Nikta Yekrang Safakar

Visiting fellow (January 2026, A10, MGK)
Project: Optional Topic-Reference Doubling in Persian and English: A Register-Sensitive Test of the QUD Hypothesis

Nikta Yekrang Safakar is a researcher working with computational methods in linguistics, with an academic background in Iranian philology. In her M.A. in Iranian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, she worked with Avestan manuscript material, developing OCR models and text-processing workflows with applications in digital apparatus work. This led to a broader interest in how linguistic variation can be described and compared in a systematic, data-driven way.

In the CRC 1412 (Project A10), she investigates optional topic-reference doubling in Persian (clitic doubling), with English left dislocation as a comparative point of reference. She combines corpus evidence with computational methods to study how discourse context shapes grammatical choices across registers. More broadly, she is interested in syntax and its interfaces, approached from a cross-linguistic perspective and supported by empirical and computational methods.

Projects

A10 Doubling and register variation
MGK Integrated Graduate School

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