Katharina Gerhalter

Katharina Gerhalter is a Lecturer at the Department of Romance Linguistics within the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Graz. Her academic work focuses on the intersections of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, particularly in the diachronic development of discourse functions in Romance languages.

• Education: Mag. Dr.phil. Bakk.phil. (equivalent to MA and BA in philosophy/philology)

Her research includes the adjective-adverb interface in Spanish (dissertation, 2018) and a current habilitation thesis on topicalized infinitives in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. She contributes to the creation of annotated corpora for comparative studies in Romance languages.

Recent publications analyze quantifiers in Spanish/Portuguese, NLP processing of infinitive structures, and historical pragmatics. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with digital corpus methodologies, emphasizing cross-linguistic variation.