Short CV

Education

2005 Dr. Phil.
Dissertation "German adverbial adjectives: syntactic position and semantic interpretation"
I show that German adverbial adjectives can have several distinct semantic usages in a sentence, ranging from the use as manner adverbial to the use as a sentence adverbial. The different usages correlate with different syntactic positions. I demonstrate how sentences containing scope-sensitive manner adverbials and adverbials with associative readings can be formally represented and compositionally derived.
2000 M.A. in General Linguistics
M.A. Thesis: "Die homophone Partikel de: Ihre Konstruktion und deren Relevanz im crossmodalen Priming"
I report a psycholinguistic experiment on the three-way homophonic Mandarin Chinese particle "de" in its function as a marker of the descriptive complement. The results show that in hearing Chinese, Chinese subjects to not always activate the characters corresponding to the tested usage, suggesting that disambiguating Chinese characters play only a small role in auditory comprehension.
1995-2000 General Linguistics (major), English and Ancient Greek (minors) at the TU Dresden and Universität Leipzig

04.2009-now: Lecturer for English Linguistics, Department of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
10.2008-03.2009: Lecturer for English Linguistics, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
04.2008-09.2008: Lecturer, Institute of Cognitive Linguistics, Universität Frankfurt
04.2007-09.2007: Lecturer for Synchronic Linguistics, Institute of English Studies, Universität Leipzig
04.2003-03.2006: Research assistant in the project "Event Structures" in the research group "Linguistic Foundations of Cognitive Science" at the Institute of Linguistics, Universität Leipzig
04.2000-03.2003: Research assistant in the project "Semantics and World-knowledge" in the research group "Linguistic Foundations of Cognitive Science" at the Institute of Linguistics, Universität Leipzig
02.1997-03.2000: Student assistant in the project "The activation of syntactic, semantic, and phonological features of words during lexical access in language production", Institute of Linguistics, Universität Leipzig

2001 Grant of the the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for a one-week visit to the library of the Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, Paris
1999 Member of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes