Author: Esther Rinke Susann Fischer Tanja Kupisch

Esther Rinke is a Full Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt. Her research covers comparative Romance linguistics, diachronic syntax, heritage bilingualism, and the analysis of linguistic variation. She has published work on theories of diachronic change, the historical development of the nominal domain in Portuguese, word order variation and change in French and Portuguese, the synchrony and diachrony of relative clauses across Romance languages, and the analysis of syntactic variation of clitic doubling in Spanish. Rinke has also worked extensively on the relation of language change and language acquisition, and on the linguistic competence of heritage bilinguals in Germany.