Research

Current research topics

• Adversative discourse relations in language acquisition
• Conceptual structure and linguistic representation of emotion terms
• Interaction of grammatical and pragmatic knowledge in pronominal resolution
• Aspect, mood and negation as functional categories in language acquisition and agrammatic aphasia

Research projects

• 11/2011- 10/2014
  Acqusition of adversative discourse relations - 'but' in German, Bulgarian and English first language acquisition.
  (project founded by the German Research Foundation)

• 01/2011 - 09/2012
  Being moved.
  Project 409, Cluster 'Languages of Emotion', Freie Universität Berlin

• 11/2008-01/2010
  Crosslinguistically robust stages of children's linguistic performance.
  WG 'Aspect and Tense' (affiliated researcher)
  COST Action A33

• 01/2008 - 08/2011
  Discourse cohesive means in language acquisition: Intersentential anaphoric relations.
  (PB2 / ZAS)

• 01/2006 - 12/2007
  Acquisition and disambiguation of intersentential anaphoric reference.
  (P5 / ZAS)

• 07/2003 -12/2005
  Acquisition of linguistic markers for the expression of (un)boundedness.
  (P3 / ZAS)