Academic Background
- 1984-1991 Student of mathematics and linguistics, University of Tübingen and Frankfurt/M.
- 1991 Diploma in Mathematics (equivalent to masters degree)
- 1996 Dr. phil. (Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, University Stuttgart) on the proper ontology of actions and events for natural language analysis.
- 2003 Habilitation in Historical Semantics (Humboldt University Berlin)
- 2005 Professor of English / Linguistics, Göttingen
- 2008 full Professor of English / Linguistics, Göttingen
- 2015 full Professor of German and General Linguistics, Konstanz
Professional career
- 1992-1994 grant at the Graduiertenkolleg “Grundlagen der maschinellen Sprachverarbeitung”, University of Stuttgart.
- 1994-1995 Researcher in the European Research Cluster DYANA
- 1995-1997 Researcher at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 282) “Theorie des Lexikons”, Düsseldorf
- 1997-2003 Researcher at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 471) “Wandel und Variation im Lexikon”, Konstanz
- 2003-2005 Assistant Director of ZAS (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung) Berlin.
- 2005-2015 Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Dept of English, Göttingen, Germany.
- 2015-current Professor, Konstanz, Germany
- 2008 Professorship (W3) offer by Universität des Saarlandes
- 2010 Professorship offer by NTNU Trondheim
Recent Projects (2005-current)
- Questions and Focus. ZAS Project 2005-2008. Co-Leader.
- Negative Polarity Items. DFG Project, 2009-2012. Leader.
- Multi-Layered Text Protocol. Courant Center Göttingen, since 2010. Co-Founder and PI.
- Self-Addressed Questions. Project as part of the DFG Research Cluster Questions at the Interfaces. Konstanz. Leader.