Prof. Dr. Nina Berend

employed in the Pragmatics Section of IDS, professor at University of Heidelberg.

In charge of IDS project on Migration linguistics

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)

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

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

see alphabetical catalogue

Berend, Nina (2009): Standardsprache – Alltagssprache. Eine Aufnahmeaktion zur Untersuchung der Variation im gesprochenen Standarddeutsch. In: Felder, Ekkehard (Hrsg.): Sprache. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, S. 215-234. (Heidelberger Jahrbücher 53.2009)

Berend, Nina (2009): Vom Sprachinseldialekt zur Migrantensprache. Anmerkungwen zum Sprachwandel der Einwanderungsgeneration. In: Liebert, Wolf-Andreas/Schwinn, Horst (Hrsg.): Mit Bezug auf Sprache. Festschrift für Rainer Wimmer. S. 361-380 - Tübingen: Narr. (Studien zur deutschen Sprache 49)

E-Mail: berend@ids-mannheim.de