Professor
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert
Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
Courses Summer Term 2024:
B.A. Linguistik
- Pragmatik I (Kathryn Barnes)
- Modalität (Kathryn Barnes)
- Semantik II (Cornelia Ebert)
- Metaphern (Cécile Meier)
M.A. Linguistics
- Nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision (German, Cornelia Ebert & André Fuhrmann)
- Response and feedback strategies in multimodal communication (Cornelia Ebert & Wim Pouw)
- Perspective taking across modalities (Sebastian Walter)
- Semantics Colloquium (Link to the program)
If you wish to participate via zoom, please contact Lennart Fritzsche.
Staff
Project Staff
Kim Tien Nguyen (Central Project ViCom)
Theresa Stender (Central Project ViCom)
Sebastian Walter (ViCom Project Visual and Non-Visual Means of Perspective Taking in Language)
Eleonora Zani (CRC NegLab, Project A01: Negation and Cancellation)
Ph.D. Students
Maximilian Berthold
Julien Foglietti
Student Assistants
Son Dao
Annalena Dehn
Lennart Fritzsche
Miles Häfner
Sarah Möller
Magnus Poppe
Natascha Schuldes
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 32394
E-Mail: ebert AT lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
Office Hours
On appointment. If you want to meet with Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert, please write her an email.
Secretariat
Room: IG 4.313
Phone: 069/798 32392
E-Mail: hoehe-kupfer@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
Research
- DFG-project “Negation and Cancellation“, in the SFB 1629 – NegLaB: Negation in Language and Beyond (2024-2027)
- 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)