PhD theses & habilitations


Dissertationen

Bonnet, Marion (ongoing)
Pragmatic Enrichment Across Modalities – Experimental Studies on Sign Languages, Spoken Languages and Co-Speech Gesture

Gehlbach, Pia (ongoing)
Iconicity and Semantic Conceptualization in Sign Languages

Hosemann, Jana (2015)
The Processing of Agreement in German Sign Language. An investigation Based on Event Related Brain Potentials

Hübl, Annika (2016)
Pointing in Context. Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Indexicals in Sign Language Role Shift

Kadavá, Šárka (HU Berlin und Radboud Universität Nijmegen, ongoing)
Emergence of Meaning in Gesture-vocal Signaling

Koraka, Marianthi (ongoing)
Imperatives and Imperative Speech Acts in Sign Languages

Kulshreshtha, Neha (2022)
Interrogatives in Indian Sign Language

Meili, Aline (University of Zürich, 2021)
Von der Gebärdensprache zur Schrift. Eine qualitative Korpusanalyse zum schriftlichen Ausdruck gehörloser DSGS-Benutzer*innen

Nanitashvili, Ekaterine (Ilia State University Tbilisi, ongoing)
Argument Structure in Georgian Sign Language (GESL)

Nuhbalaoglu, Derya (2018)
Comprehension and Production of Referential Expressions in German Sign Language and Turkish Sign Language

Omardeen, Rehana (2022)
Providence Island Sign Language in Interaction

Ottur, Gautam (ongoing)
Serial Verb Constructions in Spoken and Sign Languages

Paulus, Liona (2019)
Der Konditionalsatz in Deutscher Gebärdensprache (DGS) und Brasilianischer Gebärdensprache (Libras) – Eine empirische soziolinguistische Studie

Pendzich, Nina-Kristin (2017)
Lexical Nonmanuals in German Sign Language (DGS). An Empirical and Theoretical Investigation

Proske, Sina (2021)
The Impact of Verb Type on Word Order in German Sign Language

Vlášková, Lucia (ongoing)
Semantic and Experimental Approaches to Degree Constructions in Natural Languages

Wienholz, Anne (2018)
Processing of Referential Expressions in German Sign Language

In addition, the SignLab Göttingen is involved in the supervision and reviewing of many PhD thesis at German and international universities, e.g. the universities of Amsterdam (UvA), Barcelona (UPF), Groningen, Hamburg, Paris (Paris Diderot) and Stuttgart.


Habilitationen

Antomo, Mailin (ongoing)
Studien zur Bedeutungstaxonomie. Einsichten aus Lügen- und Gestenforschung, Spracherwerb und Sprachvergleich

Geraci, Carlo (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, 2015)
Language in the Visual Modality

Holzinger, Daniel (Universität Graz, 2010)
Komponenten des Lesens – Determinanten von Leseverständnis bei Kindern mit sensorineuraler Hörstörung

Jaeger, Hanna (2020)
Authentizität in der DGS-Gemeinschaft: theoretische Überlegungen, sprachliche Aspekte und meta-sprachliche Perspektiven

Kremers, Joost (2017)
Prosodic Syntax

Ladewig, Silva (ongoing)
Dimensionen gestischer Rekurrenz: Formen, Bedeutung und Stabilisierung

Plaza Pust, Carolina (Universität Frankfurt am Main, 2012)
Bilingualism and Deafness: On Language Contact in the Bilingual Acquisition of Sign Language and Written Language