Bjorn Wiemer

Björn Wiemer (born August 13, 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German Slavist .

Life

From 1987 to 1992 (MA) studied Eastern Slavic Studies as well as Western Slavonic Studies and General Linguistics (from 1987) at the University of Hamburg and from 1990 to 1991 at the University of Leningrad (FilFak) and the Institute for Linguistics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . From 1993 to 1995 he completed postgraduate stays at the University of Warsaw (Institute for Polish Language). After completing the doctoral procedure in 1996 at the University of Hamburg (doctoral supervisor: Volkmar Lehmann ), he was a research assistant at the Chair of Slavic Linguistics from 1996 to 2003 ( Walter Breu) at the University of Konstanz . After completing the habilitation process in Konstanz in 2002 , he was a professor at the University of Konstanz (Department of Linguistics) from 2003 to 2007. Since 2007 he has been Professor of Slavic Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

His research interests are aspect and other verb categories, number of nouns, evidentiality and modality, sentence complementation, diathesis, alignment, argument structure, grammaticalization and other language change phenomena, area linguistics (including dialect geography) and language contacts, especially in the Slavic-Baltic region.

Fonts (selection)

• Discourse reference in Polish and German. Shown in the narrative speech of monolingual and bilingual students . Munich 1997, ISBN 3-87690-658-X .
• with Markus Giger: Resultativa in the North Slavic and Baltic languages. Stocktaking under areal and grammatical theory aspects . Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89586-476-5 .
• as editor: Studies on evidentiality marking in West and South Slavic . Munich 2015, ISBN 3-86688-548-2 .
• Catching the elusive. Lexical evidentiality markers in Slavic languages. A questionnaire study and its background . Berlin 2018, ISBN 3-631-75667-4 .

Web links

• slavistik.uni-mainz.de