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Katerina Somers Wicka
is interested in Germanic phonology, morphology and syntax, especially those instances in which the three intersect, as is the case with cliticization phenomena. She is also interested in language acquisition and its connection to language change, as well as general theories of language change and their ability to describe and explain the textual data.
| Courses: |
| GRMN 3020 Languages: Culture and Society II |
| GRMN 4510 The Acquisition of German |
| GRMN 3380 Contrastive Grammar of German and English |
| GRMN 6380 Contrastive Grammar of German and English |
| GRMN 6600 The History of the German Language |
Recent Publications:
2007 A Phonetic Account of Anglian Smoothing (with Robert B. Howell). Folia Linguistica Historica . 28:1. 187-214.
2008 The Germanic Languages (review of Harbert, W.). Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 20.1. 81-86.
2009 From phonology to syntax: pronominal cliticization in Otfrid's Evangelienbuch (accepted for publication). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. |
Current Projects:
Katerina's current projects include a discussion of grammaticalization theory that assesses the extent to which this particular theoretical framework can actually account for the diachronic behavior of certain clitic groups from Old to Middle High German. She is also looking at the grammaticalization of pronominal enclitics in older forms of Germanic with an eye toward connecting these data to the phenomenon of complementizer agreement attested in several modern Germanic dialects. Together with Shannon Dubenion-Smith (Western Washington University), Katerina is also working on a synchronic investigation of Old Saxon syntax that focuses on extraposition processes.
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Katerina Somers Wicka
Visiting Professor of German
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Office: 209 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 542-2440
E-mail:
kswicka@uga.edu |
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