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Demirdache HamidaView profile

Professor

Graz University of TechnologyAustria

Demirdache Hamida is a Full Professor of Linguistics at Nantes University and Director of the Nantes Linguistics Lab (LLING UMR 6310, CNRS). She holds a PhD from MIT (1991) and Habilitation à diriger des recherches from Nantes University (2003). Her research focuses on syntax-semantics interfaces, linguistic diversity, and formal syntactic theory with emphasis on Semitic languages and under-represented languages like Salish. She has pioneered experimental methodologies to probe logical form syntax, particularly in studies of temporal anaphora, distributivity, and quantification. Leadership roles: Founded LLING lab in 2004, elevated to CNRS status in 2016 Research grants: Coordinator of ANR-DFG projects (2022-2025), CHILL serious game initiative (2018-2021) Awards: Palmes académiques (2011), Descartes-Huygens Prize (2003), multiple PEDR/PES excellence awards Her experimental work bridges theoretical syntax and empirical child language studies, with recent focus on cross-linguistic variation in telicity and scalar implicatures. Supervised 15 PhD theses (including 3 double-doctorates) and 54 master’s theses. Active in international research networks including the Van Riemsdijk Foundation and Carnot Cognition Institute. LLING lab specializes in formal linguistics with particular expertise in: syntax-semantics interfaces, multilingualism, and experimental methods. Current projects investigate Boolean connectives (FRAL project), heritage language maintenance (AThEME EU project), and logical language acquisition through game-based learning (Cool Boole School).

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Georg SchiemerView profile

Professor

University of ViennaAustria

Georg Schiemer is a Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, and serves as head of the Institute Vienna Circle. He is also an External Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich. His research spans the history and philosophy of mathematics, early analytic philosophy, logic, and formal philosophy of science. Institute Vienna Circle (Head) Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (External Fellow) His work emphasizes structuralism, focusing on mathematical structures in historical contexts (e.g., Carnap, Hilbert) and their philosophical implications. Recent publications analyze axiomatics, model theory, and epistemic frameworks in foundational mathematics and science. Scientific awards include his appointment as an External Fellow at LMU Munich. He teaches courses such as Logic, Philosophy of Science Colloquiums, and interdisciplinary seminars at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and biology.

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Jennifer CulbertsonView profile

Associate Professor

Graz University of TechnologyAustria

Jennifer Culbertson is an Associate Professor at the University of Edinburgh, where she has been a faculty member since 2014 when she took up a Chancellor's Fellowship, later being promoted to Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor) in 2018. She is a founding member of the Centre for Language Evolution at Edinburgh and maintains an active research program in experimental linguistics and cognitive science. Dr. Culbertson obtained her PhD in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2010, with her dissertation receiving the Robert J. Glushko Prize for Outstanding Dissertations in Cognitive Science in 2011. Her primary research investigates how languages are shaped by learning and use, with particular focus on grammatical structures (like word order) and morphological categories (gender and person systems). She employs experimental and computational methods to explore how typological universals arise from properties of the human cognitive system. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics, cognitive science, and language evolution, examining the cognitive constraints that influence linguistic patterns across diverse languages and learning contexts. She frequently uses artificial language learning paradigms to isolate specific cognitive mechanisms underlying language structure. Analysis of her recent publications reveals a consistent focus on cognitive biases in linguistic structure, particularly in word order and morphological systems. Her research increasingly incorporates cross-population studies (including work with autistic learners) and developmental perspectives to understand how language patterns emerge across different populations and throughout the lifespan. She examines how simplicity principles, communicative efficiency, and statistical learning shape linguistic structure. Dr. Culbertson's scientific contributions have been recognized with several prestigious awards: Robert J. Glushko Prize for Outstanding Dissertations in Cognitive Science (2011) ERC Starting Grant Young Academy of Europe membership (2019) Her research has been supported by over €2 million in funding from the ESRC and ERC. While specific advisees aren't mentioned in the provided text, her active publication record with numerous co-authors suggests she mentors graduate students and early-career researchers. Her work has significant implications for understanding language universals, language acquisition, and the cognitive foundations of linguistic structure. As a founding member of the Centre for Language Evolution at Edinburgh, Dr. Culbertson collaborates with an interdisciplinary team investigating the biological, cognitive, and cultural foundations of human language. Her research often intersects with psychology, cognitive science, and computational linguistics, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of language as both a cognitive and social phenomenon.

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Stefano QuagliaView profile

Assistant Professor

University of GrazAustria

Stefano Quaglia is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Romance Studies , University of Graz. His research focuses on syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics , using Italian as a comparative framework within and beyond Romance languages. Email: stefano.quaglia@uni-graz.at Office: Room 003303056, Merangasse 70/III, Graz, Austria Consultation Hours: Wednesday, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Research interests include: Spatial expressions and functional sentence structure Long-distance dependencies Language contact phenomena Particle verbs and clausal organization Wh-movement and information structure Cross-linguistic syntactic analysis Recent publications highlight empirical and theoretical work on verbal theme vowels , Slavic prefix ordering , and L3 transfer dynamics . His studies integrate synchronic analysis with diachronic and contact linguistics frameworks. Articles demonstrate trends in: Syntax-morphology interfaces : Allomorphy, prefix stacking, particle systems Comparative Romance-Slavic analysis : Extraction patterns, convergence phenomena Language acquisition : CLI effects in bilingual/multilingual contexts Prosodic constraints : Stress and phrasing in particle verbs Information structure : Wh-questions in Romance

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Martina WernerView profile

Research Fellow

University of ViennaAustria

Martina Werner is a Senior Postdoc and Research Fellow at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ÖAW), affiliated with the Institute of German Studies at the University of Vienna's Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies. She holds a habilitation in German Linguistics from the University of Vienna (2019) and a PhD from LMU Munich (2009). Her academic appointments include visiting professorships at Universität Würzburg (2024–2025) and LMU Munich (2019–2020), along with a guest professorship at the University of Vienna (2017/2018). Research Focus: Werner specializes in morphology, historical linguistics, and corpus-based approaches. Her work explores grammar theory, language change, syntax-morphology interfaces, and digital humanities methodologies. Current projects include FWF-funded research on relational adjectives in historical German (RAHiG) and the diachrony of nominalized infinitives. Publication Trends: Her recent articles (2016–2025) predominantly analyze diachronic morphology in German, focusing on nominalization patterns, compound structures, and suffix evolution. Corpus linguistics methodologies underpin her investigations into grammaticalization, language variation, and comparative Germanic linguistics. A strong interdisciplinary thread connects linguistic theory with empirical data analysis. Awards & Grants: FWF Project Funding: RAHiG – Relational Adjectives in the History of German (2019–2026) Elise Richter Project Grant: Diachrony of the Nominalized Infinitive in German (2014–2019) LMUMentoring Excellence Program (2008–2011) HWP Doctoral Scholarship (2005–2006) Academic Service: Werner co-leads research teams at ÖAW's Digital Humanities Centre, collaborates internationally on Germanic linguistics projects, and supervises academic initiatives through the Vienna Linguistic Society. Her teaching covers historical linguistics, morphology, and language development at undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Arkadiev PeterView profile

Researcher

Graz University of TechnologyAustria

Peter Arkadiev is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Slavic Studies, Universität Potsdam (since December 2024). His academic career includes positions such as Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities (2020–2022), Research Professor at Vilnius University’s Philological Faculty (2018–2022), and extensive research roles across institutions in Russia, Germany, Lithuania, and Switzerland. He holds a PhD from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2006) and a habilitation from the same institute (2019). His research focuses on linguistic typology, case systems, Baltic and Slavic languages, morphology, and areal linguistics. Notable contributions include studies on prefixal perfectivisation and typological analysis of grammatical relations. Education: 1999–2004: Specialist in theoretical/applied linguistics (summa cum laude), Russian State University for the Humanities 2004–2006: PhD student at Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences 2019: Habilitation on areal typology of prefixal perfectivisation Arkadiev’s work emphasizes cross-linguistic comparisons and historical perspectives. His recent projects explore morphological typology and syntax-morphology interfaces in Caucasian and Baltic languages. He has received the prestigious title of Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2022). Awards: Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2022) Grants/Funding: Marie Curie Senior Fellowship (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, 2023–2024) ANR-DFG and DFG-funded research (Germany) EU Social Fund grants (Lithuania) Active in academic communities, he participates in the Association of Linguistic Typology, Societas Linguistica Europaea, and Academia Salensis.

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Dalina KallulliView profile

Associate Professor

University of ViennaAustria

Dalina Kallulli is an Associate Professor at the University of Vienna , Department of Linguistics. Since 2012, she has been a leading figure in theoretical and comparative syntax, with a focus on Albanian and Balkan languages . Her work bridges syntax, semantics, and morphology, emphasizing interfaces and universals. Education: PhD in Theoretical Linguistics (University of Durham, 1999), Cand.Philol. in General Linguistics (University of Trondheim, 1995), MA in English (University of Tirana, 1991) Research Interests include grammar theory , comparative syntax , syntax-semantics interfaces , and language cognition . Her publications explore clitic doubling, voice systems, and cross-linguistic morphological phenomena. Notable fellowships include the Hertha Firnberg Fellowship (2004-2007) and APART Fellow (2008-2010). Recent Publications highlight diachronic aspects of voice systems, form copy in wh-dependencies, and the role of diminutives in suppressing root projections. She has been a visiting scholar at institutions like the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and New York University. Awards and Invitations: Hertha Firnberg Fellowship (FWF) APART Fellow (Austrian Academy of Sciences) W3 Professor (acting chair) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Invited talks at major international conferences (GLOW, DGfS, NELS) Teaching encompasses courses in Theory of Grammar , Introductory Linguistics , and seminars on syntactic typology.

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Kriszta Eszter SzendröiView profile

Professor

University of ViennaAustria

Professor Kriszta Eszter Szendröi is a distinguished academic at the University of Vienna, where she serves as Professor of Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics within the Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies. Her extensive teaching portfolio includes courses on morphology, syntax, Yiddish language, and information structure across multiple semesters including upcoming 2025W and 2025S terms. Professor Szendröi's primary research interests span theoretical and experimental linguistics with a specialized focus on Yiddish linguistics. Her groundbreaking work documents significant grammatical changes in Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish (CHY), including the complete loss of morphological gender and case marking across global Hasidic communities. She has conducted extensive fieldwork resulting in over 100 hours of recordings with speakers from Israel, New York, Montreal and London, examining both theoretical linguistic analysis and sociolinguistic context. Her scholarly output reveals a consistent focus on the syntax-prosody interface, particularly regarding focus movement and its acquisition across languages. Szendröi has pioneered research on CHY as a distinct linguistic variety, examining innovations in its pronominal system and the Hebrew/Aramaic component within the language. Her work also extends to community engagement, notably translating critical health information during the COVID-19 pandemic for Hasidic communities worldwide. Professor Szendröi has secured significant research funding through an AHRC-funded project on Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish conducted with Lily Kahn. The project involved international collaboration and extensive fieldwork across multiple countries, resulting in numerous publications in top linguistics journals and edited volumes. She has mentored doctoral students including Riccardo Pulicani (on quantifier raising and information structure) and Cecile Larralde (on focus effects on negation-disjunction interactions). Her collaborative research network spans international institutions, working with scholars from the University of Edinburgh, University of Potsdam, and others on language acquisition studies involving children in Hasidic communities. Professor Szendröi leads the YUNG YiDiSH WIEN initiative, a dedicated space for Yiddish language and culture in Vienna that serves both the academic community and local Yiddish-speaking Orthodox populations. Her research team has made significant contributions to documenting and analyzing Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish as a living, evolving language variety, establishing it as a distinct linguistic phenomenon worthy of scholarly attention.

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Uli SauerlandView profile

Professor

Graz University of TechnologyAustria

Uli Sauerland is a Professor and Department Head of FB4 Semantics and Pragmatics at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin since 2017. He holds honorary professorships and research fellowships in Germany and Japan. His research focuses on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and language acquisition. He has led numerous international research projects and serves on editorial boards of journals like Linguistic Inquiry and Semantics & Pragmatics . Education: 1993: Diploma (M.Sc.) in Mathematics, Universität Konstanz 1998: Ph.D. in Linguistics, MIT 2003: Habilitation in General Linguistics, Universität Tübingen 2018: außenplanmäßiger Professor, Universität Potsdam Research Interests: His work explores formal semantics, pragmatics, and syntax, with a focus on scalar implicatures, presuppositions, and experimental methods. He investigates cross-linguistic phenomena in languages like Japanese, German, and indigenous Brazilian languages. Recent topics include child language acquisition and computational modeling of pragmatic reasoning. Awards: 2018 Honorary Professorship at Universität Potsdam 2014 Humboldt Alumni Fellowship 2011 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Bridge Fellowship Grants & Leadership: Coordinated DFG SPP 1727 (XPrag.de, 2014-2020) Principal Investigator in EU-funded projects like CHLaSC (2006-2009) and COSY (2016-2019) Organized international conferences including Experimental Pragmatics 2007 and Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6 Labs & Collaborations: Leads the Semantics and Pragmatics Department at ZAS, fostering interdisciplinary research. Collaborates globally through networks like Euro XPRAG and COST Action A33.

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Matti MiestamoView profile

Professor

Graz University of TechnologyAustria

Matti Miestamo is a Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki, affiliated with the Department of General Linguistics within the Faculty of Arts. He previously held a professorship at Stockholm University (2011–2018) and has held research positions at institutions including the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2006–2011) and the University of Antwerp (2005–2006). His expertise spans language typology, documentation, and theoretical linguistics with a focus on negation, interrogatives, and language complexity. He has supervised 4 completed, 2 submitted, and 8 ongoing PhD students at the University of Helsinki. Education: PhD in General Linguistics from the University of Helsinki (2003). Awards include membership in the Academia Europaea (2019), Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2019), and Societas Scientiarum Fennica (2017). Notable honors include the Joseph Greenberg Award (2005) and Burgen Scholar Award (2004). Research Interests: Language typology and documentation Negation structures across languages Uralic languages, particularly Skolt Saami Grammatical complexity theories Methodological approaches to linguistic sampling Professional Roles: Editor of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics (2012–present) Director of the Finnish doctoral training network Langnet (2016–2019) Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki (2017) Teaching and Outreach: Extensive teaching experience in linguistics at multiple institutions, including summer schools in Tartu and Saari Manor. Active in academic assessment roles, including professorship and docent evaluations in universities across Europe.

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Németh T EnikőView profile

Professor

Graz University of TechnologyAustria

Overview Enikő Németh T. is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Szeged's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2017. She has held leadership roles including Head of the Doctoral School of Linguistics (2018–present), Head of the Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics (2012–present), and Chair of the Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program (2007–present). She earned her Candidate's degree (PhD equivalent) in 1992 and became a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2017. Education 1987: MA in Russian Language and Literature and General/Applied Linguistics (University of Szeged) 1992: Candidate's degree (PhD equivalent) in Linguistics 2017: Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Linguistics Research Interests Her work focuses on pragmatics , discourse analysis , and the interaction between grammar and pragmatics . She explores implicit arguments in Hungarian, perspectives in language use , and cognitive pragmatics . Her research emphasizes empirical methodologies and theoretical frameworks to understand linguistic phenomena like pro-drop, anaphora, and lexical semantics. Awards & Honors 2020: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Publication Award 2013: Hajdú Péter Guest Researcher Fellowship 2004–2007: Bolyai János Research Fellowship 2000–2003: Széchenyi Professor Fellowship Academic Leadership & Grants She leads major initiatives like the MTA-DE-SZTE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics (2006–present) and has directed national and international research projects. Her grants include long-term fellowships from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Labs & Teams Directs the Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics and oversees the MTA-DE-SZTE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics , fostering collaborative research in pragmatics and theoretical linguistics.

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Maria Teresa GuastiView profile

Professor

Graz University of TechnologyAustria

Maria Teresa Guasti is a Professor of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She has held academic positions since 1988, including Assistant Professor (2000-2005) and Researcher roles at institutions like the University of Siena and San Raffaele Hospital. Her research bridges theoretical linguistics, child language acquisition, and cognitive disorders like dyslexia and developmental language impairment (DLD). PhD in Linguistics, University of Geneva Guasti’s work focuses on syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in typical and atypical language development, with a special emphasis on bilingual acquisition, DLD, and dyslexia. She has contributed to understanding timing anticipation deficits in dyslexia and has expanded her research into musical cognition and motor control (handwriting). Recently, she collaborated with human-computer interaction scientists to develop language-based interactive technologies. Her publications span 160 works, including 80 peer-reviewed articles and 6 books, with over 7,000 citations and an H-index of 42. Key grants include the ERC Synergy (2019) and Multimind (2017-2022, €516,122). 2019 ERC Synergy Grant for Leibniz’s Dream (€10.2M) 2012-2018 Associate Investigator at ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders 2005-2009 Italian Representative in European COST A33 Action Guasti has trained 14 PhD students, supervised 12 postdocs, and mentored 100+ master’s students. She has served as Associate Editor for Language Acquisition and Frontiers in Psychology , and on editorial boards including Journal of Child Language . She has delivered keynotes at international conferences and taught at summer schools.

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Artemis AlexiadouView profile

Professor

Graz University of TechnologyAustria

Prof. Artemis Alexiadou is a leading linguist serving as Director of the Leibniz Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin and holds a Professorship in General Linguistics at Humboldt University of Berlin. Previously, she was Vice-Director of ZAS and Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart. Her academic roles include Managing Directorships of key linguistic institutes and extensive administrative leadership across German universities. Education: 1999 Habilitation (General Linguistics), University of Potsdam 1994 PhD in Linguistics, University of Potsdam 1991 MA, University of Reading, UK 1990 Diploma in Philology (Linguistics), University of Athens Research focuses on syntax-morphology interfaces, diachronic syntax, and heritage languages. She pioneered studies on clitic phenomena and syntactic variation in Greek dialects. Awards include the prestigious Leibniz Prize (2014) and ERC Synergy Grant (2019). Institutional leadership includes current roles as Managing Director of the Institute of English and American Studies at HU Berlin, DFG Board member for Linguistics, and member of the Berlin Elsa-Neumann Scholarship Committee. She has held over 20 academic governance roles since 1992, including ethics committee memberships and international grant panel participation. Active in scholarly societies: served as GLOW Board Chair (2005-2009), German Linguistic Society Treasurer (2003-2004), and on advisory boards for Nordic research centers. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with language acquisition studies in multilingual contexts.

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Anagnostopoulou ElenaView profile

Professor

Graz University of TechnologyAustria

Elena Anagnostopoulou is a Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Crete since 2009, with prior roles as Associate Professor (2005-2009) and Assistant Professor (1998-2005). She has held visiting positions at MIT and a fellowship at the University of Stuttgart. Education : PhD in Linguistics, University of Salzburg (1994). Research Interests : Theoretical and comparative syntax, formal typology, argument structure, case/agreement theory, clitics, control/anaphora, and historical linguistics. Her work bridges syntax, morphology, and lexicology. Scientific Impact : Over 7,500 citations (Google Scholar), h-index 37. Recipient of the 2013 Humboldt Foundation's Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award for sustained research excellence. Grants & Projects : Co-Investigator in the AHRC-funded project on diachronic case variation (2017-2019), Principal Investigator for the UCrete project applying evolutionary biology to language relationships (2019-2021). Collaborated with German institutions via Humboldt funding.

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Ramchand GillianView profile

Professor

Graz University of TechnologyAustria

Ramchand Gillian is a Professor at the Institute for Language and Culture, University of Tromsoe. She has held academic roles including Senior Researcher at the Center for the Advanced Study of Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) and Associate Professor at the University of Tromsoe. Previously, she was a University Lecturer in General Linguistics at Oxford University (1994–2004). Education: PhD in Linguistics (1993), MA in Linguistics (1992) from Stanford University; B.S. in Mathematics and Philosophy (1988) from MIT. Her research focuses on syntax, semantics, and their interfaces, with interests in comparative linguistics, aspect, modality, and cognitive science. She has led major grants, including a Research Council of Norway FRIHUM grant (2018–2022) on modal concepts and experimental semantics. Gillian has supervised numerous PhD and MPhil students, contributing to linguistic theory and empirical research. Awarded membership in the Academy of Europe (2018), she has organized workshops like the 2022 Foundations of Extended Projections conference and participated in international forums such as SALT and ELM. Her work bridges formal semantics, syntax, and experimental methods, emphasizing cross-linguistic diversity and theoretical innovation.

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