Dr. Helga Weyerts-Schweda Programme Director

Humanities and Social Sciences 2: Social and Behavioural Sciences
E-mail: helga.weyerts-schweda@dfg.de Telephone: +49 (228) 885-2046 Telefax: +49 (228) 885-713320

Kennedyallee 40
53175 Bonn

Scientific Areas of Responsibility

Main Contact
1.14-01 General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
1.14-02 Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
1.14-03 Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

Graduiertenkolleg
2636 Form-meaning mismatches
2700 Dynamics and stability of linguistic representations Neurolinguistics – Acquisition & Intervention – Variation & Change
2839 Dimensions of Constructional Space
Sonderforschungsbereich
1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding
1252 Prominence in Language
1287 Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Grammatical, and Social Aspects
1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
1629 Negation in language and beyond (NegLaB)
1646 Linguistic Creativity in Communication

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Forschungsgruppe
2111 Questions at the Interfaces (QI)
2237 Words, Bones, Genes, Tools - Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past
2253 Crossing the Borders: The Interplay of Language, Cognition, and the Brain in Early Human Development
2373 Spoken Morphology: Phonetics and phonology of complex words
2537 Emerging grammars in language contact situations: A comparative approach
5157 Structuring the input in language processing, acquisition and change (SILPAC)
5175 Cyclic Optimization
5182 Controversial discourses: Language history as contemporary history since 1990
5317 Practices for referring to persons: usage-based approaches to personal, indefinite and demonstrative pronouns
Schwerpunktprogramm
1727 XPrag.de: New Pragmatic Theories based on Experimental Evidence
2392 Visual communication. Theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives (ViCom)