Stefan Müller is a

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linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

at the

Humboldt University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

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 (constituenc ...

, where he is the head of the German Grammar group ().

Education and career

Stefan Müller was born in

Jena Jena (; ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 in ...

in 1968, majoring in

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, and

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

at the

Humboldt University The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public university, public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III of Prussia, Frederick W ...

. After this he held various research and teaching positions in the public and private sectors, at the

, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrücken (DFKI), Interprice Berlin, the Friedrich-Schiller University at Jena, the

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, northeastern Germany. The university is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace o ...

, and the Freie University, Berlin. Many of his publications and the

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code used to typeset them are open-access, and he is one of the founders of the open access publisher

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. He was elected a member of ''

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'' 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 t ...

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

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, Danish,

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 Maltese ...

, and

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

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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