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Christian Zimmer

Professorship:

Linguistics of German with a focus on variational linguistics, since 1 March 2023

About the professorship (in German)

Faculty:

Cultural Studies

Studies and doctorate:

  • 2021: Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin (Venia Legendi: German Linguistics)
  • 2016: PhD in German Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2012: State Examination (German Studies, Philosophy, and Sports Science) at  Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
portrait of a man © Hesham Elsherif​/​TU Dortmund

Stations:

  • 2022-2023: Substitute Professorship at Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2020-2022: Head of the DFG project “The Dynamics of German in the Multilingual Context of Southern Africa” at Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2019-2020: Substitute Professorship at TU Dortmund University
  • 2016-2019: Postdoctoral fellow in the DFG project “Namdeutsch: The Dynamics of German in the Multilingual Context of Namibia” at Freie Universität Berlin

Focus in research:

  • German in a multilingual context
  • Language change
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Gender linguistics