Bernd Kortmann#
| Membership Number: | 3753 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/seminar/abteilungen/sprachwissenschaft/ls_kortmann |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professorships:
- 1995 - present Full Professor at U Freiburg
- 2000, 03 - 2000, 08 Visiting Professor at Portland State University (Oregon, USA)
- 1994, 10 - 1995, 03 Substitute Full Professor at Free U of Berlin
- 1985-1994 Assistant Professor at U Hannover, Free U of Berlin
- Further administrative and academic positions:
- 2013 - present Director of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2012 - present Member of the selection committee Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2010 - 2014 Dean of the Philological Faculty
- 2004 - 2014 Director of the Master programme European Linguistics
- 2004 - present Director of the Language Teaching Centre of the University of Freiburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Grammar of non-standard varieties of English and World Englishes
- European dialect syntax
- Language typology (especially areal typology of Europe)
- Language complexity
- Grammaticalization
- History of linguistics
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Semantic change
Honours and Awards
- Honorary doctorate, University of Eastern Finland, to be awarded at Joensuu on 28-30 August, 2014
