2020-2024          DFG funded project “Individuation of Eventualities and Abstract Things” (477.379,00 Euro)

2019-2020          DFG funded project “A Frame-Based Analysis of Countability” (CRC 991 Heinrich Heine University) one-year extension period (107.000,00 Euro).

2015-19               DFG funded project “A Frame-Based Analysis of Countability” (CRC 991 Heinrich Heine University) (418.300,00 Euro).

2013-15               Strategic Research Fund (Strategischer Forschungsfonds/Heinrich Heine University) funded project “A Frame-Based Analysis of Countability”, affiliated with the DFG sponsored Collaborative Research Centre 991: The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science. (198,690 Euro).

2008–09              University of Florida. Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund. $10,000.

2006                     University of Florida. Nominated for a CLAS (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) excellence in teaching and mentoring award.

2005–06              University of Florida. Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund.  $10,000.

2000                     Northwestern University. Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Course Enhancement Grantawarded for the improvement of the course Formal Semantics.  $5,000.

1987–93              University of California at Berkeley. Graduate Research Fellowship awarded by the Institute of Cognitive Studies from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. 

1986–88              German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). Ph.D. fellowship for study at the University of California at Berkeley. Stipend and tuition. 31,807 DM.

1986–87              University of California Fellowship for PhD Studies (Walter Loewy Scholarship).Stipend and tuition. $8,386.