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Paulina Łęska-Bayraktar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English-Polish Comparative Linguistics at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where she conducts research and teaches in formal syntax and comparative linguistics. Her academic foundation is deeply rooted in the same institution, reflecting a sustained commitment to linguistic scholarship in Poland. Her educational background includes: B.A. in English Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2012) M.A. in English Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2014) Ph.D. in English Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2019) Her research interests lie at the intersection of syntax, semantics, and cognitive grammar, with a strong focus on generative approaches to Slavic languages—particularly Polish. She investigates complex syntactic phenomena such as binding theory, pronoun distribution, quantifier scope, agreement, and the structure of relative and nominal clauses. Her work combines formal theoretical analysis with empirical data, often drawing on acceptability judgments and psycholinguistic methodologies. The trends in her recent publications reveal a sustained engagement with the syntax of Polish, especially in non-canonical constructions involving dative arguments, experiencers, and pronominal clusters. Her work contributes significantly to the understanding of how universal syntactic principles manifest in Slavic morphosyntax, and she frequently collaborates with leading scholars like Prof. Jacek Witkoś. She has received research funding from the Polish National Science Center through multiple grants, including OPUS, Beethoven, and Miniatura projects, which have supported her investigations into nominal expressions, pronouns, and anaphora in Polish. These grants underscore the national recognition of her research contributions. Paulina Łęska-Bayraktar actively participates in the international linguistics community, presenting her work at major conferences such as Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL), Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL), and the Poznań Linguistic Meeting. She is also involved in collaborative research teams and has co-authored works with scholars from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and other institutions. Her academic presence is further strengthened by her profiles on ORCID and ResearchGate.

• Syntax
• Comparative Linguistics
• Formal Semantics
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Miloje Despic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University , affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences . His research spans theoretical syntax , morphology , and semantics , focusing on cross-linguistic variation and the syntax-morphology interface. Research Focus : Cross-linguistic variation in functional elements (e.g., articles), syntax-morphology interactions (e.g., hybrid agreement, clitic-affix distinction). Languages Studied : Slavic (Serbian, BCMS), Turkic, Algonquian (Cheyenne). Publication Trends : Recent work addresses reflexive possessive agreement in Mongolian, nominal ellipsis in Serbian, cyclic and multiple agreement in Cheyenne, markedness in Algonquian theme signs, and non-intersective adjectives. His research intersects syntactic theory , morphological anomalies , and semantic interpretation .

• Syntax
• Morphology
• Semantics
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Prof. Stefan Müller is a Professor at the Institute for German Language and Linguistics , part of the Faculty of Languages and Literature at Humboldt University. His research focuses on syntax, formal grammar theories (especially Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar), and computational linguistics. He leads the CoreGram Project , developing cross-linguistic grammars using HPSG formalisms. His work includes analyses of German syntax, constituent order, anaphoric binding, and register phenomena. He is also involved in open-access publishing initiatives through Language Science Press . Contact: St.Mueller@hu-berlin.de . Education and academic background details are not explicitly stated in the provided text, but his professional trajectory indicates deep expertise in theoretical linguistics. His research spans multiple languages including German, Mandarin, and Persian, with a focus on grammar implementation and syntax-semantics interfaces. Key contributions include the Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Handbook (2024), analyses of headless nominal structures in German (2022), and exploration of large language models' theoretical implications (2024). He actively engages in interdisciplinary projects bridging formal grammar and computational methods.

• German Linguistics
• Syntax
• Formal Grammar
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Pranav Anand is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He currently serves as the Faculty Director of the Humanities Institute at UCSC since July 2023. His research focuses on the interplay between context, interpretation, and grammatical perspective, particularly in areas like de re/de se contrasts, evaluative predication, and indexical shift. He has contributed to studies on narrative structures, evidential restrictions, and the syntax-semantics interface in sluicing. Dr. Anand has taught a variety of courses including Ling 119: Narratives , Ling 231: Semantics A , and special topics like Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto . His work bridges theoretical linguistics with computational methods, evidenced by collaborations in projects such as the Santa Cruz sluicing dataset and analyses of political discourse in online commentary. His research has been published in journals like Linguistics and Philosophy , Language , and Discourse and Society , with a focus on semantics, pragmatics, and narrative linguistics. He has also contributed to computational linguistics initiatives, including the development of annotated corpora for sentiment analysis and argumentation studies. Dr. Anand's academic contributions span both theoretical exploration and applied computational linguistics, reflecting his interdisciplinary approach to understanding language structure and usage.

• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Satoshi Tomioka is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware, affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences. He holds a B.A. from International Christian University (Tokyo) and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His expertise spans semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and prosody, with a focus on Japanese and comparative East Asian linguistics. Education: B.A. in Liberal Arts (1987), International Christian University; Ph.D. in Linguistics (1997), University of Massachusetts Amherst. Research interests include ellipsis, anaphora, wh-interrogatives, distributivity, and contrastiveness. He investigates how prosody interacts with syntax and semantics in Japanese, exploring topics like focus marking, intervention effects, and scalar implicatures. Recent work examines associative plurals and pragmatic disambiguation in embedded questions. Publications analyze theoretical and empirical questions in linguistic interfaces, such as Bare quotatives as embedded speech acts (2024) and Focus without pitch boost (2022). His work bridges formal semantics and experimental approaches, addressing challenges in cross-linguistic typology and cognitive aspects of language processing.

• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Prosody and Intonation
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Kyle Johnson is a Professor and Curriculum Committee Chair in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, located in Integrative Learning Center N440. He holds a BA in Psychology from the University of California-Irvine (1981) and a PhD in Linguistics from MIT (1985). His research focuses on formal syntactic theory, particularly the interaction between syntax and prosody/semantics, with attention to real-time sentence processing evidence. He has taught at multiple institutions including UC-Irvine, UCLA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and McGill University before joining UMass. Current courses include LING 301 (Introduction to Syntax) and LING 601 (Transformational Grammar). His work emphasizes syntactic derivations, linearization, ellipsis phenomena (gapping, stripping), and the empirical adequacy of formal syntactic theories. Selected recent contributions include analyses of Principle B derivation, prosodic spell-out mechanisms, and theta-role theory. He maintains an active publication schedule with over three decades of work in top journals like Linguistic Inquiry and Nordlyd , addressing topics ranging from adjunct islands to multidominant movement theories. His research combines theoretical innovation with experimental plausibility, often challenging traditional assumptions in generative syntax. Teaching responsibilities include both undergraduate and graduate syntax courses, with supplementary materials like Transformational Grammar lecture notes and a comprehensive bib file for researchers. Office hours are scheduled via his online calendar with a preference for in-person meetings.

• Syntactic Theory
• Syntax-Prosody Interaction
• Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Ethan Poole is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and morphological case, particularly in Finnish. Key areas include reconstruction effects, quirky subjects, and cross-clausal dependencies, with recent work on the Williams Cycle and Hindi-Urdu binding. His research interests span syntactic movement interpretation, morphological case (especially Finnish), and quirky subjects. He explores topics like embedding, intervention effects in tough-constructions, and NPI grammaticality illusions. Collaborative work includes studies on Hindi-Urdu scrambling and tough-constructions. His articles analyze reconstruction effects, trace semantics, and syntactic phases, reflecting a focus on formal syntax and interface constraints. Notable themes include case assignment mechanisms and the theoretical implications of syntactic movement for semantic interpretation. No specific scientific awards or grants are listed in the provided information. He advises no students in the given data. His work contributes to foundational questions in syntactic theory and cross-linguistic variation.

• Syntax
• Semantics
• Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Julie Anne Legate is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Linguistics. She earned her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002. Legate co-directs the Penn Syntax Lab and served as Editor-in-Chief of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory for 10 years. Her research focuses on syntactic theory, morphosyntax, and syntax-semantics interfaces, with specialization in endangered/understudied languages. Key interests include passives, impersonals, causatives, null subjects, case theory, and locality domains. She maintains secondary research interests in language acquisition. Legate's publications demonstrate extensive work on voice systems (especially passives), ergativity, case theory, recursion, and cross-linguistic analysis of languages including Acehnese, Warlpiri, and Lithuanian. Her research frequently combines theoretical innovation with empirical fieldwork. Awards include the LSA’s Best Paper in Language Award (2020) for On Passives of Passives . She has advised multiple PhD students including Faruk Akkuş (2021), Milena Šereikaitė (2020), Ava Irani (2019), Helen Jeoung (2018), and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson (2017). Current projects include: syntactic islands (with Charles Yang), Mandarin bridge verbs (with Jiayi Lu and Charles Yang), null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese (with Gesoel Mendes), and passive agent binding.

• Syntactic Theory
• Morphosyntax
• Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng is a Professor of General Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, with a focus on comparative syntax and its interactions with semantics, prosody, and processing. She co-founded the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) and is a member of KNAW, Academia Europaea, and LSA Fellow. PhD in Linguistics from MIT (1991) Assistant/Associate Professor at UC Irvine (1991-2000) Her research explores language variation through comparative syntax , wh-questions , and interdisciplinary approaches involving the brain. Key projects include Ellipsis Licensing Beyond Syntax (NWO), Understanding Questions (NWO), and Advancing the European Multilingual Experience (FP7 EU). Her work spans Chinese , Bantu , and other languages, addressing phenomena like intervention effects and scope fixation . Her publications include studies on wh-in-situ in Chinese, French, and Bantu languages, emphasizing the role of interfaces and cognitive processes. Awards include membership in KNAW (2017), Academia Europaea, and LSA Fellow status. She has supervised over 20 PhD students and teaches syntax and syntax-semantics interface courses at Leiden University. Her affiliations include the Theoretical Linguistics and Experimental Linguistics groups.

• Comparative syntax
• Syntax-semantics interface
• Typology
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Keir Moulton is an Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a BA (Honors) from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, experimental linguistics, and formal approaches to clause structure and anaphora. He has conducted extensive experimental work on pronoun resolution, ellipsis, and binding theory, with a particular interest in exploring how structural constraints influence language processing. His academic career includes roles as co-editor of NELS 34 and contributions to major linguistics conferences such as SALT and WCCFL. Moulton's recent work examines topics like underspecified pronoun interpretation, Korean VP anaphora, and the cognitive processing of syntactic structures. His methodologies blend formal theoretical analysis with experimental techniques, including eye-tracking studies and acceptability judgments. Key research areas include: experimental syntax-semantics interaction, binding theory, ellipsis resolution, and the typology of clausal complementation. He has published over 50 articles in journals like Language , Linguistic Inquiry , and Journal of Cognitive Science , as well as book chapters and edited volumes. Moulton’s work has been supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. His teaching focuses on graduate courses in syntax, semantics, and experimental methods.

• Syntax
• Semantics
• Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Anna Theakston is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Manchester where she holds the position of Head of Division for the Division of Psychology Communication and Human Neuroscience. She is also Co-director of the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD), a major research initiative focused on language development in children. Dr. Theakston completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Nottingham and earned her PhD through research at the University of Manchester on early language development in children aged 2-3 years. She subsequently coordinated the Manchester-based Max Planck Child Study Centre before being appointed to her current professorship. Her research focuses on children's early language and communicative development during preschool and early school years, situated within a usage-based framework that emphasizes child-environment interactions and caregiver input. Her work spans multiple areas including early gestural communication, caregiver-child interactions, grammatical construction acquisition, grammatical error origins, inflectional morphology, and syntax-semantics-pragmatics interfaces in complex language development. She frequently conducts crosslinguistic comparisons and employs diverse methodologies from corpus analysis to behavioral experiments, often collaborating with computational modelers. Analysis of her recent publications reveals strong emphasis on children's comprehension and production of complex sentence structures, particularly adverbial and complement clauses, with investigations into how information structure, iconicity, and pragmatic factors influence language development. Her work increasingly examines applications in real-world contexts including schools, nurseries, and cultural institutions, with growing attention to supporting deaf children's communication development and multilingual education. Co-Director, ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) Active researcher with 111 research outputs including articles, datasets, and book chapters Recipient of research funding from ESRC and Max Planck Institute Professor Theakston supervises numerous PhD students investigating various aspects of language development, with recent projects examining tag questions, cultural institutions' role in language learning for minority populations, science interventions for deaf children, and Modern Foreign Language teaching in multilingual classrooms. Her research has practical impact through tools like the Teacher Toolkit for Teaching Primary MFL in Multilingual Key Stage 2 Classrooms and initiatives supporting deaf children's social communication skills. She maintains active collaborations with researchers across multiple disciplines and institutions, as evidenced by her extensive co-authorship network. Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to quality education and reduced inequalities.

• Language Acquisition
• Communicative Development
• Child Development
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Dmitriy Traytel is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Computer Science since August 2020, where he currently heads the Software, Data, People & Society (SDPS) section. Prior to this position, he worked as a senior researcher (Oberassistent) in the Information Security Group led by David Basin at ETH Zürich. He completed his PhD at TU München under Tobias Nipkow's supervision in 2015. His research focuses on formal methods, particularly logic, automata theory, runtime verification and monitoring, decision procedures, (co)induction and (co)recursion, and interactive theorem proving. Traytel develops formally verified tools for runtime monitoring including VeriMon, TimelyMon, and WhyMon, emphasizing correctness and efficiency in monitoring complex temporal properties. His recent publications (2021-2025) demonstrate a strong focus on first-order temporal logic monitoring, with particular attention to explainable verdicts, scalable parallel implementations, and formal verification of monitoring algorithms. The work spans theoretical foundations in logic and category theory while maintaining practical applications in runtime verification systems. Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2025 for 'Barendregt Convenes with Knaster and Tarski' Best Student Paper Award at FSCD 2016 Distinguished Paper Award at ATVA 2018 Traytel has supervised numerous PhD, Master's, and Bachelor's students in areas spanning formal verification, runtime monitoring, and theorem proving. His research has been supported through collaborations with major institutions including ETH Zürich and TU München. He actively contributes to the academic community by serving on program committees for major conferences including ITP 2025 and RV 2025. He leads the Software, Data, People & Society section at the University of Copenhagen, focusing on developing formally verified tools for runtime verification that bridge theoretical computer science with practical applications in security and system monitoring.

• Logic
• Automata Theory
• Runtime Verification
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Dr. Danfeng Wu is a Research Fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, conducting interdisciplinary research in syntax-semantics and syntax-prosody mappings. Her work focuses on ellipsis, focus in coordination, and the empirical interplay between syntactic structure and prosody, employing experimental phonetic methods. She investigates languages like English and Mandarin Chinese to explore the cognitive and computational aspects of linguistic structure. Her research themes include phonetics, prosody, semantics, and syntax, with a particular emphasis on how syntactic configurations interact with prosodic phrasing and stress patterns. She has contributed to studies on corrective constructions, clitic climbing in Wolof, and vowel lengthening in Zulu, demonstrating a broad methodological approach combining theoretical linguistics with experimental and computational methods. Dr. Wu is affiliated with the Phonetics Lab and Language & Brain Lab within the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. She has organized interdisciplinary events such as the Oxford workshop on AI language models and developed linguistics courses for computer scientists and cognitive scientists at MIT. Her work bridges formal linguistics with cognitive science and computational linguistics, emphasizing realistic models of language acquisition and evolution.

• syntax-semantics interface
• syntax-prosody mapping
• ellipsis
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Manon Jones is a Professor in Psychology and Director of Research at Bangor University's School of Psychology and Sport Science. She directs the Miles Dyslexia Centre, a research hub providing assessment services and professional development for practitioners, and leads the RILL project—a bilingual literacy program for primary schools funded by UKRI, Nuffield Foundation, and Welsh Government. Her research explores cognitive and neurocognitive foundations of reading, dyslexia, and bilingualism. Key themes include: Cross-modal learning in dyslexia Orthographic processing across languages Remote literacy instruction efficacy Neurodivergent cognition models Syntax acquisition in bilinguals Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2014–2025) reveals dominant foci on dyslexia mechanisms (9 papers), bilingual language processing (7 papers), and literacy intervention design (4 papers). Methodologies include eye-tracking, ERP, and randomized controlled trials, with increasing emphasis on computational modeling since 2021. She leads multiple grants including: RILL randomized control trial (Welsh Government, 2022–2026) Welsh literacy scale-up project (2024–2025) Neurodevelopmental disorder screening tool development (2022–2023) COVID-19 remote teaching research (2020–2022) She directs the Reading Brain lab and collaborates with NHS services to translate research into clinical/educational practice.

• Reading
• Language Processing
• Dyslexia
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Dr. Margreet Vogelzang is a Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University and an affiliated researcher at Theoretical and Applied Linguistics within the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Based at the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP, and affiliated with Trinity College at Cambridge, she maintains a dual institutional presence that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of her work. Her research program combines neuroscientific, psychological, linguistic, and statistical methodologies to investigate language and cognitive processing across the lifespan. She specializes in multilingual syntactic and semantic processing, employing both written and spoken language paradigms with offline (comprehension, judgments) and online (eye-tracking, EEG, fMRI) measures. Her work examines how hearing loss, socio-linguistic variables, and developmental conditions like autism spectrum disorder influence language processing mechanisms. Analysis of her recent publication record reveals three dominant research trajectories: (1) bilingualism effects on cognitive flexibility in autistic children, (2) neural and cognitive mechanisms of sentence processing in individuals with hearing loss, and (3) computational modeling of pronoun interpretation across diverse populations. These strands demonstrate her consistent focus on bridging theoretical linguistics with cognitive neuroscience to address practical questions about language processing variability. Dr. Vogelzang actively supervises several graduate students including Alexander Cairncross, Andromachi Tsoukala, and Chara Triantafyllidou, and serves as course contact for Li16: Psychology of language processing and learning at Cambridge. Her teaching portfolio includes psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive science, and research methods, reflecting her methodological expertise across experimental and computational approaches.

• Psycholinguistics
• Language Processing
• Cognitive Neuroscience
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