International teaching experience

Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the Department of  Germanic & Slavic Studies at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA

  • February to early April 2015

Franklin International Scholar at the University of Georgia, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

  • May / June 2014: Maymester course on "Grammaticalization"

Guest professor (Franklin International Faculty Exchange) at the University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, USA, Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies:

  • March 2013: guest lecture in graduate-level seminar “Advanced Syntax - Comparative Germanic Syntax“
  • March, 2012: guest lecture in graduate-level seminar “Language Acquisition and Chomsky's Universal Grammar”

Invited Course Instructor at Goethe Institut, Max-Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, India:

  • February 2013: 4. Deutschlehrer-Tage: “Raus mit der Sprache”, Course: “Grammatikalisierung – die kreative Seite der Grammatik”

Guest professor at “39. Linguisten-Seminar” of Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik, Kyoto, Japan:

  • August 2011: course: “Modalität und Evidentialität im Deutschen”

Guest professor (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD, Erasmus program), Linguistics Department, University of Zadar, Croatia:

  • April 2012: “Grammaticalization processes of periprastic verbal constructions in German” (short term, workshop)

Guest professor (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD, Erasmus program), Vilniaus Pedagoginis Universitetas, Lithuania:

  • March 2007: “Modalpartikeln des Deutschen” (short term, workshop)

Guest professor (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD, Erasmus program), Departa­mento Estudos Germanistícos, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal:

  • May 2005: “Grammatikalisierung und Sprachgeschichte des Deutschen” (short term, workshop)
  • March 2001: “Partikeln im Deutschen: Funktion und Entwicklung unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Grammatikalisierung” (short term, workshop)

Guest professor (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD, full term), German Department, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil:

  • August 1999 – November 1999: Courses: “Morphologie des Deutschen” (full course), “Die Formen des deutschen Verbs in Gebrauch und historischer Entwicklung” (full course)
  • October 1999: “Mood and Modality” (workshop at Universidade de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte)