Learn more about the most recent developments in the LeibnizDream project:
28. June 2025
23. June 2025
Congratulations to Rümeysa Bektaş, who defended her dissertation entitled ‘Expression of boundary-crossing motion events among adults and children in German and Turkish’ at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin!
1. June 2o25
Welcome to Karina Bertolino, who is joining the Acquirer team as a postdoc!
9. May 2025
The Generator team at ZAS has had the pleasure and honor to host three research fellows: Dr. Aireen Barrios-Arnuco, local investigator for Chabacano (March); Dr. Gerald Okechukwu Nweya, local investigator for Igbo (April); and Dr. Thi Qui Ngoc Doan, local investigator for Vietnamese (March-May). We thank them for a great time!
28. April 2025
Congratulations to Ivona Ilić, who defended her dissertation entitled ‘The Structure of Pronouns and Allomorphy’ at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin!
01. April 2025
Welcome to Roberta Bettoni, who is joining the Acquirer team as a new lab manager!
20. February 2025
Congratulations to Silvia Silleresi for receiving an award for the paper “Understanding pronouns in Ewe and Yoruba: an experimental study” (Silleresi, S., Bassi, I., Bimpeh, A.A., Driemel, I., Ilori, J.F., Nuworsu, A., Guasti, M.T.) from the Marica DeVincenzi foundation at IGG50!
11. February 2025
Congratulations to Letizia Raminelli and Chiara Saponaro for defending their PhD theses! After submitting their theses in October 2024, Dr. Raminelli and Dr. Saponaro continue to be part of the LeibnizDream project as PostDocs since December 2024.
01. February 2025
Congratulations to Rümeysa Bektaş and Ivona Ilić for submitting their PhD thesis!
01. January 2025
LeibnizDream is happy to welcome a new team member! Yangchen Roy is joining the Compressor group as a postdoctoral researcher.
16. October 2024
Congratulations to Nina Haslinger for taking up a position as postdoctoral associate at MIT (Department of Linguistics and Philosophy) until the end of the spring semester in 2025!
01. November 2024
Congratulations to Pui Yee Yuen for taking up a position as doctoral researcher at ZAS! On this note, LeibnizDream is pleased to announce that Victoria Krumpholz, longstanding research assistant to the project, has replaced Pui Yee Yuen as Lab Manager.
01. October 2024
Congratulations to Johannes Hein for taking up a Deputy Professorship in Variation and Variability in Morphosyntactic/Morphological Systems at University of Potsdam for the winter semester 2024/2025!
On this note, LeibnizDream is happy to announce a new team member: Welcome to Anna Kampanarou, who is joining the Compressor team as Johannes Hein’s replacement!
23.-27. September 2024
Our LeibnizDream seminar week took place for the fourth time – this time in Berlin in the new office of the ZAS. We were particularly delighted to be joined by 5 of our local investigators from Brazil, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Georgia!
01. July 2024
Congratulations to Paloma Jeretič for taking up an Assistant Professorship in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania! She will keep on being involved in the LeibnizDream project as a local investigator for Siona.
Also congratulations to Imke Driemel for taking up a position as lecturer in theoretical and comparative syntax at the University of York!
22. June 2024
Uli Sauerland gave an interview on LeibnizDream to radioeins during the Long Night of the Sciences in Berlin. In the interview, Sauerland talks about what comes first, human thought or language, and what we can learn about human thought from children’s (supposed) mistakes.
13. June 2024
A newspaper article about Artemis Alexiadou was published in Tagesspiegel +. In the feature, Alexiadou talks about how she got into linguistics and about multilingualism as a benefit to society.
27. May 2024
Congratulations to Artemis Alexiadou for being awarded the Berlin Science Prize 2023! The prize was awarded by Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner at a ceremony in the Rotes Rathaus. It honours both her outstanding research achievements in linguistics and her significant contributions to strengthening Berlin as an internationally visible science location.
For more information, find the full press release on the ZAS website as well as a note in the Tagesspiegel.
11. March 2024
Congratulations to Uli Sauerland, who was appointed fellow ambassador at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)!
23. February 2024
Congratulations to Letizia Raminelli for receiving an award for her paper on additive particles from the Marica DeVincenzi foundation at IIG49!
01. February 2024
LeibnizDream is happy to welcome a new team member! Nina Haslinger is joining the Generator group as a postdoctoral researcher.
01. November 2023
We are happy to welcome several new team members! Irene Amato is joining the Compressor group as a postdoctoral researcher. The Acquirer group is happy to welcome two new doctoral students – Marta Ferrari and Anastasia Parini. Finally, Emilia Strom, former research assistant in the Generator group, is starting today as a part-time lab manager.
22. August 2023
Congratulations to Aron Hirsch for taking up an Assistant Professorship in linguistics at the University of Maryland!
16. August 2023
We are happy to welcome a new team member! Andreea Cristina Nicolae, former associate of LeibnizDream, is joining the Generator group as a postdoctoral researcher.
1. August 2023
Congratulations to Fabienne Martin for taking up an Assistant Professorship in French linguistics at Utrecht University, and to Jakob Wünsch for taking up a position as lab manager at ZAS!
LeibnizDream is happy to welcome two new team members! Alejandra Camilo-Cruz is joining as a part-time study implementation lead and Pui Yee Yuen is joining as a part-time lab manager.
17. June 2023
23. May 2023
17.-18. March 2023
27. February – 3. March 2023
20. February 2023
A newspaper article about Artemis Alexiadou and LeibnizDream was published in Tagesspiegel +. In the feature, Alexiadou talks about how she got into linguistics and what we can learn about human thought from children’s (supposed) mistakes.
16. February 2023
Maria Teresa Guasti was invited to talk about her research at the transmission “Living Well”, a program sponsored by the General Consulate of Italy in Montreal that enhances Italian excellence in science. The full interview (in Italian) can be watched on YouTube.
5. December 2022
Maria Teresa Guasti was invited to talk about her research at the Child cognition lab at Tsingua University, Bejing. In the interview, Guasti explains how she got into studying children’s language development, and how a cross-language perspective can help us understand the development of human language and mind. The full interview can be watched on Weixin. [Note: By clicking on this link, you are leaving our domain and thus the jurisdiction of the ZAS. You are visiting a platform in China. The level of data protection may not be the same as for European service providers. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the website operator’s privacy policy.]
25. November 2022
Congratulations to Artemis Alexiadou, who was accepted as a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities!
The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) is a transdisciplinary and transnational association of outstanding scientists and scholars with a 300-year tradition. Its history is marked by 80 Nobel Prize winners. Further informations can be found on the website of the BBAW.
1. October 2022
Congratulations to Artemis Alexiadou, who will take over as director of the Leibniz Center for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin! She succeeds the now retiring Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka, who has headed ZAS Berlin for 22 years.
9. July 2022
Congratulations to Yining Nie, who was awarded a junior professorship at the Department of Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University, USA!
3. October 2021
A newspaper article about Artemis Alexiadou and LeibnizDream was published in e-thessalia. The full article (in Greek) can be read on e-thessalia.
October 2019
Uli Sauerland (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics and University of Potsdam), Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität of Berlin and Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics) and Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milan-Bicocca) receive more than 10 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) to study how children use language to understand the relationship between language and thought.
Press release in Germany (11. October 2019): “A German-Italian research team receives over ten million euros from the European Research Council to prove that our thinking determines language.” Find the full press release on the ZAS website.
Press release in Italy (27. October 2019): “3 mln a Milano-Bicocca per scoprire legame tra pensiero e linguaggio.” Find the full press release (in Italian) on the website of Il Tempo.