I am a linguist with interdisciplinary skills.
Currently I am working as a postdoc at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago.
My research interests are:
- Cognitive Linguistics (Processes of Categorization and Stereotypes)
- Variationist and Sociolinguistics
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Landscape research
- Linguistic Typology
I have been working on Germanic, Romance and Semitic languages and I am interested in
(Moroccan) Arabic, German varieties, Hebrew, Italian, Kiswahili, Amazigh, Yiddish and other languages.
Research projects (past and present):
- 01/2026 – 12/2027: Investigating Cognitive Diversity through Landscape Language,
funded by SNSF Postdoc.Mobility - 01/2024 – 05/2025: Variational Pragmatics of German: Comparing Communicative Patterns (Subproject 5: Metadiscourse and metapragmatic stereotypes), funded by SNSF: 202352
- 03/2022 – 01/2024: Language as a Window into Conceptualisations of Landscape: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, funded by The Cogito Foundation under Grant 21-104-R
You can access my publications through google scholar and download my CV here.
My book about categories of variation in Modern Hebrew and groups of speakers is open access. The study is based on fieldwork and interviews which are published here. You are welcome to use the recordings and transcripts of about 40 hours of spoken Hebrew for your own research.