- Linguistic research concerning the reconstruction of language as being part of the human cognitive competence (Noam Chomsky).
- Description of Slavic languages by means of recent generative models.
- Lexical and compositional semantics, morphosyntax, syntax, and phonology of Slavic languages.
- *1961 in Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
- 1984-1986
University of Leipzig: translator and interpreter Russian/Englisch
(Rudolf Růžička, Heide Schmidt-Crome, Albrecht Neubert a.o.) - 1986-1987
PGPIIJa (currently PGLU), Pyatigorsk, Russia, study abroad - 1987-1989
University of Leipzig, translator and interpreter Russian/Englisch and special study program General Linguistics (syntax/semantics, a.o. Anita Steube) - 1989
University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK, study abroad - 1989
University of Leipzig, diploma, Karl Brugmann Award of the Section for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics - 1989-1991
University of Leipzig, doctoral studies and teaching - 1991-1992
University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK, research assistant
(Christopher Beedham) - 1992
Co-founding the Young Slavicists (with Tilman Berger and Ursula Doleschal) - 1992-1994
University of Leipzig, doctoral studies and teaching - 1994
Ph.D. dissertation in general linguistics - 1994-1995
Research focus on general linguistics, typology and universals (FAS), Berlin, scientific assistant, teaching at the University of Leipzig - 1996-1997
University of Leipzig, Slavic Department, DFG project "Argument structure and word order as a means of information structuring in Russian"
(with Gerhild Zybatow, Dorothee Fehrmann and Loren A. Billings),
Teaching at the University of Leipzig - 1998-1999
Postdoctoral grant of the Saxon State Ministery for Science and Culture - Apr.-Sept. 1998
Research stay (postdoctoral studies) at the Institute for Formal and Applied Linguistics of the Charles University Prague (ÚFAL MFF UK) - Sept. 1999
Research stay (postdoctoral dissertation) at the Slavicist Faculty of the "Sv. Kliment Oxridski" University,
Sofija, Bulgaria - 2000-2002
Scientific assistant, University of Leipzig, Slavic Department - Nov. 2002
Postdoctoral disseration (Dr. phil. habil.), teaching qualification for Slavic linguistics - 2002-2006
Higher assistant ("Oberassistent") at the Slavic Department of the University of Leipzig - Feb. 2003
License to teach (Privatdozent) for Slavic linguistics - 2006-2009
Permanent scientific assistant, University of Leipzig, Slavic Department - 2009
Professorship of Slavic linguistics, Slavic Department,
University of Göttingen - Nicole Hockmann
- Freya Schumann