Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

July 2023 2018 2017Invited to give a class at CreteLing, Rethymno
May 2021Invited by the EHESS (Paris) for a series of lectures
Winter Semester 2020-21Gottfried-Herder-Grant: Senior professorship at the German Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Summer Semester 2020Senior Professor of phonology at Frankfurt University
Winter Semester 2019-20Gottfried-Herder-Grant: Senior professorship at the German Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
2014-2019Founding director of the Research Training Group “Nominal Modification" (GK 2016/1, DFG), University of Frankfurt
2010 - 2019Professor of phonology at Frankfurt University
2003-2010Founding director of the Collaborative Research Centre “Information structure: the linguistic means for structuring utterances, sentences and texts" (SFB 632, DFG), University of Potsdam
1999-2010Professor of the Theory of Grammar (Phonology), University of Potsdam
1990-1999Employee for teaching and research, Tübingen University
1989-1990Visiting scholar and consultant, Linguistics Department, University of Massachusetts, USA
1984-1988Researcher in the research project "Focus Projection and Intonation” (DFG) with Prof. Dr. von Stechow, University of Konstanz
1978-1980Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

University Education

1995Habilitation at the Tübingen University
1989PhD at the University of Konstanz
1971-1977German and English studies, and Neurolinguistics at the Free University of Brussels

Research Areas

Phonology: segmental, intonation, typology, variation
Morpho-phonology
Interface Syntax / Prosody (information structure, typology, discontinuous nominal phrases) and Semantico-Pragmatics / Prosody
Theory of grammar

Other Third Party Funding

2014-2019Founding director of the Research Training Group “Nominal Modification" (GK 2016/1, DFG), University of Frankfurt
2017 April- SeptemberOpus Magnum grant of the VW foundation for the redaction of a book on discontinuous nominal constructions, together with Gisbert Fanselow
2014-2018Principal Investigator in the project “Non-restrictive relative clauses” in Forschergruppe 1783 “Relative Clauses” (with Ede Zimmermann)

Selected Publications

Féry, Caroline. 2017. Intonation and prosodic structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Féry, Caroline & Shinichiro Ishihara (eds.) 2016. The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Truckenbrodt, Hubert & Caroline Féry. 2015. Hierarchical organization and tonal scaling. Phonology 32. 19-47.
Féry, Caroline. 2013. Focus as prosodic alignment. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 31.3. 683–734.
Féry, Caroline. 2011. German sentence accents and embedded prosodic phrases. Lingua 121. 1906-1922.
Féry, Caroline & Shinichiro Ishihara. 2010. How focus and givenness shape prosody. In: Zimmermann, Malte & Caroline Féry (eds.) Information structure. Theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 36-63.
Féry, Caroline. 2009. Syntax, information structure, embedded prosodic phrasing and the relational scaling of pitch accents. In: Erteschick-Shir, Nomi & Lisa Rochman (eds.) The sound patterns of syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 271-290.
Féry, Caroline. 2008. Information structural notions and the fallacy of invariant grammatical correlates. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 55.3-4. 361-380.
Féry, Caroline, & Kügler, Frank. 2008. Pitch accent scaling on given, new and focused constituents in German. Journal of Phonetics 36, 680–703.
Féry, Caroline & Vieri Samek-Lodovici. 2006. Focus projection and prosodic prominence in nested foci. Language 82.1. 131-150.
Féry, Caroline. 1993. German intonational patterns. Tübingen: Niemeyer. (= Linguistische Arbeiten 285)



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