Bernd Heine

Bernd Heine (born May 25, 1939 in Mohrungen ) is a German linguist and Africanist .

Life

Bernd Heine held the chair for African studies at the University of Cologne from 1978 to 2004 . His research and teaching focuses on African linguistics , the sociology of language , the theory of grammaticalization and language contact . The grammaticalization theory, which deals with the regularities of grammatical changes, and to which he has so far contributed 7 books and numerous articles, is considered to be his main contribution.

Youth and education

In 1944 his parents fled from East Prussia to Austria because of the Russian invasion and later relocated to Bavaria before settling in Leverkusen in 1948 . From 1949 to 1959 Heine attended the District Administrator-Lucas-Gymnasium in Opladen . He then studied at the Universities of Cologne and Hamburg. In 1967 he was in Cologne for Dr. phil. doctorate, 1972 followed the habilitation in African studies.

Professional development

From 1968 to 1969 he was an assistant at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne, from 1969 to 1972 lecturer and from 1975 to 1978 visiting professor at the University of Nairobi . In 1978 he took over the chair for African studies at the University of Cologne.

In the course of his scientific work, he has made a total of 25 trips for the purpose of field research in Ghana , Togo , Kenya , Tanzania , Uganda and Namibia as well as lecture trips to Ethiopia , Australia , Brazil , England , Estonia , Finland , France , Italy , Japan , Kenya, Mexico , Namibia, Netherlands , Austria , Poland , Sweden , Spain , South Africa , South Korea , Tanzania and USA .

Visiting professorships took him to La Trobe University , Melbourne , 1994/1995 , 1999/2000 to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford , USA, 2002 to Dartmouth College , USA, 2005 to the University of Graz , Austria and 2005 / 2006 to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar , Netherlands, 2006 to the University of Hamburg , 2007 to the École pratique des hautes études (Center de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale "CRLAO"), Paris, 2007 to the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , from 2008 to 2009 at the Foreign Language University Tokyo , Japan, and in 2009 at the University of Chonnam , Korea. In 2012 and 2015 he was visiting professor at the University of Cape Town , and in 2014 he was appointed Yunshan Chair Professor by the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies , China (2014-2016).

So far, Heine has been invited to speak at 33 international conferences. His life's work to date comprises a total of 33 books and around 120 journal articles in the fields of linguistics, socio- linguistics , linguistic history and grammaticalization theory. He is co-editor or member of the scientific advisory board of 17 journals or book series. Since 2014 he has devoted himself to the analysis of linguistic discourse together with Gunther Kaltenböck and Tania Kuteva. In the Discourse Grammar model developed by these authors, a distinction is made between two components of speech planning , one sentence grammar is dedicated to the construction of sentences, while the other thetical grammar is used to establish a relationship between speaker, listener and the text.

Awards

His awards include membership of the Executive Council, International Africa Institute, London . In 1986 he became the Hans Wolff Memorial Lecturer at Indiana University , USA, and in 1990 Raymond Dart Memorial Lecturer at the University of Johannesburg , South Africa . In 1990 he received the Kenya Kiswahili Association Award in Nairobi , in 1994 he was a Fellow of the Australian Research Council, and in 1995 he received an award from the National Kiswahili Council of the Republic of Tanzania. In 1995 he became August Klingenhaben Memorial Lecturer at the University of Leipzig and in 1996 a Fellow of the British Academy . From 1997 to 2000 he was President of the Committee for World Congresses of African Linguistics, and in 1999 he was appointed a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences . In 2008 he was named a Distinguished World-Class Scholar by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of South Korea , and in 2009 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Evolutionary Linguistics Association (Brussels). He has been an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America since 2012 . In 2015 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .

Publications

• with Ulrike Claudi and Friederike Hünnemeyer: Grammaticalization. A conceptual framework. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL et al. 1991, ISBN 0-226-32516-4 .
• as editor with Elizabeth Closs Traugott: Approaches to grammaticalization. 2 volumes. John Benjamin, Amsterdam et al. 1991;
  • Volume 1: Focus on theoretical and methodological issues (= Typological Studies in Language. Vol. 19, 1). ISBN 1-55619-404-8 ;
  • Volume 2: Focus on types of grammatical markers (= Typological Studies in Language. Vol. 19, 2). ISBN 1-55619-405-6 .
• Auxiliaries. Cognitive forces and grammaticalization. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1993, ISBN 0-19-508387-3 .
• with Matthias Brenzinger and Ingo Heine: The Mukogodo Maasai. An ethnobotanical survey. Köppe, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-927620-86-6 .
• with Karsten Legère: Swahili Plants. An ethnobotanical survey. Köppe, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-927620-89-0 .
• Cognitive foundations of grammar. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1997, ISBN 0-19-510251-7 .
• Possession. Cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization (= Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Vol. 83). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1997, ISBN 0-521-55037-8 .
• Ik dictionary (= Nilo-Saharan. Vol. 15). Köppe, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89645-133-2 .
• with Derek Nurse: African languages. An introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-66178-1 .
• with Tania Kuteva: World lexicon of grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2002, ISBN 0-521-80339-X .
• with Tania Kuteva: Language contact and grammatical change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2005, ISBN 0-521-60828-7 .
• with Tania Kuteva: The changing languages ​​of Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2006, ISBN 0-19-929734-7 .
• with Tania Kuteva: The genesis of grammar. A reconstruction (= Studies in the Evolution of Language. Vol. 9). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-922777-8 .
• as editor with Derek Nurse: A linguistic geography of Africa. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-87611-7 .
• as editor with Heiko Narrog: The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-954400-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Heine in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernd Heine - Linguistics and African Studies