Alexander Zahrer
Dr. des.
Aegidiistraße 5
48143 Münster
Room 103
Phone: 0251/83-24497
a.zahrer@uni-muenster.de
Dr. des.
Aegidiistraße 5
48143 Münster
Room 103
Phone: 0251/83-24497
a.zahrer@uni-muenster.de
Winter semester 2024/25
Number | Type of lecture | Title of lecture |
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099355 | lecture | Language and culture |
099356 | seminar |
Summer semester 2024
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097302 | lecture | Linguistic typology |
097303 | seminar | Comparative language morphosyntax |
Winter semester 2023/2024
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095344 | seminar | Anthropological linguistics |
095345 | seminar | The languages of New Guinea |
Summer semester 2022
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098926 | lecture |
Winter semester 2021/2022
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097126 | seminar | Serial verb constructions |
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095346 | seminar | Serial verb constructions |
Winter semester 2020/2021
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093995 | lecture | Languages of the World |
Summer semester 2020
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090813 | seminar | Basic Linguistic Theory. A framework for typologically informed fieldwork. |
090814 | seminar | Anthropologische Linguistik |
Summer semester 2019
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096818 | seminar | Anthropological Linguistics |
Winter semester 2018/19
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094817 | lecture | Introduction to Prosody |
2017 | Project assistant at the Institute for Linguistics, University Graz |
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2016 | Member in the project “Cross-layer pronunciation modeling for conversational speech“, Institut für Signalverarbeitung und Sprachkommunikation, Technical University Graz |
2015–2016 | Member in the project “Wissenschaftliches Schreiben. Die textlinguistische und erwerbstheoretische Bedeutung von wissenschaftlichen Textprozeduren“, Fachdidaktikzentrum der Geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, University Graz |
since 2018 | Doctoral studies General Linguistics, University Muenster |
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2015–2018 | Master's degree programme Linguistics, University Graz |
2013–2015 | Bachelor's degree programme Lingustics, University Graz |
2010–2016 | Teching degree programme (German and History) |
Muyu (ISO: kti, kts) is an underdocumented language spoken by estimated 2000 people between the Kao and Muyu Rivers in the Boven-Digoel regency, Papuan Province, Indonesia. It belongs to Lowland Ok, a less studied branch of the Ok language family (Trans New Guinea). Documenting this language is an urgent task, due to its endangered status. Speakers of Muyu are usually over 40 years old. Children do not use their parents language anymore. A shift to the national language Indonesian seems inevitable.
My dissertation will comprise a grammar of Muyu, which includes the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax and pragmatics. The description of the language will be based on data from 4 field trips which will be conducted over the following years. During my fieldwork I will compile a fully annotated audio-visual corpus of Muyu which will be available online to the scientific community.
2020 | Zahrer, Alexander, Andrej Zgank, and Barbara Schuppler. 2020. Towards Building an Automatic Transcription System for Language Documentation: Experiences from Muyu. In: Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2893-2900. |
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2017 | Schuppler, B., Hagmüller M., & Zahrer A., 2017. A corpus of read and conversational Austrian German. In: Speech Communication 94.C, 62-74. |
2020 | Zahrer, Alexander. 2020. Chaining Clauses, Serializing Verbs? Ambiguities in the Status of Non-Finite Verbs in Muyu. (Presentation SLE2020 online conference, URL: https://osf.io/zhkew). |
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2019 | Zahrer, Alexnader. 2019. Muyu Grammar Sketch. A lowland Ok language of New Guinea. (Presentation WLP5 Manokwari, URL: https://indoling.com/wlp/wlp5/) |
2017 | Zahrer, A., Petra Hödl & Dina El Zarka, 2017. Pitch accent types, question types and attitudes. A perceptual study of Austrian German. (Poster auf der Tagung "PundP13: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, 28.-29.9.2017, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
2016 | Zahrer, A., 2017. Zur Sprache kommen. Funktionsverbgefüge als Teil der Alltäglichen Wissenschaftssprache. (Vortrag auf der Tagung "Wissenschaftlich schreiben lernen. Diagnose und Förderung wissenschaftlicher Textkompetenz", 26.2.2016, Universität Graz) |