Nataliia Hübler

Nataliia Hübler is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution. Her work focuses on the distribution of language structures and their implications for language prehistory, particularly in Northern Eurasia. She employs phylogenetic methods and population genetics-inspired models to disentangle vertical and horizontal transmission of linguistic features.

Education: B.A. in German Studies (Kyiv National Linguistic University), M.A. in Language and Variation (University of Kiel), Ph.D. in Evolutionary Dynamics of Structural Features (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena). Key research areas include Transeurasian languages, typology, phylogenetics, and computational methods in linguistics.

Her research interests revolve around applying evolutionary methods to linguistic data, including phylogenetic signal analysis, admixture modeling, and database development (e.g., Grambank and Colexification Database). Recent work emphasizes genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and the impact of language loss.

Publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches combining linguistics with computational biology methods. She has contributed to major projects like Grambank and the Eurasia3angle initiative, coding structural features across multiple language families.

Hübler’s work bridges historical linguistics with evolutionary models, offering novel insights into language evolution through quantitative methods and large-scale data analysis.