Kathrin’s research focuses on causative-inchoative alternation, a grammatical phenomenon related to transitivity and grammatical voice, in a number of dialects of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA), which is a branch of Neo-Aramaic. While her research is primarily a comparative study on the enormous diversity of modern NENA dialects, she is also taking the fascinatingly rich history of this ancient language, which has been attested for almost 3000 years, into account. Since NENA has been strongly influenced by Kurdish, Persian, Azerbaijani and Arabic, language contact is another important aspect of Kathrin’s research.
