Ekaterina is a sixth year PhD candidate in the department of Linguistics at the UT Austin. Her primary research interests are semantics and its interface with pragmatics and syntax. Her doctoral research concerns external possessives in German. Specifically, Katja is puzzled with the composition of their meaning, the meaning of their parts, and the encoding of possessive relationships.
Katja received her B.A. in German Linguistics and Spanish in 2011 and her M.A. in Theoretical Linguistics in 2014 from the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2006, she graduated in German as a Foreign Language (comparable to B.A.) from the University of Leipzig. She also holds a degree in Law (comparable to J.D.) from Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University (2004).