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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)

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

Curriculum Vitae

since 2010Full professor in General Linguistics, Universität zu Köln
2007–2010Full professor in General Linguistics, WWU Münster
1999–2007Full professor in General Linguistics (with focus on typology and language universals), Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1996–1998Research Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra
1995Habilitation (General Linguistics), Universität zu Köln
1989–1995Assistant professor (C1) in General Linguistics, Universität zu Köln
1986PhD, Universität München
1984–1986Research fellow for the UNITYP project on language universals, Universität zu Köln
1979–1983M.A. General Linguistics, Philosophy and English Philology, Universität München and UCLA
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