Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities - Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies

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Research Interests

• West- and East Slavonic synchronic linguistics
• Corpus linguistics and language technology, Relation of Theory and Empiry
• Diachronic Syntax
• Case and grammatical functions; Argument structure
• Intonation
• Information structure and sentence mood
• Theories of grammar
• German/Slavonic language contact, Areal linguistics

Current grant projects

• DFG grant: "Corpus linguistics and diachronic syntax: Subject case, finiteness and agreement in Slavonic languages": Principal Investigator. 2013-2016. Co-Investigators: B. Hansen, E. Hansack
• Clarin-D (BMBF) Curation project: "Access to digital archives via metadata and lemmata": Principal Investigator. 2013-2014.
• Volkswagenstiftung DoBeS, 2011-2014: "The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs cross-linguistically”: Co-Investigator (with H. J. Bibiko, B. Bickel, S. Danielsen, S. Nordhoff, B. Pakendorf, J. Strunk, A. Witzlack-Makarevich, T. Zakharko). 2011-2014. Principal Investigator: F. Seifart (University of Amsterdam and MPI EVA Leipzig).

Finished grant projects

• DFG grant: "Corpus linguistics and diachronic syntax: Grammaticalization of non-standard subjects in Slavonic languages": Researcher / Redaction of proposal. Regensburg, 2008-2011. Principal Investigators: B. Hansen, E. Hansack
• DFG grant: "Focus and intonation in Russian non-declarative sentences": Researcher / Redaction of proposal. DFG Research group 349, Leipzig. 2002-2003. Principal Investigator: G. Zybatow
• DFG grant: "Linguistic data structures": Scientific coordinator and researcher. DFG Research Centre 441, Tübingen. 2000-2002. Principal Investigators: M. Reis, E. Hinrichs
• DAAD "Project-related exchange of personnel" Poland 2006-2007: Principal Investigator, with A. Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)

Development of corpora and software tools

• Regensburg Russian Diachronic Corpus (RRuDi) (test login: rrudi/rrudi)
• Polish Diachronic Corpus (PolDi) (test login: poldi/poldi)
• Corpus of Slavonic/German bilinguals (test login: biling/biling)
• Parallel Corpus of Slavic and Other Languages (ParaSoL) (with R. v. Waldenfels)
• Corpus of Russian first language acquisition (with S. Stoll, Zurich)
• Online Old Church Slavonic inflectional morphology