Theodoros Marinis

Prof. Theodoros Marinis is a Professor of Multilingualism at the University of Konstanz's Department of Linguistics. He directs the Center for Multilingualism and leads the EU 'MultiMind' project training early-stage researchers in multilingualism. His research focuses on language acquisition and processing in typically/atypically developing bilinguals, funded by DFG, ESRC, NWO, and others. He co-developed the LITMUS Sentence Repetition Tasks for multilingual children and serves on editorial boards of journals like Journal of Child Language and Applied Psycholinguistics.

Research interests include bilingual syntax, heritage language maintenance, figurative language processing in ASD, and multilingual literacy. He investigates cross-linguistic effects in grammatical morphemes, rhetorical questions, and code-switching impacts on cognitive control. His work bridges psycholinguistics with education policy, addressing multilingualism benefits in diverse populations.

• Grants: DFG (Non-Canonical Questions in Bilingual Acquisition), ESRC (SLI in Bilingual Children), NWO (L2 Children vs. SLI)
• Projects: COST Action IS0804, EU MultiMind (2024), India literacy studies (2020)
• Labs/Teams: Center for Multilingualism (Konstanz), LITMUS Task Development Consortium

Publications examine metaphor comprehension in ASD, attention networks in stuttering multilinguals, and longitudinal literacy development. He advocates for evidence-based multilingual education policies and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles since 2017.