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Roger Schöntag is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Romance Studies, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Humboldt University Berlin, where he holds the Chair of Italian Linguistics since 2024. Previously, he served as Acting Professor at the University of Mannheim (2023-2024) and completed his habilitation at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2021 with venia legendi granted in 2022. His academic career spans multiple prestigious German institutions including extensive research and teaching positions at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (2009-2023) and LMU Munich (2002-2010).
His educational background includes a doctorate from LMU Munich (2003), a Master's degree from the same institution (1999), and undergraduate studies in Romance Philology (French, Italian, Spanish) and Ancient History at LMU Munich (1992-1999). His habilitation thesis focused on The Understanding of Vulgar Latin in the Early Modern Period Against the Background of the Questione della lingua.
Professor Schöntag's research centers on language contact, language history, migration linguistics, geolinguistics, and minority languages. His work explores how geographical factors shape language spaces, the dynamics of linguistic minorities, historical language contact phenomena, and the evolution of Romance languages. His approach integrates historical, geographical, and sociolinguistic perspectives to examine language variation and change across time and space.
His extensive publication record reveals consistent engagement with historical language contact phenomena, particularly focusing on migration linguistics and geolinguistic approaches. His recent work shows increasing attention to digital preservation of minority languages, historical language documentation, and interdisciplinary approaches combining linguistics with cultural history and anthropology. The articles demonstrate sophisticated methodological diversity, ranging from textual analysis of historical documents to spatial linguistic modeling.
Professor Schöntag has served as editor for numerous academic publications including the Beiträge zur bayerischen Geschichte, Sprache und Kultur journal (since 2018) and Studia linguistica et philologica (since 2017). He is currently co-editing the Manual of Historical Contact Languages in Romance for De Gruyter's Manual of Romance Linguistics series.
His collaborative work with scholars like Barbara Schäfer-Prieß, Laura Linzmeier, and Stephanie Massicot demonstrates strong interdisciplinary connections across Romance linguistics. His current research at Humboldt University focuses on Italian linguistics within broader Romance language contexts, with particular attention to historical language contact phenomena and geolinguistic approaches to language space formation.
