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| 26 September 1954 | born in Hannover, (then West) Germany; parents: Gerhard and Marta Zimmermann |
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April 1961 - May 1973 |
School days in Hannover: Volksschule am Welfenplatz (primary school), from 1965 Leibnizschule (Gymnasium) |
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October 1973 - September 1978 |
Undergraduate studies in linguistics and philosophy in Konstanz and London. Academic teachers (among others): Arnim von Stechow, Peter Pause, Gottfried Gabriel, Hans Kamp |
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July 1975 - April 1978 |
Married to Alexandra Zimmermann née Malamos |
| September 1978 | MA in Theoretical Linguistics at Konstanz University; Title of MA-Thesis: Intensionale Logik und natürliche Sprache [Intensional Logic and Natural Language] |
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October 1978 - September 1983 |
Researcher at the Sonderforschungsbereich 99, Konstanz University, working in a project on formal syntax and semantics (head of project: Arnim von Stechow ) |
| since April 1983 | Father of Alain Féry ; mother: Caroline Féry |
| October 1983 - February 1984 |
unemployed |
| March 1984 - September 1985 |
Researcher at the Sonderforschungsbereich 99, Konstanz University, working in a project on Lexical Functional Grammar of French (head of project Christoph Schwarze ) |
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October 1985 - March 1989 |
Assistent to Franz Guenthner at the Seminar für natürlich-sprachliche Systeme [Department of Natural Language Systems], Tübingen University |
| since December 1985 | Father of Tom Féry; mother: Caroline Féry |
| July 1987 |
Doctorate at Konstanz University. Title of Dissertation: Intensional
Logic and Two-Sorted Type Theory (
Download-Link for JSTOR-User ) Supervisor: Arnim von Stechow |
| January 1989 | Preis zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses [Dissertation award], Konstanz University |
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April 1989 - January 1992 |
Assistant (C1) to Hans Kamp at the Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung , [Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS)], Stuttgart University |
| since July 1989 | Married to Caroline Féry |
| September 1989 - August 1990 | Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics , University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA |
| June 1992 | Habilitation in linguistics at the Stuttgart University (Supervisor: Hans Kamp ) |
| February 1993 - January 1999 |
Lecturer (C2) at the
Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung , Stuttgart University |
| October 1994 |
Foundation of the
Gesellschaft für Semantik in Blaubeuren
(together with
Sebastian Löbner und
Arnim von Stechow )
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| since April 1999 | Professor (C3, since july 2008: W3) of formal semantics at the Institut für Kognitive Linguistik [Department of Cognitive Linguistics], Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main |
| January - April 2000 |
Visiting Professor am Department
of Linguistics , Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA |
Since September 2011 | Spokesperson of the research group 1783 Relativsätze |
| September 2014 | Carpentry Workshop on the occasion of the 60th anniversary |
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February - April 2018; January - April 2019 |
Visiting professor at Center for the Advancement of Logic, its Philosophy, History & Applications, University of California, Irvine |
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January 2018 – December 2022 |
Principal investigator of the Reinhart-Koselleck project Propositionalism in Linguistic Semantics |
| since October 2020 | Retired |