Vice-President for Professorial Appointments and Equal Opportunities Professor Anke Holler
Professor Anke Holler has been the Vice-President for Professorial Appointments and Equal Opportunities at Göttingen University, in addition to her academic role, since April 2021. The University Senate elected Holler, who holds the Chair of German Linguistics, for a first term of two years and a second term of four (until 2027). Holler has been a member of the Senate Commission for Development and Finance at Göttingen University since 2015 and has been the Senate's representative for the humanities on the Göttingen Campus Council since 2018.
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
- Descriptive Grammar of Modern German
- Formal grammar and linguistic theory
- Experimental linguistics and text understanding
- Natural Language Processing
- Linguistics and literature
Academic and professional career
| 2011 | W3-Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Göttingen |
| 2008 | W2-Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Göttingen |
| 2007 | Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin, W1 tenure track to W2) of Formal Grammar and Psycholinguistics at the University of Göttingen |
| 2006 - 2007 | Replacement of a W3 Professorship for Computational linguistics, University of Heidelberg |
| 2005 - 2006 | Replacement of a W3 Professorship for German language and its teaching, PH Karlsruhe |
| 2003 - 2007 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University |
| 2002 | Dr. phil., University of Tübingen |
| 2000 - 2003 | Software developer at IBM Germany, and project leader at TEMIS Germany |
| 1997 - 1999 | Doctoral Researcher at SFB 340, University of Tübingen |
| 1990 - 1996 | M.A. program: Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science at University of Tübingen and University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA) |
| 1987 - 1990 | M.A. program: German Studies, University of Leipzig |
Awards, scholarships and memberships
| 2019 | Offer of a W3-Professorship at the Freie Universität Berlin (declined) |
| 2018 | Offer of a W3-Professorship at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (declined) |
| 2014 | Member of AcademiaNet, nominated by Volkswagen Foundation |
| 2011 - 2012 | Associate Fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen |
| 2011 | Offer of a W3-Professorship at the University of Mannheim (declined) |
| 2008 | Offer of a W2-Professorship at the University of Wuppertal (declined) |
| 1992 - 1996 | Full scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung |
Management and committee responsibilities
| since 2023 | Member of the Senate and Grants Committee for Research Training Groups of the DFG |
| since April 2021 | Vice-President for Professorial Appointments and Equal Opportunities |
| since 2018 | Senate representative for the humanities on the Göttingen Campus Council (GCC) |
| since 2015 | Member of the Senate Commission for Development and Finance (KEF) |
| 2013 - 2015 | Member of the Senate Commission for Information Management (KIM) |
| 2011 - 2015 | Editor of the Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (Journal of Linguistics), lead 2013-2015 |
| 2009 - 2021 | Spokesperson of the Courant Research Centre "The Multi-layered Text Protocol: Micro and Macro Level Structures in Written Discourse", later Göttingen Centre "Text Structures" |
| since 2008 | Member of the Selection Committee for the Study Support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung |
| since 2007 | Member/deputy member of the Structure and Budget Commission of the Faculty of Humanities |
| 2005 - 2007 | Member of advisory board of the German Society for Linguistics |
Top Publications
- Holler, A. (2022). Text. In: Wöllstein, A., Dudenredaktion (Hrsg.), DUDEN - Die Grammatik: 10., völlig neu verfasste Auflage. Berlin: Dudenverlag.
- Blümel, A. & A. Holler (2022). DP, NP, or neither? Contours of an unresolved debate, Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 7(1): 153, 1-25.
- Holler, A. (2022). Moderne Syntaxtheorien. In: Klabunde, R., W. Mihatsch & S. Dipper (Hrsg.), Linguistik im Sprachvergleich. J.B. Metzler, Berlin, Heidelberg. 241-291.
- Holler, A., K. Suckow & I. de la Fuente (Hrsg.) (2020). Information Structuring in Discourse. Leiden: Brill.
- Holler, A. (2020). Alles eine Frage der Perspektive – Zur sogenannten erlebten Rede im narrativen Text. Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik, 47(1), 28-69.
- Klages, J., E. Kaiser, A. Holler & T. Weskott (2020). Commonalities and Differences in the Interpretation of Predicates of Personal Taste vs. Relational Locative Expressions: Some Theoretical Considerations and Experimental Evidence. Open Library of Humanities, 6(2): 10, 1-30.
- Salem, S., T. Weskott & A. Holler (2017). Does narrative perspective influence readers’ perspective-taking? An empirical study on free indirect discourse, psycho-narration and first-person narration. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 2(1): 61, 1-18.
- Holler, A. (2013). Reanalyzing German Correlative ‘es’. In: Müller, S. (Hrsg.), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 90-109.
- Ellert, M. & A. Holler (2012). Semantic and Structural Constraints on the Resolution of Ambiguous Personal Pronouns. In: Hendrickx, I., S.L. Devi, A. Branco &
- R. Mitkov (Hrsg.), Anaphora Processing and Applications. Heidelberg: Springer, 157-170.
- Holler, A. (2005). Weiterführende Relativsätze. Empirische und theoretische Aspekte. Berlin: Akademie Verlag (studia grammatica 60).