Profile
Abstract
Prof. Benjamin Meisnitzer ist seit April 2018 Professor für Romanische Sprachwissenschaft mit den Schwerpunkten Hispanistik und Lusitanistik an der Universität Leipzig. Zuvor war er Juniorprofessor für iberoromanische Sprachwissenschaft an der JGU Mainz und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter für französische, spanische und portugiesische Sprachwissenschaft an der LMU München. Zudem hatte er Gastprofessuren an der UFRN Natal (Brasilien), an der Universitat de València (Spanien) und an der Universität Wien (Österreich) inne.
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
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Interfaces in grammar
Lecture in the Bachelor Hispanic Studies / Lusitanian Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024
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El español en contacto
Seminar in Hispanic Studies Teacher Training Programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024
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Grammaticalisation and language change via concrete examples
Exercise in Master Hispanic Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024
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Multilingualism, Language Contact and Variation in Countries of Romance Languages
Übergreifendes Masterseminar, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2023
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Typology of Romance Languages
Übergreifendes Masterseminar, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2023
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Spanish Dialectology
Bachelorseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2023
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Introduction to Romance Linguistics for Spanish and Portuguese
Vorlesung im Bachelor Hispanistik / Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2022/23
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Linguistic peculiarities of selected varieties of Latin American Spanish
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2022-23
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Romance-based creole languages
Masterseminar Hispanistik/Französistik/Lusitanistik sowie Bachelorseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2022-23
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Portuguese in contact and linguistic variation
Bachelor- und Masterseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2022-23
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Spanish in Latin America
Bachelorseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2022-23
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Research sabbatical
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Introduction to Romance Linguistics for Spanish and Portuguese
Vorlesung im Bachelor Hispanistik / Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2021/22
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Francophonie: French outside France and French-based creole languages
Bachelorseminar Französistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2021-22
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Phases of Spanish language history
Bachelorseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2021-22
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Spanish in Contact
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2021-22
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Issues of Spanish and Portuguese morphosyntax
Vorlesung im Bachelor Hispanistik / Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2021
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Spanish dialectology
Bachelorseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2021
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Pragmatics
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2021
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Tense, mode and aspect in Romance languages
übergreifendes Masterseminar Französistik/Italianistik/Hispanistik/Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2021
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Introduction to Romance Linguistics for Spanish and Portuguese
Vorlesung im Bachelor Hispanistik / Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2020/21
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Caribbean Spanish
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2020/21
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German and Romance in contact: Alsacian French and Southern Tirolese Italian
Masterseminar Französistik/Italianistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2020/21
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The language of advertising
Bachelorseminar Hispanistik/Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2020/21
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Issues of Spanish and Portuguese morphosyntax
Vorlesung im Bachelor Hispanistik / Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2020
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Spoken Spanish
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2020
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Language policy in the French-speaking world
Masterseminar Französistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2020
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Issues of contrastive grammar: Spanish and German
Bachelorseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2020
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Introduction to Romance Linguistics for Spanish and Portuguese
Vorlesung im Bachelor Hispanistik / Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2019/20
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Spanish in contact
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2019/20
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Central American varieties of Spanish
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2019/20
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Spanish as a pluricentric language
Bachelorseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2019/20
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L1, L2 and foreign language acquisition
Vorlesung im Bachelor Hispanistik / Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2019
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Linguistic change and grammaticalization
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2019
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The language of advertising in the Spanish-speaking world
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2019
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Introduction to syntax
Bachelorseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2019
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Introduction to Romance Linguistics for Spanish and Portuguese
Vorlesung im Bachelor Hispanistik / Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2018/19
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Latin American Spanish: Selected morphosyntactic, semantic, and phonic issues
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2018/19
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Sociolinguistics of Spanish
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2018/19
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Selected issues in the history of Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and Galician
Masterseminar Hispanistik / Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2018/19
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Contrastive grammar of Spanish, Portuguese and German
Vorlesung im Bachelor Hispanistik / Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2018
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Varieties of Spanish in Latin America
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2018
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Spanish and Portuguese in contact: Lexical borrowing and linguistic interference
Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2018
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Diatopic and diastratic varieties of European Portuguese
Masterseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2018
Research fields
Linguistics
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