Ekkehard Koenig#
| Membership Number: | 4139 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we06/institut/mitarbeiterinnen_und_mitarbeiter/koenig/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1988 - present full professor, Freie Universitaet Berlin (professor emeritus since 2010)
- 04/2010 - present adjunct professor, Ludwig-Alberts-Universität, Freiburg
- 03/2011 - 07/2011 ( and same period 2010) visiting professor, UC Davis, U.S.A.
- 10/2010 - 03/2011 senior research fellow, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies
- 5 - 10/2009 visiting professor, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
- 1984 - 1985 fellow in residence, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (N.I.A.S.) in Wassenaar, NL
- 1973 - 1988 full professor (C 4), University of Hannover
- 1967 - 1968 assistant lecturer, University of Reading, UK (Department of Linguistic Science)
Fields of Scholarship
- Linguistics
- Typology and universals
- Semantics
- Linguistics and literature
- Pragmatics
- Historical linguistics
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Max-Planck Research Award for European Cooperation
- 1999 Elected member of the French Academy (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Institut de France)
- 1990 - 1994 Director of the European Research Project, "Typology of Languages in Europe" (ESF)
