Elena Ongaro

RTG PhD student associate, member since 2024

Project ''Sentence adverbs in German: morphosyntactic properties and historical development''

The research project investigates German sentence adverbs, focusing on their morphosyntactic distribution and development across the history of German. Additionally, it explores grammaticalization processes, examining common pathways and potential divergences among subcategories. The project aims to provide both empirical and theoretical insights and combines diachronic analysis with synchronic comparisons to offer a more comprehensive understanding of sentence adverbs in contemporary German

Academic background:

-Since April 2024: Research assistant (wiss. Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of German Philology and PhD student in German Linguistics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

-2020-2024: M.A. in Germanic Philology and Linguistics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy

-2017-2020: B.A. in German and Russian Language, Literature, and Linguistics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy

Research interests:

-German linguistics from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, focus on syntax: sentence adverbs, word order, information structure

-Historical linguistics of Germanic languages

-Grammaticalization and processes of language change

-Corpus linguistics and computational methods for text analysis