Prof. Dr. Gisela Zifonun

(Ehemalige Mitarbeiterin)

Function

Head of the Grammar Department

Professor at Mannheim University (on leave)

Task Area

Project coordination and acquisition. Principal investigator of the project Grammatik des Deutschen im europäischen Vergleich (German Grammar in a Comparative European Context)

Personal data

• German and Latin Studies from 1965,
  Staatsexamen (state recognised teaching qualification) 1969.
• Doctoral thesis 1971: "Zur Theorie der Wortbildung am Beispiel deutscher Präfixverben" (On the theory of word formation: the example of German prefix verbs).
• Researcher at the IDS from 1973 onwards.
• Head of the Grammar Department from 1986 to 1995, leading development of Grammatik der deutschen Sprache (Grammar of the German Language). 3 Volumes, Berlin 1997.
• Habilitation in German Linguistics at Mannheim University.
• Professor at the FU Berlin from August 1995 to September 1998.
• Professor at Mannheim University since October 1998 and Head of the Grammar Department at the IDS