General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

Tel: +49-221-470 56 39
Fax: +49-221-470-5947

Areas of teaching and research

• Language universals and typology
• Case marking, transitivity, verbal aspect, predicate classes, subordination
• Languages/groups: Austronesian, Caucasian, Uralic, Turkic, Paleosiberian languages