Christine Dimroth

Christine Dimroth (* 1968 ) is a German linguist . Her main research interests are language acquisition and multilingualism .

Life and research

Dimroth studied German and Romance languages from 1986 to 1993 at the Philipps University of Marburg , the University of Poitiers and the Free University of Berlin . In 1994 she passed her state examination for teaching qualifications (German and French) at grammar schools. From 1995 she worked for two years as a research assistant in a project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Free University of Berlin. In 1998 she did her doctorate with “Focus Particles and Information Structure in German” at the FU. From 1998 to 2010 she worked as a research assistant in the language acquisition group of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics .

From 2010 to 2013 Dimroth was Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Osnabrück . Since 2013 she has been Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Münster . She is also head of CEMES (Center for Multilingualism and Language Acquisition).

Political activities

In March 2019, she headed a petition against supposed right-wing populism in language maintenance. In it she called on "the supporters of the Association of German Language (VDS) to distance themselves in all forms from the anti-science, dubious and linguistic nationalist representation of linguistic relationships in the contributions of the VDS."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography of Christine Dimroth on the website of the University of Osnabrück . Retrieved December 24, 2017.
2. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, German Institute: German Studies - Prof. Dr. Christine Dimroth. Retrieved May 22, 2017 .