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Dr. Cem Keskin is a researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin, affiliated with Research Area 2 'Language Development and Multilingualism' and Research Area 3 'Syntax and Lexicon'. He serves as Principal Investigator of the DFG project Contact-induced hybrid clause combining strategies (HybriX) and holds a Research Associate position at the University of Potsdam.
- Education:
- PhD in Linguistics, Universiteit Utrecht (2005)
- Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University (completed coursework)
- MS in Cognitive Science, Middle East Technical University (1999)
- BA in Linguistics, Hacettepe University (1999)
His research focuses on contact-induced syntactic change, particularly the emergence of hybrid subordinate clauses, with special attention to Balkan Turkic and Turkish syntax. He investigates syntactic micro-variation, case/agreement phenomena, complex predicates, voice constructions, and linguistic rights issues in Anatolia, including minority language preservation and language loss in Turkey.
The article Balkan Turkic as a model for understanding contact-induced change in Turkish (2025) demonstrates his expertise in comparative syntax and language contact dynamics. The work appears in the DFG-funded volume Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers: Insights from the RUEG group, published by Language Science Press.
- Awards & Grants:
- Principal Investigator of DFG project HybriX
Keskin has held academic positions across multiple institutions, including Assistant Professor at Istanbul 29 Mayis University (2005-2009) and teaching roles at Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin (2019-2020) and Freie Universität Berlin (2011-2017). His methodological approach combines corpus linguistics with comparative grammatical analysis.
