Prof. Dr. Natalia Gagarina

Prof. Dr. Natalia Gagarina is Head of the Research Area 2 'Language Development & Multilingualism'. She has been an extraordinary professor at Humboldt University Berlin since September 2020 and visiting professor at Uppsala University since December 2017. At ZAS she is Principal Investigator of the following projects:

• 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)
• 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 RUEG P10 - Dynamics of Verbal Aspect and (Pro)Nominal Reference in Language Contact (with Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Artemis Alexiadou, HU Berlin/ZAS and Prof. Dr. Luka Szucsich, HU Berlin) in the Research Unit "Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach"

She is currently working with

• Prof. Dr. Ewa Haman (U Warsaw), Multilingual Language Development and Assessment Lab (MultiLADA), on Macro- and microstructure of narrative discourse in Polish
• Ilma Jazic (U Potsdam) and Alexandra Perovic (U College London) on the Project  Nominal morphology in bilingual speakers of Bosnian in Berlin
• Dr. Angel Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic U) on Investigation of bilingual children‘s narrative discourse in Hong Kong and on Narrative abilities in ‘left-behind’ ethnic minority children in China: Evidence from Kam-Mandarin bilingual children and with Dr. Wenchun Yang (Fritz-Thyssen Fellowship)

Her research focuses on monolingual and bilingual (a)typical language acquisition in the areas of lexicon, morphosyntax, 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 language assessment methods for multilingual children.