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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of German Language and Literature I

Max Bonke

Department of German Language and Literature I
Linguistics

Office: 2.122 (Philosophikum)
E-Mail: mbonkeSpamProtectionuni-koeln.de

Office hours: by arrangement via email
 

Research areas

  • Ellipsis: Gapping, Stripping
  • Clause embedding
  • Factivity

Publications

  • Bonke, Max & Sophie Repp (2022). Complementizer deletion in embedded gapping in Spanish. The Linguistic Review. 39/3.

CV

  • Since 2017: PhD student
    Institute for German Linguistics and Literature (Chairholder Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp)
  • 2015-2017: M.A. Linguistics
    Humboldt University Berlin
  • 2011-2015: B.A. English Studies, Linguistics
    Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Talks

  • Complementizers in Spanish gapping – Verb type effects and the role of factivity. LII Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Madrid, Spain. 25 January 2024.
  • Coordinated embedded CPs in Russian: Contrast, Ellipsis, Complementizers. Formal Description of Slavic Languages 16. University of Graz, Austria. 29 November 2023.
  • Restrictions on subordinators in Spanish and Russian elliptical clauses. 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. Leibnitz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim. 19 July 2023.
  • Gradual factivity and its effects on ellipsis in Spanish. Manchester Forum in Linguistics. University of Manchester. 20 April 2023.
  • Max Bonke with Sophie Repp. Complementizer Deletion in Embedded Gapping in Spanish. Experimental & Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis 2020 (ECBAE 2020). 15.07.2020.