Forschung-und-Lehre

Dr. Christoph Bracks

SKW, 5. Stock, Raum 05.B106

Tel.: +49 69/798-28448
Fax: 
E-Mail: bracks(at)em.uni-frankfurt.de

Positions

since 06.2025:

Senior Lecturer, Inst. for Southeast Asian Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
06.2023-06.2025: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Research Project Coordinator,ELDP-financed language documentation project on the language Masep (Papua, Indonesia):Masep: A collaborative documentation, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
04.2021–06.2023: Senior Lecturer, Inst. for Southeast Asian Studies, Goethe Univ. Frankfurt, Germany

01.–06.2021:

 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1252),"Prominence in Language", University of Cologne, Germany 
2017–2020: Doctoral Research Fellow, Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1252), "Prominence in Language", University of Cologne, Germany 

Education

2017–2020: PhD in General Linguistics, Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1252), "Prominence in Language", University of Cologne, Germany — PhD thesis on "Intonation Units and Grammatical Units in Totoli" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10559070)
2015–2017: MA in General Linguistics, University of Cologne, Germany
2015:

Study visit at UNAS — Universitas Nasional Jakarta, Indonesia
2013–2016:

MA in Islamic Studies, SOASCIS Center, UBD — Universiti  Brunei Darussalam
2011–2014: BA in General Linguistics and Islamic Studies, University of Cologne

Research Cooperation

October 2024:

  Language Documentation Center at  UNCEN-Universitas Cenderawasih Jayapura, Indonesia MoU between GU and UNCEN 
2022:  cooperation with Dr. Katubi, BRIN – National Research and Innovation Agency, IndonesiaA joint Language Documentation Project on the language Masep (Papua, Indonesia)(Research Permit BRIN, Republik Indonesien: No. 180/SIP/IV/FR/9/2022) 

2018:

 cooperation with Dr. Katubi, BRIN – National Research and Innovation Agency, IndonesiaA joint Language Documentation Project on the language Totoli (Central Sulawesi, Indonesia)(Research Permit RISTEKDIKTI, Republik Indonesien: No. 197/SIO/FRP/E5/Dit.KI/VII/2018)

Awards

 2026: 

 Honorary Award of the DELAMAN - Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network for the documentation archive: Masep: A collaborative documentation
 August 16, 2016:             

 Appointment as representative of the winners of the International Indonesian Essay and Speech Competition of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
 June 4, 2016: 

 Awarded second place in the international Indonesian essay and speech competition, Berlin, Germany
 November 2, 2013: 

 Best-Performance Auszeichnung des “SOASCIS-ASAFS Second Joint International Seminar 2013” — Kyoto Universität (Prof. Dr. Yasushi Kosugi) and Universiti Brunei Darussalam (Prof. Dr. Osman Bakar)
 2013–2016:   Master’s Scholarship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brunei Darussalam; two-year Master of Islamic Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Publications and Archives

Archives:

Masep Language Archive:

Bracks, Christoph. 2023. Masep: A collaborative documentation. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/9539b490-981a-4a6c-bf9b-056143e8c572.

Totoli Language Archive:

Bracks, Christoph A., Datra Hasan, Maria Bardají i Farré, Sumitro Pogi & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2023. Totoli documentation corpus 2. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000014

Gorap Language Archive:

Bracks, Christoph. 2023. A documentation of Gorap. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/n45b3467-8900-0g3d-125z-h6k18783973d.

Korur Language Archive:

Bracks, Christoph; Grace Janice Martha Mantiri. 2023. Documenting the highly endangered language Korur. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/u97k9799-8780-4j7x-456e-n6o98453693v. 

Publications:

  • Bardají, M., Garcia, R., Bracks, C., & Kidd, E. 2026. The acquisition of symmetrical voice systems: Comparative notes on Tagalog, Indonesian, and Totoli. In S. Riesberg, U. Reinöhl, & B. Hellwig (Eds.), The documentarist turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations (pp. 610–641). John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.240.22bar
  • Bracks, Christoph. 2024. Compound Intonation Units in Totoli: Postlexical prosody and the prosody-syntax interface. (Topics in Phonological Diversity 2). Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10559070.
  • Bracks, Christoph, Arndt Graf & Patrick Keilbart (eds.). 2024. Towards the next 40 years of Southeast Asian Studies in Frankfurt. Festschrift in honour of Bernd Nothofer. (Frankfurt East Asian Studies Series). Frankfurt: Iudicium.
  • Bracks, Christoph. 2024. Digitized fieldwork in a digitized world: New possibilities for documenting and researching un(der-)described languages. In Christoph Bracks, Patrick Keilbart & Arndt Graf (eds.), Towards the next 40 years of Southeast Asian Studies in Frankfurt. Festschrift in honour of Bernd Nothofer(Frankfurt East Asian Studies). Frankfurt: Iudicium.
  • Bracks, Christoph. In press. Totoli [Illustrations of the IPA]. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
  • Bracks, C., & Moss, F. C. 2022. Totoli’s art of Lelegesan: Analyzing sociocultural context and musical content. In Proceedings of the 10th international workshop on folk music analysis. (https://osf.io/download/5tsxa).
  • Devylder, Simon, et al. 2020. Carving the body at its joints: Does the way we speak about the body shape the way we think about it? Language and Cognition 12(4). 577–613. (https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2020.13).
  • Kaland, Constantijn, Christoph Bracks & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2018. Repetition reduction in Papuan Malay prosody. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Poznań, Poland. (https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/sites/sfb_1252/user_upload/Pdfs_Publikationen/Kaland_2018_Repetition_reduction_Papuan.pdf).