Research Projects
Current and ongoing research in Iranic languages, focusing on historical reconstruction, morphosyntactic variation, and language documentation.
Computational Linguistics
A documentary and computational pipeline designed to bridge field linguistics with AI-driven analysis, making underdocumented and endangered languages accessible through integrated webapp technology.
Comparative Historical Linguistics
ERC-funded project reconstructing the complex socioreligious past of disappearing indigenous communities across West Asia from the first millennium BC into the Islamic period.
Sociolinguistics
LOEWE Research Cluster project investigating identity formation of Kurdish groups in Germany from emic and etic perspectives.
Morphology
Examining the distribution and etymology of imperfective markers across New Iranian languages, with focus on Kurdish varieties.
Morphology
Examining the ezafe construction from a Categorial Grammar framework, proposing it as a derivational morpheme that changes syntactic categories.
Morphology
Investigating various strategies for marking definiteness across New Western Iranian languages, including definite articles and other marking systems.
Morphology
Joint project exploring formatives that incorporate pronominal objects into the verbal system or add additional syntactic arguments in Iranian languages, with focus on Central Kurdish.