Markus Egg (English studies)

Markus Egg (born December 25, 1963 in Erlangen ) is a German linguist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1983 at the New Gymnasium in Nuremberg , Egg studied at the University of Erlangen from 1984 to 1986 and, after a stay in Oxford, at the University of Konstanz until 1993 , where he did a thesis Action Type and Compositionality in the same year . For the compositional derivation of the type of action of complex categories was a doctorate. Subsequently, he was a member of the Verbmobil project at the Scientific Center of IBM Germany in Heidelberg until 1996 and worked for the SFB 340 Language Theory Basics for Computational Linguistics . From 1997 to 2004 Egg worked at the Saarland University as a research assistant in the SFB 378 Resource Adaptive Cognitive Processes . He submitted his habilitation in 2001. After substituting professorships in Bielefeld, Leipzig and Jena, he was Hoofddocent (associate professor) at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen from 2005 to 2008 .

Egg has been a full professor of English at the Humboldt University of Berlin since 2009 . In succession to Martin Klepper , he was Managing Director of the Institute for English and American Studies there since 2015. His research focus is semantics and their interfaces to syntax and pragmatics.

He was also politically active in the AfD as spokesman for the Pankow local association . He ran for the AfD in 2013 for the Bundestag ( 4.1% ) and in 2016 for the Berlin House of Representatives ( 12.1% ). In January 2019, he left the AfD.

Web links

• Eggs website at Humboldt University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amory Burchard: AfD politician and HU professor: Masked people attack lecturers at Berlin's Humboldt University. In: tagesspiegel.de . December 2, 2016, accessed February 18, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Alternative for Germany: Confirmation of termination . The document is available from support under the ticket number 2020040310006327. Berlin January 22, 2019 ( wikimedia.org [PDF; accessed April 5, 2020]).