Curriculum vitae

1937 born in Rostock

• 2004-2007 Advisory Board ZAS, Berlin
• 1991-2002 Speaker of the Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 282 Theory of the Lexicon, Düsseldorf
• 1991-92 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
• 1977-92 Member of the Fachbeirat MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
• 1978-80 The first president of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS)
• 1973-2002 Chair in General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• 1970-73 Professor for Germanic Linguistics, Free University Berlin
• 1969 Doctoral dissertation on tense and time reference in German, Technical University Berlin
• 1964-65 Physicist in a nuclear reactor company near Köln
• 1964 Diploma in Nuclear Physics, University of Hamburg
• 1955-59 Studies in Jena and Leipzig
• 1955 Abitur in Seebad Heringsdorf (Usedom, former GDR)

Books: Arbeitsbuch Semantik 1980, Foundations of Linguistics 1979, Studien zur
Sprechakttheorie 1976, Grundlagen der Linguistik 1974

Editor of several books, handbooks and series

Guest professor in Denmark, Norway, France, Hungary, Portugal, England, Czechia, Japan, China, USA