Bernd Heine - Curriculum Vitae

Published in January 2010:

The Oxford Handbook
of Linguistic Analysis
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Bernd Heine
Heiko Narrog

Prof. Dr. Bernd Heine

Linguistics and African Studies


	c u r r i c u l u m v i t a e

	Name:		Bernd Heine, Ph.D., Dr.habil., FBA
	Date of birth:		25 May 1939
	Place of birth:		Mohrungen, Germany (now Poland)
	Citizenship:		German

-	Education
-	Academic positions
-	Honors and awards (Selection)
-	Member of Advisory and Editorial Boards
-	Key-note addresses/Invited speaker
-	Grants
-	Field research
-	Lecturing tours
-	Publications


Education

1967	Ph.D., University of Cologne ("Verbreitung und Gliederung der Togorestsprachen")
1971	Habilitation, University of Cologne ("Pidgin-Sprachen im Bantu-Bereich")



Academic positions

1967 - 1969		Wissenschaftlicher Assistent ("Assistant professor"), University of Cologne
1969 - 1972		Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Nairobi, and Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi
1972 - 1975		Dozent ("Senior Lecturer"), University of Cologne
1975 - 1978		Visiting Professor, University of Nairobi
1978 - 2004		Professor (H4) and Director, Institut für Afrikanistik, University of Cologne
1994 - 1995		Visiting Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne
1994		Faculty member, Australian Linguistic Institute
1995		Faculty member, Institute of the Linguistic Society of America
1999 - 2000		Fellow, Study for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, USA
2002		Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, USA
2003		Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University, Melbourne
2004		Professor emeritus, University of Cologne
2005		Visiting Professor, University of Graz, Austria
2005 - 2006		Member, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar
2006		LOT Winterschool, Free University of Amsterdam
2006		Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg (August)
2007		Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes (CRLAO), Paris (May)
2007		Visiting Professor, Federal University, Rio de Janeiro (June)
2008 - 2009		Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
2009 - 2011		Visiting Professor, Chonnam National University, Korea
2010		Visiting Professor, University of Graz, Austria (March)

Honors and awards (Selection)

1986	Hans Wolff Memorial Lecturer, Indiana University
1990	Raymond Dart Memorial Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
1990	Kenya Kiswahili Association Award, Nairobi, 1990
1994	Fellow, Australian Research Council
1995	Award, National Kiswahili Council, Federal Republic of Tanzania
1995	August Klingenheben Memorial Lecturer, University of Leipzig
1995	Member, New York Academy of Sciences
1996	Corresponding Fellow, British Academy (FBA)
1997	President, Standing Committee for the World Congress of African Linguistics
1999	Fellow, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
1999	Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, USA
2002	Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The Institute for Advanced Study, Melbourne
2004	Corresponding Fellow, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
2005 - 2006	Fellow, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar. Also Member of the Fellows' Committee of NIAS
2008	Distinguished World-Class Scholar, Chonnam National University, Korea
2009	Life Time Achievement Award of the Evolutionary Linguistics Association, Brussels


Member of Advisory and Editorial Boards (formerly or present):

Executive Council, International Africa Institute, London
AFRICA, London
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS, Leiden
ETUDES LINGUISTIQUES, Niamey
WORKING PAPERS IN KISWAHILI, Ghent
LINGUISTIQUE AFRICAINE, Paris
LINGUA, Leiden
THE HORN OF AFRICA, Washington D.C.
BARAGUMU (Swahili journal), Maseno, Kenya
STUDIES IN LANGUAGE, Los Angeles
KISWAHILI, Dar es Salaam
FAITS DE LANGUE, Paris
MALILIME (Center for Language Studies), University of Malawi, Zomba
Consultative Committee, Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines, UNESCO, Paris
Member of the Standing Committee for the World Congress of African Linguistics
Member of the Editorial Board, TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN LANGUAGE (Editor: T. Givón)
Associate Editor, LANGUAGE SCIENCES
Member of the Comité Scientifique of the journal MUNTU (Revue scientifique et culturelle du CICIBA, Libreville, Gabon)
Language Consultant, Oxford English Dictionary (2002 -)
Academic referee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society), the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service), and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Humboldt Foundation), European Science Foundation
Member of the European Research Council (The Human Mind and its Complexity) (2008 -)
Consultant Editor of LANGUAGE AND COGNITION (2008 -)
Advisory Board, Journal of Language Contact (2010-)
Advisory Board, Journal of Historical Linguistics (2010-)
Scientific Committee, Journal of African Languages, Paris (2010-)


Key-note addresses/Invited speaker

1988 International Symposium on Grammaticalization, University of Oregon, Eugene, May, 1988 1989 Third International Conference on Tradition and Modernization in Africa Today, Budapest, August/September, 1989 International Kiswahili Symposium, National Kiswahili Council, Dar es Salaam, August, 1989 1990 Confrontation in Diachronic Linguistics: Syntactic Reanalysis vs. Grammaticalization and Semantic Change, Tenth Groningen Grammar Talks, 29 - 30 November, Groningen Fourth International Kiswahili Conference, Nairobi, September, 1990 International Symposium on Sociolinguistics in Africa, Johannesburg, January, 1990 Conference on Explanation in Historical Linguistics, Milwaukee, 20 - 22 April, 1990 Symposium on occasion of the opening of the Institute for Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Leiden, 7 - 8 November, 1990 Conference on Language and National Unity, Languages Society of Namibia, Windhoek, 24 - 28 September, 1990 1991 International Conference on Languages in Contact and in Conflict in Africa, Pretoria, 5- 7 April 1991 Language, Thought, and Culture, A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2 - 4 April, 1991 Annual Meeting, Berkeley Linguistics Society, 15 - 18 February, 1991 North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Berkeley, March, 1991 1992 International Symposium on Mood and Modality, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 8 - 10 May, 1992 Symposium on Intercultural Communication, University of Duisburg, Duisburg, 23 - 27 March, 1992 La Semantica in Prospettiva Diacronica e Sincronica, Annual meeting, Società Italiana di Glottologia, Macerata, 22 - 24 October, 1992 1993 Back to Basic Issues in Nominal Classification, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Nijmegen, 25 - 27 May, 1993 Third International Conference on Cognitive Linguistics, Leuven, July, 1993 1994 Annual Meeting, Berkeley Linguistics Society, March, 1994 Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Grammaticalization, Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen, Rungsted, 9 - 11 October, 1994 1st World Congress of African Linguistics, Kwaluseni, Swaziland, July, 1994 Terrain et Théorie en Linguistique, Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 26 - 28 September, 1994 1995 Journée d'Etudes, Société Linguistique de Paris, 21 January, 1995 Morphology Day, Linguistic Institute, Linguistic Society of America, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 27 June, 1995 Functional Approaches to Grammar - an International Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 24 - 28 July, 1995 International Consultants Seminar, Summer Institute of Linguistics, on The Role of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in African Linguistics, Ruiru, Kenya, 2 - 7 October, 1995. 1996 Annual Conference, Scandinavian Linguistic Society, November, 1996, University of Turku, Finnland 1997 The Interface between Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization Theory: Languages of the Americas. International Symposium, Rice University, USA, 26 - 29 March 1997 Course in Semantics, Nordic Council of Ministers, Lund University, Sweden, 15 - 19 June, 1997. 1998 Workshop on Possession, Faculty of Modern Languages, Copenhagen Business School, 28 - 30 May, 1998 The Connection between Areal Diffusion and the Genetic Model of Language Relationship, International Workshop, The Australian National University, Canberra, 17 - 22 August, 1998 1999 Methods in Historical Linguistics, Colloquium of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen, 17 May, 1999 International conference on New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Potsdam, June, 1999. Motivation in Grammar, International Workshop, Hamburg, July 7-9, 1999 International Conference of Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada, 7-14 August, 1999 2000 Summer School, University of Tartu, Estonia, 11-19 June, 2000 International Conference :The Evolution of Language, Paris, 3-6 April, 2000 2001 Workshop on Possession, Bremen, 12 February, 2001 2002 International Conference on Rhetoric in Language Theory, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, 4-7 July, 2002 2003 Typology Symposium, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 8-9 November, 2002 Annual Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Society, Tokyo, 12-15 September, 2003 31st Linguists' Seminar (31. Linguisten-Seminar) of the Japanese Society for German Studies, Kyoto, 26-29 August, 2003 Symposium on Grammaticalization, Nanao, Ishikawa (Japan), 9-10 September, 2003 Seminar on "Windows on Language Genesis", The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), 7 – 8 November, 2003 2004 11th International Morphology Meeting 2004, Vienna, 14-17 February, 2004 International Symposium: Endangered Languages in Contact: Nigeria's Plateau Languages, Hamburg 25-6 March, 2004. Workshop on Reciprocity and Reflexivity - description, typology and theory, Free University, Berlin, 1-2 October, 2004 Workshop on Language Typology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea, 17-20 October, 2004 Annual Meeting of the Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea, Seoul, 22 October, 2004 Cognitive Linguistics Society of Germany, Hamburg, 12-14 December, 2004 2005 International Conference on From Gram to Mind: Grammar as Cognition, Bordeaux, 19-21 May, 2005 LIPP-Symposium Sprache und Geschichte, University of Munich, 1-2 July, 2005 Blankensee Colloquium on Language Evolution: Cognitive and Cultural Factors, Berlin, July 14-16, 2005 Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Seminar Lecture Series, Wassenaar, 8 December, 2005 2006 LOT Winterschool, Free University of Amsterdam, 15-20 January, 2006 International colloquium: Qu'est-ce que faire de la typologie? Université de Paris 7, Paris, 22-23 May 2006 Fifth World Congress of African Linguistics, Addis Abeba, 7-11 August 2006 Cradle of Language, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 7-10 November 2006 Khoekhoe Workshop, Paarl, South Africa, 13-16 November 2006 2007 Spring School on Grammaticalization and Typology, 21-24 March, 2007, Rakvere, Estonia Symposium on Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language: Theory of Implications, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 10-13 May, 2007 Workshop on the Grammaticalization of Discourse and Grammar, Rio de Janeiro, 12-15 June, 2007 International Symposium on the Projeto História do Portugueæs Paulista - Projeto Caipira, Sao Paulo, 18-19 June, 2007 Konferenz “Eurolinguistik”, Universität Leipzig, 29 September – 2 October, 2007-11-30 International Bantu Conference, Department of Oriental and African Languages, Göteborg University, 4-6 October, 2007 Conference on Ditransitive Constructions, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 23-25 November, 2007 2008 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Bamberg, 27 – 29 February, 2008 International symposium on The Rise of Syntactic Complexity, 27 – 29 March, 2008, Rice University, Houston, USA 8th Course in Typology, University of Barcelona, 13 – 16 April, 2008 Workshop “New Directions in Historical Linguistics”, University of Lyon, May 11-14, 2008 Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages, Tartu, Estonia, 29 May – 1 June, 2008 “International Workshop on the Ghana-Togo-Mountain Languages”, 3 – 8 August, Ho, Ghana World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL), Sao Paulo, 11 – 15 August, 2008 2009 International Symposium on “Active Faults across Languages – The Coordinate Axis as ‘Nation’-Awareness, February 22 – 23, 2009, Osaka, Japan International Symposium on “Methodologies in Determining Morphosyntactic Change”, 5-6 March 2009, Osaka, Japan International Conference on "The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals", Senshu University, Tokyo, 26-29 April, 2009 International Conference on “A Geographical Typology of African Languages”, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan, 12-14 May, 2009 Workshop on “Between Synchrony and Diachrony”, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan, 23 May, 2009 International Conference on “Grammar and Text”, Lisbon, July 2-4, 2009 International Summer School on "Embodied Language Games and Construction Grammar", Cortona, Italy, 29 August - 4 September 2009 Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Korea, Gwangju, South Korea, 31 October 2009 International symposium on "Communicative Competence and Foreign Language Use", Seoul, 2 November, 2009 2010 Workshop "Genealogical Language Classification in Africa Beyond Greenberg", Humboldt University, Berlin, 21-22 February, 2010 International "Conference on Final Particles", Rouen, France, 27-28 May, 2010 Summer School on "The Origin of Language", University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada, 21-30 June, 2010 Summer Institute, July 13, 2010, Nankai University, China










































































Grants

22 grants, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society)
4 grants, Volkswagen-Stiftung (Volkswagen Foundation)
7 grants from various other foundations



Field research

1964 - 1965		Field research in Ghana and Togo
1968 - 2008		24 research trips to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Namibia



Lecturing tours

Lecturing trips to Austria, Australia, Brazil, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Namibia, The Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, United States of America



Publications since 2003

33 books, approx. 120 papers on African linguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, ethnobotany, grammaticalization, and/or theoretical linguistics. Books published or edited since 1990:
Grammaticalization: A conceptual framework. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. (Co-authored by Ulrike Claudi and Friederike Hünnemeyer).
Approaches to grammaticalization. Two volumes. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991. (Co-edited with Elizabeth C. Traugott).
Auxiliaries: Cognitive forces and grammaticalization. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
The Mukogodo Maasai: An ethno-botanical survey. Cologne: Köppe, 1994. (Co-authored by Matthias Brenzinger and Ingo Heine).
Swahili Plants. Cologne: Köppe Verlag, 1995. (Co-authored by Karsten Legère).
Cognitive foundations of grammar. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Possession: Cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Ik dictionary. (Nilo-Saharan, 15.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 1999.
African languages: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. (Co-edited by Derek Nurse)
World lexicon of grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press, 2002. (Co-authored by Tania Kuteva.)
Language contact and grammatical change. Cambridge University Press (2005. Co-authored by Tania Kuteva.)
The changing languages of Europe. Oxford University Press, 2006. (co-authored by Tania Kuteva.)
The genesis of grammar: a reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. (Co-authored by Tania Kuteva.)
A linguistic geography of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. (Co-edited by Derek Nurse)
The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Co-edited by Heiko Narrog), 2010
The Labwor Language of Northeastern Uganda: A Grammatical Sketch. (Studies in Nilotic Linguistics, 1.) Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. (Co-authored by Christa König)

Editor or co-editor of six publication series.