About me

I am a PhD student at the department of Linguistics at the University of Leipzig working as a research assistant in the IGRA graduate program (Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks).  My PhD thesis is on the morphophonological properties of tone in Nuer. My supervisors are: Jochen Trommer,  Bert Remijsen , Tamara Rathcke and Eva Zimmermann . 
I received my Master's degree at the Humboldt University of Berlin in Theoretical Linguistics and was supervised by
Hubert Truckenbrodt and Manfred Krifka. I did my Bachelor in French and Spanish at the University of Oslo. 

I have a passion for tone and a big interest for Bantu and Nilotic languages. Fieldwork is an important part of my work and I am planning on going to Ethiopia in 2017.

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Research Interests

My main research interests are prosody and tone  and their interfaces with morphology and syntax. I have mainly worked on Bantu languages (Makhuwa, Xitsonga, Bàsàa, Limbum) and the topic of my MA thesis was 'Downstep in Kikuyu'. In this study, I analyzed Kikuyu downstep in the Edge-Based approach of Syntax-Phonology interface proposing a stratal OT analysis. In the empirical part of my work I did an acoustic analysis of recorded data. I am currently working on tone in Nuer, pseudo-coordination in Norwegian, and Limbum prosody.

• Prosody, tone and phonology
• The Syntax-Phonology Interface
• Serial OT and Strata
• Bantu Languages
• Nilotic languages
• Pseudo-coordination

Languages

Native: Norwegian

Fluent: English, German and Italian

Intermediate: French

Basic: Spanish, Russian

   Contact

Office Address:

Universität Leipzig
Institut für Linguistik
Beethovenstr. 15b
04107 Leipzig
Germany

Email: 
siri_moen.gjersoe[at]uni-leipzig.de

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