Semantics professorship
On this page, you will find information about the Semantics professorship held by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert at the Institute of Linguistics.
Teaching • Team • Research • Semantics colloquium
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ContactRoom: IG 4.314 Office hoursOn appointment. If you wish to meet with Cornelia Ebert, please write her an email. SecretariatElke Höhe-Kupfer
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Courses winter term 2026/27:
B.A. Linguistik
- Semantik I (Cornelia Ebert)
- Semantik I (Kathryn Barnes)
- Experimentelle Semantik & Pragmatik (Yuqiu Chen)
- Komparative (Cécile Meier)
- Modalität (Kathryn Barnes)
M.A. Linguistics
- Semantics III (Cécile Meier)
- Gesture Semantics (Lennart Fritzsche, Sebastian Walter)
- Lying (Yuqiu Chen)
- Semantics Colloquium (program)
If you wish to participate via zoom, please contact Lennart Fritzsche.
Teacher Education
- Semantik I (Kathryn Barnes)
- Phänomene der Semantik (Cécile Meier)
Team
Professor
Administration
Staff
Project staff
Dr. Yuqiu Chen
Priority Program ViCom
Lennart Fritzsche
CRC Common Ground, Potential Field MultiCom
Tristan Nagel
Priority Program ViCom
Dr. Sebastian Walter
Priority Program ViCom
Eleonora Zani
CRC NegLaB
Affiliated Ph.D. students
Julien Foglietti
Student assistants
Prince Asiedu
Joana Gerheim
Deborah Elisa Jans
Markus Kemmler
Nico Löffler
Song Mai Vu
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.
Current research projects
- 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)
PIs: Kathryn Barnes, Cornelia Ebert, Britta Stolterfoht - DFG Priority Program 2392 “Visual Communication” (2022-2028)
Speakers: Cornelia Ebert, Markus Steinbach - DFG-project “Visual and non-visual means of perspective taking in language” in the Priority Program 2392 – ViCom: Theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives (2022-2028)
PIs: Cornelia Ebert, Stefan Hinterwimmer - DFG-project “Lexical(ized) demonstrations in spoken and sign languages” in the Priority Program 2392 – ViCom: Theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives (2022-2028)
PIs: Kathryn Barnes, Markus Steinbach - DFG-project “Negation and Cancellation“, in the Collaborative Research Center 1629 – NegLaB: Negation in Language and Beyond (2024-2027)
PIs: Cornelia Ebert, André Fuhrmann - DFG-project “Negative adjectives in language change“, in the Collaborative Research Center 1629 – NegLaB: Negation in Language and Beyond (2024-2027)
PIs: Cécile Meier, Helmut Weiß
Previous research projects
- 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)
PIs: Cornelia Ebert, Susanne Fuchs, Manfred Krifka - 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)