Nadine Proske

Nadine Proske is a Researcher in the Pragmatics Department at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany. Her academic journey includes a PhD in General Linguistics from TU Berlin (2005-2011) and a research role at IDS since 2012. She has led and contributed to projects such as 'Grammaticalization and Pragmaticization' and 'Verb Complements in Spoken German.' Her work focuses on the grammar of spoken German, information structure, and usage-based approaches, combining empirical methods like corpus analysis and transcription.

Education and Career:

• 1999–2005: Studies in General Linguistics, Modern German Philology, and Educational Science at TU Berlin
• 2005–2011: PhD in General Linguistics at TU Berlin
• Since 2012: Research Assistant at IDS

Research Interests: Proske explores syntactic structures in spoken German, discourse pragmatics, grammaticalization, and the interaction between syntax and discourse. Her work emphasizes empirical methods, including corpus analysis and transcription, to understand how linguistic units function in interaction.

Key Projects:

• Head of 'Grammaticalization and Pragmaticization' project
• Collaborator in 'Verb Complements in Spoken German' (2012–2016)
• Contributor to 'Interactive Meaning Constitution' (2016–2021) and SegCor project (2016–2019)

Teaching: Proske has held lecturing roles at TU Berlin, WWU Münster, University of Potsdam, University of Bremen, and University of Mannheim between 2005 and 2022.

Labs/Teams: Engaged in interdisciplinary research groups focusing on spoken German, corpus linguistics, and interactional linguistics at IDS, collaborating on projects like the Yearbook of the Institute for the German Language and studies on motion verbs in conversation.