Curriculum Vitae
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Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Belfortstraße 18
79085 Freiburg im Breisgau E-Mail: maria.vollmer(at)linguistik.uni-freiburg.de |
Education
since 10/2019 |
PhD Project on language change in Warlpiri, first Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Australian National University, then Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and Australian National University Supervisor: Uta Reinöhl (Freiburg) and Jane Simpson (ANU) |
07/2021 | Participation and talk at the Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2021, Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham, UK |
2017-2019 | Master of Arts in General Linguistics (1,0), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Thesis title: How radical is pro-drop in Mandarin? A quantitative corpus study on referential choice in Mandarin Chinese |
2013-2017 |
Bachelor of Arts in German Language and Literature (1,5), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg |
09/2015-01/2016 |
Exchange student at Xi’an Jiaotong University (regular courses on Chinese linguistics, literature, and culture in Mandarin Chinese) |
Work Experience
since 07/2020 |
Researcher at the department of General Linguistics, Freiburg University |
01/2020 - 08/2024 |
Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University |
01/2022 - 09/2022 |
Degree programme development at Freiburg University |
10/2019 - 06/2020 |
Researcher at Mainz University |
12/2019 - 01/2020 |
Glossing of Northern Kurdish texts for DoReCo (http://doreco.info) |
2013 - 2019 |
Student assistant at Department of General Linguistics, Universität Bamberg |
2016 - 2017 |
Student assistant at Professur für Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bamberg |
2014 - 2015 |
Student assistant at University of Melbourne, La Trobe University |
2014 |
Student assistant at Professur für germanistische Sprachwisschenschaft/DaF, Universität Bamberg |
Teaching Experience
2023 |
Seminar "English meets Australian Aboriginal languages - Contact, Creolization and Change" (University of Freiburg) |
02/2022 | Co-examiner at oral exam |
2018 - 2019 | Tutor at Department of General Linguistics, Universität Bamberg, Tutorial to the lecture “An introduction to Linguistics“ |
10/2018 | Helper at Morphosyntax Workshop given by Geoffrey Haig at the Fall School on Documentary Linguistics in the MENA Region (ELDP/ZAS, Berlin) |
2017 | Tutorial for new students in the scope of the introductory days organised by the Fachschaft GuK |
2015 | Tutor at Department of General Linguistics, Universität Bamberg, Tutorial to the lecture “An introduction to Linguistics“ |
2011 - 2012 | Tutor at Hefei University and at the University of Applied Science Osnabrück |
Awards and Scholarships
2020 | Award of the University Women's Representatives for Female Students with Outstanding Theses (Univ. Bamberg) |
08/2015 - 01/2016 | PROMOS Scholarship for an exchange semester at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China |
Other Services to the Scientific Community
11/2021 - 07/2023 | Doctoral representative for the FRIAS Steering Committee, ALU Freiburg |
10 - 11/2021 | Part of the Organising Committee of the ETT2021 (Emerging Topics in Typology 2021) |
11/2021 | Chair and moderator at panel on Quantificational methods in typology, Emerging Topics in Typology 2021 (ETT 2021), 16 November 2021 |
04/2021 | Organisation of the 17th STaPs (Linguistics Conference for PhD students) with Kirsten Culhane, Constantin Zenthöfer and Naomi Peck |
04/2021 |
Chair and moderator at Publishing panel, 17th STaPs, 24 April 2021 Panelists: Prof. Dr. Katharina Hartmann (Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt), Dr. E. Matthias Reifegerste (University Library Freiburg), Dr. Uri Tadmor (Brill) and Dr. Sebastian Nordhoff (Language Science Press) |
2019 - 2020 | Double-blind Peer Reviewer for Journal "Open Linguistics" |
2017 | Part of the local organising team of the Kurdish Language Autumn School (KLAS2017, University of Bamberg), including administrative and organisational tasks |
05 - 06/2014 | Helper at the Summer School "Documentary Linguistics and Variationist Sociolinguistics" (University of Bamberg) |
02/2014 | Helper at the Nachwuchstagung "Empirische Methoden in Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache" (EmMeth, University of Bamberg) |