Birgit Hellwig#
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| Membership Number: | 5437 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/prof-hellwig |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4696-0827 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Lichtenberg Professor (W2) for Language Documentation and Psycholinguistics, University of Cologne (Germany)
- 2010 - 2014 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University, Melbourne (Australia)
- 2008 - 2010 Junior Professor (W1) for Language Documentation, University of Erfurt (Germany)
- 2006 - 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Melbourne (Australia); in cooperation with the Department of Linguistics, University of Khartoum (Sudan)
- 2003 - 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Endangered Languages Academic Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK)
- 2001 - 2003 Staff member, The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (Netherlands)
- 1998 - 2001 Doctoral Researcher, Language and Cognition Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Fields of Scholarship
- Language documentation
- Language description
- Typology
- Anthropological linguistics
- Language acquisition and socialization
- African languages
- Papuan languages
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Lichtenberg Professor (Volkwagen Foundation)
- 2010 Future Fellow (Australian Research Council)
