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.

2010: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.

2010: University of Tromsoe, Norway, PhD course with Jan-Ola Östman, Michael Bamberg and Srikant Sarangi on "Narrative and Responsibility", October 11th - 14th, 2010.

2011: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

2012: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Elisabeth Norcliffe, Asifa Majid, Kobin Kendrick, 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.