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Katerina Somers Wicka
is interested in early Germanic phonology, morphology and syntax, especially those instances in which the three intersect, as is the case with cliticization. She is also interested in language acquisition and the effect it has on language change, as well as general theories of language change and their ability to describe and explain the textual data.
Recent Publications:
Forthcoming (2007) (with Robert B. Howell) "A Phonetic Account of Anglian Smoothing." Folia Linguistica Historica. |
Current Projects:
Her current projects develop themes investigated in her dissertation, which dealt with cliticization patterns in the Old High German text, the Evangelienbuch , composed by the monk Otfrid von Weissenburg sometime around 865. She continues her discussion of grammaticalization, questioning whether it is the appropriate theoretical framework for describing clitic behavior in Old and Middle High German. She is also tracing the effects of certain preferred prosodic patterns on the development of phonology and morphology in Middle High German and Middle Dutch. |
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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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