Professur Semantik (Ebert)

Contact Room: IG 4.314 Phone: 069/798 32394 E-Mail: ebert AT lingua.uni-frankfurt.de Office hours On appointment. If you wish to meet with Cornelia Ebert, please write her an email. Secretariat Elke Höhe-Kupfer Room: IG 4.313 Phone: 069/798 32392  E-Mail: hoehe-kupfer AT lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

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Impressions from Cornelia Ebert’s birthday workshop on March 3, 2026. Read more. 

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We had the pleasure of hosting Sinn und Bedeutung 30 (SuB30), which took place from September 23–27, 2025.!  👉 To the conference website

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Courses summer term 2026:

B.A. Linguistik  Mathematische Methoden (Cornelia Ebert) Pragmatik I (Kathryn Barnes)  Non-at-issueness (Kathryn Barnes)  Ähnlichkeit (Cécile Meier) Semantik II (Cécile Meier) Phänomene der Pragmatik (Cornelia Ebert)

M.A. Linguistics  Common Ground, Suspension, and Inquiry (Cornelia Ebert, Alexandra Zinke) Dynamic semantics (Jan Köpping) Semantics Colloquium (program tba) If you wish to participate via zoom, please contact Lennart Fritzsche.

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Team

Professor	Staff
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert	Dr. Kathryn Barnes	Dr. Cécile Meier

Project staff
Lennart Fritzsche	Dr. Jan Köpping	Tristan Nagel

Dr. Carolin Reinert

Sebastian Walter

Eleonora Zani

Ph.D. students	Student assistants
Maximilian Berthold Julien Foglietti	Prince Asiedu Joana Gerheim Deborah Elisa Jans	Markus Kemmler Song Mai Vu

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Scientific profile

The scientific focus of the professorship in semantics is on the meaning of language in the semantics-pragmatics interface with a special focus on semantic phenomena of visual communication, dimensions of meaning and multimodality, iconicity, information structure, quantification, and indefiniteness. Current research projects are concerned with phenomena of visual communication, especially with the contribution of gesture to the meaning of speech.

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Research

• DFG-project “Multimodality, Iconicity, and the Common Ground: The Status of Speech and Gesture“, in the Collaborative Research Center 1718 – Common Ground: Cognition – Grammar – Communication (2025-2029)
• DFG-project “Negation and Cancellation“, in the Collaborative Research Center 1629 – NegLaB: Negation in Language and Beyond (2024-2027)
• DFG Priority Program “Visual Communication” (2022-2028)
• DFG-project “Visual and non-visual means of perspective taking in language” in the Priority Program 2329 – ViCom: Theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives (2022-2025)
• AHRC-DFG research grant “Interactions between dynamic effects and alternative-based inferences” (2021-2024)
• DFG-project “The Pragmatic Status of Iconic Meaning in Spoken Communication: Gestures, Ideophones, Prosodic Modulations”, in the Priority Programme 1727 – XPrag.de: New Pragmatic Theories based on Experimental Evidence (2017-2021)
• VokSi: App-based vocabulary learning: combination effects of prior knowledge activating and gesture-based learning strategies, Initial funding by IDeA: collaboration of the Department of Linguistics/Semantics, GU Frankfurt with the DIPF, Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt (2019-2021)