Experts on Language / Languages
Dr.
Ronald Daus
Professor of Romance Languages
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-52038 |
| daus@zedat.fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- Romania Nova
- Contacts between Romance and non-European peoples
- Metropolitan studies
- Cities in Africa, Latin America, and Asia
Dr.
Norbert Dittmar
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for German and Dutch Languages and Literature
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Assistant) | +49 30 / 838-54011 |
| nordit@zedat.fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- Problems of linguistic unification
- Minority languages
- Bilingualism
- Berlin: urban language
- Youth language
- Pidgin German spoken by Turkish immigrants
Dr.
Ulla Haselstein
Professor of Literature
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Literature
Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-54015 |
| ulla.haselstein@fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- Text and image
- Literary portraits
- Transculturality
- Diasporic literature
- Holocaust literature
- Avantgarde
- Native American literature
- American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
Dr.
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Professor of Japanese Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies
Ehrenbergstr. 26-28, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-53857, -53856 |
| hijiya@zedat.fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- Culture and literature of Japan
- History and society of Japan
- Identity discourses, culinary studies
- Cultural translation
Dr.
Matthias Hüning
Professor of Dutch Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Dutch Language and Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-54807 |
| Phone (Assistant) | +49 30 / 838-54423 |
| matthias.huening@fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- Dutch linguistics with a focus on language comparison (especially Dutch-German)
- History of language and language change
- Lexicology (semantics, word formation)
Dr.
Gisela Klann-Delius
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Linguistics
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-56495 |
| gisela.klann-delius@fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- Administrative language
- Psycholinguistics
- Language acquisition research
- Therapy process research and linguistics
- Language and affectivity
- Language and gender
- Excellence Initiative
- Emotion
- Languages of emotion
Dr.
Susanne Klengel
Professor of Latin American Studies
Institute for Latin American Studies
Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, 14197 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-55575 |
| klengel@zedat.fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- Latin American literatures and cultures
- Literary and cultural theory
- Image / text relations
- Cultural transfer between Europe and Latin America – history and present-day status
- Intellectual history
- Concepts of cultural translation
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Argentina / Southern Cone
- Caribbean countries
- Transregional issues and literatures / cultures in border areas
Dr.
Ekkehard König
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Linguistics
Goßlerstr. 2-4, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-72356 |
| Phone (Assistant) | +49 30 / 838-72333 |
Areas of Expertise
- Germanic languages, especially English
- German (structure, development, modern language)
- Language typology (comprehensive linguistics studies on the detection of unity in diversity)
- Semantics (all issues related to the meaning of linguistic expressions)
Dr.
Michael Meier-Brügger
Professor of Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures
Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-52837 |
| drmeier@zedat.fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- Indo-European linguistics
- Comparative linguistics
- The prehistory of European languages
Dr.
Ferdinand von Mengden
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Historical Linguistics of English
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-72340 |
| f.vm@fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- Language / language change / language history
- English language
- Old English
- Numerals and linguistic numeral systems
- Grammaticalization
Dr.
Guido Mensching
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-55420 |
| Phone (Assistant) | +49 30 / 838-54279 |
| mensch@lingrom.fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- Generative grammar
- Minimalist syntax of Romance languages
- Medieval medical and botanical specialist texts in the Romance (Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, especially in the Hebrew scriptures)
- Grammar theory
- Sardinian language
Dr.
Stefan Müller
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
German Grammar
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-52973 |
| Stefan.Mueller@fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- German (especially syntax)
- grammar theory
- computational linguistics
Dr.
Manfred Pfister
Professor of English Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Wullenweberstr. 11, 10555 Berlin
| Phone (Home) | +49 30 / 3996801 |
| manfred.pfister@fu-berlin.de |
Areas of Expertise
- English literature from Shakespeare to the present
- Drama and theater
- English-Italian cultural relations
- Intertextuality and intermediality
- Literary translation
Dr. Ruth Tobias
Freie Universität
Language Center
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
| Phone (Office) | +49 30 / 838-556 80 |
| Phone (Assistant) | +49 30 / 838-545 04 |
Areas of Expertise
- Language acquisition, foreign-language acquisition in adults, language policy
- Romance languages and cultures (main focus: Brazil, Portugal, France)
- Cross-cultural issues
Last Update: Jan 05, 2012
