Research with focus
Our projects in the specialist areas
Projects of the Department of Grammar Theory and Language Comparison
Ongoing/planned projects:
- Zero-derivative nouns and deverbal nominalizations: The competition with overt suffixes
- Syntactic domain of lexical categories: Insights from sentence nominalizations
- The present perfect in language varieties and in second language acquisition
- A graph-theoretical approach to morphology and its application to English and German
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Projects of the Language and Cognition department
Current/planned projects:
- Language acquisition of children and adolescents (focus on word formation and lexicon)
Projects of the Language and Society department
Current/planned projects:
- Language acquisition of children and adolescents (focus on word formation and lexicon)
- Language Models: Speech recognition of Austrian German (cooperation TU Graz)
- The language of the Arab minority in southern Iran: language documentation, dialectology, area typology, language contact
Projects of the Department of Language Typology and Language Description
Current/planned projects:
- Linguistic structures of Pame
- The language of the Arab minority in southern Iran: language documentation, dialectology, area typology, language contact
Completed projects
- Prosody and information structure in Egyptian Arabic
- Reduplication - A typological database