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www.uni-leipzig.de/~witzlack
Short biography
September 2006-May 2010 University of Leipzig: PhD student
2001-2006 University of Leipzig: MA program in Linguistics, English studies and German as a foreign language. Thesis: "Aspects of information structure in Richtersveld Nama"
1996-2000 Linguistic University of Minsk, Belarus: English studies
Work experience
April 2011-today Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Zurich, project: Typological Variance in the Processing of Grammatical Relations
Juni 2010-March 2011 Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Leipzig, project: Typological Variance in the Processing of Grammatical Relations (Leipzig Research Group on the Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments)
Mai 2006-Mai 2010 Research assistant in the project Typological Variance in the Processing of Grammatical Relations (Leipzig Research Group on the Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments)
since October 2007 Research assistant in the project "A text documentation of N|uu" (MPI-EVA, Leipzig)
2004-2006 Student assistant in the project Expression of Focus in Southern African Languages (ZAS, Berlin) under the supervision of Tom Güldemann: work on Richtersveld Nama (Central Khoisan), including language documentation, text collection, investigations in morphology, syntax and sociolinguistics
2002-2004 Student assistant in AUTOTYP research program (work on following projects and topics: NP structures, negation, grammatical markers, word domains, typological maps); transcription, glossing and analysis of Pear Stories for the Chechen Narratives Project Linguistic fieldwork
2007 Documentation of N|uu, Upington/Andriesvale (Northern Cape, South Africa), 10 weeks
2005 Documentation of Richtersveld Nama, Kuboes (Northern Cape, South Africa), 9 weeks
2004 Documentation of Richtersveld Nama, Kuboes (Northern Cape, South Africa), 12 weeks