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Curriculum Vitae

 
Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Belfortstraße 18

79085 Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany

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
Minors: General Linguistics, Islamischer Orient
Thesis Title: Auf der Suche nach übereinzelsprachlichen Merkmalen von Narrativität: Ein Vergleich sprachlicher Perspektivierung in chinesischen und deutschen Erzählungen. (Searching for cross-linguistic characteristics of narrativity. A comparison of linguistic perspectivity in Chinese and German narratives) (1,0)

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)
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