Team

Professor Malte Rosemeyer's project “Experimental Replication of Historical Reanalysis Processes” received an ERC Consolidator Grant. Image Credit: Bernd Wannenmacher

Prof. Dr. Malte Rosemeyer

I am a linguist with a focus on the Ibero-Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan) and professor of Romance Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin. My research interests lie in describing and explaining variation and change in the grammar of Romance languages. This research is based on the central premise that language should be studied in the context of social interaction. Since historical texts only provide indirect evidence for processes of social interaction, my research uses quantitative corpus linguistics and psycholinguistic methods to demonstrate the effects of interactional processes on the formation of language structures.

Malte Rosemeyer

Dr. Konstantinos Kosmas

Konstantinos Kosmas studied literature at the University of Athens and received his PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin. He worked for the FU from 2014-2024 as a lecturer and scientific assistant/coordinator of the Centrum Modernes Griechenland and Edition Romiosini, and since 2024 as coordinator for ERC projects in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities. He is also a literary translator and active as a local politician.

www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we05/institut/mitarbeiter/Kosmas_-Konstantinos.html

Dr. Julia Heine

Julia Heine's research focuses on the cognitive mechanisms underlying language processing and learning.
After completing her B. A. in German Studies (Leipzig University) and an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (University of Cambridge), Julia wrote her PhD thesis on Embodied Semantics at the University of Cambridge. In addition to her psycholinguistic PhD project, Julia has also worked on an EEG project on statistical language learning at the Adaptive Brain Lab in Cambridge as well as on a project on second language syntactic processing at Charles University, Prague.
As a member of the EXREAN project, she applies experimental approaches to investigate the cognitive and social mechanisms underlying language change

www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we05/institut/mitarbeiter/Heine_-Julia/index.html

Dr. Martín Fuchs

Martín Fuchs does research on the semantics and pragmatics of tense-aspect phenomena in Spanish, focusing on variation and diachronic change, using experimental methods and corpus studies. His work aims to understand how form-meaning pairings evolve over time based on the architecture of our linguistic, cognitive and conceptual systems. He earned his PhD in Linguistics from Yale University in 2020, where he explored dialectal variation in Spanish Imperfective readings, and he later held postdoctoral research positions at Utrecht University and The Ohio State University, where he expanded his focus to the variation between Perfect and (Perfective) Past forms across Western European languages, and to the role of grammatical aspect in understanding split possession systems. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr. Fuchs completed his undergraduate studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he conducted research on agrammatism in the Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Lab. He is now happily joining the EXREAN project at FU Berlin as a postdoctoral researcher