Steffen Reetz

Steffen Reetz is a linguist affiliated with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cologne, where he previously served as a Research Associate (2015-2019) in Prof. Birgit Hellwig's project "Documenting Child Language: The Qaqet Baining of Papua New Guinea" focusing on linguistic fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.

Education:

• BA in Turkic Studies and MA in Linguistics from Freie Universität Berlin and Bamberg University (2008-2015)

Research Interests: Dr. Reetz specializes in Language Contact phenomena and comprehensive Language Documentation methodologies, with extensive fieldwork experience in endangered language communities. His geographic expertise centers on Papua Languages (particularly Qaqet Baining) and Turkic Languages (including Turkish and Kazakh), examining sociolinguistic dynamics and grammatical structures through primary data collection in native speaker communities.

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