Profile

Professional career

• since 04/2018
  University of Leipzig: Full Professor of Romance linguistics with focus on Spanish and Portuguese
• 04/2014 - 03/2018
  JGU Mainz: Assistant Professor ('Juniorprofessor') of Romance linguistics with focus on Ibero-Romance
• 04/2010 - 03/2014
  LMU Munich: Lecturer for French, Spanish and Portuguese lingustics at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (assistant to Prof. Dr. Wulf Oesterreicher & Prof. Dr. Andreas Dufter)
• 11/2001 - 10/2005
  Siemens Kapitalanlagegesellschaft, Munich: assistant for foreign languages for Spanish and Portuguese at the Department of Fonds Management; [since April 2005] UBS Real Estate Kapitalanlagegesellschaft, Munich (after take-over of the Siemens Real Estate Department by the UBS Fund Finance, Client Service & Asset Management Office)

Education

• 10/2001 - 09/2006
  LMU, München/Universidade Nova, Lisbon: Studies of Romance Philology and German linguistics

• language change and grammaticalization
• language contact and language change
• temporal semantics
• modality
• standardisation and variational linguistics
• contrastive and comparative linguistics

• Interfaces in grammar

  Lecture in the Bachelor Hispanic Studies / Lusitanian Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024

• El español en contacto

  Seminar in Hispanic Studies Teacher Training Programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024

• Grammaticalisation and language change via concrete examples

  Exercise in Master Hispanic Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024

• Multilingualism, Language Contact and Variation in Countries of Romance Languages

• Typology of Romance Languages

• Spanish Dialectology

• Introduction to Romance Linguistics for Spanish and Portuguese

• Linguistic peculiarities of selected varieties of Latin American Spanish

• Romance-based creole languages

• Portuguese in contact and linguistic variation

• Spanish in Latin America

• Research sabbatical

• Introduction to Romance Linguistics for Spanish and Portuguese

• Francophonie: French outside France and French-based creole languages

• Phases of Spanish language history

• Spanish in Contact

• Issues of Spanish and Portuguese morphosyntax

• Spanish dialectology

• Pragmatics

• Tense, mode and aspect in Romance languages

• Introduction to Romance Linguistics for Spanish and Portuguese

• Caribbean Spanish

• German and Romance in contact: Alsacian French and Southern Tirolese Italian

• The language of advertising

• Issues of Spanish and Portuguese morphosyntax

• Spoken Spanish

• Language policy in the French-speaking world

• Issues of contrastive grammar: Spanish and German

• Introduction to Romance Linguistics for Spanish and Portuguese

• Spanish in contact

• Central American varieties of Spanish

• Spanish as a pluricentric language

• L1, L2 and foreign language acquisition

• Linguistic change and grammaticalization

• The language of advertising in the Spanish-speaking world

• Introduction to syntax

• Introduction to Romance Linguistics for Spanish and Portuguese

• Latin American Spanish: Selected morphosyntactic, semantic, and phonic issues

• Sociolinguistics of Spanish

• Selected issues in the history of Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and Galician

• Contrastive grammar of Spanish, Portuguese and German

• Varieties of Spanish in Latin America

• Spanish and Portuguese in contact: Lexical borrowing and linguistic interference

• Diatopic and diastratic varieties of European Portuguese