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Berit Gehrke is a staff member of the Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She received her PhD in 2008 from Utrecht, with a dissertation on the semantics and syntax of prepositions and motion events. She specializes in theoretical semantics, and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics. Her particular research interests include event semantics, event structure, event kinds, argument structure, adjectival passives, and adjectival and adverbial modification..
Denisa Lenertová (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) specializes on syntax, information structure and prosody, her research interests include corpus-based and experimental methods. She has worked on the syntax and information structure of the left periphery, embedded root phenomena, the typology of Slavic reflexives and impersonals, clitics, and infinitival structures..
Roland Meyer is professor of West Slavic linguistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He works on synchronic and diachronic morphosyntax, pragmatics, intonation, corpus linguistics and automatic processing of Slavic languages, with an emphasis on empirical methods and the relation between empirical data and linguistic theory..
Daria Seres is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz. She holds a PhD in Romance Philology from Saint Petersburg State University (2012) and a PhD in Cognitive Science and Language from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2020). She is interested in the domain of cross-linguistic semantics (Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages), focusing on referentiality, (in)definiteness, and genericity. Her research methods include corpus studies and experimental work..
Luka Szucsich is professor of East Slavic linguistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He works on morphosyntax of Slavic languages and its interfaces, esp. argument structure, case, relative clauses, and cross-clausal dependencies. His research interests also include heritage languages, bi- and multilingualism, and areal linguistics..
Joanna Zaleska is a lecturer in the Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She earned her Ph.D. from Leipzig University in 2018 with a dissertation titled Coalescence without coalescence. Her research interests lie in phonological theory, particularly in issues of phonological opacity, the role of contrast, and many-to-one relationships between representational levels.
