Jordan Chark

Jordan Chark is a Postdoc and Researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is affiliated with the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1412 “Register” in Project A10 (“Doubling and register variation”) under Professors Viola Schmitt and Artemis Alexiadou. Her research focuses on the interfaces of formal semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics, particularly modeling meaning-driven variation in Icelandic aspectual systems. Chark defended her 2024 dissertation, supervised by Uli Sauerland, Stephanie Solt, and Artemis Alexiadou, analyzing the grammaticalization trajectory of Icelandic búinn að through formal theory, statistical modeling, and game-theoretic approaches.

Education: PhD in Linguistics (2024, Humboldt-Universität/ZAS), MSc General Linguistics (University of Potsdam), BA in Linguistics (University of Iceland). Research interests include historical linguistics, sociolinguistic variation, and experimental methods. She co-hosts the Registergeknister podcast explaining CRC research, and has taught courses like Grundkurs Linguistik at HU Berlin.

Her work bridges theoretical and empirical linguistics, addressing how pragmatic reasoning influences linguistic variation across synchronic and diachronic dimensions. Current projects explore morphosyntactic doubling in Germanic languages and register variation in creole contexts.