I am working as an Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat a.Z.) at the Department of German Language and Literature I of the University of Cologne.

Together with Jozina Vander Klok (HU Berlin) and András Bárány (Edinburgh), I am coordinating the DFG-Scientific Network 'Applicative alternations across languages (AAAL)'.

I am also associated with the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester and the CRC1252 'Promince in language' at the University of Cologne. 

Research Interests

My research centers around syntax with its interfaces to morphology, semantics and prosody with a strong commitment to comparative research and fieldwork.

Generally, I am interested in morphosyntactic and semantic variation in the composition of meaning in the world's languages. In my studies, I primarily focus on lesser documented languages from the Oceanic region, including Daakaka (Vanuatu) and Samoan, as well as Mandarin, Turkish, and the Niger-Congo language Igbo.

Currently, I am working on argument and event structure in complex predications like resultatives, nominalizations in syntactically ergative languages, and applicative constructions, as well as the nature of root meaning.