Active with the TGDP: Spring2023
Caroline is a PhD candidate in the department of German Linguistics at the TU Dortmund, Germany. Her primary research interests are language contact and language change, (morpho)syntactic variation, dialectology and extraterritorial varieties of German. Her doctoral research concerns a comparison of syntactic variation in sentence linkage in different extraterritorial varieties of German, namely German in Chile, Namibia, Russia and Texas.
Caroline received her B.A. in Applied Linguistics and German Studies in 2015 from the University of Cologne and her M.A. in Linguistics in 2019 from the University of Bielefeld, with a focus on Mayan languages. She has ample experience in language documentation having worked in Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Chile and Germany. She is also the founder of the Network for German Language Minority Research (Netzwerk für deutsche Sprachminderheitenforschung), which aims to connect early career researchers working on similar topics in the field of extraterritorial varieties of German. During her time at the TGDP she is conducting a questionnaire-based-survey with speakers of the Texas German Dialect as part of her dissertation.
