Adjunct Associate Professor of Germanic & Slavic Studies Director, UGA Exchange with University of Hannover Vera Lee-Schoenfeld is Associate Professor of Linguistics and primarily a theoretical linguist with a research focus on German syntax. Her early work on constructions involving possessor datives and binding (the distribution of reflexive and non-reflexive pronouns) in sentences with embedded infinitive clauses and other clause-like phrases was published in her book Beyond Coherence: The Syntax of Opacity in German (2007). Covering more general topics in linguistics, her second book is titled Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions about Language, Second edition (2010) and is co-authored with Donna Jo Napoli from Swarthmore College. In more recent work, Dr. Lee-Schoenfeld has been investigating the syntax-phonology-pragmatics interface, which resulted in the Oxford University Press volume Parameters of Predicate Fronting: Explorations of V(P)-initial Clauses (2021), as well as other syntactic phenomena, including dative vs. accusative case, passivization, and binding in double-object constructions. Prof. Lee-Schoenfeld, who was named a recipient of the 2019 Richard B. Russel Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, also has an interest in language acquisition and pedagogy, holding degrees in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and French Language Education. Research Research Interests: Syntax, Syntax-Phonology-Pragmatics interface, Language acquisition, Germanic languages Education Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz Selected Publications “Syntactically branching out beyond the traditional classroom: A report on the Discovery Method” (with Jean Costa Silva). Language 100.3 (2024): e99-e123. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2024.a937195 “German double-accusative verbs: Different solutions for a marked construction” (with Gabriele Diewald and Maud Kelly). Linguistische Berichte 278 (2024): 161-195. “Object coreference in German: The reflexive sich as a problem for derivational approaches to binding” (with Nick Twiner). Philosophies 7(1).5 (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7010005 “German passives and English benefactives: The need for non-canonical accusative case” (with Nick Twiner). Nordlyd 44.1 (2020): 53-68. https://doi.org/10.7557/12.5210 “The syntax, information structure, and prosody of German ‘VP’-fronting” (with Anya Lunden). The Linguistic Review 36.2 (2019): 231-283. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2018-2012 Selected Papers (2015-2004)
