Sybille Große

Sybille Große is a Professor of Romance Linguistics at the Department of Romance Studies, Heidelberg University, and holds a joint HCIAS Bridge Professor position. Her expertise focuses on language history, discourse traditions, and language standardization in Romance languages, with particular emphasis on Portuguese language contact studies. She contributes to the HCIAS Research Focus 3 and connects the institute to the university's 'Cultural Dynamics in Globalized Worlds' initiative.

Her research explores linguistic evolution through historical discourse analysis and language contact phenomena, emphasizing the interplay between standardization processes and cultural globalization. She maintains affiliations with the Romanesque Seminar and actively bridges interdisciplinary collaborations.