Jump to main content

Jacob Menschel, B.A.

General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

Tel: +49-221-470-7215
Fax: +49-221-470-5947

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/jacobmenschel/home

E-Mail: jmensch2[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

ORCHiD: 0009-0005-9920-3055

Linguistic Focus:

  • Research interests
    • Indigenous languages of the Amazon region; language documentation and description
    • Revitalisation and speaker-centred projects
    • Language contact and ethnohistory
    • Languages: Andoke (isolate), Nonuya (Witoto)
  • Prosody-morphosyntax interfaceProsodic typology and description
    • Problems of the ‘word’ and other units
    • Intonation and prosodic phrasing
  • Anthropological linguistics
    • Ritual language, drum languages, song prosody
    • Metalinguistic knowledge and ethnographic methods