Miriam Butt

Miriam Butt is a Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, and a member of the Board at the Cluster of Excellence 'The Politics of Inequality.' Her research focuses on South Asian languages, particularly Urdu, and the historical distribution of case systems and complex predicates.

• Projects: Framing Inequalities, Mobilizing Inequalities: From Grievances to Conflict
• Key research areas: Computational linguistics, morphology, syntax, and language technology

Her work includes collaborations on computational approaches for under-resourced languages, such as a posthumous publication with doctoral student Worku Kelemework Birhanie on Amharic morphology using deep learning techniques.

Scientific Awards

• Member of Academia Europaea (MAE)

Miriam’s academic leadership extends to supervising PhD students and contributing to interdisciplinary research on inequality dynamics within the Cluster of Excellence.