Maria Goldbach

Maria Goldbach is a German Romanist .

Life

From 1983 to 1992 she studied mathematics, history, musicology , Romance philology and computer science at the universities of Mainz , Aix-en-Provence and Hamburg (1992: Magister Artium in History ( University of Hamburg )). After completing her doctorate in 1997 in Romance Philology: Specific and Arbitrary Empty Objects, from July 2000 to May 2002 she was an associate member of the project H1 "Multilingualism as a cause and consequence of language change: Historical syntax of the Romance languages" of the Collaborative Research Center on Multilingualism (Speaker: Jürgen M . Meisel ) and from April 1999 to March 2006 research assistant for French and Portuguese linguistics at the chair of Jürgen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg, Institute for Romance Studies. After her habilitation in 2005, pronominalization of infinitive complements in Old and Early Middle French compared to Old Italian , from April 2006 to March 2007 she represented the chair for Jürgen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg, Institute for Romance Studies, for French, Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics. From January 2007 to December 2010 she was Research Assistant in the research project "Autonomous Morphology in Diachrony: comparative evidence from the Romance languages" by Martin Maiden , University of Oxford , Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. From October 2011 to March 2012 she taught as a university professor for Romance Philology at the University of Würzburg . Since April 2012 she has been a professor for Romance Philology at the University of Hamburg.

Her focus is on comparative grammar research, primarily in the Romance languages ​​(French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish in the areas of syntax, border area between morphology and syntax, inflection morphology, border area between syntax and phonology), historical linguistics and syntactic reconstruction phenomena: finiteness and their relationship on propositionality, pronouns, verb placement, role and task of paradigms in morphology and syntax, syntax of sentence particles and their relation to sentence modality and discourse function, grammar theory, possibilities of the autonomy hypothesis and quality of formal explanations on the one hand and descriptive / historical on the other.

Fonts (selection)

• Specific and arbitrary empty objects . Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-89354-874-2 .
• Pronominalization of infinitive complements in Old and Early Middle French and in Old Italian . Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-56140-9 .
• as editor with Gisella Ferraresi : Principles of syntactic reconstruction . Amsterdam 2008, ISBN 978-90-272-4818-3 .
• as editor with Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin: Morphological autonomy. Perspectives from romance inflectional morphology . Oxford 2011, ISBN 0-19-958998-4 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Maria Goldbach