Alena Witzlack-Makarevich

Alena Witzlack-Makarevich is a senior lecturer of linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on morpho-syntactic typology and language description and documentations and combines in-depth studies on individual languages with large-scale typological studies. She worked on various aspects of grammatical relations and co-edited a volume on the diachrony of differential argument marking and another one on the typology of anitipassives. In addition to compiling a dictionary and a grammar of the Bantu language Ruruuli-Lunyala, Alena currently works on the grammar of Nǁng (!Ui-Taa) and studies the dialectal variation of Khoekhoe (Khoe-Kwadi).