General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne
Tel: +49-221-470-3889
Fax: +49-221-470-5947
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E-Mail: bhellwig[at]uni-koeln[dot]de
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2014 | Lichtenberg Professor (Language Documentation and Psycholinguistics), University of Cologne
Project: Documenting child language: The Qaqet Baining of Papua New Guinea |
| 2010–2014 | Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Melbourne
Projects on Qaqet (Papuan, Papua New Guinea) and Tabaq (Nilo-Saharan, Sudan) |
| 2008–2010 | Junior Professor (Linguistics: Language Documentation), Universität Erfurt |
| 2006–2008 | Postdoc, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Project: Description of Katla (Kordofanian, Sudan) |
| 2003–2005 | Postdoc, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Project: Documentation of Goemai, a West Chadic language of Central Nigeria |
| 2003 | PhD (Linguistics) at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University Nijmegen: The grammatical coding of postural semantics in Goemai (a West Chadic language of Nigeria) |
| 1998
| M.A. (African Linguistics) at the Universität Hamburg: Sprachwandel durch Sprachkontakt: Möglichkeiten der Rekonstruktion am Beispiel westtschadischer Sprachen |