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.
Research
- Speech-accompanying gestures in formal semantics and pragmatics,
awarded with the Caroline-von-Humboldt Prize in November 2012 - Pragmatic status of iconic meaning in spoken communication,
Funded by the DFG within the Priority Program 1727 – XPrag.de: New Pragmatic Theories based on Experimental Evidence - VokSi: Combination effects of prior knowledge activating and gesture-based learning strategies when learning vocabularies via app,
Initial funding by IDeA: collaboration of the Department of Linguistics/Semantics, GU Frankfurt with the DIPF, Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt - Visual communication,
As part of the Goethe Fellowships in cooperation with the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften