Rate My Professor Eva-Maria Remberger

Eva-Maria Remberger is University Professor for Romance Linguistics at the Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, a position she has held since March 1, 2013. Born in 1968 in Munich, she studied Romance Philology/Italian, Germanistics, and Romance Philology/Spanish at the University of Cologne from 1989 to 1997, including an Erasmus semester at the University of Genoa in 1993-1994, and later obtained a certificate in advanced studies on German as a Foreign Language from the University of Bonn in 1998. She completed her PhD at the Free University of Berlin in 2003. Her early career included roles as scientific assistant at the University of Cologne's Institute for Romance Philology and Linguistic Information Processing from 1997 to 2002, and at the Free University of Berlin's Institute for Romance Philology from 2003 to 2006, as well as coordinator for the interdisciplinary center on European Languages - Structures - Development - Comparison at FU Berlin from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2013, she served as Junior Professor for Romance Linguistics at the University of Konstanz, where she also substituted a W3 full professorship in the winter semester 2010/11. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Department of Italian in 2007-2008 under a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and received the Ernst Reuter Prize from the Free University of Berlin in 2004 for her dissertation.

Remberger's research centers on the syntax, semantics, and morphosyntax of Romance languages, with particular emphasis on Sardinian, Italian dialects, and Romanian, exploring topics such as information structure, evidentiality, hearsay and quotative markers, verbal morphology including suppletion, theme vowels, and athematic forms, grammaticalization processes, and minimalist syntax using Distributed Morphology frameworks. She has authored the monograph Hilfsverben. Eine minimalistische Analyse am Beispiel des Italienischen und Sardischen (Niemeyer, 2006) and edited key volumes including Passives Cross-Linguistically: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches (Brill, 2021, with Grohmann and Matsuya), Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax (De Gruyter, 2021, with Hinzelin and Pomino), Italian Dialectology at the Interface (Benjamins, 2019, with Cruschina and Ledgeway), and Dimensions of Romance Linguistics (Vienna University Press, 2023, with Pomino and Zwink). Recent peer-reviewed articles include Athematic verbal forms in Italian: A DM-analysis based on spanning (Linguistic Variation, 2026, with Pomino), Small syntactic terminal nodes, large Vocabulary Items: a spanning approach to irregular Romance verb inflection (Glossa, 2025, with Pomino), and Speaker subject expression with verbs of cognition: think/believe in Italian and Spanish (Borealis, 2025, with Herbeck and Miglietta). Her work has advanced understanding of microvariation in Romance morphosyntax and discourse phenomena through theoretical and comparative analyses.