Short CV
Education
- 2017 Habilitation
Habilitationsschrift "The semantic transparency of English compound nouns"
Venia legendi für das Fachgebiet "Englische Sprachwissenschaft"
- 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
Employment
- 10.2023-now: Lecturer [Wiss. Mitarbeiter], Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Leipzig
- 04.2023-09.2023: Lecturer [Professurvertretung, Englische Sprachwissenschaft], Institut für englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Hildesheim
- 10.2022-03.2023: Research associate in the project C08 The semantics of derivational morphology: A frame-based approach (principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Ingo Plag), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- 04.2022-09.2022: Lecturer [Professurvertretung, Englische Sprachwissenschaft], Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Universität Wuppertal
- 10.2021-03.2022: Lecturer [Professurvertretung Prof. Dr. Ingo Plag, Englische Sprachwissenschaft], Anglistik, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
- 04.2021-08.2021: Lecturer [Professurvertretung Prof. Dr. Britta Stolterfoht, Psycholinguistik], Deutsches Seminar, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- 10.2019-09.2021: Research associate in the CRC 833 „The Construction of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures“, Project A1 "The semantics and pragmatics of combinatory meaning variation“ (principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Claudia Maienborn) and (since 02.2020) also in Project B8 "Position und Interpretation" (principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Britta Stolterfoht), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- 03.2019-06.2019: Research associate at the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 991: The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science, with special association to project C08 "The semantics of derivational morphology: A frame-based approach" (principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Ingo Plag), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- 10.2018-02.2019: Research associate in the project A1 "The semantics and pragmatics of combinatory meaning variation“ (principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Claudia Maienborn) of the CRC 833 „The Construction of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures“, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- 10.2017-09.2018: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual European Fellow, Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
- 10.2012-09.2017: Lecturer in English Linguistics, Department of English
and American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- 04.2012-09.2012: Lecturer [substitute for Prof. Dr. Angelika Wöllstein], Deutsches Seminar, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- 04.2009-03.2011: Lecturer in English Linguistics, Department of English
and American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- 10.2008-03.2009: Lecturer in 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 in Synchronic Linguistics, Institute of English Studies, Universität Leipzig
- 04.2003-03.2006: Research associate 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 associate 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
Conference organization
- 2021/01 Co-organizer of the workshop Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Modification in virtual Tübingen, 28.01.-30.01.2020 (together with Larissa Specht, Fabian Schlotterbeck, and Britta Stolterfoht).
- 2020/11 Co-organizer of the workshop Event
semantics 2020 in virtual Tübingen, 06.11.-07.11.2020 (together with Sebastian Bücking).
- 2014/11 Organizer of the workshop Event
semantics and lexical semantics in Jena, 28.11.-29.11.2014.
- 2014/05 Co-organizer of the workshop Modelling compound properties - new
approaches and new explanations at the 16th International
Morphology Meeting in Budapest, 29.05.-01.06.2014 .
- 2004/03 Co-organizer of the Conference Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation, Leipzig, 17-19.03.2004 (together with Kristin Börjesson, Johannes Dölling,
Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow, and Barbara Sonnenhauser)
- 2000-2002 Co-organizer of three workshops on event semantics in Leipzig (together
with Johannes Dölling and Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow)
Awards and Grants
Languages
- German: Native
- English: Fluent
- Chinese (Mandarin): Advanced knowledge
- French: Basic knowledge
- Japanese: Basic knowledge
- Ancient Greek: Advanced reading knowledge
- Latin: Basic reading Knowledge