Imke Driemel
Lecturer

Profile

Biography

Career

• Lecturer, University of York (2024-present)
• Postdoctoral researcher, Humboldt University Berlin (2021-2024)
• Postdoctoral researcher, Leipzig University (2019-2020)
• PhD, Leipzig University (2016-2019)

Research

Overview

I work on a variety of topics in a wide range of languages, including complementation, logophoricity, differential object marking, genericity, person feature systems, agreement systems, information structure, speech acts, definiteness, and allocutivity. My work involves solutions that take the morpho-syntactic and the semantic side into account. I’m particularly interested in the mapping between form and meaning. My research tends to focus on understudied languages, as they often make us see things that are hidden in many Indo-European languages. Cross-linguistic comparisons are another important tool I’m using to investigate potentially universal underlying structure. In the past few years, I was able to extend my interest to the field of L1 acquisition, where I explored the acquisition of negative indefinites, past tense morphology, and conjunction patterns across several language families.

Research group(s)

• Member of the DFG-funded Network “Definiteness across domains” (2021-2024): https://www.definiteness-across-domains.org/
• Associated member of the ERC Synergy Project LeibnizDream (2021-2026): https://leibnizdream.eu/

External activities

Invited talks and conferences

Invited talks

• 2023. Leibniz-Center General Linguistics (ZAS). Definiteness and the internal
  structure of the noun phrase.
• 2023. Yale University. Pseudo-noun incorporation and differential object marking: A
  cross-linguistic study.
• 2022. Goethe-University Frankfurt. Implicit arguments and their morpho-syntactic
  effects.
• 2020. New York University. Say-complementation and agreement in Kipsigis. (with
  Maria Kouneli)
• 2018. University of Connecticut. How to agree with a QNP. (with Jelena Stojkovic)

Conferences

• 2024. Overt PAST on irregular verbs in child English due to secondary feature
  negligence. Talk at GALA 16, Lisbon. (with Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin & Yining
  Nie)
• 2024. Say-clauses in subject position: observations from Kwa languages. Talk at
  LAGB, Newcastle. (with Abigail Bimpeh & Reginald Duah)
• 2023. Errors of redundancy in child English past tense formation. Poster at GLOW
  46, Vienna. (with Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie & Artemis Alexiadou)
• 2023. An experimental study on kind and generic readings across languages: bare
  vs. definite plural. Poster at NELS 53, Göttingen. (with Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti,
  Jakob Wünsch, Vina Tsakali, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland & Maria Teresa
  Guasti)
• 2022. As complex as they appear: Children’s comprehension of conjunctive
  expressions in Georgian. Poster at the Amsterdam Colloquium 23. (with Cory Bill,
  Aurore Gonzalez & Tamar Makharoblidze)
• 2022. Negative Concord in Dutch, English, and German child language. Talk at
  CGSW 36, Chicago. (with Johannes Hein, Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Ivona Illic,
  Paloma Jeretic & Astrid van Alem)
• 2022. Strict logophors. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 27, Prague. (with Itai Bassi,
  Abigail Bimpeh & Silvia Silleresi)
• 2022, Pseudo-incorporation vs. Differential Argument Marking in Korean. Talk at
  GLOW in Asia XIII., Hong Kong. (with Hyunjung Lee)
• 2022. Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba, and Igbo. Talk at WCCFL 40,
  Stanford. (with Abigail Bimpeh, Itai Bassi & Silvia Silleresi)
• 2022. Gender and allocutivity in the world’s languages. Talk at FASAL 12, Utah. (with
  Gurujegan Murugesan)
• 2021. A dedicated topic position in Kipsigis. TripleA 8, Singapore. (with Maria
  Kouneli)
• 2021. <v,t>-type complementation in Kipsigis. Talk at WCCFL 39, Stanford. (with
  Maria Kouneli)
• 2019. Pseudo-noun incorporation: A DP/VP approach. Poster at NELS 50, MIT.
• 2019. Adyghe cislocative: Canonical inverse but non-canonical PCC marker. Talk at
  NELS 50, MIT. (with Marie-Luise Popp & Bilal Özdemir)
• 2018. On pure focus movement in Syntax – Observations from Limbum. Talk at
  GLOW 41, Budapest. (with Jude Nformi)
• 2017. Person Mismatch Agreement. Poster at NELS 48, Reykjavik.
• 2017. Two types of focus in Limbum. Talk at ACAL 48, Bloomington. (with Laura
  Becker & Jude Nformi)
• 2015. Factivity in German exclamatives. Poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 20, Tübingen.