Dr. Petra Sleeman

Biography

Petra Sleeman is a senior linguist at the Department of Linguistics and the research institute ACLC of the University of Amsterdam. She has held previous positions at the University of Utrecht and the University of Groningen, and has been an invited assistant professor at the University Paris VII and University Paris III, as well as an invited professor at the University Lille III. She graduated in 1996 with a thesis on nominal ellipsis titled 'Licensing Empty Nouns in French', supervised by Aafke Hulk and Denis Delfitto. Her primary research interests include French determiner phrases (DP), adjective positioning, adjectival agreement, noun ellipsis, relative clauses, partitive constructions, definiteness, and nominalization. Additionally, she focuses on first language (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition, being a principal investigator (PI) in the European network PARTE (Partitivity in European Languages). Her dissertation was published by Holland Academic Graphics. She supervises PhD students in various topics related to language acquisition and the interaction of language internal and external factors.

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