Important information regarding lectures in the winter term 2020/2021:

For Semantik I:

The course is held online via OLAT and Zoom. If you want to participate, please register in OLAT: https://olat-ce.server.uni-frankfurt.de/olat/auth/RepositoryEntry/9811689483.

For Iconicity in language:

The course is held online via OLAT and Zoom. If you want to participate, please register in OLAT: https://olat-ce.server.uni-frankfurt.de/olat/auth/RepositoryEntry/9811689486.

For Semantics colloquium:

The Semantics colloquium will be held online on Thursday 4:00PM-6:00PM. Everyone who wants to participate is asked to send an E-Mail to Sebastian Walter (s.walter@em.uni-frankfurt.de). You will then receive an E-Mail with the login details for the upcoming meeting. This procedure will be maintained for each of the following sessions, meaning every participant has to register separately for every session.

 

Professor

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert
Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften

Staff

Kathryn Barnes (Ph.D. student in PSIMS project)

Student assistants

Giovanna Pirillo (GU Frankfurt)

Theresa Stender (HU Berlin)

Sebastian Walter (GU Frankfurt)

Scientific Profile

The scientific focus of the professorship in semantics is on the meaning of language in the semantics-pragmatics interface. The main research topics are dimensions of meaning and multimodality, iconicity, information structure, quantification, and indefinites. Current research projects are concerned with the contribution of gesture to the meaning of speech.

Contact

Room: IG 4.312

Phone: 069/798 32393

E-Mail: ebert AT lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

Office Hours

On appointment. Please contact me via E-Mail. We can then schedule a video conference meeting.

Secretariat

IMPORTANT: To prevent spreading of the Corona virus, students are asked to either call or send an E-Mail before coming by personally to check if a personal visit is necessary and to make an appointment if needed.

Elke Höhe-Kupfer

Research