International Association of Syntactic Cartographic Studies

句法制图国际研究协会

Ur Shlonsky is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Univeristy of Geneva. His   main area of interest is syntactic theory and comparative syntax. He has studied various aspects of the syntax of Semitic languages, particularly of Modern Hebrew, e.g., clause structure, null subjects, the form and syntax of nominal expressions, relative clauses and resumptive pronouns. He have also worked on Romance languages and Romance dialectology and have written on topics such as cliticization, wh-movement and restructuring.

More recently, He has become interested in wh-in-situ phenomena and am currently involved in a research project on French wh-in-situ.

Theresa Biberauer specializes in theoretical, comparative and historical syntax, with interface, acquisition and contact issues also being a focus of interest. Todate, much of her research has centered on the clause structure of the Germanic languages, with the peculiar patterns of variation and change exhibited byAfrikaans forming the heart of her doctoral work, and various aspects of the diachrony of English and other Germanic languages having been a major researchfocus since the completion of that Ph.D. in 2003. She was previously(2002-2007) the Research Associate on an AHRC-funded project -Nullsubjects and the structure of parametric theory, also involving Ian Roberts,David Willis and Anders Holmberg (University of Newcastle), and then the SeniorResearch Associate on a further AHRC-funded project (October 2007-May 2011)investigating Structure and Linearization in Disharmonic Word Orders (research team: Ian Roberts and Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge), and Anders Holmberg and Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle).