Rethinking Verb Second
Edited by Rebecca Woods and Sam Wolfe
Author Information
Rebecca Woods is Lecturer in Language and Cognition at Newcastle University. During the editing of this volume she was Senior Lecturer in Language Acquisition at the University of Huddersfield, having received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of York in 2016 for her work on the syntax of speech acts, which focuses on embedded verb movement. Her research interests lie in the syntax-semantics interface, especially the syntax and semantics of questions, and first language acquisition, both monolingual and multilingual.
Sam Wolfe is Associate Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. Prior to this he held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester, and Oxford as well as a Visiting Professorship at the University of Padua. His recent publications include Verb Second in Medieval Romance (2018) and he has published on a range of topics within French and comparative Romance linguistics, historical syntax, and formal syntax.
Contributors:
Alexander Andrason, Stellenbosch University
Asgrimur Angantysson, University of Iceland
Markus Bader, Goethe University Frankfurt
Ermenegildo Bidese, University of Trento
Hannah Booth, University of Manchester
Phil Branigan, Memorial University Newfoundland
Željko Boškovič, University of Connecticut
Jan Casalicchio, University of Konstanz
Federica Cognola, La Sapienza University Rome
Molly Diesing, Cornell University
Thorhallur Eythorsson, University of Iceland
Colleen Fitzgerald, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Charlotte Galves, University of Campinas
Hans-Martin Gartner, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Alessandra Giorgi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Isaac Gould, Ewha Womans University
Ciro Greco, University of Milan-Bicocca
Eric Haeberli, University of Geneva
Liliane Haegeman, Ghent University
Sona Haroutyunian, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Anders Holmberg, Newcastle University
Melanie Jouitteau, IKER, CNRS
Marit Julien, Lund University
Terje Lohndal, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Horst Lohnstein, University of Wuppertal
Emily Manetta, University of Vermont
Marieke Meelen, University of Cambridge
Christine Meklenborg, University of Oslo
Jens Michaelis, Bielefeld University
Krzysztof Migdalski, University of Wroclaw
Hans-Georg Muller, University of Potsdam
Mehmet Tahir Oncu, Ege University
Andrea Padovan, University of Verona
Svetlana Petrova, University of Wuppertal
Susan Pintzuk, University of York
Cecilia Poletto, Goethe University Frankfurt
Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Craig Sailor, University of Tromso
Emanuela Sanfelici, University of Padua
Beatrice Santorini, University of Pennsylvania
Petra Schulz, Goethe University Frankfurt
Ann Taylor, University of York
Alessandra Tomaselli, University of Verona
Corinna Trabandt, Goethe University Frankfurt
Coppe van Urk, Queen Mary University of London
Oystein Vangsnes, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Western University of Applied Sciences
George Walkden, University of Konstanz
Marit Westergaard, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Heike Wiese, University of Potsdam
Eva Wittenberg, University of California, San Diego
Sam Wolfe, University of Oxford
Rebecca Woods, Newcastle University
