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Berit Gehrke
Postdoctoral researcher Grup de Lingüística Formal (GLiF) Department of Translation and Language Sciences Universitat Pompeu Fabra c/ Roc Boronat, 138 08018 Barcelona office: 53.610 phone: [+34] 93 542 2232 e-mail: berit dot gehrke at upf dot edu	research interests My postdoctoral research, funded by a Juan de la Cierva grant from the Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación, deals with the semantics of past passive participle constructions. I am a formal semanticist working on topics related to event predicates, the semantics of time and space, the kind-token distinction, modification, and the syntax-semantics interface. I have mainly worked on data from Germanic (English, Dutch, German) and Slavic (Russian, Czech) languages. 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 (2008), investigates the semantic and syntactic role of P elements in motion events. Aspectual affixes in Russian and Czech summarises the results of my MA thesis (2002, Department of Slavistics, Humboldt University Berlin).

 

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books and edited volumes Boban Arsenijević, Berit Gehrke & Rafael Marín (eds) (in preparation). Subatomic Semantics of Event Predicates. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Springer: Dordrecht. 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, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke & Rick Nouwen (eds) (2008). Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 120. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Jakub Dotlačil & Berit Gehrke (eds) (2006). Proceedings of the Second Syntax AiO meeting in Utrecht 2005. UiL OTS Working Papers 2006.

articles in journals and refereed volumes Berit Gehrke, Boban Arsenijević & Rafael Marín (in preparation). The (de)composition of event predicates. In Subatomic Semantics of Event Predicates, ed. Boban Arsenijević, Berit Gehrke & Rafael Marín, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer. Berit Gehrke (to appear). Passive states. To appear in Telicity, Change, and State: A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure, ed. Violeta Demonte & Louise McNally. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [final draft - note: these are not the final page numbers] 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] 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. 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]

proceedings of refereed conferences and working papers Boban Arsenijević, Gemma Boleda, Berit Gehrke & Louise McNally (to appear). Ethnic adjectives are proper adjectives. To appear in Proceedings of CLS 46. [final draft] Berit Gehrke (2011). Stative passives and event kinds. In Sinn und Bedeutung 15: Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, ed. Ingo Reich, Eva Horch & Dennis Pauly, 241-257. Universaar - Saarland University Press: Saarbrücken. Berit Gehrke & Louise McNally (2011). Frequency adjectives and assertions about event types. In Proceedings of SALT 19, 180-197. 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 (2007). On directional readings of locative prepositions. In Proceedings of Console XIV, ed. Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente & Erik Schoorlemmer, 99-120. Berit Gehrke & 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] 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]

review articles Berit Gehrke (in preparation). Review of Robert Truswell, Events, Phrases, and Questions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. To appear in Language. Berit Gehrke (in preparation). Review of Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron & Ivy Sichel (eds), Lexical Semantics, Syntax, and Event Structure, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. To appear in LINGUIST list. 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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2011 Event-related modification with adjectival passives to be presented at the Workshop on Modification (with & without modifiers), CCHS-CSIC (Madrid), December 15-16, 2011 Towards a uniform semantics for frequency adjectives invited talk presented in Düsseldorf, June 22, 2011 Event-modification of German adjectival passives invited talk presented at Paris 8, June 20, 2011 Semantic factors in the choice between ethnic adjectives and PP counterparts: Qualitative evidence, with Daniel Berndt, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally presented (by Gemma Boleda) at QITL-4, Berlin, March 28-31, 2011 Adjectival passives and event kinds invited talk presented at Linguistics seminar series, University College London, March 02, 2011

2010 Passive states presented at OnLI II, University of Ulster, December 02-04, 2010 Stative passives and event kinds - presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 15, Saarbrücken, September 09-11, 2010 (handout) - presented at the workshop Dispositions, Abilities and States, ENS Paris, June 24-25, 2010 (handout) - presented as a lunch bag talk at McGill University, April 06, 2010 Ereignisartenreferenz im Zustandspassiv invited talk presented at the workshop Zugänglichkeit impliziter Ereignisse, University of Tübingen, July 20, 2010 An event structure approach to passives and its implications for acquisition (handout), with Nino Grillo presented at the conference Morphological Voice and its Grammatical Interfaces: Theoretic Modelling and Psycholinguistic Validation, University of Vienna, June 25-27, 2010 Ethnic adjectives are proper adjectives (handout), with Boban Arsenijević, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 08-10, 2010 Unifying the semantics for "thematic" and "classificatory" uses of ethnic adjectives (handout), with Boban Arsenijević, Gemma Boleda, and Louise McNally presented at the Journées Sémantique et Modélisation, Nancy, March 25-26, 2010 Aspektuelle Verbalaffixe im Russischen und Tschechischen (handout) invited talk presented at the University of Tübingen, February 17, 2010

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

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

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

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 October 2010 - February 2011 (winter term): Oberseminar Linguistik, Göttingen University October 2010 - February 2011 (winter term): Cognitive foundations of natural language (MA), Göttingen University October 2010 - February 2011 (winter term): Aspectual composition, Event semantics and adverbial modification (BA), Göttingen University October 2010 - February 2011 (winter term): English linguistics: An overview (lecture), Göttingen University April & July 2010: Event semantics and adverbial modification (graduate) (with Boban Arsenijević), University of Osnabrück January - March 2010: Cognitive foundations of natural language and linguistic interaction (MA) (with Boban Arsenijević), UPF July 2009: Event semantics and adverbial modification (graduate) (with Boban Arsenijević), European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Bordeaux, France March/April 2008: Introduction to Semantics (MA), University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia April - July 2007: Variatie in Betekenis (variation in meaning) on Tense and Aspect (BA) (with Henriëtte de Swart and Evangelia Vlachou), Utrecht University April - July 2006: Variatie in Betekenis on Motion Events (undergraduate) (with Joost Zwarts), Utrecht University May 2004 & March 2007: sessions in Henriëtte de Swart's courses Variatie in betekenis on Tense and Aspect (BA) and Semantic Structures (MA), 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, CCHS-CSIC (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 February 2008 - September 2010: 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: 13 October 2011