Prof. Dr. Nina Berend

Function:

  • employed in the Pragmatics Department of IDS
  • professor at University of Heidelberg

Role:

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

CV:

  • 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

Recent publications:

  • Berend, Nina / Frick, Elena (2016): Dialektwandel und Veränderung der individuellen Varietätenrepertoires. Ergebnisse und Materialien einer empirischen Untersuchung zur Standard/Dialekt-Variation bei russlanddeutschen Aussiedlern in Deutschland. Mannheim: Institut für Deutsche Sprache. (= amades 49).

  • Jedig, Hugo H. (2014): Lepel, Laumptje, Lostichkeit. Gesammelte Beiträge zu deutschen Mundarten in der Sowjetunion. Herausgegeben von Nina Berend. Mannheim: Institut für Deutsche Sprache.

  • Berend, Nina (ed.) (2014): Deutsche Sprache 3/14. Themenheft: Sprache – Identität – Integration. Berlin: Schmidt.

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