Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities - Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies

Prof. Dr. Roland Meyer :: CV

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04/2014

 

Declined the offer from the University of Zurich, accepted the competing offer from Humboldt University, Berlin

11/2013

 

Offered a full professorship in Slavonic linguistics, University of Zurich

since 10/2012

 

Professor of West Slavonic Languages (W2), Humboldt University, Berlin

04-09/2012 

 

Professor of West Slavonic Languages (W2, interim for M. Nekula), University of Regensburg

05/2012

 

Habilitation in Slavonic philology. Thesis: “Anonymous first arguments. A corpus-linguistic investigation into the diachrony of null subjects in Northern Slavonic languages”

06/201102/2012

 

Parental leave

12/2008

 

Associate Professor (tenured) [Akademischer Rat], Institute of Slavistics, University of Regensburg

06/2008–05/2011

 

Sabbatical for working on the DFG grant project “Corpus Linguistics and Diachronic Syntax: Grammaticalization of Non-canonical Subjects in Slavonic Languages” (HA2659/1-1; PI B. Hansen, E. Hansack), Regensburg

02-03/2007              03-04/2008

 

Research visits to MPI EVA, Leipzig – Cooperation with Dr. Sabine Stoll on a tagged corpus of Russian child language

05/2003–11/2008

 

Associate Professor (non-tenured) [Akademischer Rat z.A.], Institute of Slavonic Languages and Linguistics, University of Regensburg

07–10/2002

 

Researcher, DFG Research Group “Theoretical Linguistic Foun­dations for Cognitive Science”, University of Leipzig –  Grant project “Information Structure in Russian Non-declaratives” (PI G. Zybatow)

07/2002

 

PhD thesis “Syntax and Pragmatics of Constitutent Questions in Russian, Polish, and Czech” (Supervisors: T. Berger, J. Pafel), Tübingen, summa cum laude

09/2000–06/2002

 

Scientific Coordinator of DFG CRC 441 “Linguistic Data Struc­tures: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Grammar Re­search”, Tübingen (PI M. Reis, E. Hinrichs)

03–07/1999

 

Institute of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Charles Univer­sity, Prague – Stipend, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

1997–1999

 

Research Assistant in Slavonic Linguistics, Tübingen

05/1997–04/2000

 

PhD stipend, DFG Graduate College “Integrated Studies of Lin­guistics”, Tübingen

1995–1997

 

 

Research Assistant, German Research Council (DFG) Collabora­tive Research Center (CRC) 340 “Theoretical Foundations of Computational Linguistics“, Tübingen

1993/94

 

University of Washington, Seattle, USA                                    

10/1990–04/1997

 

General Linguistics and Slavic Philology (majors), Psychology and Computer Science (minors), Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, M.A. “with honours”

1970

 

born in Augsburg/Germany