Research Areas
- Theory of grammar and the formal description of English and its core subcomponents: phonetics/phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics
- Universal vs. language-specific properties of language, comparative linguistics
- Interaction between sentence structure, intonation and meaning
- Interaction between syntax and discourse, information structure
- Experimental approaches in phonetics/phonology, syntax and semantics
- First and second language acquisition
- Psycholinguistics and sentence processing
- Language change and diachronic analysis
- Spoken Language Comprehension
Professors in the Linguistics section:
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Beck
Theory of Grammar, Semantics, Syntax/Semantics- und Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Language Comparison
Prof. Dr. Sam Featherston
Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Syntax/Processing Boundary Phenomena, Sentence-level Structures, Grammar Architectures, Experimental Syntax
Jun.-Prof. Dr. James Griffiths
Formal syntax and semantics of: amalgamation, apposition, parentheticals, clarification requests, comment/report clauses, echo questions, ellipsis, fragments, extraposition, information-structure, interjection, null objects of prepositions, pied-piping, polar replies, quotation, relativisation, split utterances
Prof. Dr. Andrea Weber
Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Accents, Phonetics
Prof. Dr. Susanne Winkler
Syntax Theory, Information Structure, Phonology, Syntax/Phonology and Syntax-Pragmatics Interface, Psycholinguistics