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'''Manfred Krifka''' is director of the [[Center for General Linguistics]] (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ZAS) in Berlin, a professor at the [[Humboldt University of Berlin]], and editor of the [[academic journal]] ''[[Theoretical Linguistics (journal)|Theoretical Linguistics]]''.<ref>
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| birth_place = [[Dachau, Bavaria|Dachau]], [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]]
| nationality = [[Germany|German]]
| education = [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]
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'''Manfred Krifka''' (born 26 April 1956 in Dachau) is a German linguist. He was the director of the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ZAS) in [[Berlin]], and professor of general linguistics at the [[Humboldt University of Berlin]]. He was editor of the academic journal ''[[Linguistics and Philosophy]]'' from 1999 to 2023 and is editor of ''[[Theoretical Linguistics (journal)|Theoretical Linguistics]]''<ref> since 2001.
See staff bio and journal web pages in External links below.</ref>
See staff bio and journal web pages in External links below.</ref>


== See also ==
== Career and education ==


Krifka graduated from the [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]] in 1986 in Theoretical Linguistics, Philosophy and Theory of Science, and Psycholinguistics. He consequently held positions at the [[University of Tübingen]] 1986 - 1989, at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] 1990-2000, and at [[Humboldt University of Berlin]] 2000 - 2022. Starting in 2001 until November 2022, he has been the director of the Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Centre for General Linguistics), since 2017 Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS); since 2023 he is Senior Fellow at ZAS.
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== Work ==

Krifka's main areas of research are linguistic [[semantics]], [[pragmatics]], [[language typology]] and [[Melanesian languages]], especially languages of [[Ambrym]], in particular Daakie, or [[Port Vato language]], and the Creole language [[Bislama]]. He has done substantial works on the meaning of [[nouns]], in particular [[mass nouns]] and [[count nouns]], on [[grammatical aspect]], generic sentences, [[polarity items]] and [[negation]], [[Quantifier (linguistics)|quantification]] and [[vagueness]], [[information structure]], [[Anaphora (linguistics)|anaphora]], discourse, [[questions]], response particles and [[speech acts]].

== Awards and distinctions ==

Krifka was a Fellow at the [[Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences]] 1995-1996 and of the [[Israel Institute for Advanced Studies]] in 1997. He received the Meyer-Struckmann Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences for his work on language and cognition in 2021, a Honorary Membership of the [[Linguistic Society of America]] in 2023 and the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize of the German Society of Linguistics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, DGfS) in 2024.


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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/ Manfred Krifka] — official staff bio page at Humbolt
* [https://www.leibniz-zas.de/de/personen/details/krifka-manfred/manfred-krifka] - official staff page at ZAS with publications and presentations
* [http://philpapers.org/autosense.pl?searchStr=Manfred%20Krifka Works by Manfred Krifka] — bibliography at [[PhilPapers]]
* [http://philpapers.org/autosense.pl?searchStr=Manfred%20Krifka Works by Manfred Krifka] — bibliography at [[PhilPapers]]
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* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/bhpartee/2391353273/ Dinner at Amadeus after the conference] — photo of Krifka after the fourth [[Formal Semantics in Moscow]] Conference (FSiM 4, 2008) [taken by [[Barbara Hall Partee|Barbara Partee]] and uploaded at [[Flickr]]]
* [http://www.umass.edu/linguist/about/whisc/whisc-2004-4-8/ Manfred Krifka in Amherst] — photo of Krifka during a visit to the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] in 2004
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091006104444/http://www.degruyter.de/journals/theolin/detailEn.cfm Theoretical Linguistics] — official website of the journal
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* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhpartee/2391353273/ Dinner at Amadeus after the conference] — photo of Krifka after the fourth [[Formal Semantics in Moscow]] Conference (FSiM 4, 2008) [taken by [[Barbara Hall Partee|Barbara Partee]] and uploaded at [[Flickr]]]
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Latest revision as of 18:19, 20 August 2024

Manfred Krifka
Krifka in 2023
Born (1956-04-26) 26 April 1956 (age 68)
Dachau, Bavaria, Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
OccupationLinguist
SpouseZuzana Krifka Dobes (died 2022)
Children2 daughters, Lydia and Theresa

Manfred Krifka (born 26 April 1956 in Dachau) is a German linguist. He was the director of the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ZAS) in Berlin, and professor of general linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was editor of the academic journal Linguistics and Philosophy from 1999 to 2023 and is editor of Theoretical Linguistics[1]

Career and education

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Krifka graduated from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1986 in Theoretical Linguistics, Philosophy and Theory of Science, and Psycholinguistics. He consequently held positions at the University of Tübingen 1986 - 1989, at the University of Texas at Austin 1990-2000, and at Humboldt University of Berlin 2000 - 2022. Starting in 2001 until November 2022, he has been the director of the Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Centre for General Linguistics), since 2017 Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS); since 2023 he is Senior Fellow at ZAS.

Work

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Krifka's main areas of research are linguistic semantics, pragmatics, language typology and Melanesian languages, especially languages of Ambrym, in particular Daakie, or Port Vato language, and the Creole language Bislama. He has done substantial works on the meaning of nouns, in particular mass nouns and count nouns, on grammatical aspect, generic sentences, polarity items and negation, quantification and vagueness, information structure, anaphora, discourse, questions, response particles and speech acts.

Awards and distinctions

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Krifka was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 1995-1996 and of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in 1997. He received the Meyer-Struckmann Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences for his work on language and cognition in 2021, a Honorary Membership of the Linguistic Society of America in 2023 and the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize of the German Society of Linguistics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, DGfS) in 2024.

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  1. ^ since 2001. See staff bio and journal web pages in External links below.

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