Jonah Rys

PhD Fellow, Research Foundation Flanders

Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent

Education

• 2012-2016: PhD Researcher "Case alternation in present-day German: A corpus-based analysis of the conditions of use of accusative and dative with non-transparent two-way prepositional verbs" (Ghent University, Research Foundation Flanders grant)
• 2007-2010: MA in Languages and Literature (German and Dutch) (Ghent University)
• 12/2008-2/2009: Master in Languages and Literature (Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster, Erasmus stay)
• 2002-2007: MA in History (Ghent University)

Presentations

• On the Role Played by Iconicity in the Placement of Adverbial Satellites in Spoken Dutch – 8th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature – Linneaus University Växjö (With L. De Cuypere)
• ‘Spatial prepositions and case alternation in present-day German’ – Spatiale Relationen Kontrastiv - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela- 4/10/2012
• ‚Probleme der Beschreibung und Interpretation des Kasusgebrauchs nach deutschen Wechselpräpositionen‘ – Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende 5 – Universität Heidelberg – 6/04/2013
• Case variation with German two-way prepositions: a corpus-based approach – Lingforum Lunch Talk – Ghent University – 9/04/2014
• Variable case marking with german two-way prepositions. A constructionist approach – 8th  International Conference on Construction grammar  - 3/09/2014
• Variable case marking with german two-way prepositions: a corpus-based approach - 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea – Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan – 13/09/2014
• Two-way prepositions, case marking variation and argument structure constructionsA corpus-driven approach (invited talk) – Contrastive constructicon workshop – Universität Erlangen – 25/06/2015
• A corpus-based approach to case variation with german two-way prepositions – Corpus Linguistics Conference – Lancaster University – 16/07/2015
• Case marking variation with two-way prepositions. A corpus-driven approach – Leiden University – 03/09/2015
• Die variabele Kasusrektion der deutschen Wechselpräpositionen (guest lecture) – Master seminar Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft: Variationslinguistik – 4/12/2015
• A verb-centered approach to the ACC/DAT alternation of German two-way prepositions: Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods. – New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation 2 – Ghent University – 19/05/2016
• Norms and functions of the ACC/DAT alternation with German two-way prepositions – Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference – University of Iceland – 21/05/2016

Attended Courses

• Introduction to R - Institute for Continuing Education in Science (Ghent University) - 10/2013
• Introductory Statistics. Basics of Statistical Inference - Institute of Continuing Education in Science(Ghent University) - 11-12/2013
• Geavanceerde Statistische Methoden: Multivariate Methoden - Institute of Continuing Education (Ghent University) - 01-02/2014
• Logistic Regression - Flanders Training Network for Methodology and Statistics - 03/2014
• Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch - Munich International Summer University (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) - 08/2014
• Methodological Tools for Digital Humanities - 11/2014
• Sign-based Construction Grammar - LOT Summer School - Leuven University - 06/2015
• How to improve your statistics - LOT Summer School - Leuven University - 06/2015