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Roohollah Mofidi (usually called “Mofid”) is a senior fellow in the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language from September to November, 2024, in project B04. With B04, he cooperates on his research on “Variation in the placement of agreement clitics in Nayini: A prominence-oriented account”. Following his PhD thesis in 2011, “Event structure and its determinants in Persian”, he has primarily focused on the diachronic development of aspect and mood markers in Persian from the 3rd century onwards, in a typological framework and with a usage-based approach. He has also been working on a diachronic corpus of New Persian (10th-20th c.). He has experience gathering fieldwork data for Nayini (in 2022 and 2024), and supervising fieldwork on other Iranian languages. In Cologne, he will undertake a detailed analysis of his data with respect to the prominence principles determining the head marking in this language.

Peter Arkadiev is a typologist specializing in inflectional morphology, case and argument marking, and language contact, with a focus on Baltic, Slavic, and Northwest Caucasian languages. He completed his PhD on the "Typology of Two-Term Case Systems" and his habilitation on the "Areal Typology of Prefixal Perfectivization" in Europe and the Caucasus. After spending most of his academic career in Russia, he made the political decision to emigrate to Europe in 2022. Since then, he has been involved in research projects at the Department of Slavic Languages at the University of Zürich and the Department of English and Linguistics in Mainz. He also held a Marie Curie Senior Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies.

Peter has conducted extensive fieldwork on Northwest Caucasian languages and is a member of the Academia Europaea. In Cologne, he will continue his research on "Double-Marking of Objects and Prominence Hierarchies" in collaboration with Project B04, "Interaction of Nominal and Verbal Features for Differential Object Marking." 

Rafael Herrera is a Junior Fellow of project C04 of the CRC 1252 “Prominence in Language”. He completed his PhD with a dissertation entitled Numeral Constructions in Classical Nahuatl in 2023 at the Colegio de México in Mexico City. He is interested in the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and combines insights from historical documents and fieldwork data from Spanish and Nahuatl. In May 2024, he co-organized the workshop on Non-Bare Proper Names together with Ana Aguilar Guevara (UNAM, Mexico City), Timo Buchholz (C04), Klaus von Heusinger (C04), Carolina Oggiani (U de la Republica, Montevideo) and Julia Pozas Loyo (Colegio de México, Mexico City) and in Cologne works on the prominence contrast between bare and determined proper names in Classical Nahuatl.

Faruk Büyüktekin is a PhD student at the department for Cognitive Science of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, under the supervision of Umut Özge. He works on a computational analysis of referential expressions in Turkish based on data from a dialogical production task. He was a guest of projects B04 und C04 at the CRC 1252 „Prominence in Language“ as well as of the research group on Turkish linguistics.