Project team

Project leadership:
Andrea Lackner

Project research on ÖGS:
Andrea Lackner
Elisabeth Scharfetter
Laura Raffer
Isabel Graf

Project research on ÖGS in an advisory/supporting capacity:
Nikolaus Riemer-Kankkonen (Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University)
Christian Stalzer (ITAT, Universität Graz)
Daniele Le Rose (Kamera, Schnitt)
Wolfgang Puschnig (Kamera, Schnitt)

This team, which consists of Deaf and hearing members, focuses on linguistics. Their responsibilities are research on nonmanuals of Austrian Sign Language with regard to their segmentation and structuring function. The material used for this project is videos of Austrian native signers. By the annotation program Elan these videos are glossed and the nonmanuals are annotated.

Translation in an advisory/supporting capacity:
Laura Raffer
Anna Wiener

This team, which consists of Deaf and hearing members, focuses on linguistics. Their responsibilities are research on nonmanuals of Austrian Sign Language with regard to their segmentation and structuring function. The material used for this project is videos of Austrian native signers. By the annotation program Elan these videos are glossed and the nonmanuals are annotated.

ZGH-Team::
Marlene Hilzensauer (head of the ZGH and national partner of the FWF-project)
Natalie Unterberger
Christian Hausch
Elisabeth Bergmeister
Silke Bornholdt

The ZGH-team consists of both hearing and Deaf members. The ladder are referred to as “Native Signers”. They support the project by numerous tasks which include supporting the linguistic research and editing the webpage.

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Previous project team:

Project leadership:
Franz Dotter, former head of the Centre for Sign Language and Deaf Communication of the University of Klagenfurt († 2018)

Project management and research:
Andrea Lackner (academic researcher)
Nikolaus Riemer-Kankkonen
Bernadette Auersperg
Xenia Dürr
Wolfgang Puschnig
Lena Mallinger
Christian Stalzer (ITAT, University of Graz; consultant)