Jelena Stojkovic and Imke Driemel are PhD students at Leipzig University (IGRA) and they are visiting UMass for much of the Spring of 2018.

Imke is interested in agreement, coordination, information structure, and non-assertive speech acts. Her earlier work has focused on the information structure of exclamatives and their internal syntactic structure. She currently works on resolution agreement in person mismatch coordinations, split conjuncts in German, pseudo-coordination in Norwegian, and focus strategies in Limbum (Grassfield Bantu). She hasrecently become interested in pseudo-incorporation.

Jelena’s primary research interests are in phonology, more specifically in the interactions of prosody (stress, tone and accent) with other morpho-phonological phenomena, such as deletion, vowel reduction, language games, phonologically conditioned allomorphy, morphological classes. So far she has worked on various dialects of Serbo-Croatian and other South Slavic languages, also Afar, Lendu and Tiv (soon). She also has a syntactic side, which has resulted in work on DP-Exfoliation (removal of structure via syntactic operations).

Imke and Jelena are currently working together on two projects, one is concerned with vowel raising chain shifts in parallel OT and the other project investigates agreement alternations with quantified noun phrases in Serbo-Croatian.