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Prof. Dr. Karin Donhauser is a Professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, affiliated with the Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik. She is a core member of the Collaborative Research Center 1412 (CRC 1412) titled 'Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation,' which investigates register knowledge and its situational-functional factors. Her research spans theoretical and applied linguistics, integrating perspectives from variationist studies, psycholinguistics, grammatical theory, and computational methods.
Her work contributes to understanding how language users deploy register-specific knowledge across contexts. The CRC 1412, launched in 2020, unites interdisciplinary approaches including phonology, typology, and historical linguistics. Donhauser collaborates extensively with scholars like Alexiadou, Egg, and Krifka, emphasizing collaborative frameworks for linguistic inquiry.
Publications include foundational texts like the 2020 REALIS series entry, which synthesizes state-of-the-art register research. Her research bridges theoretical models with empirical data, addressing both synchronic and diachronic dimensions of linguistic variation.
