Alahmadi (in progress), “The Grammar of Additivity: The View from Hijazi Arabic” (with Martina Faller, co-supervisor). 

– Paul Stott (August 2024), “Processing Contextual Quantifier Domain Restriction (CDR) in Ambiguous Linguistic Contexts”, PhD dissertation, The University of Manchester. 

– Giuliano Armenante (July 2024), “Variability in the Composition of Attitude Reports”, PhD dissertation, Universität Potsdam (with Malte Zimmermann). 

Postgraduate

– Jie An (September 2023), “The Temporal Interpretation of Relative Clauses: The View from Mandarin Chinese”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Jack Evans (September 2023), “The Temporal Interpretation of Welsh Noun Phrases”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Peng Liu (September 2023), “The Temporal Interpretation of Bare Nouns: The View from Chinese”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Xue Sun (September 2023) “The Lexical Properties of Nouns and NPs’ Temporally Independent Interpretation”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Siena Weingartz (September 2022), “Modal Necessity in Afrikaans (Germanic; South Africa) and Ndebele (Bantu; Southern Africa)”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Xining Du (September 2021), “The Temporal Interpretation of Relative and Complement Clauses by Chinese L1-English L2 Speakers”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Zhou Shen (September 2021), “Long Distance WH-Movement in Adult Second Language Acquisition: An Acceptability-Judgment Study on the Grammar of Mandarin Chinese L1/English L2”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Paul Stott (September 2021), “VP-Internal Subjects in English: Evidence from Priming during Self-Paced Reading”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Jingyi Zhang (September 2021), “Comparing Focus-Sensitive Particles in English and Chinese: A Case Study on the Semantics of the Scalar Particle shenzhi“, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Fiona Harrison (November 2020), “The Acquisition of Gradable Adjectives by First-Language Learners”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Shatha Alahmadi (September 2020), “Exclusive Particles in Hijazi Arabic and English: A Formal Alternative-Semantics Analysis”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Sumaira Idres (September 2020), “Identifying Lexical Presupposition Triggers across Languages: A Comparative Study of English and Urdu”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Yapeng Shen (September 2020), “The Semantics of Scalar Particles: A Comparative Analysis of English STILL and Mandarin Chinese HAI”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Kathryn Barnes (September 2019), “A Semantic Analysis of Modality in Malay: Based on Fieldwork Data”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Núria Barrios Jurado (September 2019), “The Interpretative Effect of Focus on Quantificational Determiners”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Eve Suharwardy (September 2019), “Comparison Constructions in Malay: A Semantic Analysis of Phrasal Comparatives”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Xinju Shen (September 2019), “The Semantics of chadian ‘almost’ in Mandarin Chinese”, PGT dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Zahra Kolagar (January 2019), “Crosslinguistic Variation in Modal Systems: Semantic Fieldwork on Tabari”, M.A. English Linguistics thesis, Universität Tübingen.

– Chen-An Chang (January 2019), “Crosslinguistic Variation and Quantifer Raising: The View from Taiwanese Mandarin”, M.A. English Linguistics thesis, Universität Tübingen.

– Ahmad Al-Bitar (January 2019), “The Superlative in English and Syrian Arabic”, M.A. English Linguistics thesis, Universität Tübingen.

– Giuliano Armenante (September 2018), “The Semantics of Embedded Tense: A Case Study of Italian Complement Clauses”, M.A. English Linguistics thesis, Universität Tübingen.

– Moritz Igel (March 2018), “NPI-Licensing in Comparatives and Equatives: A Diachronic Study”, wissenschaftliche Arbeit gemäß Gymnasiallehrerprüfungsordnung, Universität Tübingen.

– Işıl Şenel (July 2017), “The Temporal Interpretation of Embedded Tenses: Contrasting English and Turkish”, wissenschaftliche Arbeit gemäß Gymnasiallehrerprüfungsordnung, Universität Tübingen.

Undergraduate

– Joseph Carroll (May 2020), “The Superlative in Yoruba”, UG dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Alice Empson (May 2021), “Intensifiers and Degree Arguments: The View from Korean Intensifiers maeu and jeongmal“, UG dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Siena Weingartz (May 2021), “Analysing Comparative and Superlative Constructions in Ndebele: A Bantu Language Spoken In Zimbabwe, Southern Africa”, UG dissertation, The University of Manchester.

– Wiebke Mollik (April 2018), “A Corpus Study in the Acquisition of Negative Polarity Items: Evidence from Child Language Acquisition in German and English”, B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik thesis, Universität Tübingen.