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 want to meet with Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert, please write her an email. SecretariatElke Höhe-Kupfer
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Courses winter term 2025/26:
B.A. Linguistik
- Semantik I (Sebastian Walter)
- Demonstrativa (Cécile Meier)
- Ikonizität (Kathryn Barnes)
M.A. Linguistics
- Semantics III (Jan Köpping)
- Cancellation in Language (Cornelia Ebert, Alexandra Zinke)
- Common Ground Management (Eleonora Zani)
- Ideophones (Kathryn Barnes)
- Semantics Colloquium (program)
If you wish to participate via zoom, please contact Lennart Fritzsche.
Team
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Lennart Fritzsche |
Dr. Jan Köpping |
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Maximilian Berthold |
Prince Asiedu |
Markus Kemmler |
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.
Research
- 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)
- DFG-project “Negation and Cancellation“, in the Collaborative Research Center 1629 – NegLaB: Negation in Language and Beyond (2024-2027)
- DFG Priority Program “Visual Communication” (2022-2028)
- DFG-project “Visual and non-visual means of perspective taking in language” in the Priority Program 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)