معرفی
Ferdinand von Mengden is a Professor at the Institute of English Philology (WE6) of Freie Universität Berlin. His work spans core areas of Linguistics, including Emergent Grammar, Language Variation, and the History of Linguistics. He supervises students in BA, MA, and doctoral programs related to English Philology and Linguistics.
- Research Focus: Dynamic, adaptive language systems; critiques of structuralist models; recontextualization in language change; urban sociolinguistics; historical-comparative studies.
- Current Projects: A monograph on Emergent Grammar linking social theory to linguistic practices, and analysis of methodological nationalism in 20th-century linguistics.
His recent articles explore themes like recontextualization, urban language diversity, and historical evolution of numerals, emphasizing interdisciplinary connections to cultural evolution and primate behavior. Supervision includes thesis guidance across programs like BA Sprache und Gesellschaft and MA Sprachwissenschaft. He is affiliated with the Dahlem Center for Linguistics and contributes to debates on language ideologies.
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