GRK 399:  Universality and Diversity: Linguistic Structures and Processes

• Subject Area: Theology
• Term: from 1997 to 2006
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 272179

This research training group has been set up to promote education and research in the theoretical and experimental foundations of the field of linguistics. It encompasses the areas of theoretical and psycho-linguistics, experimental psychology, computer science as well as the neuropsychology of language and incorporates them into a coherent interdisciplinary field of study. The special concentration of the program centers around the individual languages (above all: Romance, Germanic and Slavic but also different non-European languages such as certain Indian dialects) and attempts to elucidate their linguistic properties by working within a relatively uniform framework of linguistic description characterized by the most recent advances in grammatical theory and in cognitive science.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Universität Leipzig
• Participating Institution: Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
• Spokesperson: Professorin Dr. Gerhild Zybatow
• Participating Researchers: Dr. Kai Alter; Privatdozent Dr. Johannes Dölling; Professorin Dr. Angela Friederici; Professor Dr. Tracy Alan Hall; Professor Dr. Gerhard Heyer; Professor Dr. Frans Hinskens; Professor Dr. Uwe Junghanns; Professor Dr. Thomas Pechmann; Professorin Dr. Anita Steube (†)