Scientific Interests

Scientific Profile

aspectology, temporal semantics
epistemic and evidential expressions and semantics / means of renarration and citation
general and areal typology, with focus on the South-East part of the Circum Baltic Area
language contacts (incl. dialects), with focus on East and South Lithuanian and North Belarus (own field work)
diachronic syntax (in particular of West and East Slavic, Lithuanian)
grammaticalization and lexicalization
Syntax-Semantics-Interface from the viewpoint of functional models (in particular, Role & Reference Grammar)
voice and diathesis: passives and other Actor-demoting constructions, so-called “reflexive” verbs, causative/inchoative alternation
derivational morphology
lexical semantics (incl. diachronic)

Languages

native: German
active: Russian (more than fluent), Polish (more than fluent), Lithuanian (rather fluent), English (fluent)
passive: Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Belarusian, French