General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne
Tel: +49-221-470-3889
Fax: +49-221-470-5947
Office hours:
by appointment
(please contact via e-mail)
E-Mail: bhellwig[at]uni-koeln[dot]de
Areas of teaching and research
- Language documentation and description
- Language acquisition
- Anthropological linguistics
- Field methods & types of linguistic data
- Semantics & grammar
- Languages: Baining (Papua), Chadic (Afroasiatic), Kordofanian (Niger-Congo), Nubian (Nilo-Saharan)
Language acquisition in crosslinguistic context:
Hellwig, Birgit, Shanley E. M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson, Rebecca Defina, Barbara F. Kelly, Evan Kidd, Elena Lieven & Serge Sagna. 2021. Language acquisition in crosslinguistic context: How can we increase language coverage? Panel discussion at ILARA Institut des langues rares.
Language Documentation, Acquisition and Socialization:
Hellwig, Birgit. 2021. Language Documentation, Acquisition and Socialization: Widening the Evidential Base. Abralin ao vivo.
