MARTIN. SCHAFER

Martin Schäfer studied general linguistics, ancient Greek and English at the Universität Leipzig. He worked as a research assistant at the Universität Leipzig, at the Universität Frankfurt and at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. From 2008 till 2017, he worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, interrupted by a short stint as a substitute professor at the Universität Tübingen. Starting October 2017, he works as a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Fellow at the Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. After his psycholinguistic M.A. thesis on the homophonous particle 'de' in Mandarin Chinese, he received his PhD for a dissertation on the semantics and the positioning of German adverbial adjectives. Currently, his focus is on English compound nouns. In particular, he is interested in their semantic interpretation. He has a broad teaching experience in German and English linguistics, covering theoretical as well as psycho- and corpuslinguistic issues.