Petra Sleeman
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Petra Sleeman is working in the department of Romance linguistics of the University of Amsterdam. She also worked at the University of Utrecht and the University of Groningen. She was an invited assistant professor at the University Paris VII and the University Paris III and an invited professor at the University Lille III. She graduated in 1996 with a thesis on nominal ellipsis titled Licensing Empty Nouns in French, which was supervised by Aafke Hulk and Denis Delfitto. Petra Sleeman’s main topic of research is the French DP, partly in the framework of Kayne’s (1994) Antisymmetry Theory: the position of adjectives, adjectival agreement, noun ellipsis, relative clauses and reduced relatives, the partitive construction, definiteness, deverbal nominalization and deverbal adjectivalization, and dislocation of DPs. Furthermore, she has done research on the acquisition of interfaces, more specifically the acquisition ofdislocation and definiteness in L2 French.
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Dissertation
Licensing Empty Nouns in French (1996)
Thesis Petra Sleeman part 1
Thesis Petra Sleeman part 2
Thesis Petra Sleeman part 3
Recent hand-outs
Syntax-Interface Meeting, 7 November 2011
Quantifier preposing in French and Italian as a root phenomenon
Some recent publications
Petra Sleeman (2011). 'Deverbal modifiers of the noun in Germanic and Romance : Interpretation and position'. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 13.1, 5-25.
Petra Sleeman (2011). ‘Verbal and adjectival participles: internal structure and position’. Lingua 121.10, 1569-1587.
Sleeman, Petra & Harry Perridon, eds. (2011). The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic. Structure, variation and change. [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, volume 171]. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Perridon, Harry & Petra Sleeman (2011). 'The Noun Phrase in Germanic and Romance: common developments and differences'. In Sleeman & Perridon.
Petra Sleeman (2010). The nominalized infinitive in French: structure and change. In Linguística. Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto, 5, 2010, 145-173.
Sleeman, Petra (2010). 'Infinitival relative clauses and Italian clefts'. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics XII.1., 35-50.
Sleeman, Petra (2010). ‘L2 acquisition of clitics: Old French as an interlanguage’. V. Torrens, L.Escobar, A. Gavarro, and J. Gutiérrez (eds.), Movement and Clitics: Adult and child grammar. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 389-416.
Sleeman, Petra & Ana Maria Brito (2010). “Nominalization, Event, Aspect, and Argument Structure: a Syntactic approach”, In Argument Structure from a Crosslinguistic Perspective, ed. by Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro & Nerea Madariaga. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 113-129.
Sleeman, Petra & Ana Maria Brito.(2010). 'Aspect and argument structure of deverbal nominalizations: a split vP analysis’. In A. Alexiadou & M.Rathert (eds.), The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks. (Interface Explorations series, vol. 23). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 199-217.
Sleeman, Petra (2010).‘Superlative adjectives and the licensing of non-modal infinitival subject relatives’. In Patricia Cabredo-Hofherr & Ora Matushansky (eds.),Adjectives. Formal Analyses in Syntax and Semantics. Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 233-264.
Enoch Aboh, Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer & Petra Sleeman (eds.) (2009). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2007. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Petra Sleeman (2009). 'Deverbal categories and the split vP hypothesis', Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics VolXI, 1.
Hakima Guella, Viviane Déprez& Petra Sleeman (2008). ‘Article Choice Parameters in L2’, in “Proceedings of the 9th Generative Approaches toSecond Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007)”, edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Jason Rothman, Paula Kempchinsky, and Elena Gavruseva, 57-69. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/gasla/9/index.html .
Petra Sleeman (2008). ‘Prenominal and postnominal reduced relative clauses: arguments against unitary analyses’, Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. IX, 5-16.
Elisabeth van der Linden & Petra Sleeman (2007). ‘Clitic dislocation: evidence for a low topic position’, in “Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007”, edited by Bettelou Los & Marjo van Koppen, 173-187. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Petra Sleeman (2006). ‘ La stucture de la construction partitive suivie d’une relative’, in “La relation ”, edited by Georges Kleiber, Catherine Schnedecker & Anne Theissen, 320-335. Leuven: Peeters.
Petra Sleeman (2005). ‘The com(p)-position of DP-internal infinitival clauses’, in "Contributions to the thirtieth Incontro di Grammatica Generativa", edited by Laura Brugè, Giuliana Giusti, Nicola Munaro, Walter Schweikert, Giuseppina Turano, 333-349. Venice: Cafoscarina. http://lear.unive.it/bitstream/10278/250/1/Atti-2-17s-Sleeman.pdf
Petra Sleeman (2004). ‘The acquisition of definiteness distinctions by L2 learners of French’, in "Linguistics in the Netherlands", edited by Leonie Cornips & Jenny Doetjes, 158-168. Amsterdam& Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Petra Sleeman (2004). ‘Guided learners of French and the acquisition of topic marking constructions’, in "International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 42.2",edited by Petra Bos, Bart Hollebrandse & Petra Sleeman, 129-151.
Francis Corblin, Jean-Marie Marandin & Petra Sleeman (2004). ‘Nounless determiners’, in "Handbook of French Semantics",editedby Francis Corblin & Henriëtte deSwart, 23-40. Standford: CSLI Publications.
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Jenny Doetjes & Petra Sleeman (2004). ‘Dislocation’, in "Handbook of French Semantics" edited by Francis Corblin & Henriëtte de Swart, 501-528. Standford: CSLI Publications.
Petra Sleeman (2003). 'Subnominal empty categories as subordinate topics'. in "From NP to DP" edited by Martine Coene & Yves D'Hulst, 119-137. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Petra Sleeman (2003). Quelques-uns, celui, chacun : pronoms ou déterminants ?" Langages 37 (152), 105-123.
Ellen-Petra Kester & Petra Sleeman (2002). 'N-ellipsis in Spanish.' "Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002", 107-116.
Petra Sleeman (2002). 'Adjectival agreement within DP without feature movement.' In "Current Issues in Romance Languages" edited by TeresaSatterfield, Christina Tortora & Diana Cresti, 301-316.
Petra Sleeman & Ellen-Petra Kester (2002). 'Partitive constructions and antisymmetry.' In "Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory" edited by C. Beyssade, R. Bok-Bennema, F. Drijkoningen & P. Monachesi, 271-286.
For more publicationssee:
http://dare.uva.nl/auteur/sleeman,a.p.
Courses
For information (in Dutch) on the courses that Petra Sleeman gives this year at the University of Amsterdam, see:
http://studiegids.uva.nl/web/uva/sgs/nl/d/4488.html
Downloads
Ellen-Petra Kester&Petra Sleeman (2002). 'N-ellipsis in Spanish.'
Petra Sleeman (2002). 'Adjectival agreement within DP without feature movement.'
Petra Sleeman&Ellen-Petra Kester (2002). 'Partitive constructions and antisymmetry
Petra Sleeman (2003). Quelques-uns, celui, chacun : pronoms ou déterminants ?"
Petra Sleeman (2003). 'Subnominal empty categories as subordinate topics'.
Petra Sleeman (2004). ‘The acquisition of definiteness distinctionsby L2 learners of French’
Petra Sleeman (2005). 'The com(p)-position of DP-internal infinitival clauses'€™
Elisabeth van der Linden&Petra Sleeman (2007).'Clitic dislocation: evidence for a low topic position'.
Petra Sleeman (2008). 'Prenominal and postnominal reduced relative clauses'.
Hakima Guella, Viviane Déprez&PetraSleeman (2008). 'Article Choice Parameters in L2'.
Petra Sleeman (2009). 'Deverbalcategories and the split vP hypothesis'.
Petra Sleeman (2010). 'Superlative adjectives and the licensing of non-modal infinitival subject relatives'
Petra Sleeman&Ana Maria Brito (2010). “Nominalization, Event, Aspect, and Argument Structure: a Syntactic approach".
Petra Sleeman (2010). "L2 acquisition of clitics: Old French as an interlanguage".
Petra Sleeman&Ana Maria Brito.(2010). 'Aspect and argument structure of deverbal nominalizations
Petra Sleeman (2010). Infinitival relativeclauses and Italian clefts
Petra Sleeman (2010). The nominalized infinitive in French.
Petra Sleeman (2011). Deverbal modifiers of the noun in Germanic and Romance