Susi Wurmbrand Explained

Susi Wurmbrand
Occupation:	Linguist
Thesis Title:	Infinitives
Thesis Url:	https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/9592
Thesis Year:	1998

Susi Wurmbrand (pronounced as /de/) is an Austrian linguist specializing in syntax.^[1]

Education and career

Wurmbrand received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 with a thesis titled Infinitives supervised by Noam Chomsky, Alec Marantz and David Pesetsky.^[2] In 2018 she received her Habilitation from the University of Vienna.^[3]

She is currently a Privatdozentin at the University of Vienna^[4] and a recurring visiting professor at Harvard University.^[5] She has previously held faculty positions at McGill University and University of Connecticut.

Honors

Wurmbrand is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics,^[6] an Associate Editor of Language,^[7] and a co-editor of the book series Open Generative Syntax published by Language Science Press.^[8]

In 2020 she was elected member of Academia Europaea^[9] and was elected Chair of GLOW in 2022.^[10]

She has been a member of the Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics of the Linguistic Society of America.^[11]

Selected works

• Wurmbrand. Susanne. 1998. Infinitives. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Book: Wurmbrand, Susanne. 2001. Infinitives: Restructuring and clause structure. Mouton de Gruyter.
• Wurmbrand. Susanne. 2004. Two types of restructuring: Lexical vs. functional. Lingua. 114. 8. 991–1014. 10.1016/S0024-3841(03)00102-5.
• Bobaljik, Jonathan David and Susi Wurmbrand (2005). The domain of agreement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23.4: 809-865.
• Wurmbrand. Susanne. 2006. Licensing Case. Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 18. 3. 175–236. 10.1017/S1470542706000079.
• Wurmbrand, Susi. (2007). How complex are complex predicates. Syntax 10: 243-288.
• Wurmbrand, Susi. (2014). Tense and aspect in English infinitives. Linguistic Inquiry 45.3: 403-447. doi: 10.1162/LING_a_00161
• Wurmbrand, Susi. (2017). Verb clusters, verb raising, and restructuring. In: The Blackwell Companion to Syntax 2, ed. by Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Lohninger, Magdalena, Iva Kovač, and Susi Wurmbrand. (2022). From Prolepsis to Hyperraising. Philosophies 7.2: 32.
• Wurmbrand, Susi und Magdalena Lohninger. (In press). An implicational universal in complementation—Theoretical insights and empirical progress. In: Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research: Theoretical and Empirical Issues, ed. by Jutta Hartmann and Angelika Wöllstein. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Susi Wurmbrand . 2023-05-27 . scholar.google.com.
2. Infinitives . Massachusetts Institute of Technology . 1998 . Thesis . Susanne . Wurmbrand. 1721.1/9592 .
3. Web site: Academy of Europe: CV. www.ae-info.org.
4. Web site: Academic Staff - Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, UniWien . 2023-05-27 . ufind.univie.ac.at.
5. Web site: Susi Wurmbrand. linguistics.fas.harvard.edu.
6. Web site: The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics editorial team . 2023-05-27 . Springer . en.
7. Web site: Editorial Team LANGUAGE . 2023-05-27 . languagelsa.org.
8. Web site: Open Generative Syntax Language Science Press . 2023-05-27 . langsci-press.org.
9. Web site: Academia Europaea membership page . 2022-11-13 .
10. Web site: GLOW board list 2022.
11. Web site: Past Members of COGEL (formerly COSWL) | Linguistic Society of America. www.linguisticsociety.org.