Awards
- 08-09 2013: 'Scientist in residence', Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
(as part of the Caroline-von-Humboldt Prize) - 11/2012: Caroline-von-Humboldt Prize (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
awards female scientists and offers funding for a research project
project: Speech-accompanying gestures in formal semantics and pragmatics - 10/2001-06/2003: member of the Graduate School Economy and Complexity of Language, University of Postdam/Humboldt University of Berlin
Ongoing Projects
- since 11/2017
Linguistic reflexes of matching vs. non-matching iconic gestures
collaboration with the Department of Psychology of the University of Chicago
involved researchers: Cornelia Ebert, Susanne Fuchs, Manfred Krifka, Heather Mangelsdorf, and Susan Goldin-Meadow - 08/2017-07/2020
The Pragmatic Status of Iconic Meaning in Spoken Communication: Gestures, Ideophones, Prosodic Modulations (PSIMS)
Funded by the DFG within the Priority Program 1727 – XPrag.de: New Pragmatic Theories based on Experimental Evidence
PIs: Cornelia Ebert, Susanne Fuchs, Manfred Krifka - since 01/2012
Speech-accompanying gestures in formal semantics and pragmatics
awarded with the Caroline-von-Humboldt Prize in November 2012
Terminated Projects
- 04/2013-06/2014
Discourse Particles. Incremental Interpretation in Context
PI of Project C4, University of Stuttgart
Funded by the DFG within SFB 732
- 2010
An experimental investigation of long-distance-indefinites in English and German
Travel grant by the European Science Foundation (ESF) as part of EURO-XPRAG
involved researchers: Cornelia Ebert, Tania Ionin, Britta Stolterfoht