[2][3] She received the Austrian Grand Decoration of Honour for services to the province of Lower Austria for Science and Art.

[3][5] In 1986, she returned to Austria and 1990 she obtained habilitation qualification at the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Vienna with a thesis on semantic networks and context.

However, she also published on causality and language, on Habermas’ theory of communicative competence from a linguistic point of view and on William Ockham’s and Franz Brentano’s work on semantics.

[1][3][5] Her research was intertwined with Werner Leinfellner’s with whom she co-authored publications, most notably a book on ontology, systems theory and semantics (Ontologie, Systemtheorie und Semantik).

This comprehensive book is an original attempt to connect the traditional philosophical field of ontology with a cognitive-recursive semantics.