Prof. Dr. Björn Wiemersince Oct. 2007 | Full Professor (Chair of Slavic Linguistics) at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz |
April 2003 - Sept. 2007 | Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) at Constance University |
June 2002 | Postdoctoral Dissertation (Habilitation) at Constance University |
Sept. 1996 | PhD at Hamburg University (Supervisor: Prof. V. Lehmann) |
April 1996 - March 2003 | Research Assistant at the Chair of Slavic Languages (Prof. W. Breu) at Constance University |
Okt. 1993 - July 1995 Jan. - March 1993 | Graduate Student at Warsaw University |
August 1992 | M.A. at Hamburg University |
Sept. 1990 - Juny 1991 | Visiting Student at Leningrad University |
1987 - 1992 | Student of (a) East and West Slavic Philology, and (b) General Linguistics at Hamburg University |
August, 13th, 1966 | Born in Hamburg. |
April 2007 | Invited Guest lectures at Pavia University (invited by A. Giacalone Ramat) on (i) evidentiality and (ii) grammaticalization (Erasmus) |
March 2007 | Co-convenor and organizer of a symposium on "Lexical means of evidentiality in Slavic languages" |
May - June 2006 | Invited Guest lectures at Warsaw University on (i) "Lexical means of evidentiality in Polish", (ii) "Complex predicates in Polish", (iii) "Possessive Resultatives in Polish" (Erasmus) |
April 2006 | Co-organizer of (and talk given during) the conference on "Langues baltes, langues slaves: contact, confrontation, comparaison" in Paris, conducted in connection with the International Commission of Baltic-Slavic Language Relations |
July 2005 | Convenor and organizer of a workshop on "Grammaticalization and language contact" during the conference "New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3" (Santiago di Compostela, Spain), together with B. Hansen (Regensburg) |
Sept. 2004 | Series of lectures on the application of RRG on Lithuanian morphosyntax at the Lithuanian Language Institute (Vilnius) and Vilnius University (supported by the DFG) |
July 2004 | Organizer of the workshop "Applications of RRG in diachronic syntax" during the 4th RRG Conference in Dublin |
Feb. 2001 | Organizer of the international colloquium on "Grammaticalization vs. Lexicalization" (financed within the SFB 471) |
Jan. 2000 - June 2003 | Supervisor of a research project on "Preservation, interference and internal evolution in the South-East Slavic-Baltic contact area – the example of the aspectual behaviour of verbs" (part of the SFB 471) |
Feb. - March 1998 | Seminars at the Vytautas Magnus-University in Kaunas (Lithuania), hold in Lithuanian and financed by TEMPUS |
Oct. 1997 | Co-Founder (with M. Giger, Zurich) of the International Forum "Europäische Slavistische Linguistik / European Slavic Linguistics (POLYSLAV) " (Inaugural conference at Constance University) |
Sept. 1997 - Sept. 2000 | Participation in the project "A formal description of the verb lexicon, semantic prediction of morpho-syntactic combinability and meaning shifts", financed by INTAS, together with E.V. Padučeva, Tat’jana Janko (Moscow) and Andrew Spencer (Essex) |
