Prof. Dr. Nina Berend

(Ehemalige Mitarbeiterin)

Function

• employed in the Pragmatics Department of IDS (until April 2017)
• professor at University of Heidelberg

Task Area

In charge of IDS project on Migration linguistics and Electronic dictionary. Online information on languages and dialects of the Russian Germans

Personal data

• Studied German and Education/Pedagogy
• 1981 PhD (morphology and semanatics of verbal categories in the Southern German speech area), University of Lwow, Ukraine
• 1981-1989 Lecturer in German at University of Omsk
• 1990 onwards: working on various projects at IDS, Mannheim (amongst other things, I worked on the project Linguistic integration of immigrants in Germany and German in Russia)
• 1998 Qualified as a professor in the Modern Languages Faculty at the University of HD and granted permission to teach German linguistics
• 1998 - 2000 Temporary post as C3 professor in Kiel, periods as guest lecturer in Salzburg, München, Budapest, Heidelberg und Mannheim
• 2000 - 2008: co-ordination and management of the project Variation in spoken German at IDS
• 2008 onwards: management of the project Migration linguistics

Research interests

Dialect variation, regional varieties of German, research into language enclaves and language contact, the German language abroad