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General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

E-Mail: stephany[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

Curriculum Vitae

since 1996 Member of the international research group of the Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition, Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna
since 1991 Academic director of the Erasmus-/Socrates-Programme of the University of Cologne and the University of Athens, Greece
2004-2015 Guest professor at the universities of Athens, Greece; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Lomé and Kara, Togo, West Africa
1989-2004 Guest professor at the universities of Lisbon, Portugal; Athens, Greece; Fortaleza, Brazil; Tbilisi, Georgia
2002 retirement
1986 Appointment to the position of Associate Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Cologne
1981 Habilitation at the University of Cologne (venia legendi: General Linguistics)
1970-1973 Guest professor at the German Summer School, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, USA
1972 Appointment to the position of associate professor (Akademische Oberrätin) at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Cologne
1970 Appointment for life to the position of assistant professor (Akademische Rätin) at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Cologne
1969-1970 Guest professor at the University of Strasbourg, France
1968 Doctor of philosophy, University of Cologne (General Linguistics, Romance Philology, English Philology)
1968-1970 Scientific assistant at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Cologne
1967-1968 Teaching at the State School for Engineering of Cologne (presently: Technical University of Cologne)
1967 Licence-ès-Lettres, Sorbonne, Paris (German philology)
1966-1970 Teaching at the State Preparatory College for Foreign Students, University of Cologne
1966-1969 Graduate studies of general linguistics at the University of Cologne
1966-1967 Graduate studies of general linguistics and German philology at the Sorbonne, Paris
1966 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, Linguistic Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
1965-1966 Graduate studies of general linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
1965-1966 Research assistant, Research Center for the Language Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
1965 Second philological state examination for upper secondary school teachers at the State Preparatory College, Aachen (French, English)
1963-1965 Trainee teacher, School Council, Düsseldorf
1963-1965 Graduate studies of general linguistics and German philology at the Sorbonne, Paris
1963-1964 Assistante d’allemand, Lycée J.B. Corot, Savigny-sur-Orge, Seine et Oise, France
1963 First philological state examination for upper secondary school teachers at the University of Cologne (Romance and English philology)
1960-1961 Assistante d’allemand, Collège d’Enseignement Général de Jeunes Filles, Villerupt, Meurthe et Moselle, France
1957-1963 Undergraduate and graduate studies of Romance and English philology at the University of Cologne