Education |
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2002 |
Habilitation, English Linguistics, Universität Leipzig/Max-Planck Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie MPI Leipzig |
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| 1998 |
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Buffalo SUNY Buffalo |
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| 1995 |
M.A., Linguistics, University of Buffalo |
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| 1992 |
M.A., German Language and Literature, Universität Hamburg |
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Employment |
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2004 |
Professor of English Linguistics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
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| 1998-2004 |
Postdoc, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig |
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Senior Fellowships |
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2011 |
Senior fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), April 2011-September 2011 |
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Editorial Work |
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Associate Editor |
| Cognitive Linguistics |
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Editorial Board |
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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory |
| Studies in Linguistics (consulting editor) |
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Ad Hoc Reviews |
| Canadian Journal of Linguistics (2006) |
| Cognitive Science (2008, 2009) |
| Constructions (2011) |
| Diachronica (2009, 2010) |
| English Studies (2006) |
| Journal of Child Language (2002, 2003, 2006, 2007) |
| Journal of Germanic Linguistics (2008) |
| Journal of Historical Linguistics (2011, 2012) |
| Journal of Pragmatics (2010, 2011) |
| Journal of Semantics (2004) |
| Language (2004, 2007) |
| Language and Speech (2006) |
| Lingua (2008) |
| Linguistics (2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011) |
| Linguistic Typology (2001) |
| Nordic Journal of Linguistics (2004) |
| Studies in Language (2002, 2003, 2004) |
| Studies in Language Sciences (2011) |
| Synthesis (2002) |
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Professional Services |
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| Reviewer for National Science Foundation |
Reviewer for Israeli Science Foundation |
Reviewer for The British Academy |
Reviewer for Research Council University of Leuven |
Reviewer for professorships in Germany |
Reviewer for tenure promotions in the US |
Reviewer for professorship in the UK |
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Professional Organizations |
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| Association for Linguistic Typology |
| Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik |
| Linguistic Society of America |
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Summer Schools and Guest Lectures |
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| 2010 |
'Frequency, Similarity, and Memory. Towards a usage-based theory of language', Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany |
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| 2009 |
‘Demonstratives, joint attention, and emergent grammar', International Summer School on Embodied Language Games and Construction Grammar, Cortona, Italy |
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| 2008 |
‘Converging evidence: Linguistic typology and corpus linguistics’, Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity, Leipzig, Germany |
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| 2007 |
‘Methodology of first language acquisition research’, Societas Linguistica Europaea: Summer School on Linguistic Methodology, Molise, Italy |
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| 2007 |
‘Syntactic development’, LOT Summer School, Leuven, Belgian |
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| 2004 |
‘Grammar and Language Use’, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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| 2004 |
‘Demonstratives in Grammar and Language Use’, Summer School of Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, San Marino |
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Courses |
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Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
| 2012 |
Introduction to Linguistics 1: Morphosyntax |
| 2012 |
Language and Cognition |
| 2012 |
Linguistic Typology and Language Universals |
| 2012 |
Principles of Language Change |
| 2012 |
Linguistics Colloquium |
| 2011/12 |
Introduction to Linguistics 1: Morphosyntax |
| 2011/12 |
Language Development: Methods |
| 2011/12 |
Language Development: Theory |
| 2011/12 |
Statistics for Linguists |
| 2011/12 |
Linguistics Colloquium |
| 2010/11 |
Historical Linguistics |
| 2010/11 |
Linguistic Typology and Language Universals |
| 2010/11 |
Introduction to Linguistics 1: Morphosyntax |
| 2010/11 |
Linguistics Colloquium |
| 2010/11 |
Language and Cognition |
| 2010 |
First Language Acquisition |
| 2010 |
Contrastive Linguistics: English German |
| 2010 |
Linguistics Colloquium |
| 2009 |
Language and Cognition |
| 2009 |
First Language Acquisition |
| 2009 |
Empirical Methods of Linguistic Research |
| 2009 |
Introduction to Linguistics 1: Morphosyntax |
| 2009 |
Linguistics Colloquium |
| 2008/9 |
Historical Linguistics |
| 2008/9 |
Language and Cognition |
| 2008/9 |
Introduction to Linguistics 1: Morphosyntax |
| 2008/9 |
Quantitative methods for analyzing linguistic data |
| 2008/9 |
Linguistic colloquium |
| 2008 |
Introduction to Linguistics 1 (Morphosyntax) |
| 2008 |
Contrastive Linguistics: English – German |
| 2008 |
Statistics for Linguistics |
| 2008 |
Linguistic Typology and Language Universals |
| 2008 |
Quantitative methods for analyzing linguistic data |
| 2007/8 |
Language and Cognition |
| 2007/8 |
Empirical Methods of Linguistic Research |
| 2007/8 |
Syntactic Development |
| 2007/8 |
Contrastive Linguistics: English - German |
| 2007/8 |
Linguistics Colloquium |
| 2007 |
Linguistic Typology and Language Universals |
| 2007 |
Historical Linguistics |
| 2007 |
Second Language Acquisition |
| 2007 |
Second Language Acquisition |
| 2006/7 |
Language and Cognition |
| 2006/7 |
First Language Acquisition |
| 2006/7 |
Contrastive Linguistics: English - German |
| 2006/7 |
Linguistics Colloquium |
| 2006 |
Introduction to Linguistics 2: Morphosyntax |
| 2006 |
Introduction to Linguistics 2: Morphosyntax |
| 2006 |
Empirical Methods of Linguistic Research |
| 2006 |
Contrastive Linguistics: English-German |
| 2005/6 |
History of the English Language |
| 2005/6 |
Syntactic Development |
| 2005/6 |
Historical Linguistics |
| 2005/6 |
Contrastive Linguistics: English-German |
| 2005 |
Linguistics Colloquium |
| 2005 |
Formal and Functional Approaches to the Study of Language |
| 2005 |
Cognitive Linguistics |
| 2005 |
Introduction to Linguistics 2: Morphosyntax |
| 2004/5 |
History of the English Language |
| 2004/5 |
Linguistic Typology and Language Universals |
| 2004/5 |
First Language Acquisition |
| 2004/5 |
Contrastive Linguistics: English–German |
| 2004 |
Historical Linguistics |
| 2004 |
Cognitive Linguistics |
| 2004 |
First Language Acquisition |
| 2004 |
English Syntax |
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Universität Osnabrück |
| 2003/4 |
Cognitive Linguistics |
| 2003/4 |
English Syntax |
| 2003/4 |
Introduction to Linguistics |
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Universität Leipzig |
| 2003 |
Cognitive Linguistics |
| 2002 |
Language Acquisition |
| 2001/2 |
Language Acquisition |
| 2000/1 |
Introduction to Linguistics |
| 2000 |
Introduction to Linguistics |
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State University of New York at Buffalo |
| 1997 |
Language, Society, and the Individual |
| 1997 |
Introduction to Linguistic Analysis |
| 1996 |
Introduction to Linguistic Analysis |
| 1995 |
Introduction to Linguistic Analysis |
| 1995 |
Introduction to Linguistic Analysis |
| 1994 |
Introduction to Linguistic Analysis |
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Universität Hamburg |
| 1993 |
Grammatik und sprachliches Handeln |
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