About
Oliver Bunk is a linguist at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, affiliated with the Department of German Language and Linguistics. His academic role involves research in language variation, language contact, and multilingualism, with a focus on German varieties and language ideologies.
- University: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Department: Department of German Language and Linguistics
- Email: oliver.bunk@hu-berlin.de
- Projects: Research Unit "Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations" (Project P8), CRC 1412 "Register" (Project C07), Centre "Language in Urban Diversity"
His research explores whether language ideology influences linguistic structure, differences in communicative contexts between multilingual and monolingual speakers, and grammatical variation in German. He employs empirical methods from sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Recent publications address heritage language intonation, noncanonical syntax in Kiezdeutsch, and sociolinguistic variation in German modal particles. He coordinates the Centre "Language in Urban Diversity" and contributes to comparative studies on bilingual and monolingual language use through the RUEG corpus.
Scientific trends in his work include: register distinctions in multilingual contexts, prosodic realization in heritage languages, and cross-linguistic analysis of resumption strategies. His publications frequently intersect sociolinguistics, syntax, and corpus-based methodologies.
