Karoline Kühl

Prof. Dr. Karoline Kühl is a Professor of Danish Linguistics at Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF), specializing in sociolinguistics, language contact, and heritage languages. Her work focuses on Danish outside Denmark, including in Argentina, North America, the Faroe Islands, and Schleswig-Holstein. She leads major projects like 'Dansk sprog i forandring' and 'Danske Stemmer i USA og Argentina,' documenting diasporic Danish varieties. Her research integrates corpus linguistics and sociolinguistic fieldwork.

Education:

• PhD (2008) in Danish Linguistics from EUF
• State Exam (2003) in Danish Education

Research Interests:

• Linguistic variation in multilingual communities
• Language ecology of translocated communities
• Documentation of endangered Danish dialects
• Language maintenance strategies in immigrant contexts

Projects:

• 'Danske Stemmer' (2014-2018): Created the Corpus of American Danish with 300+ recordings
• 'Dansk uden for Danmark' (2012-2014): Analyzed Danish in Schleswig, Faroes, and Americas

Grants & Awards:

• Kurt-Hamer-Promotionsstipendium (2003)
• Funding from Carlsberg Foundation, A.P. Møller Foundation

Labs & Teams: Leads EUF's Danish Linguistics research group, collaborating internationally on heritage language projects.