Professor

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

Courses Winter Term 2023/24:

  • Semantik I
  • Negation and Cancellation
  • Semantics Colloquium 
    If you wish to participate via zoom, please contact Lennart Fritzsche
    <fritzsche@em.uni-frankfurt.de>

Staff

Kathryn Barnes 

Dr. Cécile Meier

Project Staff

Dr. Kurt Erbach (IDEAlISM)

Kim Tien Nguyen (Central Project ViCom) 

Theresa Stender (Central Project ViCom) 

Sebastian Walter (Visual and Non-Visual Means of Perspective Taking in Language)

Ph.D. Students 

Maximilian Berthold

Julien Foglietti

Student Assistants

Annalena Dehn (GU Frankfurt)

Lennart Fritzsche (GU Frankfurt)

Magnus Poppe (GU Frankfurt)

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

Elke Höhe-Kupfer

Room: IG 4.313

Phone: 069/798 32392 

E-Mail: hoehe-kupfer@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

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)