Tara Struik
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Welcome!
Welcome!
I am currently an academic staff member at the University of Mannheim, where I was previously employed as a post-doc within the Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC) Research Unit, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. I defended my PhD at Radboud University, Nijmegen in 2022.
My research focuses on morphosyntactic developments in the West Germanic languages. I combine quantitative approaches with formal (Minimalist) syntactic theory. I am particularly interested in language variation and change at the interfaces, especially the syntax-pragmatics and syntax-semantic interfaces, as well as how language contact and language acquisition shape morphosyntactic change. You can read more about my research here.
My complete cv is available here.
Recent updates
Recent updates
Upcoming talk (29-10-2026)
Together with Carola Trips I will give a talk at the AMC Symposium on types of evidence in historical linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, with the title (Re)-assessing the productivity of Old and Middle English a- and ge-: what the Tolerance Principle can tell us. The full program can be found here.
New paper out! (06-08-2026)
The paper On the Benefits of Enriching the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English to Study Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Introducing the Roots & Results (RoRe) Database, co-authored with Lena Kaltenbach and Susanne Lang, was published (open access!) in The Journal of Open Humanities Data. You can read it here.
New paper out! (11-05-2026)
The paper The Results of contact: Tracing changes in resultativity encoding in the history of English in contact with French, co-authored with Lena Kaltenbach, was published (open access!) in Diachronica. You can read it here.
My PhD thesis entitled Information Structure Triggers for Word Order Variation and Change: The OV/VO Alternation in the West Germanic languages appeared in print through LOT Publications on 3 March 2022. It can be downloaded (open access) here.
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