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Research Interest / Recherches

Tabea Ihsane holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Geneva, where she has been a post-doc since December 2006, devoted both to research and teaching. In 1998, she was a visiting student at Bangor University (formerly University College of North Wales) and in 2001-2002 a visiting scholar in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) (Cambridge, MA), on a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Tabea’s expertise lies in the syntax and the syntax-semantics interface of nominal expressions, in a cross-linguistic perspective. In addition to her monograph on the structure of French indefinites (Benjamins 2008), she has published several articles in international journals and book chapters in prestigious volumes gathering papers of outstanding linguists.

Further interests of hers comprise the grammar of special registers such as diaries, a topic on which she has collaboratively published with Prof. Liliane Haegeman. The History of English is also part of Tabea’s interests. Currently, she is investigating the loss of verb movement and adverb placement in Middle and Early Modern English, as a senior researcher on a project funded by the SNSF, directed by Prof. Eric Haeberli. In addition, she recently turned her attention to Second Language Acquisition. Her objective is to investigate the acquisition of articles.

More at:https://sites.google.com/site/tabeaihsane/

Publications

Monographs / Monographies

2008 The Layered DP: Form and Meaning of French Indefinites. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Edited volumes / Ouvrages édités

2010 - Generative Grammar in Geneva, Vol. 6. Eds. With Christopher Laenzlinger.

2001 - Generative Grammar in Geneva, Vol. 2. Eds. With Ur Shlonsky.

Book Chapters and Articles / Chapitres de livres et articles

To appear - EN pronominalisation in French and the structure of nominal expressions. Syntax, 2011.

2010 - Bare nouns with different edges. In A.-M. Di Sciullo & V. Hill (eds), Edges, Heads and Projections: Interface Properties. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2009 - On the Edge of DP: Different Arguments, Different Edges. In K.K Grohmann & Ph. Panagiotidis (eds), Selected Papers from the 2006 Cyprus Syntaxfest. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2003 - Demonstratives and reinforcers in Arabic, Romance and Germanic. In J. Lecarme (ed.), Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II. Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, 263-85. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2003 - A Typology of Possessive Modifiers. In M. Coene & Y. D’Hulst (eds), From NP to DP, 23-42. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2002 - Adult null subjects in the non-pro drop languages: two diary dialects. Language Acquisition, 9.4:329-346. With Liliane Haegeman.

1999 - Subject ellipsis in embedded clauses in English. English Language and Linguistics, 3.1:117-45. With Liliane Haegeman.

Other Publications / Autres publications

2005 - On the Structure of French du/des ‘of.the’ constituents. Generative Grammar in Geneva, Vol. 4:195-225.

2001 - Specific is not definite. Generative Grammar in Geneva, Vol. 2:39-54. With Genoveva Puskás.