Dr. Ilaria De Cesare
Room: 1.05.1.11
E-Mail: decesareuuni-potsdampde
Studied Germanic languages and literature and applied linguistics (“Mediazione linguistica e interculturale”) at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, completed in December 2013. 2013-2014 business interpreter at multiple trade fairs. M.A. in linguistics of foreign languages at the University of Potsdam (focus: German as a foreign language), completed July 2017. 2015-2017 student assistant at the Chair of History and Variation of the German Language at the University of Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Demske). August 2017-December 2021 research fellow in the project A2 „Grammatical Processing and Syntactic Change“ of the Collaborative Reaserch Centre 1287 „Limits of Variability in Language“ at the University of Potsdam (PIs: Prof. Dr. U. Demske and PD Dr. C. Felser). 2021 PhD in Linguistics with the dissertation “Word order variability and change in German infinitival complements. A multi-causal approach”. Since January 2022 postdoc at the Chair of History and Variation of the German Language at the University of Potsdam.
Research
- Infinitival syntax
- Early New High German syntax
- Syntactic change
- Variation
Publications
De Cesare, I. 2021. Word order variability and change in German infinitival complements. A multi-causal approach. Dissertation, Universität Potsdam. https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-52735
Bosch, S., De Cesare, I., Demske, U., Felser, C. 2021. Eds. New empirical approaches to grammatical variation and change. Special issue of Languages
Talks
De Cesare, I. & Demske, U. (2022, August). Ambiguity avoidance as an efficiency strategy driving word order change. The 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford.
Demske, U. & De Cesare, I. (2021, May). Aspectuals between Control and Raising: A View from the History of German. Diachronic Generative Syntax 22 (DiGS), Universität Konstanz.
Bosch, S., De Cesare, I., Felser, C., & Demske, U. (2020, February). A multi-methodological approach to word order variation in German infinitival complementation. Talk presented by Sina Bosch at Linguistic Evidence 2020, Universität Tübingen.
De Cesare, I., Bosch, S., Demske, U & Felser, C. (2019, October). Word order variation in German infinitival complements: Evidence from corpus and experimental data. Workshop “Multi-methodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic variation", Universität Potsdam.
De Cesare, I. (2019, July). Word order variability and change in German infinitival complements. 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 24), ANU Canberra, Australia.
De Cesare, I. (2019, October). Textsorteneffekte auf die Stellung infiniter Komplemente im Frühneuhochdeutschen. Eine quantitative Untersuchung. Workshop "Syntax der Frühen Neuzeit", Universität Potsdam.
De Cesare, I. (2018, June). Grammatical processing and syntactic change: infinitival complements in German. Workshop Historical Syntax, Sum-UP 2018, Universität Potsdam.
Demske, U. & De Cesare, I. (2018, March). Grammatical processing and syntactic change: infinitival complements in German. Invited talk presented at lecture series "Linguistic Circle", University of Edinburgh.