Helene Streffer

I am a third year phd-candidate at the University of Leipzig where I am also a member of the Research Unit Cyclic Optimization.
I work on topics in Morphology and Syntax (and their interface), including DP structure, multiple exponence, discontinuous exponence, agreement and phi-features. My work is based on data from fieldwork on Didinga (Surmic) and Turkana (Eastern Nilotic).

Before I started my studies, I did an apprenticeship as a hotel manageress (Hotelfachfrau). This was certainly not the direct path to linguistics, but it taught me a lot about life and work (and good food).

You can find my CV here.

Presentations

• October 2024. The Nature of Clusivity Features: Insights from two Syncretism Case Studies. The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55). Yale University. poster
• How much can you see: What a reprojection-based account of discontinuous agreement would say (2024). Myopia Workshop. Universität Leipzig.
• Discontinuous agreement in Eastern Sudanic: A reprojection-based approach (2024). Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos). Leiden University.
• A reprojection-based account of discontinuous agreement: A case study from Didinga (2024). The 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL). McGill University.
• The timing of discontinuous agreement (2024). Traces in Phonology and Morphology. Workshop in honour of Jochen Trommer’s 50th birthday. Universität Leipzig.
• An Elsewhere Exponent in Discontinuous Agreement (2023). MorrisHalle@100. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. poster
• Preserving Noun-Initiality through Incorporation in the Turkana DP (2023). The 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL). University of Connecticut. slides
• Incorporation as a repair mechanism: Evidence from the Turkana DP (2023). Syntax Colloquium. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. [invited talk]
• Verbal number suppletion in nominalizations (2022). 46. Tagung der Generativen Grammatik des Südens (GGS). Universität Stuttgart. [with Leonie Barabas-Weil, Nadja Fiebig, Armel Jolin, Maria Kouneli, Katie McCann and Robin Ortlepp] handout

Output

• 2023. Incorporation as a repair mechanism and cyclicity. In M. Privizentseva, F. Andermann & G. Müller (eds.), Cyclicity, Vol. 95 Linguistische Arbeits Berichte, 351-369. Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig.

Contact

Office
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstrasse 15
04107 Leipzig

Email helene.streffer[at]uni-leipzig.de