Dr Klaus Abels

Research summary

Over the past years I have focused on the questions of what the universal properties of elliptical constructions are, whether there is syntactic structure at the ellipsis site, and how ellipsis interacts with syntactic displacement. I am also very interested in universal properties of word order. I address these questions within the Chomskyan tradition in linguistics. 

Teaching summary

• Course director of the BA Linguistics and BA Linguistics International

Education

University of Connecticut

PhD, Linguistics | 2003

University of Connecticut

MA, Linguistics | 2002

Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Dip., Translation studies | 2001

Publications