Markus Tönjes

Dr. Markus Tönjes is a Researcher at the Department of German Philology, University of Göttingen, where he has served as Head of Department Administration since 2020. His career spans roles as an Analyst/Linguist in IT, Research Assistant in psycholinguistics, and contributor to DFG-funded projects on language acquisition in hearing-impaired children and language in dementia.

• PhD (2012) in German Linguistics, focusing on reference in dementia patients.
• Magister Artium (2006) in German Language and Literature, Communications Research, and Phonetics.

His research integrates Linguistics with Artificial Intelligence, emphasizing formal semantics and NLP. He explores phonology, morphology, and syntax in hearing-impaired children, language and dementia, and empirical methods. His publications and lectures highlight interdisciplinary work with Star Trek linguistics and forensic authorship analysis.

Recent publications and presentations focus on phonological processes, orthographic norms, language in aging, and cross-linguistic syntax. He supervises BA and MA theses on topics like Kiezdeutsch, orthographic competence, and aphasia, reflecting his broad methodology in empirical linguistics.

• Key supervised works:
• Lara Meyer (2023): "Prototypical Sprecher des Kurzdeutschen?"
• Laura Gleixner (2023): "Bilingualism and Cognitive Reserve"
• Anna Katharina Baumgartl (2024): "Aphasie: Schweigen oder Leben"