Hedde Zeijlstra, Professor of Linguistics

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The team​

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Secretaries:​​​

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• Emina Cucic (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Jessica Fenske-Schöbitz (SEP Göttingen​)​

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• Swaantje Radtke (ERC Advanced Grant UNPAG)

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• Bettina Thelen (SEP Göttingen​)​

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​Associate professors:

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• Katie von Holzen (SEP Göttingen​)

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• Petr Kusliy (SEP Göttingen​) (replacement)

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Assistant professor:

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• Mitya Privoznov (SEP Göttingen​)

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Postdocs:

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• Kenyon Branan (DFG-project How to know what gets in the way)

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• Jelly Hill (Humboldt stipend holder through the Henriette Herz scouting program)​

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• Jéssica Mendes (ERC Advanced Grant UNPAG)

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• Zahra Mirrazi (SFB 1629 NegLab, project A04)

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• Feras Saeed (SEP Göttingen​)

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• Ekaterina Vostroliva (ERC Advanced Grant UNPAG)

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• Huilei Wang (Humboldt stipend holder through the Henriette Herz scouting program) 

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• Ziling Zhu (ERC Advanced Grant UNPAG)​​​​​

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Scientific coordinators:

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• Aleksandra Bovt (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Jéssica Mendes (ERC Advanced Grant UNPAG)

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PhD students (as main supervisor):

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• Prathana Bharadwaj (SFB 1629 NegLab, project B04)​

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• Stayesh Dashti (ERC Advanced Grant UNPAG)

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• Luisa Kalvelage (ERC Advanced Grant UNPAG)

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• Madeline Ladore (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)​

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• Josiah Nii Ashie Neequaye​ (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)​

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• Rüveyda Sahar (ERC Advanced Grant UNPAG)

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• Alina Sementsova (SFB 1629 NegLab, project B04)

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• Atefeh Shahbazi (SEP Göttingen​)​

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• Jiahao Sun (ERC Advanced Grant UNPAG)

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• Marten Stelling (Joint Niedersachsen-Israel project The landscape of n-words: On the cross-linguistic variation of negatively marked expressions)

 

• Rishabh Suresh (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)​

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• Vanessa (Wing Yan) Tsang (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)​

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PhD students (as external supervisor):

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• Ateş Çalışır (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• János Egressy (UCLA)

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• Lilian Gonzalez (Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen)

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• Anastasia Tsilia (MIT)

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PhD students (as RTG speaker):

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• Rebecca Arkell (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)​​

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• ​Katja Friedewald (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Tekla Gabunia (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Sumedha Gupta (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Marta Herget (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Karen Hovind (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)​​

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• Dinah Adom Mac-Arthur​ (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Yasaman Sanei (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Felicia Stich (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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• Zhao Zeqi (RTG 2636 Form meaning mismatches)

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Language proficiency lecturers:

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• Seda Canpolat (SEP Göttingen)​​

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• Claire McGrath (SEP Göttingen)​​​

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• Joe Pfänder (SEP Göttingen)

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• Gordon Ross (SEP Göttingen)

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• Jeff Stone (SEP Göttingen)

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Adjunct faculty:

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• Neha Kuhlshreshta (SEP Göttingen)​​

 

• Stefanie Bode (SEP Göttingen)​​

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• Joachim Tuschinsky (SEP Göttingen)

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Previous PhD students

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• Sumrah Arshad (Georg August University Göttingen): The Acquisition of Negative Concord byChildren: The Case of English, German and Italian. May 2, 2023. Co-supervised with Dani Panizza.

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• Svetlana Berikashvili (Ilia State University, Georgia / Georg August University Göttingen): Differential subject marking in Georgian. February 7, 2023. Co-supervised with Anke Holler, Nino Doborjginidze (ISU, Georgia) and Irina Lobzhanidze (ISU, Georgia).

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• Jovana Gajic (Georg August University Göttingen): Negative coordination. February 10, 2020. Supervisor.

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• Judith Kalinowski (Georg August University Göttingen):The development of early vocabulary networks. An analysis of phonological and semantic networks, their interaction and child-specific differences. June 17, 2025. Member of the thesis committee.

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• Hadil Karawani (University of Amsterdam): Mood for Modality. Defended June 17, 2014. Member of the thesis committee.

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• Neha Kuhlshreshta (Georg August University Göttingen): Interrogatives in Indian Sign Language. April 30, 2024. Co-supervised with Markus Steinbach.

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• Jing Lin (University of Amsterdam): The acquisition of negative polarity items. Defended December 4, 2015. Co-supervised with Fred Weerman.

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• Basima Mahmood (Georg August University Göttingen): Language change and (ir)regularization. Defence April 10, 2018. Co-supervised with Dani Panizza.    

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• Jegan Murugesan (Universität Leipzig): Predicting the Anaphor Agreement Effect and its Violations. June 27. Co-supervised with Sandhya Sundaresan (Leipzig).

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• Gautam Ottur (Georg August University Göttingen): Dependency and order. October 82, 2025. Co-supervised with Markus Steinbach.

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• Matthias Passer (University of Amsterdam): Nominal classification. Defence December 15, 2016. Co-supervised with Kees Hengeveld.

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• Louise Raynaud (Georg August University Göttingen): The features of binding and person licensing. August 5, 2020. Co-supervised with Sandhya Sundaresan (Leipzig).

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• Feras Saeed (Georg August University Göttingen): A split approach to concord in Arabic. August 12, 2025. Co-supervised with Sascha Alexeyenko

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• Marta Tagliani (Verona / Georg August University Göttingen): Language and Vision Interaction in Negation Processing. October 19, 2021. Co-supervised with Chiara Melloni (Verona) and Dani Panizza.​​​

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• Seid Tvica (University of Amsterdam): Testing the Rich Agreement Hypothesis. Defence March 1, 2017. Co-supervised with Olaf Koeneman, Kees Hengeveld and Fred Weerman.​​​​​