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* 1954 in Hannover

• 1981-1984: Assistant, Universität Hannover
• 1984-1991: Senior Assistant, Universität Wuppertal
• 1991 -       : Full Professor, Universität Marburg

Studium/Studies

• 1975-1980: Lehramt Englisch, Sport & Philosophie, Universität Hannover
• 1978-1979: Phonetics, University of Leeds
• 1981-1983: Postgraduate Programme Linguistics, University of Reading

Abschlüsse/Degrees

• M.A. Linguistics, University of Reading, 1982
  ("Concessive Clauses"/Frank Palmer)
• MPhil Linguistics University of Reading, 1983
  ("Psycholinguistics"/Mike Garman)
• PhD in Linguistics, Universität Hannover, 1984
  ("Adverbial Clauses"/Ekkehard König)
• Habilitation in Linguistics, Universität Wuppertal, 1990
  ("Natural Language Processing and Implementation in LISP"/ Gisa Rauh)

Family

• married, two children