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Tilman N. Höhle (*1945) studied General Linguistics, Indo-European Linguistics, and German Philology at the University of Göttingen and the University of Cologne, where he also received his M.A. (1969) and his PhD (1976). Having taught at the German Seminar of the University of Cologne for many years, he changed to the University of Tübingen in 1984 where, besides teaching German linguistics, he was involved in training several generations of general and computational linguists in grammatical theory as well as theoretically oriented descriptive German grammar. He retired in 2008.
His research within grammatical theory and German grammar covers (i) a range of syntactic topics, in particular topological and other aspects of clause structure (such as extraction, non-finite constructions, constituent order, coordination, (verum) focus), (ii) aspects of word syntax, and (iii) theoretical aspects of phonology, in particular in model-theoretic grammar (HPSG).
Stefan Müller studied Computer Science, Computational Linguistics and Linguistics at the Humboldt University at Berlin and in Edinburgh. He worked at the German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken and for the company Interice. He worked as acting chair for German and Computational Linguistics in Jena and for Theoretical Computational Linguistics in Potsdam. He had an assistant professorship in Bremen for theoretical linguistics and computational linguistics, a full professorship for German and General Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin and is now professor for German language with specialization in syntax at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
His main research topic is German grammar. He works both empirically and theoretically. Topics of interest are morphology, syntax, semantics, and information structure. He published mainly about German, but he also works on other languages as for instance Mandarin Chinese, Danish, Maltese, and Persian. The theoretical work is carried out in the framework of Head-? Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and the theoretical analyses are implemented in computer-?processable grammar fragments. The grammar fragments that are implemented in the CoreGram Project use a common core. One goal of his research is to understand language and to find out what languages in general and certain language classes in particular have in common.
Frank Richter studied linguistics, computer science and psychology at Universität Tübingen (Promotion 2000, Habilitation 2004), and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After many years of research and teaching in Tübingen, various Vertretungsprofessuren in linguistics and computational linguistics in Tübingen, Stuttgart, and Düsseldof, he became Hochschuldozent at the Institut für England- und Amerikastudien of Goethe Universität Frankfurt in 2014.
His main areas of research are in formal semantics, computational semantics, grammar implementation, and the formal foundations of linguistic theory; he is very interested in phraseological constructions with a particular focus on (negative) polarity items, their distribution and their role in grammar. Most of his training in syntax he received in classes taught by Tilman Höhle in the 1990s.
Marga Reis, now professor emerita, received her philological, logical, and linguistic training mainly at the University of Munich (1960-68; PhD 1970, Habilitation 1975), Bryn Mawr College (1963-65), and M.I.T. (1972/73). She worked as a professor of German Linguistics at the University of Cologne (1975-84), and, until her retirement, at the University of Tübingen (1984-2009). Since 2009 she also holds an honorary professorship at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Her main research field is the grammar of Modern German, in particular clausal syntax, extraction, and the relation between grammar and pragmatics, but her published work also includes studies in historical phonology, semantics, word formation, linguistic methodology, and history of linguistics.
