Stefan Rabanus

Stefan Rabanus is a Full Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona specializing in German Language, Translation and Linguistics (GERM-01/C). He serves as Director of the international Ph.D. programme in Linguistics (joint PhD Verona-Bolzano/Bozen-Marburg) and Vice Director of the PhD School of the University of Verona overseeing multiple PhD areas.

His research spans several key linguistic domains:

• Morphosyntax (syncretism, agreement [verb, pronoun], possessives, DP structures)
• Dialectology and German Language History
• German-Romance (-Slavic) Language Contact phenomena
• Digital Humanities applications including Crowdsourcing, Corpus Linguistics, and Language Mapping

Professor Rabanus directs the section "Historical dialectology and history of dialectology" of the International Association of Dialectology of German (IGDD) and co-edits the academic journal "Germanistische Linguistik" (ISSN 0072-1492).

His notable appointments include:

• Cooptated Professor at the Research Institute Deutscher Sprachatlas, University of Marburg (since 2007)
• Professor for German Linguistics at Yerevan State Linguistic University, Armenia (2012–2014 full time; since 2014 visiting)

He leads significant research projects such as "Alpilink: German-Romance Language Contact in the Italian Alps" (2022), "VinKo - Varietäten im Kontakt" (2019), and "Progetto di eccellenza: Le Digital Humanities applicate alle lingue e letterature straniere" (2018), while teaching courses including History of the German Language, German Language 1, and Digital project in linguistics across multiple degree programs.

His research group focuses on "Minority languages and language contact" with detailed interests in language change principles, language contact theory in Northern Italy, dialectology methodology, and syntactic/morphological analysis from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.