Members of the Faculty Plenum

language acquisition and multilingualism, German as a second or foreign language, contrastive linguistics, morphology, didactics of grammar and multilingualism

(associate member - not available for new supervisions)

Dr. Andreas Bittner (German Philology)

morphology, phonology, grammatical theory, language change, language acquisition

(associate member - not available for new supervisions)

speech production and speech perception, morphology and phonology, event-related potentials and eye movements in the psycholinguistics

Prof. Dr. Antje Dammel (German Philology)

historical linguistics of German (grammar und pragmatics); German compared with other Germanic languages and under typological comparison; language change and variation (empirical and theoretical),
morphology and morphosyntax; onomastics

morphology and syntax of Dutch, theory of language change, language acquisition, dialectology

varieties of English worldwide (special focus: Caribbean), English-based pidgin and creole languages, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, language use in media (each in relation to the English language)

(Prof. Deuber is currently not available for new supervisions)

language acquisition and multilingualism, information structure and construction of discourse, focus particles and verum focus, comparative linguistics and thinking for speaking, language biographies and the age factor in language acquisition

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Grießhaber i.R. (Language Centre)

second language acquisition, foreign language teaching, new media in foreign language teaching, writing in a foreign language

(associate member - not available for new supervisions)l

language in interaction, syntax of spoken language (German, Chinese), theory of grammaticalization, communicative genres (text types), interactional sociolinguistics

(Prof. Günthner is currently not available for new supervisions)

language acquisition, corpus linguistics, language teaching research, language change in the postcolonial varieties of English, experimental phonetics and phonology

language and culture of the Indo-Europeans, cultural reconstruction, Homer and ancient Greece, ancient Asia Minor, layers of the Etruscan language, historical phraseology

language ideology and language attitude regarding migration-related multilingualism, interactional linguistic, multimodal linguistic, German as a foreign language, language criticism, institutional language

grammar (morphology and syntax), language acquisition research, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics

(associate member - not available for new supervisions)
 

third language acquisition, second language speech perception and production, the age factor

laguage acquisition, multilingualism, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, mental lexicon

interactional linguistic, use-based linguistic, cognitive grammar, variational linguistics, multimodal communication, phonology, syntax

pragmatics, artificial intelligence and language, language and identity in public discource, critial media linguistics, artificial intelligence in e-learning tools

Prof. Dr. Dejan Matić (General Linguistics)

information structure, discourse typology, pragmatics, language description and documentation, typology, semantics, syntax, indigenous languages of Siberia, languages of the Balkans, Ancient Greek

Teaching Methodology of Literature and Cultural Studies, Learning by Design, Blended Learning, Developing Narrative & Audio-Visual Competences, Individiualisation / Personalisation through Digital Media

syntactic typology, historical linguistics, lexicalistic grammar theories, construction grammar, LFG, HPSG, documentation and description of endangered Siberian languages

heritage and minority language acquisition and maintenance, heritage and minority language education, teacher professionalization for multilingualism, multilingualism and literacy acquisition

Prof. Dr. Christina Ossenkop (Romance Studies)

research on language contact, feminine professional titles in the Romance-spreaking world

Information and discourse management, Tibeto-Burman languages (Burmese, Kuki-Chin-Naga languages), Modern Hebrew, minority languages of Myanmar and Northeast India, language documentation and description

Teaching Englisch to young language learners, English in kindergarten, CLIL

(currently not available for new supervisions)

language processing, primary and secondary meaning, expressive meaning, information structure, speech disorder

Prof. Dr. Sarah Schimke (German Philology)

finiteness and information structure, producing and understanding referential expressions, text comprehension, first and second language aquisition, language comparison German-French

(associate member - not available for new supervisions)

Dr. Yazgül Şimşek
(German Philology)

multilingualism, second language acquisition, language contact (German, Turkish, Kurdish), ineractional linguistic, functional pragmatic, phonology

variational linguistics (standard language research and dialectology), main focus on Low German, phonology, applied linguistics (German as a foreign language)

language acquisition, acquisition of discourse oral – written, language awareness, language assessment, language promotion

language acquisition, German as a second language, morphology, language didactics, teaching grammar