Nikolaus Himmelmann#
| Membership Number: | 4825 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/himmelmann.html?&L=1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Professor (W3) in General Linguistics, University of Cologne
- 2007 - 2010 Professor (W3) in General Linguistics, Westfälische Wilhelms Univesity Münster
- 2004 - 2005 Research professorship Prosodic documentation in the DoBeS framework (VW Foundation)
- 1999 - 2007 Professor (W2) in General Linguistics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 1998 - 1999 Heisenberg scholar, University of Cologne (DFG research grant)
- 1996 - 1998 Research Fellow, Linguistics Department, Research School for Asian and Pacific Studies, Australian National University
- 1989 - 1996 Assistant Professor (C1), Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne
- 1987 - 1988 Research Associate, Department for Speech Disorders (Aphasia), Rheinische Landesklinik Bonn
- 1985 - 1986 Research Associate, Linguistic Universals Project UNITYP, University of Cologne
Fields of Scholarship
- Typology and universals
- Discourse and conversation analysis
- Language description
- Prosody~syntax interface
- Language documentation
- Grammaticalization
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Honorary Member, Linguistic Society of America
- 2017 Leo Spitzer-Preis, University of Cologne
- 2014 Best Paper in Language Award (Linguistic Society of America)
- 2004 Research professorship (VW Foundation)
- 1998 Heisenbergscholarship (DFG)
