Teaching and Advising

Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate

“Tense in Situation Semantics” (Directed Reading)
Department of Linguistics and English Language, The University of Manchester
2022-23 semester 2

“Topics in the Study of Meaning”
Department of Linguistics and English Language, The University of Manchester
2021-22 semester 1, 2020-21 semester 2

“Semantics and Pragmatics”
Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
2022-23 semester 1, 2021-22 semester 1, 2020-21 semester 1, 2019-20 semester 1, 2018-19 semester 1

“Exploring the Semantics-Phonology Interface” (Directed Reading)
Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
2019-20 semester 2

“Cross-linguistic Variation at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface” (Directed Reading)
Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
2019-20 semester 2

“The Composition of Idiomatic Meaning” (Directed Reading)
Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
2018-19 semester 2

“Nominal Quantification Revisited” (Directed Reading)
Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
2018-19 semester 2

“Compositional Semantics”
English Department, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Spring 2018

“Introduction to Semantics”
English Department, Universität Tübingen
Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015

“Beyond Heim & Kratzer (1998): Intensional Semantics”
English Department, Universität Tübingen
Spring 2017

“Structural Differences between English and German”
English Department, Universität Tübingen
Fall 2016, Spring 2015 

“New Research in Semantics”
English Department, Universität Tübingen
(with Sigrid Beck & Nadine Bade)
Fall 2012

“The Semantics of Tense and Modality”
English Department, Universität Tübingen
(with Sigrid Beck)
Fall 2010

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 semester 2, 2019-20 semester 2

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

“Typology”
Department of Linguistics and English Language, The University of Manchester
2022-23 semester 1, 2019-20 semester 1, 2018-19 semester 1

“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

– 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.

– 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.

– 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.

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

– 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.

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.