Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne
Tel: +49-221-470-2323
Fax: +49-221-470-5947
Office hours:
Tuesday 2-4 pm
(please make an appointment at the office by phone: +49-221-470-5639)
Areas of teaching and research
- Language typology and language universals
- Theory of grammaticalization
- Linguistic theory
- Prosody and grammar
- Language documentation and description (linguistic fieldwork)
- Languages: Austronesian languages, Papuan languages, Australian languages, Salish/Wakashan