Prof. Dr. Gert Webelhuth

Ab Wintersemester 09/10 Lehre am Institut für England- und Amerikastudien
an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Sprechstunde im Semester: Di, 13-14 Uhr

HPSG Workshop

Akademischer Werdegang:

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• Previous Professorships and Appointments

• 2002-2009 Chair of English Linguistics, University of Göttingen
• 1991-1997: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Summer 1997: Visiting Professor, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (Institute for Computational Linguistics), University of Stuttgart, Germany
• 1996: Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University (Winter and Spring quarters)
• 1992-1993: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1990-1991: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 1989-1990: Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• Spring 1989: Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland at College Park
• Fall 1988: Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

• Syntax
• The Morphology-Syntax Interface
• Discourse Syntax (Topic and Focus)
• Complex Predicates
• Scrambling and Free Word Order
• Properties of Argument and Operator Positions
• Idioms
• Computational Linguistics
• Construction Grammar
• Conventionalization of Pragmatic Inferences

Publikationen:

• Books

• (1999a): Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Distributed by Cambridge University Press. [401 pages] [Co-edited by Jean-Pierre Koenig (SUNY Buffalo) and Andreas Kathol (University of California at Berkeley)]
• (1998a): A Theory of Predicates. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Distributed by Cambridge University Press. [402 pages] [Co-authored by Farrell Ackerman (UCSD)]
• (1995a): Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program: Principles and Parameters in Syntactic Theory. Edited by Gert Webelhuth. Oxford, UK & Cambridge, USA: Blackwell. [483 pages]
• (1992): Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [231 pages]

• 1997 - : Studien zur Deutschen Grammatik (Studies on German Grammar). Book Series Published by Stauffenburgverlag, Germany. Member of the Editorial Board.
• The Journal of Linguistics. Member of the Editorial Board.
• 1995 - : The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (since 2001 member of the Editorial Board)
• 1994-1996: The Generative Germanic Syntax Newsletter. Co-editor.

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Lehrtätigkeiten:

• Courses Taught

• Introduction to Linguistics, Introduction to Syntax, Intermediate Syntax, Introduction to Morphology, Topics in Morphology, Topics in Syntax, Introduction to Semantics, Semantics, German Syntax, German I, Introduction to Mathematical Linguistics, Parametric Theory: Comparative Syntax of Germanic, Independent Study, Linguistic Change (with Paul Roberge and Laura Janda), Construction Grammar and HPSG; Philosophy of Language (with Louise Antony), Computational Linguistics with Alan Biermann), Discourse Analysis.

• Summer School Teaching

• 2003: Summer School of the Linguistic Society of America (invited)
• 1999: Summer School of the Linguistic Society of America
• 1996: Summer School of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, Amsterdam

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