Dr. Barbara Schirakowski
Institute:
Subject:
Sprachwissenschaft Spanisch, Französisch
Researcher
Room JK 30/234
14195 Berlin
Office hours
Mondays, 1:00–2:00 p.m., via Webex
(additional time slots and in-person meetings by appointment)
Webex room: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/meet/barbara.schirakowski
Registration: Please make an appointment via email by Friday (3:00 p.m.) and indicate whether you require approximately 15 or 30 minutes.
Current Responsibilities
- Mitglied der Ausbildungskommission im Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften:
Vita
| since 10/2017 | Post-doc, Romance linguistics |
| 11/2016 | PhD in Romance linguistics, title of the dissertation: Nominalisierte Infinitive im Spanischen: Eine empirische Untersuchung anhand von Akzeptabilitätstests |
| 02-04/2015 | research stay at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (funded by a DAAD-scholarship) |
| 2011-2017 | researcher and lecturer, Romance linguistics, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2010-2011 | reseacher and lecturer, Romance linguistics, Universität Würzburg |
| 2008-2010 | student assistant, Romance linguistics, Universität Würzburg |
| 2005-2010 | studies of Spanish and English linguistics and literature (MA major: Spanish linguistics), Universität Würzburg |
| (absence: 05/2018-04/2019 parental leave) | |
Courses taught in the winter semester of 2019/20:
- Empirical methods in linguistics (BA Language & Society)
- Romance-germanic language contact
Courses taught in previous semesters (at FU):
- Language contact and multilingualism in Romance (winter 2017/18)
- Tense and aspect in French and Spanish (winter 2016/17)
- French phonetics and phonology (winter 2014/15, 2015/16, summer 2019)
- French morphology (winter 2013/14)
- Aspect in Spanish (winter 2012/13)
- Semantics in Spanish (summer 2012)
- Introduction to linguistics (BA Language & Society, winter 2017/18)
- Introduction to French linguistics (winter 2011/2012, summer 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019)
Lexicon and semantics in interaction with syntax
My research focuses on how meaning components interact with syntactic structure in the Romance languages. I am currently investigating lexicalization patterns, argument alternations, and resultative constructions in French. In this work, I draw on formal models and typological perspectives, while also examining the effects of language contact and multilingualism on the lexicon–syntax interface. Another area of research in this domain concerns nominalizations in Spanish, with a particular focus on the relationship between nominalization types, patterns of argument realization, and semantic interpretations.
Experimental linguistics
A second focus of my work lies in the application and further development of experimental methods. I primarily draw on acceptability judgment tasks, production experiments, and, more recently, delayed response tasks to investigate questions concerning the interaction between (lexical) semantics and syntax. These include, among others, interpretive preferences in cases of ambiguous linguistic input, patterns in the mapping of meaning components onto linguistic form in language production, as well as repair effects that arise when meaning and syntactic structure do not align. Empirical methods in linguistics also constitute an important component of my teaching.
Die klitische Verdoppelung des indirekten Objekts im Spanischen. Eine kontrastive Untersuchung anhand von Bibelübersetzungen (unpublished MA thesis, Universität Würzburg)
Schirakowski, Barbara (in preparation). What constrains the formation of Spanish nominalized infinitives? A case study on transitive base verbs and event interpretations. In Marc‐Olivier Hinzelin, Natascha Pomino & Eva‐Maria (eds.), Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax: Linking Variation to Theory. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter.
Meinschaefer, Judith & Barbara Schirakowski (to appear). "La Morfología". In: Eva Martha Eckkrammer (Ed.). El español en América (Manuals of Romance Linguistics). Berlin: de Gruyter. 31 pp.
Schirakowski, Barbara (2017). "Methodological challenges in investigating nominalized infinitives in Spanish", in: Antonis Botinis (Ed.): Proceedings ExLing 2017: 8th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, 19-22 June 2017, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 101-104.
Hentschel, Barbara (2013). "La duplicación pronominal del objeto indirecto en español. Un estudio de corpus sobre variables referenciales y sintácticas", in: Romanische Forschungen 125.3, 313-330.
2014. Lembeck, Felicia & Barbara Schirakowski. Rezension zu Platz-Schliebs, Anja et al. (2012). Einführung in die Romanische Sprachwissenschaft. Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch. Tübingen: Narr, in: Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur 124.1, 96-100.
2018: Warum spanische nominalisierte Infinitive eher wie Verben sind und was sie von Derivativnominalisierungen unterscheidet. Kolloquium Romanistische Linguistik, 07.02.2018, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
2017: Argumentrealisierung von Infinitivnominalisierungen im Spanischen. XXXV. Romanistentag, 08.-12.10.2017, Zürich.
2017. Methodological challenges in investigating Spanish nominalized infinitives: A view from acceptability judgments experiments. ExLing 2017. 8th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, 19-22 June 2017, Heraklion, Crete.
2016: Graded acceptability of nominal infinitives in Spanish. Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań 2016: Methodological challenges in linguistic research, 25.-27.11.2016, Poznań.
2015: Event-denoting nominalized infinitives in Spanish. JENom6 – 6th Workshop on Nominalizations, 30.06.-01.07.2015, Verona.
2014: Nominal infinitives in Spanish: Results of an acceptability judgment test on verb classes and event readings. Semantics of derivational morphology: Empirical evidence and theoretical modeling, 30.06.-01.07.2014, Heinreich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
2014: Nominale Infinitive im Spanischen: Ergebnisse einer Akzeptabilitätsstudie zu (In-)Transitivität und Ereignisreferenz. Limes X, 02.-04.04.2014, LMU München.
2013: Spanische Determinierer+Infinitiv-Konstruktionen: (In)-Transitivität und Referenz von nominalen Infinitiven. XXXIII. Romanistentag, 22.-25.09.2013, Würzburg.
2011: Clitic doubling of Spanish indirect objects. A corpus study on the effects of referential and syntactic variables. Workshop on referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions, 20.-22. Mai 2011, Lancaster.