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Kurt Malcher is a Research Fellow at the Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne, specializing in prominence structures and voice systems in Austronesian and Mesoamerican languages. His work focuses on cross-linguistic analysis of syntactic and morphological patterns, particularly in symmetrical voice constructions.
- Education: M.A. in General Linguistics (2010–2016), University of Cologne
His research projects include contributions to the SFB 1252 Prominence in Language (Project B05) and collaborative studies on valency changes and diachronic linguistics. Key publications explore transitivization mechanisms in Totoli, agent-first universals, and voice choice prediction in symmetrical voice systems.
Current projects involve analyzing prominence-driven structures in Austronesian languages and developing computational models for valency shifts. He collaborates with international teams, including the Asia-Pacific Linguistics group, and contributes to fieldwork-based dictionary projects like the Yali-German dictionary (2017).
- Key Research Areas:
- Prominence Relations
- Symmetrical Voice
- Austronesian Language Typology
- Valency and Morphosyntax
- Discourse Studies
- Diachronic Linguistics
