Walter Bisang#
| Membership Number: | 4218 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.linguistik.fb05.uni-mainz.de/mitarbeiter/walter-bisang |
Present and Previous Positions
- 10/1992 - present Professor of General and Comparative Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (D)
- 07/1987 - 09/1992 Research Assistant at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Zürich (CH)
Fields of Scholarship
- Linguistic typology
- Linguistic complexity
- Grammaticalization
- Language contact and linguistic change, areal linguistics
- Comparison of linguistic theories
- Linguistic structures: serial verbs, classifiers, parts of speech
- Languages of East and mainland Southeast Asia (Chinese, Khmer, Thai and others)
- Yoruba (West African language spoken in Nigeria)
Honours and Awards
- Since 2015 Regular member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
- 10/2010 - 09/2015 Gutenberg Research Fellowship, University of Mainz
