Annika Herrmann
Annika Herrmann (* 1980 in Bochum ) is a German linguist.
Life
From 1999 to 2005 she completed a master's degree in German and geography at the University of Mainz (2004 DAAD scholarship for theses in Galway ). From 2006 to 2009 she received a DFG doctoral scholarship at the Graduate College Satzarten: Variation und Interpretation of the Goethe University . After completing her doctorate on Modal Particles and Focus Particles in Sign Languages, she was a lecturer at the German Institute and the Institute for Educational Sciences at Gutenberg University Mainz from 2007 to 2009 . From October 2009 to January 2010 she was a research assistant in the Neurocognitive Basics of Linguistic Universals working group at the Department for English and Linguistics at the University of Mainz in the project Neurophysiological Foundations of Sign Language. From 2010 to 2013 she was a research assistant for German linguistics and sign language research at the Department of German Philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 2010 to 2012 she was a fellow of the Robert Bosch Stiftung as part of the Fast Track program: Excellence and leadership skills for women scientists. In March 2012 she received the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize from the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) for the best dissertation. From 2013 to 2017 she was director of the experimental sign language laboratory at the University of Göttingen . Since April 2017 she has been professor for sign languages and sign language interpreting at the Institute for German Sign Language and Culture of the Deaf (IDGS) at the University of Hamburg .
Her main areas of work are sign language linguistics, grammar of German sign language, interfaces of grammar, information structure, experimental sign language linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, reference grammars for sign languages, documentation of the cultural heritage of elderly deaf people and sign language interpreting.
Fonts (selection)
- Modal and focus particles in sign languages. A cross-linguistic study . Boston 2013, ISBN 1-61451-182-9 .
- as editor with Markus Steinbach : Nonmanuals in sign language . Amsterdam 2013, ISBN 978-90-272-0272-7 .
- as editor with Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach: A matter of complexity. Subordination in Sign Languages . Boston 2016, ISBN 978-1-5015-1133-2 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herrmann, Annika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |