Academic Degrees
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Leipzig
5 December 2001
(doctoral defense)
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2009
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Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin
Venia legendi:
Allgemeine und Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft (General and English
Linguistics) |
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Dr. phil. (summa cum
laude), Linguistics, University of Leipzig |
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Dissertation title: Syntactic,
Phonological and Information Structural Aspects of Particle Verbs in
English
Supervisors:
Prof Dr Susan Olsen (University of Leipzig), Prof Dr Angela
Friederici (MPI for Cognitive
Neuroscience, Leipzig)
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April
1998
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M.A., English
Philology and History, University of Göttingen
Master's thesis: Prepositional
Phrases within the Minimalist Framework: A Classification
Supervisors: Prof
Dr Thomas Gardner, Prof Dr Hero
Janßen |
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| Research
profile |
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Current
research focuses mainly on
Icelandic intonation and
the
syntax-prosody interface in Icelandic, the syntax and prosody of North
American Icelandic ('heritage Icelandic'), Faroese intonation, and the
prosody of
rhetorical questions (and related utterance types; currently German,
English, Icelandic, Mandarin, Italian).
(click here
for publications; click here
for funded research projects) |
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| Academic
Education |
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May
1998-April
2001
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Member of the Graduate
Program in Linguistics
(Universality
and Diversity: Linguistic Structures and Processes)
University
of Leipzig (Germany)
31 May 2001 submission of Doctoral thesis; 5 Dec 2001 doctoral defense
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April
1992-April
1998
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Magister
Artium: English
Linguistics and Literature, and History
University of Göttingen (Germany)
On leave 5 months in 1994 to work in a home for people with
disabilities in Essex, UK.
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Academic Career
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| Sept
2016 -- |
Adjunct
Professor, Faculty of Icelandic
and Comparative Cultural Studies, School of Humanities, University of
Iceland |
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| April
2010 -- |
Professor (W3) of General Linguistics, Department of Linguistics,
University of
Konstanz |
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Antrittsvorlesung
(Inaugural lecture): Jólasveinarnir,
Vokalverschwinden und andere Akzente: ein
vorweihnachtlich-linguistischer Blick auf das Isländische. Montag, 20.
Dezember 2010. |
Konstanz
20 December 2010
(inaugural lecture)
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| Oct
2015 -- Oct 2018 |
Vice
Rector for International Affairs and
Equal Opportunities, University of Konstanz |
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| Oct
2005 - Mar 2010 |
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Lecturer in
English
Linguistics), Freie
Universität Berlin, Institut für
Englische
Philologie
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| Apr
2008 - Sept 2008 |
Replacement
professor (W3) of Theoretical Linguistics, Department of Linguistics,
University of
Konstanz |
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Oct
2006 - Mar 2007
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Replacement
professor (W3) of English and General Linguistics, Department of Linguistics,
University of
Konstanz |
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Oct
2003 - Sept
2005
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Honorary
Research Fellow, University
College London , Department
of Phonetics
and Linguistics;
funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (24 months research grant
DE-876)
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2002 - May
2003 |
Postdoctoral
Researcher,
Humboldt University at Berlin
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English and American Studies Department
Project:
Particle Verb Formation in
German and
English ; Chair: Prof. Dr. Susan Olsen;
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG ) |
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| Jan
2002 - Oct
2002 |
Wissenschaftliche
Mitarbeiterin (Lecturer
in English
Linguistics),
Universität
Braunschweig,
English Department
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| May
2001 - Dec
2001 |
Postdoctoral
Researcher,
Universität Leipzig, English Department
Project: Particle Verb Formation in German and English ;
Chair: Prof. Dr. Susan Olsen;
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
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| April
1995 -
April 1998 |
Research
Assistant and
Teaching Assistant for Lectures on Syntax and Morphology,
University of Göttingen , English Department (Linguistics) |
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| Research abroad (1 month or more) |
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| 3 June
- 20 Jul 2019 |
Department
of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University,
Canada |
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| 1 May
- 30 June 2014 |
Faculty
of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, University
of Iceland |
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| 1 Oct
2013 - 31 Jan 2014 |
Árni
Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies and Faculty of Icelandic and
Comparative Cultural Studies, University of
Iceland (Snorri Sturluson Fellowship Oct-Dec
2013) |
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| 1 Oct 2003 - 30 Sept 2005 |
Department
of Phonetics
and Linguistics, University
College London, UK (DFG
research grant) |
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| Awards and
Grants |
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see Research
for funded research projects |
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| Oct - Dec 2013 |
Snorri Sturluson Fellowship, Árni
Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, University of
Iceland |
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Oct
2003 - Sept
2005
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Individual
research grant,
Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
(approx. 60.000 €)
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| May
1998 -
April 2001 |
Doctoral
fellowship as a member of the
graduate program Universality and
Diversity: Linguistic Structures and Processes
Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
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Offices
in
learned societies
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| March
2009 - March 2012 |
Executive
Committee Member (Membership
secretary), Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (German
Linguistics Society; DGfS) |
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| Feb
2007 - Mar 2009 |
Elected
member of the Advisory Board of the DGfS |
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| Conference and workshop organisation |
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| forthcoming (February
2021) |
With Jóhannes G. Jónsson (U of Iceland)
and Cherlon Ussery (Carleton College): Ditransitives across languages
and frameworks; 43rd Annual Conference of the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), 24-26
Feb 2021, University of Freiburg |
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| December
2016 |
With
Ingo Feldhausen (Frankfurt) and Maria del Mar Vanrell (FU Berlin): Workshop
Syntax meets
Prosody;
Part of the conference Going
Romance 2016, 10 Dec 2016, University of Frankfurt/Main |
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| February
2016 |
With
Janet Grijzenhout and the organistion team at Konstanz University, Dept
of Linguistics: 38th
Annual Conference of the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), 24-26 Feb 2016, University of
Konstanz |
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| March
2015 |
With Daniela Wochner, Bettina Braun (University
of Konstanz), Hubert Truckenbrodt, Beste Kamali (ZAS Berlin)
Co-Organisation
and
Co-Chairing of a
Workshop
on The prosody and meaning of (non-)canonical
questions across languages
37th
Annual
Meeting
of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) hosted by the University
of Leipzig
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| October
2014 |
With Bettina Braun, Muna Pohl, Jana
Schlegel, Daniela Wochner, Katharina Zahner
(Konstanz)
10.
Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im
deutschsprachigen Raum, 9-10
October 2014, University of Konstanz
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| April
2012 |
With Michael Schäfer (Freiburg) and
Allison Wetterlin (Oxford)
Theme session on West
Nordic Prosody
11th
International Conference of Nordic and
General Linguistics, 18-20 April 2012, Freiburg University,
Germany |
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September
2010
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With
Uli Reich (FU Berlin)
Thematic Session on Contrastive
Intonation
6th
International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 6),
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Sep-2 Oct 2010, FU Berlin, Germany |
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| June
2008 |
With
Laura Downing (ZAS Berlin), Shin Ishihara
(Potsdam), Ingo
Feldhausen (Potsdam) and Franziska Scholz (ZAS Berlin)
Co-Organiser of the 2nd
Phonology-Syntax
Workshop (PSI 2)
13-14 June 2008, ZAS Berlin |
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| July
2007 |
With
Dagmar
Barth-Weingarten (Potsdam) and Anne Wichmann (U Central Lancashire)
Panel on Prosody
and Pragmatics in
Spoken Language Corpora
10th
International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg,
8-13
July 2007
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February
2006
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With
Yordanka Kavalova (University College London)
Co-Organisation
and
Co-Chairing of a
Workshop on Parenthetical Constructions
28th
Annual
Meeting
of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) hosted by the University
of Bielefeld
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| March
2000 |
With
Anja
Wanner (Madison-Wisconsin)
Co-Organisation
and
Co-Chairing of a
Workshop on Semantically Complex
Verbs
and their Argument Structure
22nd
Annual
Meeting
of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) hosted by the University
of Marburg
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| February
2000 |
With
Andrew McIntyre and
Silke Urban (Leipzig)
Co-Organisation
and
Co-chairing of
an International Workshop on Particle
Verbs
University
of Leipzig
and MPI of
Cognitive Neuroscience
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| 1998-2001 |
Co-organiser
of
Colloquia and
Seminars in Linguistics at the University
of Leipzig |
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Membership |
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| Deutsche
Gesellschaft
für
Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) |
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| Íslenska
málfrćđifélagiđ (Icelandic Linguistic Society) |
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Linguistics
Association of Great Britain (LAGB)
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| Linguistic
Society of America (LSA) |
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| Nordic
Association of
Linguists (NAL) |
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