Research interests

I am a postdoc at the Institute of Linguistics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Currently, I am primarily working on complex predicates (light verb constructions), periphrastic aspect constructions (especially prospective aspect in the West Germanic languages), and the morphosyntax of Bantu languages (particularly the Central Kenyan language Gikuyu). I also interested in the language of the extreme right and the new right, e.g. Reichsbürger and AfD, and examine it from a discourse-linguistic perspective

Currently, I am leading the second phase of the DFG-funded project 'Funktionsverbgefüge: Familien und Komposition' (Light verb constructions: Families and composition).I am also one of the series editors of the new book series 'Studies in Role and Reference Grammar' published at Mouton.

Academic education

12/2020 Habilitation in General linguistics (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf), Habilitationsschrift entitled  The distribution of meaning components. The composition of affectedness and light verb constructions.                                                         

02/2015 PhD General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf; Dissertation title Degree gradation of verbs (supervisors Sebastian Löbner and Robert D. Van Valin jr.)

01/2007 Magister Artium Philosophy and General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf   

Employments

10/2021 - now PostDoc Researcher Department of General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf                       10/2019 - 09/2020 Vertretungsprofessur für Linguistik Department of General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf 07/2015 - 09/2019  PostDoc Researcher Department of General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf                          04/2015 - 07/2015 Kauz Semantic Technology, Düsseldorf; Linguistics and Softwaredevelopment                                                   07/2011 - 04/2015 Reserach assistant in project B1 " Verb-frames at the Syntax-Semantics Interface" (PI Robert D. Van Valin jr.) as part of CRC 991, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf                                                                                                                     04/2007 - 07/2011 Research assistant Department of General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf