Principal Investigator

Anastasia Bauer is interested in different anguage modalities and in contact between them. Her current work is focused on comparing constructions sharing a similar form in co-speech gesture and sign language. As a PhD fellow in the project „Village Sign“ within the collaborative research programme (EUROCORES) EuroBABEL „Better Analyses Based on Endangered Languages“, she worked on an endangered sign language in Aboriginal Australia. Her dissertation explores the spatial grammar in Yolŋu sign language. As a postdoc, she worked at the universities of Hamburg and Cologne. Her postdoctoral project focuses on two cross-modal language contact phenomena in Russian Sign Language, i.e. mouthings and fingerspellings. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the ViCom project “Gestures or signs? Comparing manual and non-manual constructions sharing the same form in co-speech gesture and sign language: a corpus-driven approach. (GeSi)”.