If you are feeling generous enough to cite me, please cite me as Benjamin L. Sluckin in your reference section and (Sluckin "year") in your prose.
Submitted (under review) | Revisiting the syntax and development of Kiezdeutsch V3: a new perspective , submitted to Journal of Germanic Linguistics |
Submitted (under review) | Everywhere here can say this: The English locative impersonal, with Itamar Kastner (Edniburgh), submitted to English Language and Linguistics |
2023 | Non-canonical V3 and Resumption in Kiezdeutsch, with Oliver Bunk. In de Clercq, Karen et al. (eds.), Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages , pp. 327-354. Oxford:OUP |
2021 | Non-canonical subjects and subject positions: locative inversion, V2-violations, and feature inheritance. PhD Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. |
2021 * | Locative Inversion in Germanic and Romance: A conspiracy theory, with Silvio Cruschina (Helsinki) and Fabienne Martin (HU-Berlin), In Sam Wolfe & Christine M. Salvesen (eds.), Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance, pp. 165-194.Oxford: OUP. OUP link Preprint on Researchgate |
* = peer reviewed
In Prep: | Locative Inversion in the history of English: innovative redistribution of continuous features (working title) |
In Prep: | The covert perceiver in French and English locative inversion (working title), with Fabienne Martin (HU Berlin) |
In Prep: | Agentive unaccusatives or agentivizing pPs (working title) |
2022, June |
Locative Inversion in the history of English: a spoonful of innovation and a pinch of continuity @ The Theory and Historical Development of Expletives (and non-referential arguments) workshop, University of Bochum. |
2021, May |
with Itamark Kastner, Everywhere in the UK quantifies over individuals: a new locative impersonal subject @ Syntactic Change in Progress workshop at DiGS 22, University of Konstanz. |
2021, January |
with Itamar Kastner, A locative human impersonal subject: Metonymy-driven change at the interfaces @ Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem. |
2020, October |
with Itamark Kastner, Everywhere we checked talks like this @ University of Glasgow. |
2020, April |
with Itamark Kastner, Everywhere in the world quantifies over individuals @ Paper Brown Bag, NYU, New York. |
2019, October |
Locative Inversion is a conspiracy: a formal typology @ Sentence Grammar/Discourse Grammar IV, University of Oslo, Norway. |
2019, January |
Some methodological and theoretical concerns when dealing with a "residual" V2 pattern @ Secrets of Success. Or: How to preserve a Verb Second word order? University of Oslo, Norway. |
2018, June |
Revisiting V3 in Kiezdeutsch: a preverbal subject constraint across different types of V3 @ DiGS, 2018 in York. |
2018, April |
Information Structure Change in an Emerging Grammar : V1 and V3 in Kiezdeutsch, Colloque Information Structure and Language Change, Normandie Université, Université de Caen Normandie, France. |
2018, January |
Single Specifiers and Phasehood in the Voice/vP domain and beyond: problems for SOV V2, presented at ' PhD Workshop', Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, Germany. |
2017, October |
V2, non-V2, and resumption: A comparison of American Norwegian and Kiezdeutsch, with Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal, @ V3 and Resumptive Adverbials, University of Ghent, Belgium. |
2017, April |
Verb third in Kiezdeutsch: The development of an (optional) subject position?, presented at 'Manchester Forum in Linguistics', University of Manchester, UK. |
2017, March |
*Locatives, V2, and Subject Positions: FinP as a Gatekeeper in the History of English, Presented at 'DAAD-University of Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies: Research network 'Morphosyntactic change through corpora in German and beyond, Workshop 2: Complementizers and the left periphery', University of Cambridge, UK. |
2016, October |
Feature Economy and Grammar Competition in language and dialect contact, presented at ‘Language Contact from an I Language Perspective’, IKER(Center for the Study of the Basque Language and its Texts), San Sebastian-Donostia. |
2016, September |
Understanding exaptation from an acquisitionist parametric perspective, presented at Linguistik Meetup Berlin-Potsdam, FU-Berlin. |
2016, July |
The exaptive reanalysis of V2 as locative inversion in the history of English: an emergentist parametric approach, presented at SUM-UP 2016, Summer School on Word order variation and change. Diachronic insights into Germanic diversity”, Potsdam. |
2016, March |
Cross-linguistic influence in the word order of heritage speakers: thoughts on the syntax-discourse interface. University of Cambridge. |
2021 | PhD Thesis Non-canonical subjects and subject positions: locative inversion, V2-violations, and feature inheritance. PhD Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Artemis Alexiadou (1), Prof. Dr. Eric Fuß (2), Prof. David Willis (3) |
2016 | MPhil Thesis Exaptation across grammatical domains: a generative account of source contexts, mechanisms and outcomes. MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge, Supervisor: Dr David Willis |
2015 | Undergraduate Thesis Zurück in die Zukunft: a socio-historical linguistic account of the development of the future tense in German. BA dissertation, University of Manchester |
2017 | Language Contact as an Accelerator of Change: The Diffusion of the werden Future Tense Periphrasis in German (Updated version of BA thesis) |