seit 2010
Professor für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft an der Universität zu Köln

2007–2010
Professor für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster

1999–2007
Professor für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Typologie und Universalienforschung) an der Ruhr–Universität Bochum

1996–1998
Research Fellow an der Australian National University, Canberra

1995
Habilitation an der Universität zu Köln (venia legendi: Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft)

1986
Promotion zum Dr. phil. an der LMU München

Description:
Project INF supports all projects with regard to all issues pertaining to creating and handling research data. It advises on the design of neuro- and psycholinguistic experiments, and corpus and acceptability studies with a special focus on statistics. It also ensures data accountability and sustainability.

Support:
DFG

Duration:

2017 - 2020

Description:
This project investigates whether there is evidence for widely attested prominence relations relevant at the syntax-semantics interface (e.g. agentive arguments tend to be more prominent than non-agentive ones) in western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages. These languages challenge the concept of prominence because they exhibit two (or more) equally marked constructions to express transitive eventualities. The project looks at the discourse factors governing these voice alternations, at linear ordering constraints, and at the alternation between the dynamic and the potentive paradigm.

Support:
DFG

Duration:
2017 - 2020

Description:
The basic goal of the project is to contribute to a better understanding of the nature of prosodic prominence by asking how languages differ with regard to the phonological organization of prosodic prominence-lending properties. The main concern in the first phase is with so-called phrase accents, i.e. pitch changes which are not anchored to metrically strong syllables, but to the boundary of prosodic units. The project is concerned with a comprehensive account of the cross-linguistically variable phonetic and phonological properties such accents may have and their position in overall prosodic systems. In later stages, the project will also investigate lexical pitch accents from a cross-linguistic point of view.

Support:
DFG

Duration:
2017 - 2020