Dr. Thomas McFadden
Dr. Thomas McFadden ist Assistant Professor an der Stony Brook University. Am ZAS war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Forschungsbereich 3 ‘Syntax & Lexikon’. Außerdem koordinierte er die ZAS-Datenbank zu satzeinbettenden Prädikaten und leitete folgende Projekte:
- DFG/AHRC-Projekt Lokalität und die Komplement-Adjunkt-Unterscheidung: Strukturbildung vs. Strukturanreicherung (LASER) mit Dr. Rob Truswell, University of Edinburgh und Prof. Hedde Zeijlstra, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- DFG-Projekt B01 Register and the development of periphrasis in the history of English im Rahmen des SFB 1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
Die Forschungsschwerpunkte von Thomas McFadden sind: Finitheit und das Verhalten von Subjekten in eingebetteten Sätzen; Periphrase und Aspekt in der Geschichte des Englischen; allokutive Kongruenz im Tamil; Kasusstrukturen und Kasustheorien; eine alternative Phasentheorie: Zusammentun statt Auseinandernehmen.
Projects
B01
Register and the development of periphrasis in the history of English
Contact
Website https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7014-9914
Publications & Presentations
Kutscher, Silvia; Alexiadou, Artemis; Adli, Aria; Donhauser, Karin; Dreyer, Malte; Egg, Markus; Feulner, Anna Helene; Gagarina, Natalia; Hock, Wolfgang; Jannedy, Stefanie; Kammerzell, Frank; Knoeferle, Pia; Krause, Thomas; Krause, Thomas; Krifka, Manfred; Lüdeling, Anke; Maquate, Katja; McFadden, Thomas; Meyer, Roland; Mooshammer, Christine; Lütke, Beate; Müller, Stefan; Norde, Muriel; Sauerland, Uli; Szucsich, Luka; Verhoeven, Elisabeth; Waltereit, Richard; Wolfsgruber, Anne; Adli, Aria (2020) Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation In: REALIS: Register Aspects of Language in Situation [DOI] [PDF] [ViVo] The Collaborative Research Center 1412 “Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation” (CRC 1412) investigates the role of register in language, focusing in particular on what constitutes a language user’s register knowledge and which situational-functional factors determine a user’s choices. The following paper is an extract from the frame text of the proposal for the CRC 1412, which was submitted to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 2019, followed by a successful onsite evaluation that took place in 2019. The CRC 1412 then started its work on January 1, 2020. The theoretical part of the frame text gives an extensive overview of the theoretical and empirical perspectives on register knowledge from the viewpoint of 2019. Due to the high collaborative effort of all PIs involved, the frame text is unique in its scope on register research, encompassing register-relevant aspects from variationist approaches, psycholinguistics, grammatical theory, acquisition theory, historical linguistics, phonology, phonetics, typology, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics, as well as qualitative and quantitative modeling. Although our positions and hypotheses since its submission have developed further, the frame text is still a vital resource as a compilation of state-of-the-art register research and a documentation of the start of the CRC 1412. The theoretical part without administrative components therefore presents an ideal starter publication to kick off the CRC’s publication series REALIS. For an overview of the projects and more information on the CRC, see https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/.Karkaletsou, Fenia; Malta, Izabella R.; McFadden, Thomas; Morris, Dan; Spathas, Giorgos; Alexiadou, Artemis (2022) Towards a unified mechanism for the diachronic development of periphrastic alternations In: Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) 23 [ViVo] Karkaletsou, Fenia; Malta, Izabella R.; McFadden, Thomas; Morris, Dan; Spathas, Giorgos; Alexiadou, Artemis (2022) Towards a unified mechanism for the diachronic development of periphrastic alternations In: Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) 23 [ViVo]