Research interests

CV

 Education

Memberships in scholarly organizations

- Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen
- Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
- Deutscher Hochschulverband
- European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS)
- European Linguistic Society (Societas Linguistica Europaea) (SLE)

Externally-funded Projects

• To begin 1 July, 2024:
  
  Diachrony of linguistic features in South Asian Languages (DiaSAL)
  Funded by the German Research Council (DFG)
  Duration: 36 months
  Planned time frame: July, 2024 - June, 2027

• One of 25 principle investigators (PIs) in the Cluster of Excellence
  
  "ROOTS - Social, Environmental and Cultural Connectivities of Past Societies"
  Funded by the German Research Council (DFG)
  Duration: 7 years
  Time frame: January, 2019 - December, 2025

• Towards a linguistic prehistory of eastern-central South Asia (and beyond)

        Funded by the German Research Council (DFG)
        Duration: 36 months
        Time frame: 1 October, 2017 - 30 September, 2020

• "Literacy Acquisition in Schools in the Context of Migration and Multilingualism - A Comparative Study" (LAS), in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Michael Bommes (IMIS, Universität Osnabrück), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mehlem (Universität Bielefeld, previously: Universität Osnabrück) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Schroeder (Universität Postdam, previously İstanbul Bilgi  University). 2007-2011.
  
  Team members in Germany: Dr. Anja Boneß (Universität Kiel), Dr. Inken Sürig (Universität Osnabrück), Dr. Yazgül Şimşek (Universität Potsdam), Helena Olfert, M.A. (Universität Duisburg)
  Funded by the VolkswagenFoundation

Hosting of individuals in Kiel with an externally funded grant:

Prof. Dr. Ramawatar Yadav, Kathmandu, three-month senior researcher grant with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Topic: “Fourty Hitherto Undiscovered and Unstudied Maithili Pañcaka Songs of King Jagatprakāśmalla: Elegy to Candraśekharasiṃha (Text, Translation, Commentary, Grammatical Notes, and Index)”. July 1 – September 30, 2013.

Prof. Dr. Ramawatar Yadav, Kathmandu, a second three-month senior researcher grant with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has also been approved. Topic: “Francis Buchanan’s Comparative Vocabularies of Maithili (and Eight Other Languages)”.  July 1 – September 30, 2018.

Dr. Netra Paudyal, two-year Georg Forster postdoctoral grant from the Humboldt Foundation to conduct research on the endangered Indo-Aryan language Darai, spoken in Nepal. January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2015.

Judith Voß, M.A., three-year grant from the “Endangered Languages Documentation Programme” (ELDP), Rausing Foundation / SOAS to document the highly endangered South Munda language Gutob.

Travel Grants from the German Research Council (DFG)

1. Sadri (Sadani), March, 2009. Jharkhand, central eastern India
2. Kharia, February - March, 2003. Jharkhand, central eastern India
3. Kharia, February - March, 2002. Jharkhand, central eastern India

Talks since 2017

Invited talks

'Why the Ganga isn't the Amazonas: Linguistic diversity in riverine systems and what this means for South Asian prehistorical linguistic diversity.' Keynote speaker: 37th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-37), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 4-7 October, 2023.

'Historical linguistics for fieldworkers. With a brief introduction to COG'. Invited speaker: Two-Week Training Programme on Language Documentation, May 17-31, 2023. Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore (online). May 22, 2023.

'A (very) brief introduction to working with NeighborNet.' Invited speaker: Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore (online). April 14, 2023.

'What can the modern languages of India tell us about its past? The contribution of (socio-) linguistic typology to interpreting Indian history.' Keynote speaker: 11 International Conference: Current Trends in Oriental Studies. Współczesne trendy orientalistyki. Warsaw, Poland. November 21, 2022.

'Preserving a part of India's linguistic heritage - the Turi of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal.' International Seminar on NEP-2020 and Conservation of Endangered Languages of India, 13-15 July, 2022. Organized by GLA University, Mathura in collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, SCSTRTI, Dept. of Odisha and Central Tribal University of Andhra Pradesh. (online). July 14, 2022.

'The history of settlement and migration in India. A sociolinguistic-typological approach to the linguistic prehistory of South Asia.' Department of South Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. (in person). April 1, 2022.

"Saving the vanishing voices - The Turi language of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Odisha." Centre for Endangered Languages (CEL). Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Koni, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India (online). February 28, 2022.

"Preserving the linguistic heritage of Jharkhand - and beyond." Keynote speaker: Endangered and Lesser-Known Languages Conference, 10 (ELKL-10). Held at the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Lalpur, Amarkantak, Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India (online). February 20, 2022.

Instructor at the five-day workshop "Documenting Turi - a highly endangered language of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha". Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India (in person). November 21-25, 2020.

“What can the modern languages of India tell us about her past? The contribution of (sociolinguistic) typology to Indian history.” Special lecture at the Deccan College Bicentenry Celebrations (1821-2021). Deccan College, Postgraduate and Research Institute, Pune, India (online). May 28, 2021.

“Language Documentation: Part I: Practical aspects.” Online course: Refresher Course in Tribal Studies, University Grants Commission, Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), Ranchi University, Ranchi (online). March 3, 2021.

“Language Documentation: Part II: Getting the most from your results.” Online course: Refresher Course in Tribal Studies, University Grants Commission, Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), Ranchi University, Ranchi (online). March 4, 2021.

“Typology, Sociolinguistic Typology and Linguistic (Pre-)History.” Webinar: 14th International Workshop on Language Description and Sciences (WorLDS-4), Department of Tribal Studies, Central University of Jharkhand in collaboration with the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Ministry of Education, Government of India. September 21-25, 2020.

“An overview of the languages of Jharkhand.” Webinar: Linguistics and Indigenous Communities. Organized by the Department of Linguistics and Contrastive Study of Tribal Languages, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh, India. July 6, 2020.

(together with Jessica Ivani and Netra Paudya) ““Blast from the past.” The distribution of morphosyntactic features in modern languages as the key to unlocking the linguistic prehistory of eastern central South Asia and beyond.” Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. December, 2019.

““Blast from the past.” The distribution of morphosyntactic features in modern languages as the key to unlocking the linguistic prehistory of eastern central South Asia and beyond.” Keynote speaker: South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 35 (SALA 35). INALCO-Paris, October 29-31, 2019.

"Jharkhand as a “Sprachbund”? Munda influence on Indo-Aryan in eastern central India.” Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. May 1, 2019.

“The languages of Jharkhand – their importance in unraveling the prehistory of South Asia.” Plenary talk, Pre-workshop seminar to the “International Workshop on the documentation of Endangered Languages and Cultures, with special reference to Jharkhand”. Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Dr. Ram Dayal Munda Tribal Welfare Research Institute and Endangered Language Documentation Project, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Ranchi, April 11, 2019.

“Sadri / Nagpuri, and its Munda and Dravidian Neighbors: What can they teach us all?” Special guest lecture, Birsa Munda Language and Culture Festival, Central University of Jharkhand, Brambe, India. April 4, 2019.

“Sadri / Nagpuri, and its Munda and Dravidian Neighbors: What can they teach us all?” Ram Lakhan Yadav Singh College, Ranchi, India. March 26, 2019.

“Towards a linguistic prehistory of eastern-central South Asia (and beyond).” Keynote speaker: 39th Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal. Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. November 29, 2018.

“The prehistoric spread of Austro-Asiatic in South Asia.” Institute for Endangered Languages, Central University of Jharkhand, Brambe, India. October 16, 2018.

“Why Kharia? Why Sadri? Why Jharkhand?” Gossaner College, Ranchi, India. October 15, 2018.

“The prehistoric spread of Austro-Asiatic in South Asia.” Department of Tribal and Regional Languages, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India. October 6, 2018.

“Languages without nouns and verbs. An alternative to parts of speech in Kharia (South Munda, India). Plenary talk: 63rd Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS), Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel. May 26, 2018.

“Mehrsprachigkeit als Hindernis? Mehrsprachigkeit als Ressource! Mythen vs. Fakten zum Thema ‘Sprache und Migration’” [“Multilingualism as an obstacle? Multilingualism as a resource! Myths and facts about Language and Migration”.] Colloquium: School of Education, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany. January 10, 2018.

“The prehistoric spread of Austro-Asiatic in South Asia.” Plenary speaker at the workshop: “Language shift and substratum interference in (pre)history”. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany. July 12, 2017.

“Towards a linguistic prehistory of eastern-central South Asia (and beyond).” Linguistic Colloquium, University of Zurich, Switzerland. May 19, 2017.

Other talks

"Anticausatives (and related forms) in Irish from a crosslinguistic perspective." Workshop: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization. Università die Torino, 9-10 November, 2023. (online)

"The spread of Munda in prehistoric South Asia – the view from areal-typology." 27th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS). Panel 19: Beyond “linguistic areas” – Recent advances in the study of language contact in South Asia. Università di Torino, 26-29 July, 2023.

"I can't say 'no' to you - On the origin of zero negation in Dravidian." 14th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 2022), The University of Texas at Austin. 15-17 December, 2022. (online)

“A sociolinguistic-typological approach to the linguistic prehistory of South Asia.” Workshop: Integrating sociolinguistics and typological perspectives on language variation.” SLE 2021, 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, August 30 – September 3, 2021. (online)

“The 'Great Indo-Aryan Divide' and what it can tell us about the prehistory of South Asia.” Greater Magadha: Evaluation and Retrospective. An online symposium to discuss the Greater Magadha hypothesis of Johannes Bronkhorst. University of Alberta (online). May 6 – 9, 2021.

(with Netra Paudyal) "Language contact between Sadani and the 'tribal languages' of Jharkhand." South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 35 (SALA 35). INALCO-Paris, October 29-31, 2019

(with Jessica Ivani) “Language contact in prehistoric South Asia, with special reference to eastern South Asia.” 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE, 2018), August 29 – September 1, 2018, University of Tallinn, Estonia.

(with Jessica Ivani) “Language contact in prehistoric South Asia, with special reference to eastern South Asia.” 34th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-34). June 19 – 21, 2018, Konstanz, Germany.

“The prehistoric spread of Austro-Asiatic in South Asia.” Conference: Seventh International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Languages (ICAAL 7), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. September 29, 2017.

“Neuigkeiten aus der Provinz. Was uns das Hochland Ostindiens über die linguistische Vorgeschichte des Subkontinents verraten kann.” [“News from the countryside:  What the highlands of Eastern India can tell us about the pre-history of the subcontinent.”] Talk held at the meeting of the “Zentrum für Afrikanische und Asiatische Studien (ZAAS)” [“Centre of African and Asian Studies”], Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. January 25, 2017.

Organizer / co-organizer of the following workshops since 2017:

Co-organizer with Krzysztof Stroński of the workshop "Beyond “linguistic areas” – Recent advances in the study of language contact in South Asia" (Panel 19) of the European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS), Università di Torino, Italy. July 26-29, 2023.

Organizer of the workshop "South Asia as a Sprachbund? Advances in the study of language contact in South Asia" at the 2019 conference South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable, 35 (SALA 35). INALCO-Paris, October 29-31, 2019.

Co-organizer together with Abhay Sagar Minz (Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi) of the “International Workshop on the documentation of Endangered Languages and Cultures, with special reference to Jharkhand”. Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Dr. Ram Dayal Munda Tribal Welfare Research Institute and Endangered Language Documentation Project, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Ranchi, India. April 14 – 21, 2019.

Co-organizer together with Björn Wiemer (Mainz) and Gilles Authier (École des Hautes Études Pratiques (EPHE), Paris) of the workshop “The study of (micro-) areal patterns in Eurasia” at the 2018 conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in Talinn, Estonia. August 29 – September 1, 2018.

Organizer of the “International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics” (ICAAL), held at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany in September 29 – October 1, 2017.

Publications

Databases

2022. Ivani, Jessica Katiuscia, John Peterson & Lennart Chevallier. 2022. The Kiel South Asian Typological Database.10.5281/zenodo.7298604 (Open Access)

2020. John Peterson. cldf-daatasets/petersonsouthasia: CLDF data for Peterson 2017, Towards a linguistic prehistory of eastern-central South Asia. (Compiled by Robert Forkel). DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3603755 (Open Access)

Single and co-authored books

2022. John Peterson and Sunil Baraik. A Grammar of Chotanagpuri Sadri. A lingua franca of eastern central India. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL). xviii, 400pp.

2015 John Peterson. Sprache und Migration. [Kurze Einführungen in die germanistische Linguistik (Kegli), 18]. Heidelberg: Winter.   ("Language and Migration" - an introductory book on practical and theoretical aspects of multilingualism for students training to become teachers). 101 pp. - Reviews: 1. Germanistische Mitteilungen, 43.2 (2017), 198ff; 2. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, LXXXIII. Jg., Heft 2 (2016), 234f

2011 John Peterson. A Grammar of Kharia. A South Munda Language. Leiden: Brill. (Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages; 1). XXIV, 474 pp. (Open Access) - Reviews: 1. Himalayan Linguistics, 2. Linguistic Typology

2011 John Peterson. Kharia Texts. Glossed, translated and annotated. Language Description Heritage - Open Access Library. - XVII, 177 pp. (Open Access)

2009 John Peterson. A Kharia-English Lexicon. Himalayan Linguistics Archive 5. XV, 212 pp. (Open Access)

1998 John Peterson. Grammatical Relations in Pali and the Emergence of Ergativity in Indo-Aryan. München: LINCOM Europa (LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics, 1 / LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics, 6). iv, 258 pp.

Founder and Co-editor of the book series Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages (BSSAL), with currently 14 volumes.

Edited journals

2021 Jessica Ivani and John Peterson (eds.).  Special issue dedicated to language contact and prehistory in South Asia of: The Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics., Vol. 7/2.

2015 John Peterson (ed.). Advances in Munda Linguistics. Special isse of Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. Vol. 2/2.

Articles / book chapters - forthcoming:

John Peterson, Abhay Sagar Minz, Prabhat Linda, Ariba Khan, Francis Xavier Kachhap, Manish Gari. A brief overview of the Turi language of eastern India. (accepted; 25 pages)

John Peterson. Why the Ganges isn't the Amazon. How social forces shaped the linguistic density and diversity of northern South Asia. (submitted; 24 pages)

John Peterson and Govind Mopkar. Delineating a case system: How many cases are there in Standard Goan Konkani - and why? (submitted; 25 pages)

John Peterson and Wojtjech Zeyland. I can't say 'no' to you. On the origin of zero negation in Dravidian. (Under revision; 20 pages)

John Peterson. Anticausatives in Irish from a crosslinguistic perspective - synchronic and diachronic aspects. (24 pages)

John Peterson and Govind Mopkar. Adjectival agreement patterns in depictive constructions in Konkani.

Articles / book chapters - in press:

John Peterson. "The spread of Munda in prehistoric South Asia - The view from areal typology." To appear in: Volume in Celebration of the Bicentenary of Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed University). Pune. 18 pp.

Articles / book chapters - published:

2023. John Peterson & Govind Mopkar. Past habitual actions as relative future? On an unexpected use of the Konkani future participle and its likely origin. Lingua Posnaniens 63/2: 33-54. (2021 - issue published late). (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.14746/linpo.2021.63.2.2

2023. John Peterson. Lexical and grammatical categories in Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). Bentley, Delia, Ricardo Mairal-Usón, Wataru Nakamura & Robert Van Valin Jr. (eds.), Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar  (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 181-217. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316418086.005

2023. John Peterson, Nicole Taylor, Ilja A. Serzant, Henny Piezonka, Ariba Hidayet Khan and Norbert Nübler. "Connecting linguistics and archaeology in the study of identity: A first exploration." In: Johannes Müller (ed.), Connectivity matters! Social, environmental and cultural connectivities in past societies.[ROOTS Studies, vol. 2]. 140-165.

2022. John Peterson and Lennart Chevallier. Towards a typology of negation in South Asian languages. Bhāṣā, Journal of South Asian Linguistics, Philology and Grammar Traditions. 1/1: 17-62. (Open Access) DOI: 10.30687/bhasha/8409-3769/2022/01/005

2022 John Peterson. A sociolinguistic-typological approach to the linguistic prehistory of South Asia - Two case studies. Language Dynamics and Change. (Open Access). 12/2: 224-273. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10018

2021 Jessica Ivani and John Peterson. Introduction. In J. Ivani & J. Peterson (eds.). Special issue of Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 127-131 (Open  Access)

2021 Jessica Ivani, Netra Paudyal and John Peterson. A house divided? Evidence for the East-West Indo-Aryan divide and its significance for the study of northern South Asia. In J. Ivani & J. Peterson (eds.). Special issue of Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 235-274 (Open Access)

2021 Netra Paudyal and John Peterson. How one language became four: The impact of different contact-scenarios between “Sadani” and the tribal languages of Jharkhand. In J. Ivani & J. Peterson (eds.). Special issue of Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 275-306 (Open Access)

2021 John Peterson and Abhay Sagar Minz. मेरी पहली तुरी चित्रमाला. [My first Turi picture book - a primer for Turi-speaking children to learn to write in their native language]. Ranchi: Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University.

2017 John Peterson. "Fitting the pieces together. Towards a linguistic prehistory of eastern-central South Asia (and beyond)." Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 4(2). 211-257.

2017 John Peterson. "Jharkhand as a "linguistic area" - Language contact between Indo-Aryan and Munda in eastern-central South Asia." Raymond Hickey (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics. [Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics.] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 551-574.

2016 John Peterson. "Multilingualism, multilectalism and register variation in lingusitic theory - Extending the diasystematic approach." In: Jens Fleischhauer, Anja Latrouite & Rainer Osswald (eds.), Explorations of the Syntax-Semantic Interface. (Studies in Language and Cognition, 3). Düsseldorf University Press. 109-147.

2015 John Peterson. "Introduction - advances in the study of Munda languages." Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 2/2: 149-162.

Supervised theses

Dissertations - Primary advisor

in progress (working titles)

Ariba Hidayet Khan. [In]equality, Multilingualism and Identity in Jharkhand: A Sociolinguistic study of the Chhota Nagpur Plateau.

Behnam Pashna. Eine deskriptive Grammatik des Sine'i-Dialekts des Zentral-Kurdischen.

Felix Rau. A Grammar of Gorum.

Tobias Weber. Differential A-marking: Typology and diachrony.

Completed dissertations
2023

Csilla Kász. A valency-typological and morphological study of communication verbs in the Qur'an.

2019

Patrycja Jarząbkowska. Polnisch-deutscher Sprachtkontakt. Eine empirisch basierte theoretische Analyse.

2011

Anja Boneß. The Structure of intonation units as basic grammar for literacy acquisition.

Dissertations - Secondary advisor:

2021

Christoph Winter. Der Kompass der Nordfriesen. Sprachliche Kodierung absoluter Orientierung am Beispiel der Himmelsrichtungen und Richtungspartikeln im Nortdfriesichen. (Kiel)

2016

Jana Kellersmann. Hindi-Ideophone. (Göttingen)

2013

Katja Becker. Diagnostik grammatischer Entwicklungsstörungen - Eine Analyse elizitierender Verfahren. (Kiel)

Netra Paudyal. A Grammar of Chintang (Kiranti). (Zürich).

Joshua Wilbur. A corpus-based grammar of spoken Pite Saami. (Kiel).

Master's theses (only as primary advisor)

2024

Rieke Scheffner. Insubordination im Wangerooge-Friesischen.

2023

Antje Blumenstein. Deutschbasierte Kontaktsprachen. Unserdeutsch und Namibian Black German im Vergleich.

2022

May-Britt Andreasson. World of Wordcraft - Korpusbasierte Untersuchungen zur Sprache und Kommunikation in Online-Computerspielen.

2020

Antonina Kont. Russisch-deutsches Codeswitching aus struktureller Sicht.

Julia Sömmer. Typisch weiblich - Typisch männlich. Sprachstereotype und ihre Relevanz in der linguistischen Geschlechterforschung mit einer empirischen Untersuchung zu altersabhängigen Stereotypen über das geschlechtsspezifische Sprachverhalten.

Katharina Sommer. Typologische Untersuchung von Possessivkonstruktionen in ausgewählten Sprachfamilien Nordamerikas.

2018

Katharina Dell. Gründe für die zweisprachige Erziehung und die eigene jeweilige Sprachvermittlungsart im häuslichen Umfeld in Deutschland: untersucht am Beispiel deutsch-russischsprachiger Eltern.

2017

Yedi Yulieth Peralta Gonzalez. Tempus und Aspekt im Palenquero.

Christiane Henrike Meyer. "Warum soll mein Kind in der Kita Türkisch lernen?" Eine Untersuchung über Beweggründe und Erwartungen von Eltern am Beispiel von multilingualen Kindertageseinrichtungen.

Joachim Südekum. Dialektwahrnehumg unter Migrant_innen in Neapel.

2016

Babajeva, Anna. Insubordination im Armenischen.

Dickert, Marlis. Vorlesen im Elternhaus als grundlegende Voraussetzung für den Literalitätserwerb von Kindern mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund.

Kiupel, Nele. Streitfall Bilingualismus - Doping fürs Gehirn oder langlebiger Mythos? Eine Untersuchung zum aktuellen Forschungsstand in puncto Gedächtnis anhand experimenteller Studien der Psycho- und Neurolinguistik.

2014

Irene Gejn. Russisch-deutsches Codeswitching aus struktureller Sicht.

Mona Wich. Verblose Sätze im Deutschen aus sprachtypologischer Perspektive.

2013

Sebastian Lükemann. Sprachkontakt in Deutschland. Die Sprache Jugendlicher im urbanen, multiethnischen Raum deutscher Großstädte.

2011

Nadine Kerber. Die Anwendung der Prinzipien der Graphematik bei der Fehleranalyse schriftlicher Texte von Kindern mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund. (Osnabrück)

Tilman van der Wall. Eine Strukturanalyse des Hindi im Rahmen der Role and Reference Grammar. (Leipzig)

2010

Juliane Böttger. Finiteness in selected Munda languages. (Leipzig)

V. Ozan Gülle. Cypriot Turkish from a Language Contact Perspective. (Leipzig)

Andre Schuchardt. Wortarten im Akkadischen. (Leipzig)

2009

Alexander Elsbecker. Eine strukturelle Darstellung des Papiamentu im Rahmen der Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). (Osnabrück)

Mingjing Wang. Codeswitching aus struktureller Sicht: Kantonesisch und Mandarin. (Osnabrück)

2008

Lei Sui. Schriftsprache / gesprochene Sprache: Deutsch und Chinesisch im Vergleich. Osnabrück

2006

Simone Borcherding. Die Sprache von Politikern in der Wahl in Nordrhein-Westfalen im Jahre 2005. (Osnabrück)

2005

Mina Ghoulam. Der Genuserwerb des Deutschen bei ausländischen Schülern türkischer und marokkanischer Herkunft in Deutschland. (Osnabrück)

2004

Vivien Göken. Der Applikativ im Santali im Rahmen der Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). (Osnabrück)

Bachelorar's theses (only as primary advisor)

2024

Runa Kirchwehm. Anglizismen in der aktuellen deutschen Pressesprache. Vergleichende Korpusuntersuchung dreier Online-Nachrichten-Webseiten.

Martina Riege. Deutsche Sprichwörter. Eine empirische Studie zur Bekanntheit und Verwendung standardsprachlicher deutscher Sprichwörter.

2023

Luna Hemmerling. Reduplikation in polynesischen Sprachen.

Manfred Michaelis. Russisch-deutsches Code-Switching - Eine strukturelle Analyse.

2022

Nellia Bleyer. Nominal categories in the Transeurasian languages: Similarities and differences.

Jan Sören Hansen. Die sprachliche Darstellung Afroamerikaner in ausgewählten Filmen.

Anja Riesel. Sexismus in der deutschen Sprache: Eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung verschiedener Zeitschriften.

Laura Schick. Der Zweitspracherwerb des Deutschen im kindlichen, jugendlichen und erwachsenen Alter. Ein Vergleich des Syntaxerwerbs anhand der Verbstellung.

2021

Sarah Anders. Die Nutzung des Registers "LGBT Slang" im Reality TV verglichen mit Filmen und Serien.

Vivien Fölsch. Spracherhalt des Hawaiian Creole English.

Alexandra von Fragstein. Sprachliche Differenzen zwischen Kinder- und Erwachsenenzeitschriften: Eine Frage des Registers?.

Jinyoung Kim. Die Linguistic Landscape in durch Migration geprägten Stadtteilen innerhalb Kiels.

Janina Kofoet. Sprachentod – Gründe und mögliche Revitalisierungsmaßnahmen am Beispiel des Irischen.

Johanna Sophie Richter. Analyse der gendergerechten Sprache in der universitären Kommunikation an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

Rieke Scheffner. Der Stand moderner Technologien in der Sprachrevitalisierung.

Yannick Alexander Marc Staschull. Sprachverwendung in der Politik - Ein korpuslinguistischer Vergleich der "Alternative für Deutschland" und "DIELINKE".

Maxi Wittmaack. Logophorizität in den Sprachen des Macro-Sudan Belt. Ein typologischer Vergleich.

2020

Jill Sammet. Das große Sprachensterben - Ursachen und mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen.

2019

Milena Schmidt. Frühkindliche Zweisprachigkeit: Möglichkeiten der bilingualen Spracherziehung.

2017

Josefin Andrick. Sprachkontakt unter Minderheitenschülern im deutsch-dänischen Grenzland - Codeswitching.

2016

Liv Borghardt. Gesprochene und geschriebene Sprache des Deutschen - Eine empirische Studie.

Jana Franziska Pohlmann. Das große Sprachensterben - Ursachen und mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen.

2015

Tobias Brütt. Inkorporation fremder Elemente in eine Sprache.

2014

Sascha Langbehn. Deutsch-russisches Codeswitching aus struktureller Sicht.

Kim Marlis Lüdtke. Strukturelle Ansätze zum Thema Codeswitching: ein kritischer Vergleich.

Eline Seelig. Deutsch-portugiesisches Codeswitching aus struktureller Sicht.

2013

Eva Franziska Funke. Bilingualer Erstspracherwerb - Chance oder Risiko.

Miriam Gabriel. Phonologie und Lexik des haitianischen Kreols.

Hannah Gebien. Media Lengua als bilingual gemischte Sprache - Eine sprach- und arealtypologische Betrachtung.

Luisa Idris. Duellierende Sprachen - Russisch-deutsches Codeswitching bei Spätaussiedlern.

Janina Kratzert. Das Höflichkeitsmodell von Brown und Levinson und interkulturell bedingte Kritik an diesem.

Prajakta Pathak. Eine grammatische Analyse des Code-Switching am Beispiel Marath, English und Deutsch.

Nelli Raiser. Deutsch-russisches Code-Switching aus struktureller Sicht.

Nona Sauter. Deutsch-russisches Code-Switching - Eine strukturelle Analyse.

Christine Elisabeth Stubendorff. Codeswitching am Beispiel Gibraltars.

Ann Teegen. Parameter & Prozesse der Grammatikalisierung am Beispiel der Entwicklung der französischen Sprache.

Britta Venth. Grammatikalisierungspfade für "Futur" in den romanischen Sprachen.

Gül Sevim Yalcin. Deutsch-türkisches Code-switching aus struktureller Sicht.

2012

Sarah Fischer. Der Einfluss der Muttersprache auf das Sprachenlernen. (Kiel)

Julia Tronina. Sprachkontakt in Deutschland am Beispiel des "Kiezdeutsch". (Kiel)

2011

Hanne Köhn. Suffixaufnahme und ihre implikationelle Bedeutung für weitere NP-interne Kongruenz. (Leipzig)
Maria Lüer. Kroatisch-Deutsches Codeswitching aus struktureller Sicht. (Leipzig)

Sara Mitschke.Deutsch-sorbisches Codeswitching aus struktureller Sicht. (Leipzig)

Lisa Tschoban. Das "Türkendeutsche". Eine soziolinguistische und typologische Untersuchung. (Leipzig)

Anne Wienholz. Sprachrevitalisierung am Beispiel ausgewählter Sprachen Australiens und Neuseelands. (Leipzig)

Saskia Wunder. Sprachkontakt und Sprachverschiebung am Beispiel des Irish English. (Leipzig)

2010

Josephine Föhr & Julia Bischoffberger. Eine Grammatik des Niedersorbischen. (Leipzig)

Tina Gregor. Codeswitching zwischen Obersorbisch und Deutsch aus struktureller Sicht. (Leipzig)

Luisa Oswald. Sprachkontaktphänomene in der Tschadseeregion: Strukturentlehnung in der Verbalmorphologie des Kanuri vor dem geschichtlichen Hintergrund der Region. (Leipzig)

Susann Schildhauer. Spanisch-Englisch Codeswitching in den USA und ihre Rolle in den Medien. (Leipzig)

2009

Lydia Schleinitz. Deutsch-Polnisches Codeswitching. (Leipzig)

2008

Carolin Dryhaus. Codeswitching aus struktureller Sicht - Am Beispiel des deutsch-polnischen Codeswitchings. (Osnabrück)

Ines Nording. Codeswitching: Theorie und Praxis. (zum Codeswitching zwischen Hochdeutsch und Niederdeutsch) (Osnabrück)

Sarah Südkamp. Gesprochenes und geschriebenes Deutsch. (Osnabrück)