PD Dr. Natalia Gagarina

PD Dr. Natalia Gagarina is Head of the Research Area II 'Language Development & Multilingualism' and has been visiting professor at Uppsala University since April 2018. At ZAS she is Principal Investigator of the following projects:

• DFG-Project RUEG P3 - Nominal Morphosyntax and Word Position in Heritage-Russian in the Context of Different Majority Languages (with Prof. Dr. Luka Szucsich, HU Berlin) in the Research Unit "Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach"
• DFG-Project DRUSLI - Bilingual children in transition from kindergarten to primary school: the development of their literacy skills (with PD Dr. Katrin Lindner, LMU Munich)
• Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research: Interdisciplinary Research Network IFV - Language Development of Primary School Children with a Migration Background (with Manfred Krifka)

Her research focuses on monolingual and bilingual (a)typical language acquisition in the areas of lexicon, morpho syntax, discourse, as well as aspect and anaphors. In recent years, she has worked intensively on the macro- and microstructure of narratives and the development of methods for language assessment in multilingual children.