MURIEL NORDE'S HOMEPAGE

CV

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2013-: Full professor, Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2008 - 2013: Full professor, Scandinavian Languages and Cultures, University of Groningen
• 2006 - 2008: Associate professor, Scandinavian Languages and Cultures, University of Groningen
• 2002 - 2006 KNAW research fellow (funded by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Universities of Amsterdam of Groningen
• 1998 - 2002: Postdoc researcher (fundedby the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific bResearch), University of Amsterdam
• 1991 - 1997: Graduate student (AIO), Universities of Amsterdam and Uppsala
• Doctorate awarded September 4th, 1997
• Dissertation title: The history of the genitive in Swedish, a case study in degrammaticalization
• Promotor (supervisor): prof. dr. P.E. Törnqvist (Amsterdam)
• Co-promotores: Dr H.C.B. Perridon (Amsterdam), dr. L. Peterson (Uppsala)

CURRENT ACADEMIC SERVICE

• 2018-: Member of the Faculty Board, Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2015-: Editor-in-Chief of Folia Linguistica Historica
• 2015-: Member of the Executive Committee of Societas Linguistica Europaea
• 2015-: Member of the Editorial Board of Archivio Glottologico Italiano
• 2014-: Member of the Editorial Board of Språk och Stil
• 2014-: Member of the Editorial Board of Maal og Minne
• 2010-: Member of the Advisory Board of Journal of historical linguistics
• 2006-: Member of the Editorial Board of Kennislink Taal en Spraak

 PAST ACADEMIC SERVICE

• 2016-2018: Deputy Head,  Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2012-2013: Director of Studies of the Research Master in Linguistics, University of Groningen
• 2012-2013: Secretary of the Departmental Board of European Languages and Cultures, University of Groningen.
• 2011-2013: Member of the Ubbo Emmius Colleghie for the advancement of conference organization in Groningen
• 2010-2012: Secretary of the Curriculum Committee of the Research Master in Linguistics, University of Groningen
• 2010-2013: Member of the Executive Committee of Societas Linguistica Europaea
• 2008-2012: Head of Department, Scandinavian Languages and Cultures, University of Groningen
• 2006-2011: Co-ordinator of the Language Variation and Language Change research group of the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG)
• 2000- 2006: Secretary of the Dutch Association of Old Germanic Studies
• 2004- 2006: Co-organizer of the CLCG Linguistics Colloquium, University of Groningen
• 1998-2002: Contributor to the Corpus of Old Swedish texts (Fornsvenska textbanken)

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

• 2015: Co-organizer of of a workshop called "Grammatikalisierung in den skandinavischen Sprachen" at the 22. Arbeitstagung der Skandinavistik, University of Cologne, September 29, 2015
• 2014: Co-organizer of the workshop "Category change from a constructional perspective" at The International Conference on Construction Grammar 8, University of Osnabrück, September 5-6, 2014.
• 2012: Co-organizer of Coglingdays 2012, University of Groningen.
• 2012: Co-organizer of the workshop "Exaptation: Constraining the Concept" at the 45th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Stockholm, August 29-September 1, 2012.
• 2012: Co-organizer of Constructional Change in the Languages of Europe, Exploratory Workshop at NIAS, Wassenaar, January 12-14, 2012.
• 2011: Co-organizer of a workshop on exaptation at the XXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics,Osaka, Japan, July 25, 2011.
• 2010: Co-organizer of the Skandinavistendagen, University of Groningen, November 25-26, 2010.
• 2009: Co-organizer of ATDS 2009, University of Amsterdam, August 18-21, 2000.
• 2009: Co-organizer of Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research, University of Groningen, October 8-9, 2009
• 2006: Co-organizer of the Language Contact in Times of Globalization conference, University of Groningen, September 28-30, 2006
• 2002: Co-organizer of the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 2 conference, University of Amsterdam, April 4-6, 2002

TEACHING

I started teaching in 1992, when I was still a PhD-student. Since then, I have offered courses on a wide variety of topics, at all levels, and in four languages (Dutch, English, German, and Swedish).  Subjects include:

• Introduction to general linguistics
• Theory and methods in linguistics
• Corpus linguistics
• Principles of historical linguistics
• Grammaticalization and other composite changes
• Linguistic change in progress
• Asymmetry in language change
• Contact linguistics
• Language Evolution
• Scandinavian linguistics (synchronic and diachronic)
• Swedish grammar
• Swedish as a foreign language
• Old West Scandinavian (Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian)
• Old East Scandinavian (Old Danish and Old Swedish)

For my current courses at the Humboldt University of Berlin please see our Agnes Course Catalogue.