My most recent research centers on the syntax, morphosemantics and diachrony of categorizers (roughly, stem-forming morphemes). My current ERC-project EVOCAT (“The Evolution of Morphosyntactic Categorization: Formal Typology, Diachrony, and Comparative Reconstruction of the Mental Lexicon”) has its own website: https://evocat.univie.ac.at/.
My previous project “Verbal categories and categorizers in diachrony” (Die Diachronie verbaler Kategorien und Kategorisierer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Elise-Richter-grant V 850-G, 2021-2024) examined how verbal stem-forming and verbal derivational morphology in general develops and changes over time, with a focus on ancient Indo-European languages (especially Greek, Latin, and Indo-Iranian). Some activities and publications associated with this project are collected on this page.
Publications
- Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European and beyond. Volume edited with Viktoria Reiter and Melanie Malzahn. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19002980
- Introduction (Grestenberger, Reiter, Malzahn). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21236999
- The diachrony of iterativity: Evidence from Germanic r-verbs. With Martina Werner, Paige Anderson, and Dorothea Sichrovsky. Word Structure 19(2-3): 223–275 (SI “Historical Morphology and Morphological Theory”, eds. F. Gardani & F. Rainer), 2026. DOI: 10.3366/word.2026.0270.
- Voice alternations in diachrony. With Iris Tanza-Kamil. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics, eds. Adam Ledgeway, Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É Kiss, Joseph Salmons & Alexandra Simonenko. Wiley-Blackwell, 2026. DOI: 10.1002/9781119898023.wbcdl106.
- The diachrony of verbalizers in Indo-European: Where does v come from? Journal of Historical Syntax, 7(6-19), 1-40 (Proceedings of the 22nd Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference), 2023. https://doi.org/10.18148/hs/2023.v7i6-19.156
- To v or not to v? Theme vowels, verbalizers, and the structure of the Ancient Greek verb. Glossa 47(1), 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8597.
- Directionality in cross-categorial derivations. With Itamar Kastner. Glossa 2022/7, DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8710.
IMM 21 Workshop “Adjectives, categorization and argument structure”
A workshop at the 21st International Morphology Meeting (Vienna, 28 – 30 August 2024) jointly organized with Martina Werner (Austrian Academy of Sciences).
ICHL Workshop “Categorizers in diachrony”
A mini-workshop on comparative and theoretical approaches to categorizer change co-organized with Iris Kamil (University of Edinburgh) and Viktoria Reiter (University of Vienna) and the International Conference on Historical Linguistics 26 (Heidelberg, Sept. 4-8, 2023).
- Categorizers in diachrony: introduction to the workshop (Grestenberger, Kamil, Reiter)
- Conference website
- Call for Papers
Workshop “Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European: Historical and theoretical perspectives”
This international workshop, which took place in Vienna from March 10-11, 2023, was co-organized with Viktoria Reiter (University of Vienna) and examined the morphology and semantics of deadjectival (especially “Caland-associated” verbs in Indo-European) from a comparative and theoretical perspective in order to gain a better understanding of the diachrony, semantics and derivational basis (bases?) of “deadjectivals”. A dedicated proceedings volume is in the works.
