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I am a research associate at the Chair of Descriptive and Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Tübingen. 

I completed my PhD in 2020 at the University of Tübingen with the thesis "Comparing Comparatives - New Perspectives from Fieldwork and Processing" that can be found here.

My work is on theoretical semantics with additional interests in syntax and pragmatics and their interfaces. The aim of my research is to gain a deeper understanding of the architecture of language by focusing on cross-linguistic variation and processing. The phenomena I am working on are degree constructions, alternative semantics, (in)definiteness and presuppositions cross-linguistically. Recently, I became particularly interested in multilingual grammar.

On the empirical side, I have done fieldwork on Tundra Nenets, a Samoyedic language spoken in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug or the Yamal region in Russia.  I also work on English, German, Russian and Turkish employing mostly fieldwork methods and conducting cross-linguistic experiments.

Generally, I am particularly intrigued by the question of how linguistic theory fares in the light of different kinds of empirical data and what we can learn about grammar by enriching our theory with new insights gained from new data. 

You can download my CV here.


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