Tom Güldemann#
| Membership Number: | 4288 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/region/afrika/afrika/linguistik/mitarbeiter/1683070 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 to present Professor for African linguistics and sociolinguistics, IAAW, Humboldt University Berlin
- 2007 to 2009 Assistant Professor for General Linguistics, University Zurich
- 2006 to 2007 Professor for African linguistics and sociolinguistics, IAAW, Humboldt University Berlin
- 2000 to 2015 Research fellow, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology at Leipzig
- 1996 to 2000 Research fellow, Institute for African Studies, Leipzig University
- 1995 to 1996 Research fellow, Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne
Fields of Scholarship
- Interdisciplinary approaches to population prehistory
- Language typology
- African historical linguistics (contact, classification, reconstruction)
- Language documentation and description
- Information structure, syntax and discourse
- Language families: Khoisan, Bantu
Honours and Awards
- 2002 to 2006 Heisenberg scholarship award of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 1996 to 2000 Habilitation scholarship award of the Volkswagen-Stiftung in the program „Förderung des Hochschullehrer-Nachwuchses in den Geistes-, Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften in den neuen Bundesländern“
- 1993 to 1995 Ph.D. scholarship award of the Federal State Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
