Björn Wiemer#
| Membership Number: | 7381 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.slavistik.uni-mainz.de/univ-prof-bjoern-wiemer/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6466-2060 |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2007, October - now Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz (Institute of Slavic Studies, since 2017: Institute of Slavic, Turkic and Circum-Baltic Studies)
- 2003, April - 2007, Sept. Assistant Professor (Hochschuldozent) at Konstanz University (Section of Linguistics)
- April 1996 - March, Oct. 1993 - July 1995 2003: Assistant at the chair of Slavic Linguistics (Prof. W. Breu) at Konstanz University
- Jan. - March 1993, Oct. 1993 - July 1995: Postgraduate research stays at Warsaw University (Institute of the Polish Language)
- Sept. 1990 - June 1991 Undergraduate research stay at the University of Leningrad (FilFak) and the Institute of Linguistics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
- April 1987 - August 1992 Student (M.A.) of East Slavic and West Slavic philology and of general linguistics at the University of Hamburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Verbal categories (mainly aspect and tense)
- Clausal complementation
- Theories of language change
- Lithuanian
- Modality and evidentiality
- Discourse pragmatics
- Diachronic syntax and morphology
- Slavic languages
- Voice
- Contact and areal linguistics
