Manfred Krifka- Curriculum Vitae#

• 1962-1969: Volksschule (primary school) in Dachau.
• 1969-1973: Rudolf Diesel Realschule (middle school) in Munich.
• 1973-1976 Albert Einstein Gymnasium, Munich (high school, mathematics & sciences) in Munich.

• 1976 - 1981 Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München. Fields of Study: German Literature, German Language, Theoretical Linguistics, Language Typology, African Languages, Psycholinguistics, Classical Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Logic.
• 1981 M.A. "mit Auszeichnung" in Theoretical Linguistics, German Literature and Philosophy. M.A. Thesis on word order and word order change in Swahili.Supervisor: Theo Vennemann.
• 1987 Dr. phil. "summa cum laude" in Theoretical Linguistics, Logics and Philosophy of Science, and Psycholinguistics. Dissertation on the semantics of nominal reference and aspectual classes. Supervisors: Theo Vennemann, Godehard Link.

• January 2023, retired
• January 2016 - October 2022: Director, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin (ZAS)
• January 2001 - December 2015: Director, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin.
• August 2000 - 2022: Professor, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Promoted to Full Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, as of September 2000.
• September 1993 - July 2000: Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin.
• September 1998 - present: Courtesy appointment in the Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin.
• January 1990 - August 1993: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin.
• May 1988 - December 1989: Teaching position (Akademischer Rat) at the Seminar für natürlich-sprachliche Systeme,Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen.
• November 1986 - April 1988: Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Seminar für natürlich-sprachliche Systeme, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen.
• May 1984 - October 1986: Teaching position (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.
• November 1983 - April 1984: Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in the Sonderforschungsbereich "Grammatik und sprachliche Prozesse" at the Universität Konstanz, with Arnim von Stechow.

• August 1999: Lecturer, Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Utrecht (course on Intonation and Information, with Christine Bartels)
• May 1998 - July 1998: Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
• August 1997 - December 1997: Fellow, Institut of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• September 1995 - May 1996: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.
• June 1995 - July 1995: Guest Scientist, IBM Germany Scientific Centre, Heidelberg (Consultant for machine translation project "Verbmobil").
• June 1994 - July 1994: Guest Scientist, IBM Germany Scientific Centre, Heidelberg (Consultant for machine translation project "Verbmobil").
• June 1993 - July 1993: Guest Scientist, Arbeitsgruppe Strukturelle Grammatik der Max Planck Gesellschaft, Humboldt Universität, Berlin.
• August 12-25, 1991: Lecturer at the Third European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.
• May 1991 - August 1991: Professor at the Department "Computerlinguistik", Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.
• June 1990 - August 1990: Researcher at the Sonderforschungsbereich 340 "Linguistische Grundlagen für die Computerlinguistik", Universität Tübingen.
• June 5-16, 1989: Lecturer at the First European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information, University of Groningen, Netherlands (Course on Genericity).

• 1985, 1986: Development of software (character editors for matrix printers).
• 1982 Journalist at Frankfurter Rundschau, a daily paper.
• Starting 1980: Scientific journalist for several widely circulated German newspapers and journals.