Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka

Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka is the director of the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics and also holds a professorship at the Institute for German Language and Linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. At ZAS he is Principal Investigator of the following projects:

• DFG Project A02 Speaker's choices in creole contexts: Bislama and Morisien within the framework of the CRC 1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
• BMBF Projekt QUEST - Quality - Established: Testing and application of curation criteria and quality standards for audiovisual annotated language data
• ERC Project SPAGAD - Speech Acts in Grammar and Discourse
• DFG Project PSIMS - The Pragmatic Status of Iconic Meaning in Spoken Communication: Gestures, Ideophones, Prosodic Modulations (with Cornelia Ebert and Susanne Fuchs)
• DFG-Projekt MUQTASP - Modelling the Use of Quantifiers in Typical and Atypical Speakers Probabilistically (mit Uli Sauerland)
• Funded by the Berlin Senate, Department for Economics, Technology and Research: Interdisciplinary Research Network IFV - Language Development of Elementary School Children with Migrant Backgrounds (with Natalia Gagarina)

Manfred Krifka investigates aspects of linguistic meaning and usage with formal and experimental methods and investigates oceanic languages.