Professor Dr Bernd Heine FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 1996
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
- Website
- http://www.prof-bernd-heine.de
Summary
Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies (Institut für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie), of the University of Cologne, Germany. His main interest is in understanding language structure and language usage in all their manifestations. While being concerned primarily with the 2000-odd African languages, he has also published books and papers dealing with languages across the world. A major theme in his work is how languages change. To this end, he has contributed to grammaticalisation theory and he has also worked on the origin and evolution of human languages. More recently, his research shifted to the study of conversations and texts, proposing a new analytic framework called discourse grammar.
He has held visiting professorships in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, Africa, and Eastern Asia (Japan, South Korea, China). And he has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, USA (1999-2000), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar (2005-2006), and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2008-2009).
Current post
Professor Emeritus, University of Cologne
Past appointments
University of Cape Town Visiting Professor
2015 - 2015
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China Yunshan Chair Professor
2014 - 2016
Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea Visiting Professor
2009 - 2011
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Visiting Professor and Fellow
2008 - 2009
École des Hautes Études (CRLAO), Paris Visiting Professor
2007 - 2007
Federal University, Rio de Janeiro Visiting Professor
2007 - 2007
University of Hamburg Visiting Professor
2006 - 2006
University of Graz Visiting Professor
2005 - 2005
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire Visiting Professor
2002 - 2002
LaTrobe University, Melbourne Visiting Professor
1994 - 1995
University of Cologne Professor
1978 - 2004
University of Nairobi Visiting Professor
1975 - 1978
Publications
The Rise of Discourse Markers
Edited by Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva, and Haiping Long - Published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog - Published in 2015 by Oxford University Press
The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization
Edited by Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog - Published in 2011 by Oxford University Press
A Linguistic Geography of Africa
Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse - Published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press
The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva - Published in 2007 by Oxford University Press
The Changing Languages of Europe
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva - Published in 2006 by Oxford University Press
Language Contact and Grammatical Change
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva - Published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva - Published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press
African Languages: An introduction
Edited by Bernd Heine and Derek Nurs - Published in 2000 by Cambridge University Press
Possession: Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization
Bernd Heine - Published in 1997 by Cambridge University Press
Auxiliaries: Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization
Bernd Heine - Published in 1993 by Oxford University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA
Descriptive and theoretical syntax and semantics; language documentation; Austronesian and Papuan languages; grammatical analysis within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar
Professor Terttu Nevalainen FBA
The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora
