Who we are
Our network brings together 25 senior and junior researchers from 13 countries to investigate a range of languages from different families, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European, using a range of methodologies, including qualitative, quantitative, variationist, and (micro-)typological approaches.
We welcome additional interested colleagues as network associates, with the opportunity to participate in online discussions and/or present relevant ongoing work at our workshops.
If you’d be interested in discussing opportunities to participate, please contact us.
Network members
Dr Ruti Bardenstein
Institutional affiliation: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Object language(s): Hebrew, English
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers
Ms Roisin Cosnahan, RA
Institutional affiliation: The University of Manchester, UK
Object language(s): Italo-Romance
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Negation
Dr Chiara Fedriani
Institutional affiliation: University of Genova, Italy
Object language(s): Latin/Italian
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers; demonstratives; connectives
Ms Luísa Ferrari
Institutional affiliation: São Paulo State University, Brazil
Object language(s): Portuguese/English
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers
Prof Volker Gast
Institutional affiliation: The University of Jena, Germany
Object language(s): Germanic/Typology
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Negative polarity items
Dr Chiara Ghezzi
Institutional affiliation: University of Bergamo, Italy
Object language(s): Latin/Italian
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers
Dr Eitan Grossman
Institutional affiliation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Object language(s): Ancient Egyptian
Prof Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Principal Investigator)
Institutional affiliation: The University of Manchester, UK
Object language(s): French/Latin
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Negation; pragmatic markers
Prof Bernd Heine
Institutional affiliation: University of Cologne, Germany; Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Object language(s): African languages
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Grammaticalization; pragmatic markers; the cycle Reflexive pronouns > 1st, 2nd person pronouns in Korean
Dr Yueh-Hsin Kuo
Institutional affiliation: The University of Edinburgh, UK
Object language(s): Chinese
Research interests wrt cyclic change: modals, conditionals, and indirect speech acts
Mr Ezra la Roi
Institutional affiliation: Ghent University
Object language(s): Ancient Greek/Latin
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Counterfactuals; tense, aspect, mood and modality
Dr Ana Llopis Cardona
Institutional affiliation: University of Valencia, Spain
Object language(s): Spanish
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers
Prof Haiping Long
Institutional affiliation: Sun Yat-sen University, China
Object language(s): Chinese
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers
Prof Piera Molinelli
Institutional affiliation: University of Bergamo, Italy
Object language(s): Latin/Italian
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers; demonstratives; connectives
Dr Sandra Paoli
Institutional affiliation: University of Oxford, UK
Object language(s): Romance
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Forms of the verb ‘to have’ used in expressions of possession (whether abstract or concrete), a generalized relation between two entities and the perfective auxiliary in (Italo-)Romance; pragmatic markers (ben/be in Occitan and its co-existence with plan).
Dr Adrià Pardo Llibrer
Institutional affiliation: University of Salamanca, Spain
Object language(s): Spanish
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Adverbs; discourse markers
Prof Salvador Pons Bordería
Institutional affiliation: University of Valencia, Spain
Object language(s): Spanish
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers
Prof Seongha Rhee
Institutional affiliation: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
Object language(s): Korean
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers
Dr Laura Rupp
Institutional affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Object language(s): Dialects of English
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Double demonstratives
Dr Giulio Scivoletto
Institutional affiliation: University of Catania, Italy
Object language(s): Italian/Sicilian
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers
Prof Sali Tagliamonte
Institutional affiliation: University of Toronto, Canada
Object language(s): Dialects of English
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Demonstratives
Prof Johan van der Auwera
Institutional affiliation: University of Antwerp, Belgium
Object language(s): Typology
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Negation
Dr Ljuba Veselinova
Institutional affiliation: Stockholm University, Sweden
Object language(s): Typology (most recently Turkic and Dravidian)
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Negation
Dr Urd Vindenes
Institutional affiliation: University of South-Eastern Norway
Object language(s): Norwegian
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Demonstratives; negation
Prof Jacqueline Visconti
Institutional affiliation: University of Genova, Italy
Object language(s): Italian, French, German, English
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Negation; pragmatic markers
Prof Richard Waltereit, (Co-Investigator)
Institutional affiliation: Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Object language(s): Romance
Principal research interest wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers; interrogatives; negation
Dr Lin Zhang
Institutional affiliation: Seoul National University, South Korea
Object language(s): Korean
Research interests wrt cyclic change: Pragmatic markers
Network associates
Prof Sanderléia Longhin
FAPESP, Sao Paolo, Brazil
