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Gunter Senft -
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Date of birth: 19.07.1952
Place of birth: Kaiserslautern
Nationality: German
Marital status: married to Barbara Senft
Children: Frauke Senft (27.03.1985)
Sebastian Senft (07.01.1987)
Address: Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics
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Education:
Abitur, Gymnasium am Rittersberg, Kaiserslautern, May 1971.
1971-1979 Ruprecht-Karl-Universität Heidelberg (German and English Language and Literature); 1976 Wissenschaftliche Prüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien (große Facultas).
1979-1982 Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Ph.-D. student).
1.03.1978 - 28.02.1981 Max-Planck-Society Ph.-D. fellowship, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, (The Netherlands).
February 1982 Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil., "summa cum laude"), Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
May 1992 Technische Universität Berlin, Habilitation (German qualification for lecturing): "General Linguistics".
July 1994 Universität zu Köln, Umhabilitation “General Linguistics”.
July 1998 Universität zu Köln, Extraordinary Professor for General Linguistics.
Professional history:
1976-1978 research assistant, German Research Society (DFG)-Project "Heidelberg Research Project `Pidgin-German of Spanish and Italian Workers in the Federal Republic of Germany'" Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Klein;
1.03.1978 - 28.02. 1981 Max-Planck-Society Ph.-D. fellowship, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, (The Netherlands);
1.03.1981 - 30.09.1981 associate research fellow, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen;
1.10.1981 - 30.09.1986 research fellow, DFG-Project "Ritual Communication on the Trobriand Islands", Prof. Dr. Irenäus Eibl- Eibesfeldt, Human Ethology Research Unit, MPI for Behavioural Physiology, Seewiesen;
1.10.1986 - 31.12.1988 postdoctoral research fellowship, Max-Planck-Society, Human Ethology Research Unit, Andechs;
1.01.1989 - 31.05.1990 postdoctoral research fellowship, German Research Society (DFG);
1.06.1990 - 31.01.1991 postdoctoral research fellowship, Max-Planck-Society, Human Ethology Research Unit, Andechs;
since 1.02.1991 senior research fellow, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
1.04.1999-30.09.2000 on leave from the MPI for Psycholinguistics to act as the stand-in for the chair of general linguistics at the Universität Bielefeld for the summer-semester 1999, the winter-semester 1999/2000, and the summer semester 2000 (= “Lehrstuhlvertretung”).
Pre-doctoral fellowships:
1971 - 1977, G.M.Pfaff-Gedächtnisstiftung Kaiserslautern, student-fellowship.
1.03.1978 - 28.02.1981 Ph.-D. fellowship, Max-Planck-Society, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, (The Netherlands).
Field research:
1.09.1977 - 14.10.1977 participant observation in a factory in Kaiserslautern;
July 1982 - December 1982 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
January 1983 - November 1983 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
May 1989 - August 1989 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
July 1992 - September 1992 Trobriand Islands Papua New Guinea;
June & July 1993 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
August & September 1994 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
May & June 1995 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
May & June 1996 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
May & June 1997 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
August & September 1998 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
May & June 2001 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
June 2003 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
July & August 2004 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
June 2006 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea;
August & September 2008 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea.
DFG-(German Research Society)-funded research projects:
"The system of classificatory particles in Kilivila", research fellowship, including costs for field research, 1.01.1989 - 31.05.1990.
"Serial verb constructions, event concenptualization and event-report in Austronesian and Papuan languages", project finacing a student assistant (Alex Dukers) and a post-doc researcher (Dr. Miriam van Staden) for 2 years.
Invited visiting research fellow:
July 1982 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea;
August 1989 Divine Word Institute, Madang, Papua New Guinea;
Oktober 1989 Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;
July 1992 Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australien.
November 2000, 7-day visit to Japan to present five invited talks in Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, sponsored by the Japan Foundation’s Foreign Researcher Exchange Programme.
Academic teaching:
SS 1990 Technische Universität Berlin, seminar: "Languages with Classifiers", seminar: "Introduction to Field Linguistics";
WS 1990/91 Technische Universität Berlin, seminar: "Kilivila - an Austronesian Language"; seminar: "Etholinguistics";
WS 1993/94 Technische Universität Berlin, seminar: "Space and Spatial Reference in Various Languages and Cultures".
SS 1994 Technische Universität Berlin, seminar and lecture: "Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics".
WS 1995/96 Universität zu Köln, seminar: “Nominal Classification”.
WS 1996/97 Universität zu Köln, seminar: “`Kölner Klüngel´ etc. - an Introduction to Lexical Semantics”.
WS 1997/98 Universität zu Köln, seminar: “An Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics”
WS 1997/98: Universität Heidelberg, seminar: “Theory and Practice of Anthropological Linguistics (for anthropologists)”.
WS 1998/99: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Spatial Deixis.
SS 1999: Universität Bielefeld, seminar (4 hours/week): Languages of the World; seminar: Typology – The Conceptualization of Space in Various Languages; seminar: An Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics.
WS 1999/00: Universität Bielefeld, lecture (4 hours/week): Structure of Non-Indoeuropean Languages; seminar: Kilivila; seminar: Field Methods.
SS 2000: Universität Bielefeld, seminar (4 hours/week): Languages of the World; seminar: Systems of Nominal Classification; seminar: Ritual Communication.
WS 2000/01: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Serial Verb Constructions.
WS 2001/02: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Human Ethology and Linguistics.
WS 2002/03: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Endangered Languages.
WS 2003/04: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Space Games.
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Nick Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
WS 2004/05: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Oceanic Languages.
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
WS 2005/06: Universität zu Köln, seminar: What is a good reference grammar?
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
WS 2006/07: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Nominal Classification.
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
2008: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
2009: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
Ph.-D. guidance:
1.06.1993-30.09.1995: Giovanni Bennardo, A Computational Approach to Spatial Cognition: Representing Spatial Relationships in Tongan Language and Culture. Ph.D 1996, Urbana, Illinois.
1.05.1995-04.03.1997: Michael Meeuwis, Constructing Sociolinguistic Consensus - A Linguistic Ethnography of the Zairian Community in Antwerp, Belgium. Ph.D. 1997, Universiteit Antwerpen.
1.10.1996-04.02.2002: Gaby Cablitz, Marquesan - a grammar of space. Ph.D. thesis, Universität Kiel (magna cum laude, 1.0 "sehr gut").
1.10.2002-09.05.2003: Cornelia Bast, Der Altersfaktor im Zweitspracherwerb. Ph.D. thesis, Universität zu Köln. (magna cum laude, 1.0 "sehr gut").
1.01.2000-28.02.2005: Helga Randrianariseheno Ramandresiarisoa, Soziokulturelle Aspekte der Wortbedeutung beim Fremdsprachenerwerb und ihre Darstellung in einem zweisprachigen Lexikon. Am Beispiel deutscher und madegassischer Kulturspezifika". Université d'Antananarivo, Madagascar. (très honorable, summa cum laude).
Ph.-D. promotions:
1.06.1993 member of the promotion commission and member of the "cum laude commission" for Eric Venbrux's promotion and thesis: "Under the Mangotree: A Case of Homicide in an Australian Aboriginal Society". Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. Eric Venbrux promoted "cum laude".
23.02.1995 member of the promotion commission and member of the "cum laude commission" for Harrie Wetzer's promotion with his thesis: "Nouniness and Verbiness: A Typological Study of Adjectival Predication". Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. Harrie Wetzer promoted "cum laude".
4.03.1997 member of the promotion commission for Michael Meeuwis’s promotion with his thesis “Constructing Sociolinguistic Consensus - A Linguistic Ethnography of the Zairian Community in Antwerp, Belgium”. Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA).
15.09.1999 member of the “leescommissie” and member of the promotion commission for Philomena Dol’s promotion with her thesis “A Grammar of Maybrat”. Universiteit Leiden.
19.10.2000 "referent" and member of the promotion commission for Miriam van Staden's promotion with her thesis “Tidore - A Linguistic Description of a Language of the North Moluccas". Universiteit Leiden.
10.11.2000 member of the promotion commission for Isabel Compes' promotion with her thesis "Textkonstituierung in gesprochener Sprache. Eine Fallstudie zum Verfahren der Verortung am Beispiel samoanischer Narrationen". Universität zu Köln.
10.11.2000 member of the promotion commission for Margarita-Maria Castro-Medina's promotion with her thesis "Morphologische Beschreibung des Verbsystems des Mexikanero von San Pedro Jicora". Universität zu Köln.
09.05.2003 "promoter" for Cornelia Bast with her thesis "Der Altersfaktor im Zweitspracherwerb". Universität zu Köln.
26.01.2004 member of the promotion commission and member of the "cum laude commission" for Åshild Næss's promotion with her thesis: "Transitivity: from semantics to structure". Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. Åshild Næss promoted "cum laude".
09.12.2004 member of the “leescommissie” and member of the promotion commission for Gilles Gravelle's promotion with his thesis "Meyah: an East Bird's Head language of Papua, Indonesia". Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
16.02.2005 member of the “leescommissie” and member of the promotion commission for Ien Courtens's promotion with her thesis "Restoring the Balance - Performing Healing in West Papua". Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
24.06.2005 co-promotor and member of the promotion commission for Helga Randrianariseheno Ramandresiarisoa's promotion with her thesis "Soziokulturelle Aspekte der Wortbedeutung beim Fremdsprachenerwerb und ihre Darstellung in einem zweisprachigen Lexikon. Am Beispiel deutscher und madegassischer Kulturspezifika". Université d'Antananarivo, Madagascar.Helga Randrianariseheno Ramandresiarisoa promoted "très honorable" (summa cum laude).
30.06.2005 member of the “leescommissie” for Flora Loeb-Diehl's promotion with her thesis "The Typology of Manner Expressions". Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
06.10.2005 member of the promotion commission for Frank Seifart's promotion with his thesis "The Structure and Use of Shape-Based Noun Classes in Mirana (North West Amazon)".Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. Frank Seifart promoted "cum laude".
15.06.2009 external examiner for Mary Ruth Chambers' defense ("viva") of her PhD thesis "Which way is up? Motion verbs and paths of motion in Kubokota, an Austronesian language of the Solomon Islands", School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
Habilitation committees:
Member of the "Habilitation" committee for Jürgen Broschart's Habilitation for General Linguistics at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne. Title of the Habilitation: “Über die Sprachwissenschaft hinaus - Sprache und Kognition aus interdisziplinärer Sicht”. Date of Juergen Broschart's Habilitation: 17.07.2002.
External referee for Claudia Gerstner-Link's Habilitation for General Linguistics at the Ludwigs-Maximilian University of Munich. Title of the Habilitation: "Das Kilmeri - Typologische Annäherung an eine Sprache Neuguineas". Claudia Gerstner-Link's Habilitation was finished in May 2004.
Committees of the Max-Planck-Society
1989-1991 member of the works council, Human Ethology Research Unit of the MPG, Andechs.
1991-1998 and since 2002 member of the library committee, since 2009 chairman of the library committee, MPI for Psycholinguistics.
1992-1995 member of the colloquium committee, MPI for Psycholinguistics.
1994-1995 member of the MPG president's commission "Ethology and Anthropology"
1995-1996 and 2004-2009 chairman of the research facilities committee, MPI for Psycholinguistics.
2004-2009 elected representative of the scientific staff of the MPI for Psycholinguistics in the Scientific Council ('Wissenschaftlicher Rat') and in the Human Sciences Section ('Geistes- Sozial- und Humanwissenschaftliche Sektion') of the Max-Planck-Society.
2005-2009 member of the "sInfo/eSciDoc" steering committee ("Lenkungsausschuß") of the "Max Planck Digital Library".
2006 Symposium with the Candidates for the Head of the MPDL, Munich, 27th-28th of April 2006.
Committees of the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (formerly: Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen):
2002 member of the evaluation commission of the chair of Pacific Studies (Evaluatiecommissie Profileringsleerstoel "Anthropologie van de Pacific")
2006 member of the profile commission anthropology ("Profiel Commissie Anthropologie")
2007 member of the nomination commission "Anthropology of the Pacific" (Benoemingscommissie "Anthropologie van de Pacific")
Conference organisation:
1987 International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerpen, 19.08. Co-chair of the session on "Variability and Language Change".
1991 Sixth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Convenor of the Symposium on Austronesian Classifier Languages, May 20th, 1991.
1991 Organizer of the "Workshop on Concepts of Space and Spatial Reference in Austronesian and Papuan Languages", Nijmegen, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, September 30th - October 1st, 1991.
1993 Organizer of the workshop: "Back to Basic Issues in Nominal Classification", Nijmegen, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, May 25th - 27th 1993.
1993 Convenor of the section “Signs and Time - Signs and Culture of Signs - Signs of time: Case Studies from Anthropology”, 7th. International Congress of the German Society for Semiotics, Tübingen, 4.-7.10.1993.
1996 Member of the organizing committee (with Isabelle Bril, Even Hovdhaugen, Claire Moyse- Faurie) for the First European Meeting on Oceanic Linguistics, Oslo, September 13-15, 1996 ("Negation in Austronesian Languages").
1997. Workshop in Spatial Cognition, Rome, September 18th-19th. Chair - morning session September 19th.
1997. First International Interdisciplinary Conference “Perspectives on the Bird’s Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, Leiden, October 13th-17th. Chair for the anthropology section, October 16th.
1997 Member of the organization committee for the 6th International Pragmatics Conference, Reims, 19.-24.07.1998.
1997 Member of the organization committee for the Leiden Conference of the European Society for Oceanists in 1998.
1998 Organizer of the Second European Meeting on Oceanic Linguistics, Nijmegen, 6-7.11., MPI for Psycholinguistics ("Spatial Deixis in Austronesian Languages").
1998 William Labov Nijmegen Lectures: Linguistic Change: Some Solved & Unsolved Problems. Chair for lecture 2, December 15th.
2001 The Third European Meeting on Oceanic Linguistics, LACITO-CNRS, Paris-Villejuif, 9.-10. 03. 2001 ("Serial and Compound Verbs in Oceanic Languages"). Chair - sessions on March 10th.
2002 International Linguistics Conference: Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Perspectives into the 21st Century. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 21-24 May 2002, Athens. Member of the Scientific Committee.
2002 9th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, ANU, Canberra, 7.-11.01.: together with Miriam van Staden organizer of the workshop on “Serial Verb Constructions”, January, 9th, 11.00am - 6.00pm; chair of the morning session; January 11th, chair of the session on “Grammar and Space”.
2002 International Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics, 26-27 May 2002 Las Palmas. Member of the Program Committee and Member of the Panel about Requirements for a Language Archive (with Hennie Brugman, Helen Dry, Heidi Johnson, and Boyd Michailovsky).
2002 Rhetoric Culture Conference II: Linguistics, July 4-7, 2002, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz. Chair of the session "Rhetoric, culture and language".
2003 Cross-Linguistic Data and Theories of Meaning, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, May 18-20, 2003. Chair of session 8.
2004 Conference: Language, Culture and Mind: Integrating Perspectives and Methodologies in the Study of Language, University of Portsmouth, England, 18-20 July 2004. Member of the International Scientific Panel.
2004 "Feedback in Interaction" - Workshop of the Multimodal Interaction Project, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, February 12-14, 2004; February 13th - chair of the morning session.
2004 "Spatial Cognition 2004, International Conference, 11-13 October, Frauenwörth Abbey, Frauenchiemsee Island". Member of the review committee.
2005 "Initial References to Persons in Interaction" - Workshop of the Multimodal Interaction Project, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, March 31 - April 02, 2005; April 2nd, chair of the final moderated discussion with John Lucy.
2005 6th International Conference of the European Society for Oceanists, Marseille, 6-8 July 2005: together with Marie Salaün organizer of the session "Endangered languages - endangered cultures", 7-8 July.
2006 "Questions and their Responses" - Workshop of the Multimodal Interaction Project, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, March 23-25, 2006; March 24th, chair of the morning session.
2006 "Reciprocals across languages" - Workshop at the MPI or Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, April 19th-21st, 2006; April 19th, chair of the afternoon session.
2007 10th International Pragmatics Conference: "Language data, corpora, and computational pragmatics", Göteborg, Sweden, July 9-14, 2007. Member of the review committee for the panel "The language of space and time" organized by Thora Tenbrink.
2007 Together with Ellen Basso co-organizer of the Wenner-Gren Conference on "Ritual Communication", Hotel Palácio de Seteias, Sintra, Portugal, March 16-23, 2007.
Chair of the morning sessions of the Wenner-Gren Conference on "Ritual Communication", Hotel Palácio de Seteias, Sintra, Portugal, March 16-23, 2007.
2007 7th International Conference on Oceanic Languages, Noumea, 2-6 July 2007; July 5th, chair of the session on "Nominalisation".
2007 4th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Knowledge and Space - "Cultural Memories", September 19-22, 2007, Villa Bosch Studio, Heidelberg, organized by the Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation; September 21st, chair of the session on "Memory as a Social Practice".
2008 Together with Pierre Dasen co-organizer of the "Geocentric Space Workshop", June 10th, 2008, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
2008 Member of the Scientific Committee for the 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 22.-26. 06. 2009, Aussois (France).
2009 Chair of Session 2: "Oral traditions" at the 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 24. 06. 2009, Aussois.
2009 Chair of the Lecture Session "The dynamics of loss and innovation" at the 11th International Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne, 15. 07. 2009
2009 Together with Anke Tonnaer and Thomas Widlok co-organizer of the "54ste Oceanistendag", November 20th, 2009, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
2010 Chair of the Lecture Session "Subject, Object, Focus" at the 8th International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, 07.01.2010, University of Auckland.
Board memberships
1991-1993 German Society for Semiotics - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik, member of the scientific council.
1991-2000 member of the International Committee of Recommendation and member of the Scientific Council for the Irian Jaya Studies Programme for Interdisciplinary Research, Leiden, The Netherlands.
1991-2005 Board member of the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Nijmegen; since June 2005 Advisor to the Board of the CPAS.
1992-1997 member of the "Arbeitsgruppe Bedrohte Sprachen" (Committee for Research on Endangered Languages) of the German Society for Linguistics; 1997-1998 founding member and Vice-President of the “Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen”, 1998 re-elected as Vice-President for 2 years; 2002-2004 member of the advisory board.
2005-2010 member of the Advisory Board for the Symposia on Knowledge and Space in the Studio of the Villa Bosch, organized by the Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, and supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation gGMBH.
since 1992 co-founder and twice re-elected member of the board of the "European Society for Oceanists".
since 2006 member of the International Pragmatics Association's Consultation Board.
since 2006 member of the International Pragmatics Association's Executive Committee.
Advisor:
A H R B - arts and humanities research board,
Australian National University, Canberra,
Australian Research Council,
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG (German Research Society),
European Science Foundation, Straßburg,
Institut für deutsche Sprache (IdS), Mannheim,
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen,
The Research Council of Norway,
Union Académique Internationale, Sciences humaines et sociales,
University of Antwerp, Department of Research,
Volkswagen-Stiftung,
Werkgemeenschap Zuidoost Azie en Oceanie, Stichting Wetenschappelijke Onderzoek in de Tropen, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO = Dutch Research Organisation).
Journal referee:
Anthropological Linguistics,
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI),
Current Anthropology,
Journal of Asian and African Studies,
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology,
Journal of Pragmatics,
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Incorporating MAN),
Language and Linguistics Compass
Linguistics,
Linguistische Berichte,
LINCOM EUROPA - Studies in Australian, Austronesian & Papuan languages,
Pacific Studies,
Paideuma,
Text.
Editor:
Since 1992 co-editor, since 2002 senior editor/editor-in-chief of: "Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)".
Since 2009 editor of the book series "Culture and Language Use - Studies in Anthropological Linguistics", John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam & Philadelphia.
Consulting Editor:
Since 2004 member of the board of consulting editors of the annual journal "Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP)", edited by Piotr Cap (editor) and Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (co-editor), University of Lodz, Poland.
Editorial Board Member:
2005-2007 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
since 2006 Language and Linguistics in Melanesia,
since 2009 International Review of Pragmatics.
Membership in scientific organizations:
International Pragmatics Association,
European Society for Oceanists,
Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea,
Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen,
Center for Research on Language Change, Australian National University Canberra (associate member),
Linguistic Society of America (1990-2006),
American Anthropological Society (1984-1998),
Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth (1991-1997),
European Association of Social Anthropologists (1991-1997),
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (1979-1986),
Societas Linguistica Europaea (1986-2003),
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik (1990-1996),
Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (1994-1998),
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (1987-2003).
Languages:
Latin, English, Kilivila; some Dutch;
passive knowledge of French and Tok Pisin.
Gunter Senft
