Anna Preßler receives the award for the best student presentation at the Speech-Prosody Conference

Employee and doctoral student Anna Preßler wins the award for the best student presentation at this year’s Speech-Prosody Conference.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prizes for International German Studies awarded to Ermenegildo Bidese

Ermenegildo Bidese (University of Trento) completed his habilitation in the Department of Modern Philology in Frankfurt in 2021. In 2024 he received the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prizes for International German Studies from the DAAD.

MA student Farbod Eslami Khouzani receives this year’s DAAD Prize

The MA linguistics student Farbod Eslami Khouzani (picture, middle) received this year’s DAAD Prize for international students on October 5th, 2023. His outstanding academic achievements as well as his social commitment were recognized. We congratulate him! More information

Prof. Katharina Hartmann and Prof. Frank Kügler nominated for the best doctoral supervision

The Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers (GRADE) awards a prize every year for the best doctoral supervision. This year, two of the professors from linguistics have been nominated: Prof. Frank Kügler and Prof. Katharina Hartmann. More information

AG at the DGfS 2024 by Sascha Alexeyenko and Katharina Hartmann

At the 46th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (Bochum, February 28th – March 1st, 2024) Sascha Alexeyenko and Katharina Hartmann organize a workshop on Constraining Linearization. The Call for Papers runs until August 10, 2023.

Seunghun J. Lee (Christian University, Tokyo) as 2022’s guest professor

We are happy to welcome our guest Prof. Dr. Seunghun J. Lee from Christian University, Tokyo (https://sites.google.com/info.icu.ac.jp/linglab/home), who will be a guest researcher and lecturer at the Department of Linguistics in July 2022 as part of the International Campus Programme  (https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/56181581/International_Campus). 
 
In the MA Programme “Linguistics”, he will teach a course on “Prosody-Syntax-Interface: Theoretical and practical applications” – and everybody is welcome to participate. Registration for the course is via Olat. Here is the link to his class.
 
Seunghun will be here the whole month of July. He is more than happy to discuss linguistic issues with colleagues and students. If anybody is interested in meeting him, just send him an email to s.lee@em.uni-frankfurt.de
He can be reached in person in office IG 4.315.
 

Workshop at the DGfS 2023 by Kathryn Barnes and Aleksandra Cwiek

At the 45th annual meeting of the  DGfS (Cologne, March 8-10 2023), Kathryn Barnes and Aleksandra Cwiek will host a workshop on Workshop on ideophones and lexical iconicity.