Professor
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert
Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
Staff
Kathryn Barnes (Ph.D. student at the Institute of Linguistics)
Ph.D. Students (RTG)
Maximilian Berthold
Julien Foglietti
Project staff
Dr. Petra Augurzky (Post-Doc in the project IDEAlISM)
Student assistants
Annalena Dehn (GU Frankfurt)
Kim Tien Nguyen (GU Frankfurt)
Lennart Fritzsche (GU Frankfurt)
Theresa Stender (HU Berlin)
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.
Contact
Room: IG 4.314
Phone: 069/798 32392
E-Mail: ebert AT lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
Office Hours
On appointment. If you want to meet with Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert, please writ her an email. Note that Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert will not be on campus regularly during the winter term 2022/2023 as she is on research leave.
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.
Research
- DFG Priority Programme “Visual Communication” (2022-2028)
- DFG-project “Visual and non-visual means of perspective taking in language” in the Priority Programme 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)