Dr. Annika Herrmann

Biography

Annika Herrmann is a professor at the University of Hamburg, where she leads the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf (IDGS). She has been involved in various academic projects and has served in leadership roles since 2018, including heading the IDGS and managing the 'DGS Corpus' project in collaboration with Thomas Hanke. Herrmann's expertise lies in the linguistics of sign language, focusing on areas such as grammatical structures of German Sign Language, interface grammar, and neuro-linguistic processing in sign language. Her academic journey includes positions at various prestigious institutions, including a professorship in German Linguistics at the University of Cologne and leading the experimental sign language laboratory at the University of Göttingen. She has published extensively on sign language linguistics, addressing topics like modal focus particles and the complexities of sign language grammar. Notably, her work includes the editorship of significant publications, such as 'The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research' and the 'Sign Languages and Deaf Communities' series. Herrmann has also received several awards for her contributions to linguistic research, including the Wilhelm von Humboldt Award for her dissertation. She continues to actively contribute to the field through workshops, lectures, and collaborative projects within the European research community.

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