Career
Positions: 01/02/2009 -
+ Professor for "African linguistics and sociolinguistics" at the Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, HU Berlin
01/10/2007 – 30/01/2009
+ Assistent professor for General Linguistics at the Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Zürich
01/10/2006 - 30/09/2007
+ Professor for "African linguistics and sociolinguistics" at the Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, HU Berlin
Research fellow: 1995 - 1996
+ Research in the project "Areale der Grammatikalisierung" at the Institute for African Studies/University of Cologne (Prof. Heine)
1996 - 2000
+ Research for "Habilitation" at the Institute for African Studies/Leipzig University
+ included six-months research visit to southern Africa to the Universities of Namibia at Windhoek, of South Africa at Pretoria and of the Witwatersrand at Johannesburg
+ Habilitation thesis: "Quotative constructions in African languages: a synchronic and diachronic survey" (see Güldemann 2008)
since 01/12/2000
+ Research at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology at Leipzig/ Linguistics section
since 01/06/2002
+ "Privatdozent" at the Institute for African Studies/Leipzig University
Graduate research: 1993 - 1995
+ Research for Ph.D. at the Institute for African Studies/University of Cologne
+ included five months field research in Tanzania
+ Doctoral thesis: "Verbalmorphologie und Nebenprädikationen im Bantu: Eine Studie zur funktional motivierten Genese eines konjugationalen Subsystems" (see Güldemann 1996)
1992 - 1993
+ Research in the project "Grammatikalisierung in afrikanischen Sprachen" carried out at the Institute for African Studies/University of Cologne (Prof. Heine)
University studies: 1987 - 1993
+ Subjects: African studies, General linguistics, Portuguese at the Universities of Leipzig and Cologne
+ included in 1991 three months in Tanzania: advanced language course in Swahili at the Institute for Swahili and Foreign Languages in Zanzibar and field research
+ Professors: Bork, Brauner, Heine, Legére, Möhlig, Perl, Sasse, Serzisko, Steube, Zybatov
+ M.A. thesis (at the Institute for African Studies/Leipzig University): "Prosodische Markierung als sprachliche Strategie zur Hierarchisierung verknüpfter Prädikationen am Beispiel des Shona" (see Güldemann 1997b)