Ivona Kucerova

Professor, Linguistics and Languages

0009-0002-2850-2005

Ivona Kučerová is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics (ARiEAL) at McMaster University. A theoretical linguist, she studies how the structure of sentences relates to their meaning, combining formal analysis of languages from unrelated families (Slavic, Germanic, Romance, Semitic, Inuit and Iroquoian) with EEG and eye-tracking experiments in her Syntax Lab. Since 2016 she has also led community-engaged research with Mohawk, Oneida and Tuscarora partners on adult immersion and language revitalization. In 2026 she received the Linguistic Society of America’s C.L. Baker Award, the discipline’s international award for research excellence in syntax. She holds a PhD from MIT and joined McMaster in 2009.