Curriculum Vitae

September 26, 1954 born in Hannover, (then West) Germany; parents: Gerhard and Marta Zimmermann
April 1961 -
May 1973		 School days in Hannover: Volksschule am Welfenplatz (primary school), from 1965 Leibnizschule (Gymnasium)
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
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]
October 1978 - 
September 1983		 Researcher at the Sonderforschungsbereich 99, Konstanz University, working in a project on formal syntax and semantics (Principal Investigator: 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 (Principal Investigator Christoph Schwarze)
October 1985 -
March 1989		 Assistant 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
Supervisor: Arnim von Stechow
January 1989  Preis zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses [Dissertation award], Konstanz University 
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 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) 
since April 1999 Professor (C3, since July 2008: W3) of formal semantics at the Institut für Linguistik [Department of Linguistics], Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
January -
April 2000 		 Visiting Professor at the Department of Linguistics,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
September 2011 -
December 2017 		Spokesperson of the Research Unit 1783 Relativsätze [Relative Clauses]
September 2014 Carpentry Workshop on the occasion of the 60th anniversary
Feb - Apr 2018;
Jan - Apr 2019;
Apr - May 2022 		Visiting professor at Center for the Advancement of Logic, its Philosophy, History & Applications, University of California, Irvine
January 2018 -
December 2022 		Principal investigator of the Reinhart-Koselleck project
Propositionalism in Linguistic Semantics
since October 2020 Retired