Dr. Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez
Biography
since 01.2023 Research Fellow, Collaborative Research Center 1287, Project C06 "Grammatical processing and syntactic change", University of Potsdam, Germany.
2019-2024 Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany.
2020-2023 Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of English and American Studies, University of Kassel, Germany.
2019-2021 Research Fellow, Collaborative Research Center 833, Project A7 "Focus and Extraction in Complex Constructions and Islands", University of Tübingen, Germany.
2021 (Apr-Jul) Visiting Assistant in Research, Department of Linguistics, Yale University, USA.
2020 (Feb) International teaching mobility, ERASMUS+, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
2016-2019 Master of Arts in English Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany.
2015-2016 Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Modern Foreign Languages, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
2010-2014 Bachelor of Arts in English Studies, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Publications
Dissertation
Cortés Rodríguez, Álvaro. 2024. An experimental lens on multiple sluicing: Amelioration effects, crosslinguistic variation, and processing. Tübingen: Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen dissertation. http://doi.org/10.15496/publikation-99065
Papers
Cortés Rodríguez, Álvaro & James Griffiths. to appear. Short sources, islandhood, and pronominal correlates: New experimental support from German and Spanish for a short source approach to apparent exceptions to the clausemate condition on multiple sluicing. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics.
Cortés Rodríguez, Álvaro & James Griffiths. Clausemate condition “obviations” in German and Spanish complex antecedent multiple sluicing as evidence for a short source approach. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 40.
Cortés Rodríguez, Álvaro. Which linguist which structure: An experimental investigation of multiple sluicing in English. Accepted for publication in Konietzko, Andreas & Susanne Winkler (eds.). Information structure and discourse in generative grammar. Mechanisms and processes (Studies in Generative Grammar, vol. 146). Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter Mouton.
Bai, Xue, Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez, Daiko Takahashi. 2023. An experimental investigation of multiple sluicing in Mandarin Chinese. Languages 8: 88. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010088
Cortés Rodríguez, Álvaro. 2022. Multiple sluicing and islands: a cross-linguistic experimental investigation of the clausemate condition. The Linguistic Review. 39(3): 425–455. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2022-2093
Cortés Rodríguez, Álvaro, Holden Härtl, Natascha Raue & Kristina Weissbecker. 2022. This text is called (an) article: Referring nouns in name-informing quotation. Linguistic Research 39(2): 327–354. DOI: 10.17250/khisli.39.2.202206.004
Non-linguistic publications
Friedrich, Julian, Anna Bareis, Moritz Bross, Zoé Bürger, Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez, Nina Effenberg, Markus Kleinhansl, Fabienne Kremer, Cornelius Schröder. “How is your thesis going?” – Ph.D. students’ perspectives on mental health and stress in academia. PLoS ONE 18(7): e0288103. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288103
Selected conference presentations
Sep 2024 Poster presentation, "Is it really inclusive? The gender-star form in German", Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 30, Edinburgh, UK. with Larissa Specht
Jun 2024 Oral presentation, "Dependency length minimization in German relative clause extraposition: Evidence from speeded acceptability judgments and production choice", Variation and Language Processing Conference 6, University of Vigo, Spain. with Sina Bosch and Claudia Felser
Jun 2023 Oral presentation, "Undoing gender in a gender-marking language: Gender-inclusive forms in plural role nouns in German", XVI International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (ISP), University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. with Larissa Specht
Oct 2022 Oral presentation, "The interplay between quotation and referentiality: An empirical investigation into name-mentioning constructions", Linguistic Evidence 2022, Paris, France. with Natascha Raue
Aug 2022 Oral presentation, "Multiple sluicing in Spanish: An experimental investigation of the clausemate condition obviation with bound embedded pronouns", Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) 2022 at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), University of Bucharest, Romania.
May 2022 Oral presentation, "Experimental evidence from German for a short source approach to apparent clausemate condition obviations in multiple sluicing", WCCFL 40. Standford University, USA. with James Griffiths
Apr 2022 Oral presentation, "Experimental evidence from German for a short source approach to apparent clausemate condition obviations in multiple sluicing", GLOW 50. Queen Mary University, London. with James Griffiths
Sep 2021 Oral presentation, "Multiple adjacent wh-interrogatives in Spanish", II. Encuentro de Lingüística Formal en México. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México. (Online)
May 2021 Oral presentation, "‘This text is called an abstract’ – An empirical investigation of referring uses of nouns in name-informing quotation, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 27, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. (Online) with Holden Härtl and Kristina Weissbecker
Oct 2020 Poster presentation, "Congruence between the wh-remnants: a factor ameliorating multiple sluicing constructions", Linearising Constituents Across Domains 2020, Bled Institute, Slovenia. (Online)
Feb 2020 Poster presentation, "Does heaviness improve the acceptability of multiples sluicing constructions in English?", Linguistic Evidence 2020, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Mar 2018 Oral presentation, "Multiple Sluicing in English", 40th Annual Conference of the DGfS, Workshop on Relating elliptical utterances to information in context, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Feb 2018 Poster presentation, "Multiple Sluicing in English: Empirical Investigations and Syntactic Analysis", Linguistic Evidence 2018, University of Tübingen, Germany.
