Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
Room: IG 6.215
Tel.: (0049)69/798-32033
E-Mail: Esther.Rinke@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Grammar of Romance languages, diachronic linguistics, language contact and multilingualism, syntactic variation, language acquisition.
Nominee in 2013 for the "1822 University prize for excellent teaching"
Projects
„Multilingualism as reason and consequence of language change: the historical syntax of Romance languages, funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), (2009-2011)
"Synchronic and diachronic analyses of Italian and Portuguese relative clauses", funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), (2012-2014)
"Clitic doubling across Romance", funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), (2014-2016)
“Português como Língua de Herança e mudança linguística"/"Portuguese as heritage language and language change", Fundação Para a Ciência e Tecnologia, coordinator Prof. Dr. Cristina Flores, Universidade do Minho, Braga)
"The relative clause cycle: towards an explanation of the variation in Italian and Portuguese relative clauses" (as part of the Research Group "Relative clauses", 2014-2017; project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG))
Research Training Group "Nominale Modifikation (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG; 2019-)
Digitalisation of the Master 'German Portuguese Studies' (DAAD, 2021-)
"Evolve", funded by the DFG (2022-)