Stefan Müller is a professor of linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin specializing in

syntax In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituency) ...

, where he is the head of the German Grammar group (german: Arbeitsgruppe Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen: Syntax).

Education and career

Stefan Müller was born in Jena in 1968, majoring in computer science, linguistics, and

computational linguistics Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, comput ...

at the Humboldt University. After this he held various research and teaching positions in the public and private sectors, at the Humboldt University, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrücken (DFKI), Interprice Berlin, the Friedrich-Schiller University at Jena, the University of Potsdam, and the

Freie University The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in poli ...

, Berlin. Many of his publications and the LaTeX code used to typeset them are open-access, and he is one of the founders of the open access publisher

Language Science Press Language Science Press (LSP) is an open access scholarly publishing house specializing in linguistics, formally set up in 2014. Language Science Press publishes books on a central storage and archiving server in combination with print on-demand ...

. He was elected a member of '' Academia Europaea'' in 2014.

Research

Müller's research focus is the empirical description of German and other Germanic languages and the theoretical modelling of these descriptive findings, the relation of this work to

linguistic typology Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow their comparison. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity and the co ...

, and with the use of the

Head-driven phrase structure grammar Head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) is a highly lexicalized, constraint-based grammar developed by Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag. It is a type of phrase structure grammar, as opposed to a dependency grammar, and it is the immediate successor to ...

framework. Because of the implications that typological findings have for different analyses of languages and linguistic phenomena, the description and analysis of non-Germanic languages also feature prominently in the programme - Müller himself works with

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ance ...

Maltese Maltese may refer to: * Someone or something of, from, or related to Malta * Maltese alphabet * Maltese cuisine * Maltese culture * Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people * Maltese people, people from Malta or of Malte ...

, and Persian.

Publications

* Müller, S. (2018). ''Evaluating theories: Counting nodes and the question of constituency''. To appear in ''Language under Discussion''
a review copy on academia.edu
* Mensching, G., Müller, S., Werner, F., and Winckel, E. (2018). ''Asymmetries in Long-Distance Dependencies: A View from Gradient Harmonic Grammar''. Paper presented at Jahrestagung der deutschen Gesellschaft der Sprachwissenschaft, 8 March 2018. * Müller, S. (2016) ''Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches''. ''Textbooks in Language Sciences'' no. 1. Berlin: Language Science Press
Available for free as a PDF on the publisher's site, as well as links to github LaTeX source
* Müller, S. (2010). ''Grammatiktheorie''. ''Stauffenburg Einführungen'' no. 20. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. (Second, modified edition 2013)
Made available by the Humboldt University's website
* Müller, S. (2008). ''Depictive secondary predicates in German and English''. In: Grübel, R., Hentschel, G., Kohler, G.-B., Schroeder, C., Boeder, W. (eds.) ''Studia Slavica Oldenburgensia'': ''Secondary predicates in Eastern European languages and beyond''. BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg
Made available on academia.edu
* Müller, S. (2007). ''Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Eine Einführung''. ''Stauffenburg Einführungen'' no. 17. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. (second, modified edition 2008; third, modified edition 2013)
Made available via the Humboldt University's website
* Müller, S. (2002) ''Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German''. ''Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism'' no. 13. Stanford: CSLI Publications
Made available by the author and unglue.it
* Müller, S. (1999). ''Deutsche Syntax deklarativ. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar für das Deutsche''. Linguistische Arbeiten, No. 394, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag
Made available by the author

References

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