The syntax of functional left peripheries: Clause typing in West Germanic and beyond

Julia Bacskai-Atkari received her doctoral degree in general linguistics in 2014 at the University of Potsdam, where she also completed her habilitation in 2021. After various appointments in Potsdam and in Konstanz, she is currently an assistant professor for Language Contact: (English) Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam and a Privatdozentin at the University of Potsdam. She has carried out two research projects on the syntax of functional left peripheries and on asymmetries in relative clauses as principal investigator. Her research focuses on clause typing and the syntactic properties of the CP-domain in various finite subordinate clauses, including comparative constructions and relative clauses. Her work is dedicated to the study of West Germanic languages, especially to English and German, but her cross-linguistic investigations include many other languages.