Curriculum Vitae

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Personalia

Education

Employment

Jan. 2009 -- : Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Universität Potsdam.
Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Santa Cruz.
Aug. 2007 - Dec. 2007: Lecturer (Docent), Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Research areas

Theoretical syntax, interfaces of syntax with semantics and morpho-phonology.
Grammar of Spanish, Basque, and Hungarian
The formal theory of movement and clause structure, ellipsis, coordination, predicate fronting.

Some publications

(to app.) Vicente, Luis. A note on the representation of A-bar chains at the syntax-LF interface, in Gallego & Fortuny (eds.), Spelling Out Universal Grammar, special issue of Catalan Journal of Linguistics
(to app.) Vicente, Luis. On the syntax of adversative coordination, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
(2009) Lipták, Anikó, and Luis Vicente. Pronominal doubling under VP topicalization, Lingua.
(2009) Vicente, Luis. An alternative to remnant movement for partial predicate fronting, Syntax
(2009) Rodrigues, Cilene, Andrew Nevins, and Luis Vicente. Cleaving the interactions between sluicing and P-stranding, in Wetzels & Torck (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 245-270.
(2006) Vicente, Luis. Short negative replies in Spanish. In Los & van de Weijer (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 23, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 199-210.
(2005) Vicente, Luis. Licensing objects with and without movement. In Alderete et al (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 24, Cascadilla Press, 362-369.
(2005) de Vos, Mark, and Luis Vicente. Coordination under Right Node Raising. In Alderete et al (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 24, Cascadilla Press, 97-104.

Some talks

(2009) Ellipsis requires information structure parallelism (with Marcela Depiante). LSA 2009.
(2009) An argument in favour of a vP phase boundary in raising, passive, and unaccusative predicates (with Naiara Centeno). LSA 2009.
(2008) Verb fronting in Mandaring Chinese (with Lisa Cheng). UC Santa Cruz (invited).
(2008) Syntactic isomorphism and non-isomorphism under ellipsis. UC Berkeley (invited).
(2008) On the availability of copular clauses as sources for clausal ellipsis. CLS 44.
(2008) Word order variation as prosodically-driven movement in Basque. University of Chicago (invited).
(2007) On the syntax of DP but coordination. NELS 38.
(2007) Preposition stranding under sluicing in Western Romance (with Cilene Rodrigues and Andrew Nevins). CCG 17.
(2007) El movimiento del verbo y la sintaxis de los objetos en euskera. University of the Basque Country (invited).
(2006) Preposition stranding and the syntax of Spanish sluicing. Going Romance 20.
(2006) Pronominal doubling under VP topicalization (with Anikó Lipták). Oxford (invited).
(2005) Licensing objects with and without movement. WCCFL 24.
(2005) Towards a unification of head and phrase movement. Going Romance 18 and LSRL 35.
(2005) Coordination under Right Node Raising (with Mark de Vos). WCCFL 24.
(2004) Word order, clause structure, and movement operations in Basque. GLOW 27.
(2003) Basque as a head-initial language. ConSOLE 13.
(2003) Inversion, reconstruction, and the structure of relative clauses. LSRL 33.

Academic service

Paper reviewer for Lingua, Syntax, Probus, NLLT John Benjamins, Elsevier.
Abstract reviewer for BIDE, ConSOLE.
Member of the SOLE Board (2004-2007).

Outside academia