Leibniz Center for General Linguistics
| Leibniz Center for General Linguistics Berlin | |
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 Leibniz Center for General Linguistics |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Humanities Centers Berlin |
| Legal form of the carrier: | registered association |
| Seat of the wearer: |
Berlin , Germany
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| Facility location: | Berlin center |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Humanities , cognitive science |
| Areas of expertise: | Linguistics |
| Basic funding: | Federal and State |
| Management: | Manfred Krifka |
| Employee: | about 40 |
| Homepage: | www.leibniz-zas.de |
The Leibniz Center General Linguistics Berlin (until 2017 Center for General Linguistics , ZAS) is a non-university research institute , the research on linguistics , particularly in the areas of phonetics and phonology , the monolingual and bilingual language acquisition , the syntax , semantics , pragmatics and language documentation operates . Its headquarters are at Schützenstrasse 18 in the Berlin district of Mitte .
history
The ZAS goes back to the Central Institute for Linguistics (ZISW) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , which was set up at the end of the 1960s . Its dissolution shortly after German reunification went hand in hand with the recommendation to continue some research in cultural studies, whereupon the Funding Society for Scientific New Projects was founded in 1992, which is supported by the Max Planck Society . Within this, under the guidance of the later founding director Ewald Lang , who was already active at the ZISW, a research focus on general linguistics, typology and universal research (FAS) developed, which four years later with the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) and the Center for Modern Orient ( ZMO) at the newly created Humanities Centers Berlin e. V. (GWZ) was settled. Ewald Lang headed the ZAS from 1996 to 2001. Since then, Manfred Krifka has been director , like his predecessor professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
From 1996 to 2007 the GWZ Berlin was funded by the State of Berlin and the German Research Foundation. After a positive evaluation by the Science Council , the ZAS has been supported by the State of Berlin and project funding from the BMBF since 2008 with an annual budget of around two million euros. In addition, further individual projects are made possible by third-party funding (including the German Research Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation ) and additional funding from the BMBF.
Since January 1, 2017, the former Center for General Linguistics has been jointly funded by the federal and state governments as a member of the Leibniz Association.
Web links
- ZAS website
- Humanities Centers Berlin e. V.
- Daniel D. Eckert: With many tongues on board Spaceship Enterprise - The Center for General Linguistics ( Der Tagesspiegel )
Individual evidence
- ^ Opinion on the application for inclusion of the Center for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, in joint funding by the federal and state governments according to the implementation agreement WGL p. 7 (PDF; 397 kB)
- ^ Armory Burchard: ZMO and ZAS in the Leibniz Association: Berlin Orient and Language Institutes secured . In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 27, 2016, accessed on March 7, 2017.
- ↑ Leibniz Association gets two new members based in Berlin . Press release from the State of Berlin, December 27, 2016.