Sina Proske

Sina Proske is a researcher in German Sign Language (DGS) linguistics at the Department of German Philology, University of Göttingen, since April 2015. Their work focuses on syntactic structures and information-structural aspects of sign languages, particularly analyzing w-movement and word order patterns.

• Education: Master's degree in linguistics (2015) from University of Göttingen, with studies in German Philology and Political Science (2009-2012)

Proske's research explores how sign languages, despite their visual-spatial modality, share fundamental linguistic properties with spoken languages while exhibiting unique structural features. They emphasize the comparative analysis of syntactic phenomena across modalities.