Fabian Zöfelt, M.A.

Current Position

• since 2024 | PhD Student & Scientific Stuff | Bielefeld University, Germany; CRC 1646, A01
• since 2023 | External Lecturer for German Studies | Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Education

• 2021-2024 | M.A. German Studies with distinction | at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany | Thesis: Was zu beschreiben ist: Nicht-kanonische Passivstrukturen im Deutschen (Supervision: Eric G. Fuss & Karin Pittner)
• 2018-2021 | B.A. Major: German Studies & History, Minor: Optionalbereich mit Profil Lehramt (=Education) | at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany | Thesis: Zur korrelativen Subordination bei satzwertigen Komplementen (Supervision: Judith Berman & Karin Pittner)

Publications

• (in prep.) Was zu beschreiben ist: Towards a taxonomy of German non-canonical passives. In: Russo Cardona, L., F. Longo, T. Sgrizzi, and H. Tamleh, (eds). Proceedings of the 33rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (29--31 January 2025, University of Göttingen).

Talks

• 07/2025 | On Morphosyntactic Creativity by Analogy. Case Studies on Long-Distance Dependencies in Hungarian and German | together with Daczó, Szilvia. | at CRC Colloquium, Bielefeld
• 05/2025 | German wenn-clauses and Linguistic Creativity | at LinCreGG, Bielefeld
• 04/2025 | Wenn wir es nur wüssten - Syntaktische Ambiguität von und Extraktion aus wenn-Sätzen | at GAKT-BI - Kreativität & Interpretation, Bielefeld
• 04/2025 | Wenn wir es nur wüssten - Syntaktische Ambiguität von und Extraktion aus wenn-Sätzen | at STaPs-22, Budapest, Innsbruck, and Tübingen
• 01/2025 | Towards a taxonomy of German non-canonical passives | at ConSOLE 33, Georg-August University Göttingen

Teaching

• Summer 2025 | Grundlagen der generativen Grammatik und die (historische) Syntax des Deutschen | Seminar, undergraduate (Proseminar) | at Ruhr-University Bochum
• Summer 2024 | Deutsche Syntax: Eine diachrone Perspektive | Seminar, undergraduate (Proseminar) | at Ruhr-University Bochum
• Winter 2023 | Grammatikalisierung im Deutschen | Practice Course, undergraduate (Übung) | at Ruhr-University Bochum

Previous Positions

• 10/2023-12/2023 | Student Assistant, graduate (WHK) | German Studies; Chair: Historical Linguistics, Prof. Dr. Eric Fuß | Ruhr-University Bochum
• 10/2022-12/2023 | Student Tutor, graduate (WHK) | German Studies; Chair: Historical Linguistics, Prof. Dr. Eric Fuß | Ruhr-University Bochum
• 10/2021-12/2023 | Student Assistant, graduate (WHK) | German Studies; Dr. Judith Berman | Ruhr-University Bochum
• 04/2021-09/2021 | Student Assistant, undergraduate (SHK) | German Studies; Dr. Judith Berman | Ruhr-University Bochum

Reviewing

• BieLeiCoS2025
• ConSOLE33
• CCD

Conference & Workshop Organisation

• 10/2025 | CCD: Cross-clausal Dependencies | together with Anke Himmelreich, Jutta M. Hartmann, András Bárány, Szilvia Daczó
• 05/2025 | BieLeiCoS 2025: Bielefeld Leiden Comparative Syntax Conference 2025 | together with Jutta M. Hartmann, Anke Himmelreich, Mary Amaechi, Szilvia Daczó, Shravani Patil
• 05/2025 | LinCreGG: Linguistic Creativity in Generative Grammar | together with: Jutta M. Hartmann, András Bárány, Anke Himmelreich, Szilvia Daczó