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Meet our distinguished faculty and keynote speakers.
Prof. Hideki Kishimoto
Prof. Hideki Kishimoto
Kobe University, Japan
Hideki Kishimoto is a Professor of Linguistics at the Graduate School of Humanities, Division of Human Social Dynamics, at Kobe University. His research investigates the core components of language, focusing on the interaction between lexical information and grammatical relations. He explores the factors that govern how arguments map to grammatical structures and also investigates the nature and role of phrase structure within Universal Grammar.
Prof. Matti Miestamo
Prof. Matti Miestamo
University of Helsinki, Finland
Matti Miestamo is a Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki. He specializes in language typology and documentation, with key research interests in negation, interrogatives, and language complexity. He is also a leading expert on the Skolt Saami language.
Prof. Hedde Zeijlstra
Prof. Hedde Zeijlstra
Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
Hedde Zeijlstra is a university professor at the Seminar for English Philology at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, where he is part of the Linguistics in Göttingen (LinG) platform. His main interest is the relation between sentence meaning and form: how does the meaning of a sentence follow from its parts, and why are there so many different ways of expressing the same meaning across languages?
Prof. Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel
Prof. Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel
INSPÉ Paris, France
Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel is a Senior lecturer in English linguistics, language acquisition at the National Higher Institute for Teaching and Education - Academy of Paris (INSPÉ Paris). Her work focuses on the acquisition of negation and multimodal oppositional stances in adult-child interactions in natural and spontaneous settings. She is also interested in foreign language teaching methodology and language learning processes in primary education.
Prof. Dennis Ryan Storoshanko
Prof. Dennis Ryan Storoshanko
University of Calgary, Canada
Dr. Dennis Ryan Storoshanko is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary whose research focuses on syntax, particularly issues at the syntax/semantics interface, investigating topics such as scope, binding, and A'-dependencies. He approaches this work using multiple theoretical frameworks, principally Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) and Minimalism, and his publications include detailed analyses of phenomena observed in a diverse set of languages, including English, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Shona.
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