Prof. Dr. Esther Rinke

PI of project C06 Comprehension of Negation in Child and Adult Speakers of Spanish and German and Project leader of the Integrated ResearchTraining Group (MGK)

Esther Rinke is professor for Iberoromance Linguistics at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2005 she obtained her PhD in Portuguese Linguistics at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on word order variation and change in Portuguese. Her main research interests comprise the comparative syntax of Romance languages, diachronic linguistics, bilingualism research, especially heritage language development, and language acquisition. She was the spokesperson of a research training group on “Nominal modification” and is currently the project leader of the integrated research training group of the CRC ‘NegLab’. She is member of the Board of Directors of the Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers (GRADE) and director of the GRADE Center ‘Language’.

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Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60629 Frankfurt am Main

Room: IG 6.215