Christa Dürscheid

Christa Dürscheid ( born October 4, 1959 in Kehl-Kork, Baden- Württemberg ) is a German linguist. She teaches as a university professor at the University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts, and is Chair of German Language, Linguistics Department held. Her research interests lie in the area of ​​grammar, language teaching, Scripture linguistics, Varieties and media linguistics. Christa Dürscheid authored numerous articles in addition to two study books, syntax. Foundations and theories (2012 ) and Introduction to the font Linguistics ( 2012).

Life and work

After completing his studies from 1978 to 1981 in German, French and education in Freiburg and Cologne she completed her doctorate in 1988 with a dissertation on the subject to advance occupation in German Verbzweit structures. In 1998 she qualified as a professor with the Scriptures, the written case of the Germans. Studies on the syntax, semantics and perspective.

After visiting scholar at Charles University in Prague, the German Department of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, the Institute of Foreign Languages, Nanjing University in China, the Department of German philology at the State University of Volgograd and the Chair of German Philology at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, she worked from 1995 to 1999 as a lecturer at the Institute for German language and Literature and at the Department of German language and its Didactics at the University of Cologne. In autumn 1999, she completed a lecture tour to South Korea (Seoul, Sokcho, Pusan ​​).

1999 to 2000 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Linguistics / German Studies at the University of Stuttgart. From 2000 to 2002 she taught as a university lecturer at the Institute for German Language and Literature and its didactics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.

In 2002 she was appointed to a professorship in German language, in particular the presence of language at the University of Zurich and refused the offer of a C-3 Chair of German Linguistics at the University of Erlangen -Nuremberg. In 2006 she undertook another lecture tour that they to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka) led. From 2006 to 2009 she served as Vice Dean for Administration at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zurich. From 2006 to 2011 she headed the National Science Foundation project " writing skills and new media." Since 2011 she has worked with colleagues from Germany and Austria lead the international research project " variant of standard German grammar " (supported by SNF, DFG and FWF). In addition, Christa Dürscheid is the program director of the Sinergia project "SMS communication in Switzerland: Facets of linguistic variation in a multilingual country ," which began its work in 2011.

Writings (selection )

• To advance occupation in German Verbzweit structures. Scientific Verlag Trier, Trier, 1989, ISBN 3-922031-97-8 (Dissertation, University of Cologne, 1989).
• The verbal case of the Germans: Studies on the syntax, semantics and perspective. De Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-016492-2 ( Habilitation thesis, University of Cologne, 1998).
• Syntax: Fundamentals and theories. West German Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000; 6, updated edition ( UTB Vol = 3319. ): Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3711-0.
• Introduction to Linguistics font. West German Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012; 4th revised and updated edition ( UTB Vol = 3740. ): Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3740-0.
• With Francesco Wagner and Sarah Brommer: how to write young people. Writing skills and new media ( = Linguistics. Impulses and tendencies. Vol. 41). De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023611-8.

• With Jürgen Spitzmiiller: Perspectives of youth language research. Trends and Developments in Youth Language Research. Publisher Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2006, ISBN 3-63-1537-34-4.
• With Jürgen Spitzmiiller: nuances. For the language of youth in German Switzerland. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-03823-226-2.
• With Kersten Sven Roth: choice of words - choice of weapons? Language and politics in Switzerland. Hempen -Verlag, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-934106-81-9.