{"id":533,"date":"2018-05-13T06:48:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T04:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/?p=533"},"modified":"2018-05-14T09:19:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:19:35","slug":"dissertation-defense-by-alexandra-kinne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/2018\/05\/13\/dissertation-defense-by-alexandra-kinne\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertation defense by Alexandra Kinne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nova-v-message-item__stack-item\">\n<div class=\"nova-e-text nova-e-text--size-m nova-e-text--family-sans-serif nova-e-text--spacing-s nova-e-text--color-inherit redraft-text\" style=\"text-align: left\">On Friday, May 11th, 2018, Alexandra Kinne, supervised by Marcus Callies (Bremen) and Crist\u00f3bal Lozano (Granada), defended her PhD dissertation &#8220;Weight as a determinant of syntactic variation in advanced<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/files\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180511-WA0007-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/files\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180511-WA0007-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/files\/2018\/05\/IMG-20180511-WA0007.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/> learner varieties. A corpus study of weight effects in L1 and L2 academic writing&#8221; at the University of Bremen. Christiane Bongartz (Cologne) acted as third reviewer of the dissertation. Alexandra&#8217;s work was awarded the highest distinction &#8220;summa cum laude&#8221;. Congratulations!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Her dissertation examined how syntactic variation is affected by probabilistic factors in English as an L2, as exemplified by the effect of weight on the highly weight-sensitive word order alternation with two types of multi-word units: English transitive verb-particle constructions (aka particle placement with phrasal verbs such as <em>look up<\/em> or <em>sort out<\/em>) and transitive idiomatic verb-prepositional phrase constructions (such as <em>take into account<\/em> or <em>bear in mind<\/em>).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, May 11th, 2018, Alexandra Kinne, supervised by Marcus Callies (Bremen) and Crist\u00f3bal Lozano (Granada), defended her PhD dissertation &#8220;Weight as a determinant of syntactic variation in advanced learner varieties. A corpus study of weight effects in L1 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/2018\/05\/13\/dissertation-defense-by-alexandra-kinne\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,303775,304444,304300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-news-and-events","category-people","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/cale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}