Forschungsinteressen

• Degree Modification
• Adjectives and Gradability
• Syntax-Semantics Interface
• Lexical-Grammatical distinction
• Functional Discourse Grammar

Akademischer Lebenslauf

2026 Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft

2021-2025 Universitätsassistent | Prae-doc, Universität Wien, Department of English and American Studies, Lehrstuhl für theoretische und funktionale Linguistik (Prof. Dr. Evelien Keizer)

Seit 2022 Mitglied Fun*Cog Research Group 

Seit 2022 Co-editor VIEWS (Vienna English Working Papers), Universität Wien, Department of English and American Studies

2018-2021 Master English Language and Linguistics, Universität Wien

2012-2016 Bachelor English Studies | Philosophie, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München

Publikationen

Accepted Berner, Felix. Accepted. It is sort of complicated: An FDG account of the type noun sort (of). In Riccardo Giomi, Kees Hengeveld, & Matthias Mittendorfer (eds.), The Interpersonal Level in Functional Discourse Grammar.

In prep. Berner, Felix & Keizer, Evelien. In prep. (No) lexical affixation in Functional Discourse Grammar. 

Vorträge

August 2026 Berner, Felix. 2026. The comparative in FDG: adjective types and dependency relations.
Talk at SLE 58, University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Juli 2026 Berner, Felix. 2026. The comparative in FDG: adjective types, dependency relations and the synthetic problem. 
Talk at IC-FDG 2026, University of Cordoba, Spain.

Mai 2025 Berner, Felix. 2025. It is sort of complicated: Open questions about the type noun sort of. 
Talk at AAUTE 33, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria.

August 2024 Berner, Felix. 2024. What measure phrases can tell about relative and absolute adjectives – and vice versa. 
Talk at SLE 57, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Juli 2024 Berner, Felix. 2024. What measure phrases can tell about relative and absolute adjectives – and vice versa. 
Talk at IC-FDG 2024, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil.

August 2023 Berner, Felix. 2023. The very (nearly) problem – The problem of using very as a diagnostic for lexicality. 
Talk at SLE 56, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Mai 2023 Functional Discourse Grammar: An introduction (with Matthias Mittendorfer).
Talk as part of the lecture Modelling syntax – From Minimalism to Construction Grammar by Professor Lotte Sommerer at the English Department, University of Freiburg, Germany, online.

Februar 2023 Berner, Felix. 2023. Focalizability as a diagnostic for lexicality – Operationalizations, problems, and a potential solution. 
Talk at 20. STaPS, online.