VERA LEE-SCHOENFELD RECENTLY TENURED

Vera Lee-Schoenfeld earned the PhD at UCSC in 2005 with a dissertation on the syntax of German (Beyond Coherence: The Syntax of Opacity in German), which in 2007 was published in revised form as a book in the Linguistik Aktuel series from Benjamins. Vera’s initial position was at Swarthmore College but she has been at the University of Georgia since 2010. Vera recently wrote to WHASC with an update and some very good news:

I wanted to share that, in my 5th year as the main syntactician of the Linguistics Program at the University of Georgia, I found out that my tenure and promotion review was successful. So, starting this August, I will be Associate Professor! My home department is still Germanic and Slavic Studies, as the UGA Linguistics Program is in the process of becoming its own department.

This summer, I will be in Germany, teaching a seminar on argument structure at the Leibniz Universität Hannover and continuing joint research with Gabriele Diewald. We are working on a book taking a trans-theoretical approach to argument structure in German and English with particular focus on arguments that, in German, are prone to being dative-marked.

I’m also continuing joint work with fellow UCSC alumna Anya Lunden (William and Mary) on the syntax, information structure, and prosody of German VP-fronting.