Dr. Jan Wohlgemuth, M.A.
Research assistant

Interests

Linguistic areas

• Linguistic typology
• Language universals and particulars/rarissima
  
• Sociolinguistics
  
• Language death, endangered languages
• Pragmatics (politeness, speech styles)
• Languages and cultures in contact
  
• Phonetics and (non-generative) phonology
• Orthography and graphematics; sound-to-letter-correspondence
• Onomastics, etymology, principles of naming
  
• Linguistics basics, introductions into linguistics
  
• Language in space; language geography, dialectology; language varieties
  
• Theory of grammar; theory of language description and documentation
  
• Intercultural communication; language & culture
  
• Uses and abuses of linguist(ic)s and language(s)
  

Languages

• Austronesian languages; esp. Malayic and Celebic languages and Māori
  
• Languages of Australia
  
• Germanic languages and dialects of German
  
• Slavic languages
• Pidgin English; esp. Tok Pisin
  

WWW activities

• Linguist.de Papers and Links; home pages of Linguists
• LingLink Interactive collection of linguistic links
• StuTS Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (students' conference linguistics)
• Linguisten-Forum ... a forum for linguists, what else?
• Glottopedia - The online encyclopedia of linguistics
  
• several mailing lists
  

Memberships

• ALT Association for Linguistic Typology
• DGfS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
• GBS Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen e.V.
• StuTS-FV Förderverein der Studentischen Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS) e.V.; founding member and secretary