Berit Gehrke

Postdoctoral researcher

Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge
Grup de Lingüística Formal (GLiF)

Carrer Roc Boronat, 138
E-08018 Barcelona

office: 53.610
phone: (+34) 93 542 2232
e-mail: berit dot gehrke at upf dot edu

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research interests

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Louise McNally's project Natural language ontology and the semantic representation of abstract objects (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, HUM2007-60599/FILO).

My Ph.D. thesis, entitled Ps in Motion and supervised by Henriëtte de Swart, Tanya Reinhart and Maaike Schoorlemmer at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, investigates the semantic and syntactic role of P elements in motion events.

I am generally interested in formal semantics, in particular event semantics, temporal and spatial semantics, event structure and the syntax-semantics interface. I have mainly worked with data from Slavic (Russian, Czech) and Germanic (English, Dutch, German) languages.

Aspectual affixes in Russian and Czech summarises the results of my MA thesis (2002, Department of Slavistics, Humboldt University Berlin).

publications

Berit Gehrke & Louise McNally (to appear). Frequency adjectives and assertions about event types. To appear in Proceedings of SALT 19. [final draft]

Boban Arsenijević & Berit Gehrke (2009). Accusative case in PPs. In Proceedings of IATL 24, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ed. Yehuda N. Falk.

Berit Gehrke & Nino Grillo (2009). How to become passive. In Explorations of Phase Theory: Features, Arguments, and Interpretation at the Interfaces, ed. Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Interface Explorations, 231-268. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter. [final draft]

Berit Gehrke (2008). Goals and sources are aspectually equal: Evidence from Czech and Russian prefixes. Lingua 118:1664-1689. [final draft]

Berit Gehrke (2008). Ps in Motion: On the Semantics and Syntax of P Elements and Motion Events. PhD Thesis, Utrecht University. LOT Dissertation Series 184.

Anna Asbury, Berit Gehrke, Henk van Riemsdijk & Joost Zwarts (2008). Introduction: Syntax and semantics of spatial P. In Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, ed. Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke & Rick Nouwen, Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 120, 1-32. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke & Rick Nouwen (eds) (2008). Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 120. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Berit Gehrke (2007). Goals and sources in event structure. In Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007, ed. Bettelou Los & Marjo van Koppen, 86-98. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [final draft]

Berit Gehrke (2007). On directional readings of locative prepositions. In Proceedings of Console XIV, ed. Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente & Erik Schoorlemmer, 99-120.

Berit Gehrke and Nino Grillo (2007). Aspects on passives. In Proceedings of Console XIV, ed. Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente & Erik Schoorlemmer, 121-141.

Berit Gehrke (2007). Putting path in place. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, ed. Estela Puig-Waldmüller, 244-260. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Anna Asbury, Berit Gehrke & Veronika Hegedűs (2007). One size fits all: Prefixes, particles, adpositions and cases as members of the category P. In WECOL 2006, ed. Erin Bainbridge & Brian Agbayani, 34-47.

Anna Asbury, Berit Gehrke & Veronika Hegedűs (2007). One size fits all: Prefixes, particles, adpositions and cases as members of the category P. In UiL OTS Yearbook 2006, ed. Cem Keskin, 1-17. [final draft]

Jakub Dotlačil & Berit Gehrke (eds) (2006). Proceedings of the Second Syntax AiO meeting in Utrecht 2005. UiL OTS Working Papers 2006.

Berit Gehrke (2005). The prepositional aspect of Slavic prefixes and the goal-source asymmetry. In Proceedings of the ESSLLI workshop on Formal Semantics and Cross-Linguistic Data, ed. Helen de Hoop & Joost Zwarts, 47-56. [final draft]

Henriëtte de Swart & Berit Gehrke (2005). Review of Renate Musan, The German Perfect: Its Semantic Composition and Its Interactions with Temporal Adverbials (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy). Dordrecht, Boston, MA & London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Journal of Linguistics 41.1:209-214.

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presentations


2010

Aspektuelle Verbalaffixe im Russischen und Tschechischen
invited talk to be presented at the University of Tübingen, February 17, 2010

Adjectival passives and reference to event kinds
invited talk to be presented at LUSH in Utrecht, March 11, 2010

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2009

Nominalizations and nationality expressions: A corpus analysis (slides), with Daniel Berndt, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally
presented (by Gemma Boleda) at the 5th Corpus Linguistics Conference, Liverpool, July 21-23, 2009

Word order and case alternations with PPs as reflexes of complex predicate formation (handout)
- invited talk presented at the CLT seminars, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 12, 2009
- presented at the Workshop on Spatial Expressions, CASTL Tromsø, May 14-15, 2009

The licensing of paths (abstract), with Veronika Hegedűs
presented at the Workshop on Spatial Expressions, CASTL Tromsø, May 14-15, 2009

Ps in Motion
invited talk presented at the XXIV Encuentro de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, May 07-09, 2009

Frequency adjectives and an ontological solution to a compositional problem (handout, improved version of the SALT paper), with Louise McNally
presented at the 32nd GLOW semantics workshop, Modes of Composition, Université de Nantes, April 15, 2009

Frequency adjectives and assertions about event types (handout), with Louise McNally
presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 19, The Ohio State University, April 3-5, 2009

Event structure and the acquisition of passives (handout), with Nino Grillo
- presented at the 7th GLOW in Asia, Hyderabad, February 25-27, 2009
- invited talk presented at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, March 3, 2009 (slides)

2008

How to Become Passive (handout), with Nino Grillo
- invited talk presented at the University of Stuttgart, December 18, 2008
- invited talk presented at the GLiF Seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, November 12, 2008

Accusative Case in PPs (handout), with Boban Arsenijević
presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 26-27, 2008

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2007

Ps in Motion: On the semantics and syntax of P elements and motion events (handout), invited talk presented at the Semantics Colloquium in Nijmegen, June 5, 2007

Putting Path in Place (handout)
- invited talk presented at the University of Ulster, April 18, 2007
- invited talk presented at LUSH in Leiden, February 15, 2007 (handout)
- shorter version presented at the 8th Szklarska Poręba Workshop in Poland, February 23 - 27, 2007 (handout)

Goals and Sources (handout), presented at the TIN-dag in Utrecht, February 3, 2007

2006

One size fits all: Prefixes, particles, cases and adpositions as members of the category P (handout), with Anna Asbury and Veronika Hegedűs
presented at WECOL in Fresno, CA, October 27-29, 2006

Changing the perspective on passives (handout), with Nino Grillo
presented at WECOL in Fresno, CA, October 27-29, 2006

Where is the Path with locative prepositions? (handout)
presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 11 in Barcelona, September 21-23, 2006

One size fits all: Prefixes, particles, cases and adpositions as members of the category P (handout), with Anna Asbury and Veronika Hegedűs
presented at the LAGB meeting in Newcastle, August 30 - September 02, 2006

Results at the edge: An event structure based account of passivization (handout), with Nino Grillo
presented at Interface Legibility at the Edge in Bucharest, June 25-27, 2006

Results at the edge: A different approach to passives (poster), with Nino Grillo
presented at InterPhases in Cyprus, May 18-20, 2006

Particles, adpositions and cases: A unified analysis (handout), with Anna Asbury
presented at the Uiltjesdag in Utrecht, April 19, 2006

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2005

On directional readings of locative prepositions (handout)
presented at ConSOLE XIV at EHU-U. of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, December 15-17, 2005

Aspects on passives (handout), with Nino Grillo
presented at ConSOLE XIV at EHU-U. of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, December 15-17, 2005

The aspectual nature of Slavic prefixes (handout)
presented at the LAGB satellite workshop on Perfectivity and Telicity in Cambridge, September 03-04, 2005

The prepositional aspect of Slavic prefixes and the goal-source asymmetry (handout)
presented at the workshop on Formal Semantics and Cross-linguistic Data at the ESSLLI 2005 in Edinburgh, August 15-19, 2005

2004

Teasing apart telicity and grammatical aspect (handout)
presented at LENCA-2 in Kazan' (Russian Federation), May 11-14, 2004

Adverbial functions of Slavic prefixes (handout)
presented at the Workshop on Event Structure in Linguistic Form and Interpretation in Leipzig, March 17-19, 2004

How temporal is telicity? (handout)
- presented at the Workshop on Argument Realization: Conceptual and Grammatical Factors during the 26th Annual Meeting of the DGfS, February 25-27, 2004
- presented at the 5th Szklarska Poręba Workshop in Poland, February 27 - March 01, 2004

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2003

Slavic Aspect in narrative discourse (handout)
presented at the Uiltjesdagen in Utrecht, April 16-17, 2003.

Differences between Russian and Czech with respect to aspect usage in narrative discourse (handout)
presented at the Workshop on Grammatical Polysemy: The Case of Russian Imperfective Aspect in Leipzig, February 24-25, 2003

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teaching

April & July 2010: MA course Event semantics and adverbial modification (with Boban Arsenijević), University of Osnabrück

January - March 2010: MA course Cognitive foundations of natural language and linguistic interaction (with Boban Arsenijević), UPF

July 2009: graduate course Event semantics and adverbial modification (with Boban Arsenijević), European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Bordeaux, France

March/April 2008: MA course Introduction to Semantics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia

April - July 2007: undergraduate course Variatie in Betekenis (variation in meaning) on Tense and Aspect (with Henriëtte de Swart and Evangelia Vlachou), Utrecht University

March 2007: two sessions in Henriëtte de Swart's MA course Semantic Structures, Utrecht University

April - July 2006: undergraduate course Variatie in Betekenis on Motion Events (with Joost Zwarts), Utrecht University

May 2004: session on Slavic Aspect in Henriëtte de Swart's undergraduate course Variatie in betekenis on Tense and Aspect, Utrecht University

Feburary 2001: German language at the Kazan' State University, Russia

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services

March 2010: co-organiser of the Workshop on the Subatomic Semantics of Event Predicates, UPF
March 2010: co-organiser of the 20th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, UPF
May 2009: co-organiser of the workshop Events across categories: Theoretical and experimental approaches to event structure, to be held at the CSIC in Madrid
June 2006: co-organiser of the conference Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, UiL OTS
November 2005: co-organiser of the Second syntax AiO meeting (SAM 2), UiL OTS

since February 2008: coordinator of the GLiF seminars, UPF
September 2004 - June 2007: co-organiser of the Leiden Utrecht Semantics Happenings (LUSH)

1999-2000: student research assistant at the Humboldt University Berlin on a project which resulted in The Mouton Interactive Introduction to Historical Linguistics of German (responsibilities: morphology, stages of German)

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last modified: 28 January 2010