Dr. Cem Keskin is a researcher in the Research Area 2 'Language Development and Multilingualism' and in the Research Area 3 'Syntax and Lexicon'. He is also Principal Investigator of the DFG project Contact-induced hybrid clause combining strategies (HybriX).

His research interests include contact-induced syntactic change and the emergence of hybrid subordinate clauses as part of this process; Balkan Turkic and Turkish syntax, syntactic micro-variation; case, agreement, nominalizations, complex predicates, voice; languages of Anatolia; linguistic rights, minority languages, and language loss in Turkey.