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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Tenured full professors | Germanic Linguistics

Birgit Alber

Birgit.Alber@unibz.it

+39 0472 014210

BX A3.36b
Faculty of Education
Regensburger Allee 16 - viale Ratisbona, 16
39042
Brixen-Bressanone

Courses

Comparative Grammar of German and Italian

12415C · L-LIN/14 · LM-85 bis Education German section · DE

German Linguistics

12405A · L-LIN/14 · LM-85 bis Education German section · DE

German Linguistics (Lab.)

12405B · L-LIN/14 · LM-85 bis Education German section · DE

Migrationssprachen/Lingue di migrazione

87006 · L-LIN/14 · Training course L2 2023 · DE

Minority Language: Fersentalerisch

54128 · L-LIN/14 · LM-39 Applied Linguistics · DE

PhD Summer School in Linguistics

15142 · PhD Linguistics · EN

Main Research Areas

- the phonology of German and its varieties
- description and analysis of the Germanic varieties of Northern Italy (Tyrolean, Mòcheno and Cimbrian), compared to their Romance contact varieties
- theoretical phonology in the framework of Optimality Theory (the analysis of linguistic typologies)
- analysis of the stress patterns of the world's languages
- prosodic morphology (the typology of truncation)