Research profile of the professorship
We are investigating the syntax and morphology of German with regard to the encoding of extra-linguistic concepts, communicative references and the rules for the formation and combinatorics of linguistic means.
Since 2016, we have been analyzing in the academy project Dialect Atlas of Central Western Germany (DMW)
linguistic-structural characteristics of the basic West Central German dialects. The aim is to systematically collect, evaluate and interpret phonetic-phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical features.
The Journal of Word Formation (ZWJW), which was founded in 2017 and is published regularly with two issues per year, is also based at the professorship.
We offer free linguistic expertise as part of our language consulting service and name consulting.
General research focus
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Verb morphology and semantics
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linguistic perspectivization
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polyfunctionality of linguistic expressions
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grammaticalization phenomena
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grammatical cases of doubt
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grammatical acquisition
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name research
