Birgit Hellwig - Curriculum Vitae#

Major grants (since 2010):

• 2014 - 2022 Language documentation and psycholinguistics. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Lichtenberg Program
  
• 2017 - 2020 Split ergativity in Tima, together with Gerrit Dimmendaal. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (within SFB 1252 Prominence in Language)
  
• 2017 - 2019 Cross-linguistic patterns in the encoding of three-participant events – investigating BRING and TAKE, together with Anna Margetts and Sonja Riesberg. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, DobeS Program
  
• 2010 - 2014 Semantic categories: Exploring the history of the Baining languages of Island Melanesia. Funded by the Australian Research Council
  
• 2011 - 2013 Documenting Tabaq, a Hill Nubian language of the Sudan, in its sociolinguistic context, together with Gerrit Dimmendaal. Funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

Administrative roles:

• 2019 - present Chair, Cologne Center of Language Sciences (& Deputy Chair 2015-2019)
  
• 2019 - present Member, board of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1252 Prominence in Language
  
• 2018 - 2020 Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne
  
• 2017 - 2019 Ombudsperson, Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1252 Prominence in Language

Publications

Published 3 monographs, 2 edited collections, 40+ peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters.

Corpora

Produced substantive original digital corpora for multiple lesser-described languages (i.e., audio/video-recorded, transcribed, translated, annotated):

• Qaqet child corpus (2014+). Ca. 440 hours of natural (longitudinal) & stimulated (cross-sectional) child data. Ca. 10 hours of stimulated adult data
  
• Zaghawa Fieldmethods 1 (2014 - 2015). Ca. 20 hours of stimulated & elicited data
  
• Zaghawa Fieldmethods 2 (2015 - 2016). Ca. 20 hours of stimulated & elicited data
  
• Ndebele Fieldmethods 1 (2016 - 2017). Ca. 30 hours of stimulated & elicited data
  
• Ndebele Fieldmethods 2 (2017 - 2018). Ca. 15 hours of stimulated & elicited data
  
• Qaqet corpus (2012 - 2013). Ca. 10 hours of natural & stimulated data
  
• Tabaq & Katla corpus (2006 - 2008; 2011 - 2013). Ca. 15 hours of natural & stimulated data
  
• Goemai corpus (2003 - 2005). Ca. 6 hours of natural & stimulated data
  
• Goemai corpus (1999 - 2003). Ca. 20 hours of natural & stimulated data