The Basel governing body of the HPSL Basel-Freiburg
Chairwoman of the governing body
Vice Chairwoman of the Management Board
Member of the governing body
Doctoral student representation on the governing body
Coordination
Philipp Dankel studied Intercultural- European and American Studies (B.A.) at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and Romance Studies (M.A.) at the University of Freiburg i.Br. After graduating in 2009, he did his PhD on evidentiality structures in Andean Spanish in the DFG-GRK 1624 "Frequency Effects" in Freiburg, supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Pfänder(more). Since 2013, he has served as coordinator for the Master's program in Language & Communication and the PhD program in Linguistics at the University of Basel.
His research interests are in the areas of, language contact, language change and grammaticalization, sociolinguistics, evidentiality and epistemicity, interactional linguistics and multimodality. His main focus is on Spanish in the Andes. At the moment, he is doing research on various aspects of language contact in the Andean region, for example on the influence of language contact on forms of address in the Spanish of Cusco (together with Miguel Gutiérrez Maté), and as part of his habilitation project on list structures in Spanish and French everyday conversations(more).
With the assumption of the coordination for the PhD program in Linguistics in January 2013, Philipp Dankel has an advisory role in the governing body.