Prof. Dr. Esther Rinke

• Rinke, E. (2007). Syntaktische Variation aus synchronischer und diachronischer Perspektive: Die Entwicklung der Wortstellung im Portugiesischen. Vervuert.
• Meisel, J. M., Elsig, M., & Rinke, E. (2013). Language acquisition and change: A morphosyntactic perspective. Edinburgh University Press.

• Barbosa, P., Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Roessler, E.-M. (Eds.). (2025). Selected papers from Going Romance 38, Universidade do Minho. Isogloss, 11(7).
• Limberger, B. K., Flores, C. M. M., & Rinke, E. (Eds.). (2023). Bilinguismo luso-alemão [Thematic dossier]. Pandaemonium Germanicum.
• Rinke, E., & Martínez Vera, G. (Eds.). (2021). Language contact and individual multilingualism [Special issue]. Languages.
• Hamann, C., Rinke, E., & Genevska-Hanke, D. (Eds.). (2019). Bilingual language development: The role of dominance [Special issue]. Frontiers in Psychology.
• Fischer, S., Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (Eds.). (2016). Definiteness effects: Bilingual, typological and diachronic variation. Cambridge Scholars.
• Rinke, E., & Kupisch, T. (Eds.). (2011). The development of grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change. Volume in honour of Jürgen M. Meisel. Benjamins. (Hamburg Series on Multilingualism, 11).
• Ferraresi, G., & Rinke, E. (Eds.). (2010). Language contact and diachronic change [Special issue]. Language Typology and Universals (STUF), 63(2). Akademie Verlag.
• Ferraresi, G., & Rinke, E. (Eds.). (2009). Multilingualism and universal principles of linguistic change [Special issue]. Language Typology and Universals (STUF), 62(3). Akademie Verlag.

*Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Martínez-García, C., Rinke, E., & Kerezova, N. (2026). A unified view on indefinite subject and object drop in Spanish: Internal arguments of intransitive constructions as a test case. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 12(1), 1–31.
• *Flores, C. & Rinke, E. (2026). Late acquisition of pronoun use in European Portuguese: Subject–object asymmetries in Portuguese-German bilingual children. Journal of Child Language
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., Torregrossa, J., & Parafita Couto, M. C. (2026). “a branca Schere" or “a tesoura weiße"? Adjective placement in Portuguese–German code-switching by bilingual children and adolescents. Journal of Child Language, 1–27.
• *Gattei, C. A., Martínez Vera, G., & Rinke, E. (2026). Resumption in clitic left dislocation: An experimental study of Peninsular and Rioplatense Spanish. Journal of Linguistics, 1–22.
• Rinke, E., Meisel, J. M., & Kaiser, G. A. (2026). On language acquisition as the locus of reanalysis. In A. Ledgeway, M. Everaert, H. van Riemsdijk, E. Aldridge, A. Breitbarth, K. Kiss, J. Salmons and A. Simonenko (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to diachronic and historical linguistics. Wiley Blackwell.
• Coniglio, M., & Rinke, E. (2026). Information structure in diachronic change. In A. Ledgeway, M. Everaert, H. van Riemsdijk, E. Aldridge, A. Breitbarth, K. Kiss, J. Salmons and A. Simonenko (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to diachronic and historical linguistics. Wiley Blackwell.
• *Rinke, E., Weingärtner, D., Flores, C., Martinez Bruera, M., Listanti, A., Novo Gomes, J., & Lago, S. (2025). Are heritage speakers one step ahead in ongoing processes of diachronic change? Comparing heritage speakers with speakers of two varieties of Portuguese in their comprehension of null object constructions. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 19(3), 369–395.
• Rinke, E., & Sopata, A. (2025). The other side of the coin: Linguistic complexity as a potential cause for selective reinforcement in the heritage language of returnee speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 16(1), 68–72.
• *Martinez Bruera, M., Weingärtner, D., Listanti, A., Gattei, C., Alvarez, C. J., Barber, H., Rinke, E., & Lago, S. (2025). Heritage grammars and language change: The case of clitic doubling in Spanish. Heritage Language Journal, 22(1), 1–32.
• *Torregrossa, J., Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2025). The relevance of instruction, language exposure and age for heritage children's development of complex morphosyntax: Triangulating data from narratives and cloze-tests. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4, 1495607.
• *Flores, C., Sopata, A., & Rinke, E. (2025). The impact of change of environment on Polish-German returnees' childhood languages: Effects of attrition and reinforcement on lexical knowledge. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 28(8), 960-979.
• Rinke, E. (2025). Animacy restrictions on null objects in European Portuguese. In P. Barbosa & C. Flores (Eds.), Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective (pp. 114–140). Benjamins.
• Barbosa, P., Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2025). Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective. In P. Barbosa & C. Flores (Eds.), Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective (pp. 1–26). Benjamins.
• Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2025). Systematic and predictable variation in heritage grammars: The role of complexity, diachronic change, and linguistic ambiguity in the input. In R. D'Alessandro, M. T. Putnam, & S. Terenghi (Eds.), Heritage languages and syntactic theory (pp. 54–70). Oxford University Press.
• *Martínez-García, C., Rinke, E., & Kerezova, N. (2025). Indefinite object drop is lexically constrained. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 10(1), 1–43.
• *Lago, S., Schulz, P., Rinke, E., Oltrogge, E., Dudschig, C., & Kaup, B. (2025). Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: Does linear distance matter? Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 3, 214–223.
• *Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2024). Overt pronouns are challenging: Subject realization in written narratives of Portuguese-French bilingual school-age children. Romanica Cracoviensia, 24(3), 383–398.
• *Rinke, E., & Kerezova, N. (2024). Que fatores condicionam a resolução anafórica de objetos nulos e clíticos em português europeu? Um estudo de corpus. Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, 11, 180–195.
• Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Torregrossa, J. (2024). How different types of complexity can account for difficult structures in bilingual and monolingual language acquisition. In M. Polinsky & M. T. Putnam (Eds.), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars (pp.43-71). Language Science Press.
• *Rinke, E., Flores, C., Oliveira, P., & Correia, L. (2024). An experimental study on the loss of VS order in monolingual and bilingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. Probus, 36(1), 77–112.
• *Bader, M., Torregrossa, J., & Rinke, E. (2023). Pinning down the interaction between animacy and syntactic function in the interpretation of German and Italian personal and demonstrative pronouns. Discourse Processes, 60(9), 655-673.
• *Rinke, E., Lago, S., & Gattei, C. A. (2023). Diachronic change and variation in use: Judgments of clitic doubling in Peninsular vs. Rioplatense Spanish. Isogloss, 9(1).
• Rinke, E. (2023). The emergence of the Portuguese inflected infinitive as a complement of causative verbs: Structural enrichment or independent development? In N. Pomino, E.-M. Remberger, & J. Zwink (Eds.), From formal linguistic theory to the art of historical editions: The multifaceted dimensions of Romance linguistics (pp. 147–166). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. (Wiener Arbeiten zur Linguistik, 7)
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2023). Mehrsprachigkeit in Rio Grande do Sul: Zur Negation im Brasilianischen Hunsrückisch. Pandaemonium Germanicum, 26(49), 68–84.
• Gonçalves, M. L., Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Torregrossa, J. (2023). Zum positiven Verhältnis von Herkunftssprache und Landessprache im mehrsprachigen Erwerb: Eine Studie mit portugiesischen Kindern in der Schweiz. Babylonia, 1, 46–49.
• *Sopata, A., Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2023). How unique is the linguistic situation of endangered language speakers? [Commentary]. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13(1), 100-105.
• *Sopata, A., Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2022). Null objects in Polish heritage language acquisition in contact with German. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(1), 79-97.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., Torregrossa, J., & Weingärtner, D. (2022). Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: Verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children's narratives. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 5, 1–30.
• *Torregrossa, J., Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2022). What modulates the acquisition of difficult structures in a heritage language? A study on Portuguese in contact with French, German and Italian. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(1), 179-192.
• *Flores, C., Gonçalves, M. L., Rinke, E., & Torregrossa, J. (2022). Perspetivas múltiplas sobre a bilinguismo de crianças lusodescendentes residentes na Suíça: A investigação linguística em diálogo com a didática. Revista Portuguesa de Educação, 35(1), 102–131.
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2021). Portuguese as heritage language in Germany: A linguistic perspective. Languages, 6(1), 10.
• *Srdanović, S., & Rinke, E. (2020). Possessive modifiers in Serbian: Coreference with clitics and strong pronouns. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 28(2), 163–182.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Wagner, C. (2020). To hón ich imma insistieat: Syntactic stability in heritage Hunsrückisch German spoken in Brazil. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 12(3), 251-279.
• Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Santos, A. L. (2020). Línguas de herança no contexto escolar: Contributos da investigação linguística. In M. L. Gonçalves & S. Melo-Pfeifer (Eds.), Português língua de herança e formação de professores (pp. 59–75). Edições Lidel.
• *Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2020). Factors constraining subject expression in European Portuguese spoken in Hamburg: A bi-generational corpus investigation. Discours: Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique, 26, 3–31.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Sopata, A. (2020). Acquiring the distribution of null and overt direct objects in European Portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 19(5), 1–20.
• *Horn, V., Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2020). Dialectal variation in European Portuguese central vowel perception. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 19(1), 1-12.
• *Rinke, E., Wieprecht, J., & Elsig, M. (2019). Clitic doubling in Peninsular and Rioplatense Spanish: A comparative corpus investigation. Isogloss, 5(3), 1–43.
• Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2019). The relevance of language-internal variation in predicting heritage language grammars [Commentary]. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(1), 25–-26.
• Hamann, C., Rinke, E., & Genevska-Hanke, D. (2019). Editorial: Bilingual language development: The role of dominance. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1064.
• *Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Sopata, A. (2019). Heritage Portuguese and heritage Polish in contact with German: More evidence on the production of objects. Languages, 4(3), 53.
• Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Santos, A. L. (2019). Heritage languages at school: Implications of linguistic research on bilingualism for heritage language teaching. In C. Gabriel, J. Grünke, & S. Thiele (Eds.), Romanische Sprachen in ihrer Vielfalt: Brückenschläge zwischen linguistischer Theoriebildung und Fremdsprachenunterricht (pp. 211–232). ibidem.
• *Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Barbosa, P. (2018). Null objects in the spontaneous speech of monolingual and bilingual speakers of European Portuguese. Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics, 30(1), 93–120.
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2018). Another look at the interpretation of overt and null pronominal subjects in bilingual language acquisition: Heritage Portuguese in contact with German and Spanish. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 3(1), 68. 1-24.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Rato, A. (2017). Comparing the outcomes of early and late acquisition of European Portuguese: An analysis of morpho-syntactic and phonetic performance. Heritage Language Journal, 14(2), 124–149.
• Aßmann, E., & Rinke, E. (2017). Relative clauses in a spoken corpus of European Portuguese: Identifying the factors determining their variation. Linguística: Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto, 12, 9–20.
• *Rinke, E., & Aßmann, E. (2017). The syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese: Extending the Determiner Hypothesis of relativizers to relative que. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 16(1), 4. 1-26.
• Flores, C., Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2017). Linguistic foundations of heritage language development from the perspective of Romance languages in Germany. In P. P. Trifonas & T. Aravossitas (Eds.), Handbook of research and practice in heritage language education (pp.1-18). Springer.
• Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Azevedo, C. (2017). Object realization across generations: A closer look at the spontaneous speech of Portuguese first and second generation migrants. In E. Di Domenico (Ed.), Syntax complexity from a language acquisition perspective (pp. 179–206). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Rinke, E. (2016). The role of the interfaces in syntactic change. In S. Fischer & C. Gabriel (Eds.), Manual of grammatical interfaces in Romance (pp. 587–606). De Gruyter Mouton. (Manuals of Romance Linguistics, 10)
• Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2016). Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit in der Spracherwerbsforschung: Neuere Erkenntnisse aus dem Portugiesischen. Revista de Estudos Alemães (REAL), 6, 21–30.
• Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2015). Um estudo comparativo sobre o conhecimento do sistema pronominal português por parte de falantes de Português Língua de Herança e falantes de uma Língua Segunda. In M. A. Marques & X. M. Sanchez Rei (Eds.), Novas perspetivas linguísticas no espaço galego-português (pp. 11–33).
• Rinke, E., & Petrova, S. (2015). The expression of thetic judgments in older Germanic and Romance. In J. Gippert & R. Gehrke (Eds.), Historical corpora: Challenges and perspectives (Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, 5) (255-268). Narr.
• Petrova, S., & Rinke, E. (2014). Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French. In K. Bech & K. Eide (Eds.), Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages (pp. 271–294). Benjamins.
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2014). Morphosyntactic knowledge of clitics by Portuguese heritage bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(4), 681-699.
• *Fischer, S., & Rinke, E. (2013). Explaining the variability of clitic doubling across Romance: A diachronic account. Linguistische Berichte, 236, 255–272.
• Rinke, E. (2011). El doblado de clíticos en el español estándar y el argentino: Variación lingüística y análisis sintáctico. In Á. di Tullio & R. Kailuweit (Eds.), El español rioplatense (103-117). Vervuert.
• Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2011). The diachronic development of article–possessor complementarity in the history of Italian and Portuguese. In P. Siemund (Ed.), Universals and variation (pp. 92–127). De Gruyter.
• Rinke, E., & Elsig, M. (2010). Quantitative evidence and diachronic syntax. Lingua, 120(11), 2557–2568.
• Gabriel, C., & Rinke, E. (2010). Structure informationnelle et statut morpho-syntaxique des clitiques: La diachronie du doublement pronominal en espagnol et en français. In D. Jacob & A. Dufter (Eds.), Syntaxe, structure informationnelle et organisation du discours dans les langues romanes (pp. 95–116). Lang.
• *Rinke, E. (2010). A combinação de artigo definido e pronome possessivo na história do Português. Estudos de Lingüística Galega, 2, 121–139.
• Gabriel, C., & Rinke, E. (2010). Information packaging and the rise of clitic doubling in the history of Spanish. In G. Ferraresi & R. Lühr (Eds.), Diachronic studies on information structure: Language acquisition and change (Language, Context and Cognition, 10) (pp. 63–86). De Gruyter.
• Rinke, E. (2009). Verb-placement in Old Portuguese. In D. Jacob & A. Dufter (Eds.), Focus and background in Romance languages (Studies in Language Companion Series, 112) (pp. 309–332). Benjamins.
• Rinke, E., & Meisel, J. M. (2009). Subject-inversion in Old French: Syntax and information structure. In G. A. Kaiser & E.-M. Remberger (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop “Null-subjects, expletives and locatives in Romance" (Arbeitspapier, 123) (pp. 93–130). Universität Konstanz.
• Rinke, E. (2008). OV-VO-Variation im Portugiesischen: Eine diachronische Analyse der Infinitivkomplemente kausativer Verben. In E. M. Remberger & G. Mensching (Eds.), Romanistische Syntax – minimalistisch. Narr.
• Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2007). A fresh look at root infinitives from a cross-linguistic perspective. Nordlyd, 34(3), 87–109.
• Elsig, M., & Rinke, E. (2007). Les adverbes et l'inversion en ancien français: Le Nouveau Corpus d'Amsterdam soumis à l'analyse linguistique. In P. Kunstmann & A. Stein (Eds.), Le Nouveau Corpus d'Amsterdam: Actes de l'atelier de Lauterbad, 23–26 février 2006. Steiner.
• Kuchenbrandt, I., Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2005). Pronominal objects in Romance: Comparing French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish (Arbeiten zur Mehrsprachigkeit, 67). Universität Hamburg.
• Rinke, E. (2003). On the licensing of null subjects in Old French. In U. Junghanns & L. Szucsich (Eds.), Syntactic structures and morphological information (pp. 217–249). Mouton de Gruyter.

• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., Torregrossa, J., & Parafita Couto, M. C. (2026). “a branca Schere" or “a tesoura weiße"? Adjective placement in Portuguese–German code-switching by bilingual children and adolescents. Journal of Child Language, 1–27.
• *Gattei, C. A., Martínez Vera, G., & Rinke, E. (2026). Resumption in clitic left dislocation: An experimental study of Peninsular and Rioplatense Spanish. Journal of Linguistics, 1–22.
• Rinke, E., Meisel, J. M., & Kaiser, G. A. (2026). On language acquisition as the locus of reanalysis. In A. Ledgeway, M. Everaert, H. van Riemsdijk, E. Aldridge, A. Breitbarth, K. Kiss, J. Salmons and A. Simonenko (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to diachronic and historical linguistics. Wiley Blackwell.
• Coniglio, M., & Rinke, E. (2026). Information structure in diachronic change. In A. Ledgeway, M. Everaert, H. van Riemsdijk, E. Aldridge, A. Breitbarth, K. Kiss, J. Salmons and A. Simonenko (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to diachronic and historical linguistics. Wiley Blackwell.
• *Rinke, E., Weingärtner, D., Flores, C., Martinez Bruera, M., Listanti, A., Novo Gomes, J., & Lago, S. (2025). Are heritage speakers one step ahead in ongoing processes of diachronic change? Comparing heritage speakers with speakers of two varieties of Portuguese in their comprehension of null object constructions. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 19(3), 369–395.
• Rinke, E., & Sopata, A. (2025). The other side of the coin: Linguistic complexity as a potential cause for selective reinforcement in the heritage language of returnee speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 16(1), 68–72.
• *Martinez Bruera, M., Weingärtner, D., Listanti, A., Gattei, C., Alvarez, C. J., Barber, H., Rinke, E., & Lago, S. (2025). Heritage grammars and language change: The case of clitic doubling in Spanish. Heritage Language Journal, 22(1), 1–32.
• *Torregrossa, J., Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2025). The relevance of instruction, language exposure and age for heritage children's development of complex morphosyntax: Triangulating data from narratives and cloze-tests. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4, 1495607.
• *Flores, C., Sopata, A., & Rinke, E. (2025). The impact of change of environment on Polish-German returnees' childhood languages: Effects of attrition and reinforcement on lexical knowledge. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 28(8), 960-979.
• Rinke, E. (2025). Animacy restrictions on null objects in European Portuguese. In P. Barbosa & C. Flores (Eds.), Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective (pp. 114–140). Benjamins.
• Barbosa, P., Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2025). Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective. In P. Barbosa & C. Flores (Eds.), Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective (pp. 1–26). Benjamins.
• Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2025). Systematic and predictable variation in heritage grammars: The role of complexity, diachronic change, and linguistic ambiguity in the input. In R. D'Alessandro, M. T. Putnam, & S. Terenghi (Eds.), Heritage languages and syntactic theory (pp. 54–70). Oxford University Press.
• *Martínez-García, C., Rinke, E., & Kerezova, N. (2025). Indefinite object drop is lexically constrained. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 10(1), 1–43.
• *Lago, S., Schulz, P., Rinke, E., Oltrogge, E., Dudschig, C., & Kaup, B. (2025). Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: Does linear distance matter? Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 3, 214–223.
• *Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2024). Overt pronouns are challenging: Subject realization in written narratives of Portuguese-French bilingual school-age children. Romanica Cracoviensia, 24(3), 383–398.
• *Rinke, E., & Kerezova, N. (2024). Que fatores condicionam a resolução anafórica de objetos nulos e clíticos em português europeu? Um estudo de corpus. Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, 11, 180–195.
• Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Torregrossa, J. (2024). How different types of complexity can account for difficult structures in bilingual and monolingual language acquisition. In M. Polinsky & M. T. Putnam (Eds.), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars (pp.43-71). Language Science Press.
• *Rinke, E., Flores, C., Oliveira, P., & Correia, L. (2024). An experimental study on the loss of VS order in monolingual and bilingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. Probus, 36(1), 77–112.
• *Bader, M., Torregrossa, J., & Rinke, E. (2023). Pinning down the interaction between animacy and syntactic function in the interpretation of German and Italian personal and demonstrative pronouns. Discourse Processes, 60(9), 655-673.
• *Rinke, E., Lago, S., & Gattei, C. A. (2023). Diachronic change and variation in use: Judgments of clitic doubling in Peninsular vs. Rioplatense Spanish. Isogloss, 9(1).
• Rinke, E. (2023). The emergence of the Portuguese inflected infinitive as a complement of causative verbs: Structural enrichment or independent development? In N. Pomino, E.-M. Remberger, & J. Zwink (Eds.), From formal linguistic theory to the art of historical editions: The multifaceted dimensions of Romance linguistics (pp. 147–166). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. (Wiener Arbeiten zur Linguistik, 7)
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2023). Mehrsprachigkeit in Rio Grande do Sul: Zur Negation im Brasilianischen Hunsrückisch. Pandaemonium Germanicum, 26(49), 68–84.
• Gonçalves, M. L., Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Torregrossa, J. (2023). Zum positiven Verhältnis von Herkunftssprache und Landessprache im mehrsprachigen Erwerb: Eine Studie mit portugiesischen Kindern in der Schweiz. Babylonia, 1, 46–49.
• *Sopata, A., Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2023). How unique is the linguistic situation of endangered language speakers? [Commentary]. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13(1), 100-105.
• *Sopata, A., Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2022). Null objects in Polish heritage language acquisition in contact with German. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(1), 79-97.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., Torregrossa, J., & Weingärtner, D. (2022). Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: Verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children's narratives. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 5, 1–30.
• *Torregrossa, J., Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2022). What modulates the acquisition of difficult structures in a heritage language? A study on Portuguese in contact with French, German and Italian. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(1), 179-192.
• *Flores, C., Gonçalves, M. L., Rinke, E., & Torregrossa, J. (2022). Perspetivas múltiplas sobre a bilinguismo de crianças lusodescendentes residentes na Suíça: A investigação linguística em diálogo com a didática. Revista Portuguesa de Educação, 35(1), 102–131.
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2021). Portuguese as heritage language in Germany: A linguistic perspective. Languages, 6(1), 10.
• *Srdanović, S., & Rinke, E. (2020). Possessive modifiers in Serbian: Coreference with clitics and strong pronouns. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 28(2), 163–182.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Wagner, C. (2020). To hón ich imma insistieat: Syntactic stability in heritage Hunsrückisch German spoken in Brazil. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 12(3), 251-279.
• Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Santos, A. L. (2020). Línguas de herança no contexto escolar: Contributos da investigação linguística. In M. L. Gonçalves & S. Melo-Pfeifer (Eds.), Português língua de herança e formação de professores (pp. 59–75). Edições Lidel.
• *Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2020). Factors constraining subject expression in European Portuguese spoken in Hamburg: A bi-generational corpus investigation. Discours: Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique, 26, 3–31.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Sopata, A. (2020). Acquiring the distribution of null and overt direct objects in European Portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 19(5), 1–20.
• *Horn, V., Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2020). Dialectal variation in European Portuguese central vowel perception. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 19(1), 1-12.
• *Rinke, E., Wieprecht, J., & Elsig, M. (2019). Clitic doubling in Peninsular and Rioplatense Spanish: A comparative corpus investigation. Isogloss, 5(3), 1–43.
• Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2019). The relevance of language-internal variation in predicting heritage language grammars [Commentary]. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(1), 25–-26.
• Hamann, C., Rinke, E., & Genevska-Hanke, D. (2019). Editorial: Bilingual language development: The role of dominance. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1064.
• *Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Sopata, A. (2019). Heritage Portuguese and heritage Polish in contact with German: More evidence on the production of objects. Languages, 4(3), 53.
• Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Santos, A. L. (2019). Heritage languages at school: Implications of linguistic research on bilingualism for heritage language teaching. In C. Gabriel, J. Grünke, & S. Thiele (Eds.), Romanische Sprachen in ihrer Vielfalt: Brückenschläge zwischen linguistischer Theoriebildung und Fremdsprachenunterricht (pp. 211–232). ibidem.
• *Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Barbosa, P. (2018). Null objects in the spontaneous speech of monolingual and bilingual speakers of European Portuguese. Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics, 30(1), 93–120.
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2018). Another look at the interpretation of overt and null pronominal subjects in bilingual language acquisition: Heritage Portuguese in contact with German and Spanish. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 3(1), 68. 1-24.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Rato, A. (2017). Comparing the outcomes of early and late acquisition of European Portuguese: An analysis of morpho-syntactic and phonetic performance. Heritage Language Journal, 14(2), 124–149.
• Aßmann, E., & Rinke, E. (2017). Relative clauses in a spoken corpus of European Portuguese: Identifying the factors determining their variation. Linguística: Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto, 12, 9–20.
• *Rinke, E., & Aßmann, E. (2017). The syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese: Extending the Determiner Hypothesis of relativizers to relative que. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 16(1), 4. 1-26.
• Flores, C., Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2017). Linguistic foundations of heritage language development from the perspective of Romance languages in Germany. In P. P. Trifonas & T. Aravossitas (Eds.), Handbook of research and practice in heritage language education (pp.1-18). Springer.
• Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Azevedo, C. (2017). Object realization across generations: A closer look at the spontaneous speech of Portuguese first and second generation migrants. In E. Di Domenico (Ed.), Syntax complexity from a language acquisition perspective (pp. 179–206). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Rinke, E. (2016). The role of the interfaces in syntactic change. In S. Fischer & C. Gabriel (Eds.), Manual of grammatical interfaces in Romance (pp. 587–606). De Gruyter Mouton. (Manuals of Romance Linguistics, 10)
• Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2016). Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit in der Spracherwerbsforschung: Neuere Erkenntnisse aus dem Portugiesischen. Revista de Estudos Alemães (REAL), 6, 21–30.
• Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2015). Um estudo comparativo sobre o conhecimento do sistema pronominal português por parte de falantes de Português Língua de Herança e falantes de uma Língua Segunda. In M. A. Marques & X. M. Sanchez Rei (Eds.), Novas perspetivas linguísticas no espaço galego-português (pp. 11–33).
• Rinke, E., & Petrova, S. (2015). The expression of thetic judgments in older Germanic and Romance. In J. Gippert & R. Gehrke (Eds.), Historical corpora: Challenges and perspectives (Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, 5) (255-268). Narr.
• Petrova, S., & Rinke, E. (2014). Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French. In K. Bech & K. Eide (Eds.), Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages (pp. 271–294). Benjamins.
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2014). Morphosyntactic knowledge of clitics by Portuguese heritage bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(4), 681-699.
• *Fischer, S., & Rinke, E. (2013). Explaining the variability of clitic doubling across Romance: A diachronic account. Linguistische Berichte, 236, 255–272.
• Rinke, E. (2011). El doblado de clíticos en el español estándar y el argentino: Variación lingüística y análisis sintáctico. In Á. di Tullio & R. Kailuweit (Eds.), El español rioplatense (103-117). Vervuert.
• Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2011). The diachronic development of article–possessor complementarity in the history of Italian and Portuguese. In P. Siemund (Ed.), Universals and variation (pp. 92–127). De Gruyter.
• Rinke, E., & Elsig, M. (2010). Quantitative evidence and diachronic syntax. Lingua, 120(11), 2557–2568.
• Gabriel, C., & Rinke, E. (2010). Structure informationnelle et statut morpho-syntaxique des clitiques: La diachronie du doublement pronominal en espagnol et en français. In D. Jacob & A. Dufter (Eds.), Syntaxe, structure informationnelle et organisation du discours dans les langues romanes (pp. 95–116). Lang.
• *Rinke, E. (2010). A combinação de artigo definido e pronome possessivo na história do Português. Estudos de Lingüística Galega, 2, 121–139.
• Gabriel, C., & Rinke, E. (2010). Information packaging and the rise of clitic doubling in the history of Spanish. In G. Ferraresi & R. Lühr (Eds.), Diachronic studies on information structure: Language acquisition and change (Language, Context and Cognition, 10) (pp. 63–86). De Gruyter.
• Rinke, E. (2009). Verb-placement in Old Portuguese. In D. Jacob & A. Dufter (Eds.), Focus and background in Romance languages (Studies in Language Companion Series, 112) (pp. 309–332). Benjamins.
• Rinke, E., & Meisel, J. M. (2009). Subject-inversion in Old French: Syntax and information structure. In G. A. Kaiser & E.-M. Remberger (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop “Null-subjects, expletives and locatives in Romance" (Arbeitspapier, 123) (pp. 93–130). Universität Konstanz.
• Rinke, E. (2008). OV-VO-Variation im Portugiesischen: Eine diachronische Analyse der Infinitivkomplemente kausativer Verben. In E. M. Remberger & G. Mensching (Eds.), Romanistische Syntax – minimalistisch. Narr.
• Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2007). A fresh look at root infinitives from a cross-linguistic perspective. Nordlyd, 34(3), 87–109.
• Elsig, M., & Rinke, E. (2007). Les adverbes et l'inversion en ancien français: Le Nouveau Corpus d'Amsterdam soumis à l'analyse linguistique. In P. Kunstmann & A. Stein (Eds.), Le Nouveau Corpus d'Amsterdam: Actes de l'atelier de Lauterbad, 23–26 février 2006. Steiner.
• Kuchenbrandt, I., Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2005). Pronominal objects in Romance: Comparing French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish (Arbeiten zur Mehrsprachigkeit, 67). Universität Hamburg.
• Rinke, E. (2003). On the licensing of null subjects in Old French. In U. Junghanns & L. Szucsich (Eds.), Syntactic structures and morphological information (pp. 217–249). Mouton de Gruyter.

• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., Torregrossa, J., & Parafita Couto, M. C. (2026). “a branca Schere" or “a tesoura weiße"? Adjective placement in Portuguese–German code-switching by bilingual children and adolescents. Journal of Child Language, 1–27.
• *Gattei, C. A., Martínez Vera, G., & Rinke, E. (2026). Resumption in clitic left dislocation: An experimental study of Peninsular and Rioplatense Spanish. Journal of Linguistics, 1–22.
• Rinke, E., Meisel, J. M., & Kaiser, G. A. (2026). On language acquisition as the locus of reanalysis. In A. Ledgeway, M. Everaert, H. van Riemsdijk, E. Aldridge, A. Breitbarth, K. Kiss, J. Salmons and A. Simonenko (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to diachronic and historical linguistics. Wiley Blackwell.
• Coniglio, M., & Rinke, E. (2026). Information structure in diachronic change. In A. Ledgeway, M. Everaert, H. van Riemsdijk, E. Aldridge, A. Breitbarth, K. Kiss, J. Salmons and A. Simonenko (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to diachronic and historical linguistics. Wiley Blackwell.
• *Rinke, E., Weingärtner, D., Flores, C., Martinez Bruera, M., Listanti, A., Novo Gomes, J., & Lago, S. (2025). Are heritage speakers one step ahead in ongoing processes of diachronic change? Comparing heritage speakers with speakers of two varieties of Portuguese in their comprehension of null object constructions. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 19(3), 369–395.
• Rinke, E., & Sopata, A. (2025). The other side of the coin: Linguistic complexity as a potential cause for selective reinforcement in the heritage language of returnee speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 16(1), 68–72.
• *Martinez Bruera, M., Weingärtner, D., Listanti, A., Gattei, C., Alvarez, C. J., Barber, H., Rinke, E., & Lago, S. (2025). Heritage grammars and language change: The case of clitic doubling in Spanish. Heritage Language Journal, 22(1), 1–32.
• *Torregrossa, J., Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2025). The relevance of instruction, language exposure and age for heritage children's development of complex morphosyntax: Triangulating data from narratives and cloze-tests. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4, 1495607.
• *Flores, C., Sopata, A., & Rinke, E. (2025). The impact of change of environment on Polish-German returnees' childhood languages: Effects of attrition and reinforcement on lexical knowledge. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 28(8), 960-979.
• Rinke, E. (2025). Animacy restrictions on null objects in European Portuguese. In P. Barbosa & C. Flores (Eds.), Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective (pp. 114–140). Benjamins.
• Barbosa, P., Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2025). Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective. In P. Barbosa & C. Flores (Eds.), Null objects from a cross-linguistic and developmental perspective (pp. 1–26). Benjamins.
• Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2025). Systematic and predictable variation in heritage grammars: The role of complexity, diachronic change, and linguistic ambiguity in the input. In R. D'Alessandro, M. T. Putnam, & S. Terenghi (Eds.), Heritage languages and syntactic theory (pp. 54–70). Oxford University Press.
• *Martínez-García, C., Rinke, E., & Kerezova, N. (2025). Indefinite object drop is lexically constrained. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 10(1), 1–43.
• *Lago, S., Schulz, P., Rinke, E., Oltrogge, E., Dudschig, C., & Kaup, B. (2025). Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: Does linear distance matter? Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 3, 214–223.
• *Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2024). Overt pronouns are challenging: Subject realization in written narratives of Portuguese-French bilingual school-age children. Romanica Cracoviensia, 24(3), 383–398.
• *Rinke, E., & Kerezova, N. (2024). Que fatores condicionam a resolução anafórica de objetos nulos e clíticos em português europeu? Um estudo de corpus. Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, 11, 180–195.
• Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Torregrossa, J. (2024). How different types of complexity can account for difficult structures in bilingual and monolingual language acquisition. In M. Polinsky & M. T. Putnam (Eds.), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars (pp.43-71). Language Science Press.
• *Rinke, E., Flores, C., Oliveira, P., & Correia, L. (2024). An experimental study on the loss of VS order in monolingual and bilingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. Probus, 36(1), 77–112.
• *Bader, M., Torregrossa, J., & Rinke, E. (2023). Pinning down the interaction between animacy and syntactic function in the interpretation of German and Italian personal and demonstrative pronouns. Discourse Processes, 60(9), 655-673.
• *Rinke, E., Lago, S., & Gattei, C. A. (2023). Diachronic change and variation in use: Judgments of clitic doubling in Peninsular vs. Rioplatense Spanish. Isogloss, 9(1).
• Rinke, E. (2023). The emergence of the Portuguese inflected infinitive as a complement of causative verbs: Structural enrichment or independent development? In N. Pomino, E.-M. Remberger, & J. Zwink (Eds.), From formal linguistic theory to the art of historical editions: The multifaceted dimensions of Romance linguistics (pp. 147–166). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. (Wiener Arbeiten zur Linguistik, 7)
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2023). Mehrsprachigkeit in Rio Grande do Sul: Zur Negation im Brasilianischen Hunsrückisch. Pandaemonium Germanicum, 26(49), 68–84.
• Gonçalves, M. L., Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Torregrossa, J. (2023). Zum positiven Verhältnis von Herkunftssprache und Landessprache im mehrsprachigen Erwerb: Eine Studie mit portugiesischen Kindern in der Schweiz. Babylonia, 1, 46–49.
• *Sopata, A., Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2023). How unique is the linguistic situation of endangered language speakers? [Commentary]. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13(1), 100-105.
• *Sopata, A., Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2022). Null objects in Polish heritage language acquisition in contact with German. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(1), 79-97.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., Torregrossa, J., & Weingärtner, D. (2022). Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: Verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children's narratives. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 5, 1–30.
• *Torregrossa, J., Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2022). What modulates the acquisition of difficult structures in a heritage language? A study on Portuguese in contact with French, German and Italian. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(1), 179-192.
• *Flores, C., Gonçalves, M. L., Rinke, E., & Torregrossa, J. (2022). Perspetivas múltiplas sobre a bilinguismo de crianças lusodescendentes residentes na Suíça: A investigação linguística em diálogo com a didática. Revista Portuguesa de Educação, 35(1), 102–131.
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2021). Portuguese as heritage language in Germany: A linguistic perspective. Languages, 6(1), 10.
• *Srdanović, S., & Rinke, E. (2020). Possessive modifiers in Serbian: Coreference with clitics and strong pronouns. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 28(2), 163–182.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Wagner, C. (2020). To hón ich imma insistieat: Syntactic stability in heritage Hunsrückisch German spoken in Brazil. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 12(3), 251-279.
• Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Santos, A. L. (2020). Línguas de herança no contexto escolar: Contributos da investigação linguística. In M. L. Gonçalves & S. Melo-Pfeifer (Eds.), Português língua de herança e formação de professores (pp. 59–75). Edições Lidel.
• *Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2020). Factors constraining subject expression in European Portuguese spoken in Hamburg: A bi-generational corpus investigation. Discours: Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique, 26, 3–31.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Sopata, A. (2020). Acquiring the distribution of null and overt direct objects in European Portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 19(5), 1–20.
• *Horn, V., Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2020). Dialectal variation in European Portuguese central vowel perception. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 19(1), 1-12.
• *Rinke, E., Wieprecht, J., & Elsig, M. (2019). Clitic doubling in Peninsular and Rioplatense Spanish: A comparative corpus investigation. Isogloss, 5(3), 1–43.
• Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2019). The relevance of language-internal variation in predicting heritage language grammars [Commentary]. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(1), 25–-26.
• Hamann, C., Rinke, E., & Genevska-Hanke, D. (2019). Editorial: Bilingual language development: The role of dominance. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1064.
• *Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Sopata, A. (2019). Heritage Portuguese and heritage Polish in contact with German: More evidence on the production of objects. Languages, 4(3), 53.
• Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Santos, A. L. (2019). Heritage languages at school: Implications of linguistic research on bilingualism for heritage language teaching. In C. Gabriel, J. Grünke, & S. Thiele (Eds.), Romanische Sprachen in ihrer Vielfalt: Brückenschläge zwischen linguistischer Theoriebildung und Fremdsprachenunterricht (pp. 211–232). ibidem.
• *Rinke, E., Flores, C., & Barbosa, P. (2018). Null objects in the spontaneous speech of monolingual and bilingual speakers of European Portuguese. Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics, 30(1), 93–120.
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2018). Another look at the interpretation of overt and null pronominal subjects in bilingual language acquisition: Heritage Portuguese in contact with German and Spanish. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 3(1), 68. 1-24.
• *Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Rato, A. (2017). Comparing the outcomes of early and late acquisition of European Portuguese: An analysis of morpho-syntactic and phonetic performance. Heritage Language Journal, 14(2), 124–149.
• Aßmann, E., & Rinke, E. (2017). Relative clauses in a spoken corpus of European Portuguese: Identifying the factors determining their variation. Linguística: Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto, 12, 9–20.
• *Rinke, E., & Aßmann, E. (2017). The syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese: Extending the Determiner Hypothesis of relativizers to relative que. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 16(1), 4. 1-26.
• Flores, C., Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2017). Linguistic foundations of heritage language development from the perspective of Romance languages in Germany. In P. P. Trifonas & T. Aravossitas (Eds.), Handbook of research and practice in heritage language education (pp.1-18). Springer.
• Flores, C., Rinke, E., & Azevedo, C. (2017). Object realization across generations: A closer look at the spontaneous speech of Portuguese first and second generation migrants. In E. Di Domenico (Ed.), Syntax complexity from a language acquisition perspective (pp. 179–206). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Rinke, E. (2016). The role of the interfaces in syntactic change. In S. Fischer & C. Gabriel (Eds.), Manual of grammatical interfaces in Romance (pp. 587–606). De Gruyter Mouton. (Manuals of Romance Linguistics, 10)
• Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2016). Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit in der Spracherwerbsforschung: Neuere Erkenntnisse aus dem Portugiesischen. Revista de Estudos Alemães (REAL), 6, 21–30.
• Flores, C., & Rinke, E. (2015). Um estudo comparativo sobre o conhecimento do sistema pronominal português por parte de falantes de Português Língua de Herança e falantes de uma Língua Segunda. In M. A. Marques & X. M. Sanchez Rei (Eds.), Novas perspetivas linguísticas no espaço galego-português (pp. 11–33).
• Rinke, E., & Petrova, S. (2015). The expression of thetic judgments in older Germanic and Romance. In J. Gippert & R. Gehrke (Eds.), Historical corpora: Challenges and perspectives (Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, 5) (255-268). Narr.
• Petrova, S., & Rinke, E. (2014). Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French. In K. Bech & K. Eide (Eds.), Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages (pp. 271–294). Benjamins.
• *Rinke, E., & Flores, C. (2014). Morphosyntactic knowledge of clitics by Portuguese heritage bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(4), 681-699.
• *Fischer, S., & Rinke, E. (2013). Explaining the variability of clitic doubling across Romance: A diachronic account. Linguistische Berichte, 236, 255–272.
• Rinke, E. (2011). El doblado de clíticos en el español estándar y el argentino: Variación lingüística y análisis sintáctico. In Á. di Tullio & R. Kailuweit (Eds.), El español rioplatense (103-117). Vervuert.
• Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2011). The diachronic development of article–possessor complementarity in the history of Italian and Portuguese. In P. Siemund (Ed.), Universals and variation (pp. 92–127). De Gruyter.
• Rinke, E., & Elsig, M. (2010). Quantitative evidence and diachronic syntax. Lingua, 120(11), 2557–2568.
• Gabriel, C., & Rinke, E. (2010). Structure informationnelle et statut morpho-syntaxique des clitiques: La diachronie du doublement pronominal en espagnol et en français. In D. Jacob & A. Dufter (Eds.), Syntaxe, structure informationnelle et organisation du discours dans les langues romanes (pp. 95–116). Lang.
• *Rinke, E. (2010). A combinação de artigo definido e pronome possessivo na história do Português. Estudos de Lingüística Galega, 2, 121–139.
• Gabriel, C., & Rinke, E. (2010). Information packaging and the rise of clitic doubling in the history of Spanish. In G. Ferraresi & R. Lühr (Eds.), Diachronic studies on information structure: Language acquisition and change (Language, Context and Cognition, 10) (pp. 63–86). De Gruyter.
• Rinke, E. (2009). Verb-placement in Old Portuguese. In D. Jacob & A. Dufter (Eds.), Focus and background in Romance languages (Studies in Language Companion Series, 112) (pp. 309–332). Benjamins.
• Rinke, E., & Meisel, J. M. (2009). Subject-inversion in Old French: Syntax and information structure. In G. A. Kaiser & E.-M. Remberger (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop “Null-subjects, expletives and locatives in Romance" (Arbeitspapier, 123) (pp. 93–130). Universität Konstanz.
• Rinke, E. (2008). OV-VO-Variation im Portugiesischen: Eine diachronische Analyse der Infinitivkomplemente kausativer Verben. In E. M. Remberger & G. Mensching (Eds.), Romanistische Syntax – minimalistisch. Narr.
• Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2007). A fresh look at root infinitives from a cross-linguistic perspective. Nordlyd, 34(3), 87–109.
• Elsig, M., & Rinke, E. (2007). Les adverbes et l'inversion en ancien français: Le Nouveau Corpus d'Amsterdam soumis à l'analyse linguistique. In P. Kunstmann & A. Stein (Eds.), Le Nouveau Corpus d'Amsterdam: Actes de l'atelier de Lauterbad, 23–26 février 2006. Steiner.
• Kuchenbrandt, I., Kupisch, T., & Rinke, E. (2005). Pronominal objects in Romance: Comparing French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish (Arbeiten zur Mehrsprachigkeit, 67). Universität Hamburg.
• Rinke, E. (2003). On the licensing of null subjects in Old French. In U. Junghanns & L. Szucsich (Eds.), Syntactic structures and morphological information (pp. 217–249). Mouton de Gruyter.

Aktuelle Position

• Seit 2017 Professorin (W3) für iberoromanische Sprachwissenschaft an der Goethe Universität Frankfurt

Berufserfahrung

• 2010-2017 Professorin (W1/W2) für iberoromanische Sprachwissenschaft (Portugiesisch und Spanisch) an der Goethe Universität Frankfurt.
• 2007-2010 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc) am Institut für Romanistik, Universität Hamburg.
• 2008 Vertretung einer Professur für Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Hamburg.
• 1999-2007 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, SFB „Mehrsprachigkeit“, Universität Hamburg.

Studium

• Magisterstudium der Romanistik, Germanistik und Philosophie an der Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, der Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lissabon) und der Universität Hamburg
• 1999
  Universität Hamburg, Master ('Magistra Artium') in Portugiesisch und Germanistik
  
  Masterarbeit: "Zur Syntax des flektierten Infinitivs im europäischen Portugiesisch. Eine diachronische Studie"
• 2005
  Universität Hamburg, Promotion in Portuguiesisch (‚ausgezeichnet' (with distinction))
  
  Dissertation „Syntaktische Variation aus synchronischer und diachronischer Perspektive: Die Entwicklung der Wortstellung im Portugiesischen“, [Veröffentlicht 2007 bei Vervuert/Frankfurt].