I am currently a post-doctoral Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Lecturer without tenure) at the chair for German and Historical Linguistics (Prof. Eric Fuß) (Germanistische Linguistik, insb. Sprachgeschichte/historische Linguistik) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. I defended my PhD at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in October 2021, where I was affiliated with the Leibniz Prize Research Unit for (Experimental) Syntax and Heritage Languages (RUESHeL) led by Prof. Artemis Alexiadou.
Email: benjamin.lowellsluckin AT rub DOT de
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12/2024: To appear in Journal of Germanic Linguistics 37(1) in 2025 "Revisiting the syntax and development of Kiezdeutsch V3: a new perspective"
12/2024: To appear in Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6(1-2) in 2025 "The covert perceiver in English Locative Inversion: an alternative to expletive pro"
03/2023:
Slides from talk by Eric Fuß and myself from AG7 DGfS at Universität zu Köln, 9th March 2023.
'Das geht nicht zu ändern' – the origin and structure of the German modal gehen-passive
02/2023: Published joint work with Oliver Bunk "Noncanonical V3 and Resumption in Kiezdeutsch" in Karen De Clercq et al.(eds). 2023. Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages New York, Oxford Univesity Press, doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197651148.003.0014
12/2021: My PhD thesis "Non-canonical subjects and subject positions: locative inversion, V2-violations, and feature inheritance" has now been published.
Sluckin has a /u/ vowel - like "fluke" and not /ʌ/ as in "but".
I pronounce the name Sluckin with a intervocalic /k/, hence [slu:kɪn]. This is because English and German speakers are generally unaware that 'c' is really the trasliterated way of writing Slavic /ts/ in Latin-derived writing systems. My grandfather decided that a spelling change or informing everyone that it's /ts/ would be more trouble than it's worth.
So really the name shoud be 'Slutzkin' [slu:tskɪn] and any reader of Polish could tell you that! Indeed, in Cyrillic script, the name is written "слуцкин" or in Hebrew script it's "סלוצקין". Alas, it is still more trouble than it's worth to make people say it "correctly", so just get the vowel right and I'll be happy.
