MANUEL LIPSTEIN

Linguist & Musician

I’m an M. A. Linguistics student and a student assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany), specialised in phonology and syntax.

Contact: surname [at] lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

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Experience

April 2024 - now

Student assistant for Prof. Dr. Frank Kügler, department of phonology; Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

April 2020 - now

Student assistant: teacher of 11 tutorial courses (Tutorien): Introduction to Linguistics (4x), Semantics (4x), Phonology (2x), and Historical Linguistics; Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

January - February 2017

Internship: assistant tasks for Dr. Gabriele Schwiertz and Prof. Dr. Birgit Hellwig, including the transcription, glossing and translation of fieldwork videos for A Grammar of Qaqet (Hellwig, 2019); Institute of Linguistics, University of Cologne

Talks

May 2025

“Object-Sharing and Macro-Eventhood in Edo Serial Verb Constructions”

Syntax Colloquium (Prof. Dr. Katharina Hartmann), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

March 2025

“Object Pronouns in Edo Verb Serialisation: at the Interface of Clause Syntax and Event Semantics”

Workshop 2 “Verbal complex predicates in a theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective” at the 47th annual conference of the German linguistics association (DGfS) in Mainz

June 2024

“Timing or privativity? HL Alignment in the Perception of Urban East Norwegian Tonal Accent”

Phonology Colloquium (Prof. Dr. Frank Kügler), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Education

October 2023 - now

M. A. Linguistics (focus areas: phonology, syntax, psycholinguistics)

Goethe University (GU), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

September 2024 - March 2025

Erasmus exchange: M. A. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (computational track)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

October 2020 - April 2024

B. A. Linguistics (grade: 1.0); final thesis: “Perception of HL Alignment in the Tonal Accent of Urban East Norwegian” (supervisors: Corinna Langer & Prof. Dr. Frank Kügler)

Goethe University (GU), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

October 2019 - July 2024

B. Mus., M. Mus. & Professional Studies: International Violoncello Solo Performance

Kronberg Academy and Music University Frankfurt am Main (HfMDK), Germany

October 2011 - July 2019

Pre-College Violoncello

Music University Cologne (HfMT), Germany

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Logo of HfMDK, the Music University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Language skills

🇩🇪 German: native

🇪🇸🇦🇷 Spanish: proficient, receptively native (heritage)

🇬🇧 English: proficient, academic

🇦🇩 Catalan: advanced

🇸🇪 Swedish: advanced

🇳🇴 Norwegian: advanced

🇫🇷 French: intermediate

🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese: good (Unicert B1)

🇮🇩🇲🇾 Indonesian/Malay: basic

🇹🇭 Thai: beginner

About my name

German pronunciation: [ˈmaː.nu.ɛl ˈlɪp.ʃtaɪ̯n]

Etymologically more accurate: [ˈliːp.ʃtaɪ̯n]

Spanish / non-German pronunciation: [maˈnwe̞l ˈlip.ste̞i̯n]

I dislike the very German [ˈmaː.nu.(ʔ)eːl]

Chinese transcription: 曼纽尔·利普斯坦 Mànniǔ'ěr Lìpǔsītǎn

Thai name: มนู [má nūː]