Current research topics
- Information structure and topic
- Pragmatics-grammar interface
- Discourse analysis of narratives
- Narrative development
- Bilingual and second language acquisition
Research projects
- since 10/2011
Berlin Interdisciplinary Center for Multilingualism (BIVEM),
Management and coordination of the project - since 10/2009
European COMENIUS-project Friendly Resources for Playful Speech Therapy (FREPY),
Management and coordination of the German side of the project - since 01/2009
European COST-Action IS0804 Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment,
Member of the working group Narrative and Discourse - 09/2007 - 12/2010
Language Acquisition as a Window to Social Integration among Russian Language Minority Children in Germany and Israel (ZAS Berlin, Germany & Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Coordination of the German side of the project - since 03/2005
European research network The Structure of Learner Varieties,
member of the working group Development of the Topic Component (MPI Nijmegen, Netherlands) - 11/2004 - 07/2007
personal research project Topic as part of the information structure in oral discourse of Russian speaking learners of German (on the basis of the project Language Integration of Russian speaking Immigrants in Germany and Israel, University Bar-Ilan, Israel & FU Berlin, Germany)
