Prof. em. Dr. Bernd Heine

Born 25 May 1939 in Mohrungen, Germany (now Poland)

Office
Institut für Afrikanistik
Universität zu Köln
50923 Köln
Germany
Phone: (0049-)221-470.4699 or .2708
Fax: (0049-)221-4705158

Home
Nonnenwerthstr. 48
50937 Köln
Germany
Phone: (0049-)221-464609

Occupation at the institute

1978-2004 professor and member of the managing-committee

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
1969-1971 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Nairobi, and Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi
1971-1975 Dozent ("Senior Lecturer"), University of Cologne
1975-1978 Visiting Professor, University of Nairobi
1978-2004 Professor, Institut für Afrikanistik, University of Cologne
1994-1995 Visiting Professor, LaTrobe University, Melbourne
1994 Faculty member, Australian Linguistic Institute
1995 Faculty member, Institute of the Linguistic Society of America
1999-2000 Member, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, USA
2002 Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, USA
2003 Visiting Scholar, The Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University, Melbourne
2005-2006 Visiting Scholar, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar

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
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
1997 President, Standing Committee for the World Congress of African Linguistics
1999 Member, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
1999-2000 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, USA
2002 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The Institute for Advanced Study, Melbourne

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)
Academic referee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Society), the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service), and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Humboldt Foundation), National Science Foundation

Key-note addresses/Invited speaker

05/1988 International Symposium on Grammaticalization, University of Oregon, Eugene
08/1989 International Kiswahili Symposium, National Kiswahili Council, Dar es Salaam
08-09/1989 Third International Conference on Tradition and Modernization in Africa Today, Budapest
11/1989 Confrontation in Diachronic Linguistics: Syntactic Reanalysis vs. Grammaticalization and Semantic Change, Tenth Groningen Grammar Talks
01/1990 International Symposium on Sociolinguistics in Africa, Johannesburg
04/1990 Conference on Explanation in Historical Linguistics, Milwaukee
09/1990 Groningen Fourth International Kiswahili Conference, Nairobi
09/1990 Conference on Language and National Unity, Languages Society of Namibia, Windhoek
11/1990 Symposium on occasion of the opening of the Institute for Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Leiden
02/1991 Annual Meeting, Berkeley Linguistics Society
03/1991 North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Berkeley
04/1991 Language, Thought, and Culture, A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
04/1991 International Conference on Languages in Contact and in Conflict in Africa, Pretoria
05/1991 International Symposium on Mood and Modality, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
03/1992 Symposium on Intercultural Communication, University of Duisburg, Duisburg
10/1992 La Semantica in Prospettiva Diacronica e Sincronica, Annual meeting, Società Italiana di Glottologia, Macerata
05/1993 Back to Basic Issues in Nominal Classification, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Nijmegen
07/1993 Third International Conference on Cognitive Linguistics, Leuven
03/1994 Annual Meeting, Berkeley Linguistics Society
07/1994 1st World Congress of African Linguistics, Kwaluseni, Swaziland
09/1994 Terra in et Théorie en Linguistique, Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
10/1994 Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Grammaticalization, Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen, Rungsted
01/1995 Journée d'Etudes, Société Linguistique de Paris
06/1995 Morphology Day, Linguistic Institute, Linguistic Society of America, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
07/1995 Functional Approaches to Grammar - an International Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
10/1995 International Consultants Seminar, Summer Institute of Linguistics, on The Role of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in African Linguistics, Ruiru, Kenya
11/1996 Annual Conference, Scandinavian Linguistic Society, University of Turku, Finnland
03/1997 The Interface Between Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization Theory: Languages of the Americas. International Symposium, Rice University, USA
06/1997 Course in Semantics, Nordic Council of Ministers, Lund University, Sweden
05/1998 Workshop on Possession, Faculty of Modern Languages, Copenhagen Business School
08/1998 The Connection between Areal Diffusion and the Genetic Model of Language Relationship, International Workshop, The Australian National University, Canberra
05/1999 Methods in Historical Linguistics, Colloquium of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen
06/1999 International conference on New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Potsdam
07/1999 Motivation in Grammar, International Workshop, Hamburg
08/1999 International Conference of Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada
04/2000 International Conference :The Evolution of Language, Paris
02/2001 Workshop "Possession", Bremen
International Conference on Rhetoric in Language Theory, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, 4-7 July, 2002
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
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 Reciprocals and Reflexives, 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

Grants

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

Field research

1964-1965 Ghana, Togo
1968-1995 Kenia, Tanzania, Uganda
1996-2001 Namibia

Lecturing tours

Lecturing trips to Australia, England, France, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, The Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Namibia, Tanzania, United States, Sweden, Finnland, Estonia

Publications

34 books, approx. 120 papers on African linguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, ethnobotany, grammaticalization, and/or theoretical linguistics.

Books published/edited since 1990

1991. Grammaticalization: A conceptual framework. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Co-authored by Ulrike Claudi and Friederike Hünnemeyer).
1991. Approaches to grammaticalization. Two volumes. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Co-edited with Elizabeth C. Traugott).
1993. Auxiliaries: Cognitive forces and grammaticalization. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1994. The Mukogodo Maasai: An ethno-botanical survey. Cologne: Köppe. (Co-authored by Matthias Brenzinger and Ingo Heine).
1995. Swahili Plants. Cologne: Köppe Verlag. (Co-authored by Karsten Legère)
1997. Cognitive foundations of grammar. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1997. Possession: Cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1999. Ik dictionary. (Nilo-Saharan, 15.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
2000. African Languages: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Co-edited by Derek Nurse)
2002. World lexicon of grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press, (Co-authored by Tania Kuteva)
2005. Language contact and grammatical change. Cambridge University Press (Co-authored by Tania Kuteva)
2006. The changing languages of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Co-authored by Tania Kuteva)