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Sebastian Kürschner
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kürschner
Chair of German Linguistics
Phone +49 8421 93-21508
E-mail sebastian.kuerschner@ku.de
Room: UA-222
Postal Address
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Office hours
Office hours: by appointment
Research Interests
  • Grammar (focus: morphology)
  • Variationist Linguistics
  • Historical linguistics
  • Contrastive Germanic linguistics
  • Language and dialect contact
  • Mutual intelligibility of closely related varieties
  • Onomastics
Projects and Research Areas
Positions and Memberships
  • Chairholder of German Linguistics
  • Member of the University Council
  • Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Languages and Literatures
  • Member of the Interfaculty Examination Board
  • Member of the governing board of the KU Language Center
  • Program Director of the MA  Intercultural Advertising: Language, Media, Marketing
  • Program Director of the BA Languages and Cultures of Europe / MA Languages and Cultures of Europe
  • Spokesperson of the Flexible Track in the Interdisciplinary BA/Interdisciplinary MA-Program of the KU
  • Member of the Center for Latin American Studies (ZILAS)
  • Member of the KU Research Center "Cultures of Dialogue"
  • Member of the advisory review board of the series Convergence and Divergence: Comparative Studies on German, ed. by Eva Breindl and Lutz Gunkel (Berlin: Akademie Verlag)
  • Member of the advisory review board of the journal Caderno de Letras (UFPEL Pelotas)
  • Examiner for the Bavarian State Teaching Examination
  • Member of the academic advisory board for dialect research at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Member of the advisory board of the Erich Pawlu Literature Foundation, Dillingen
Academic CV

Since October 2016: Chair of German Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

2021 – 2023: Dean, Faculty of Languages and Literatures

January 2012 – September 2016: Professor of Variationist Linguistics and Contact Linguistics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
(Parental leave: 09/2015 – 07/2016)

2011: Offered W2 Professorship in Scandinavian Studies / Linguistics at Christian-Albrechts University Kiel (declined)

April 2009 – December 2011: Junior Professor of Variationist Linguistics and Contact Linguistics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
(Parental leave: 04/2011 – 10/2011)

March 2007 – March 2009: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Groningen

2007: PhD, Faculty of Philology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

April 2006 – February 2007: PhD Fellow, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst

October 2003 – March 2006: Research Associate, University of Freiburg, Institute of Comparative Germanic Philology and Scandinavian Studies

October 2005 – March 2006: Lecturer, University of Basel, German Institute, Nordic Studies

1997 – 2003: Studies in North Germanic Philology, German Linguistics, and Computational Linguistics at the Universities of Freiburg and Copenhagen

Selected Presentations
In preparation:

„Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der deutschen Sprache und Liturgiesprache.“ Paper presented at the conference Die Liturgiesprache. Ein Komplex von Herausforderungen an der Catholic Private University Linz, 12-14 March 2026.

“Wie prägend ist die Numerusprofilierung am Substantiv für das Deutsche?” Paper presented at the conference Was prägt die deutsche Sprache? Zum Verhältnis von natürlicher Sprachentwicklung und metasprachlicher Intervention, University of Würzburg, 26–27 March 2026.

 

2024:

“Süd- und nordböhmische Sprachminderheiten in Brasilien.” Paper presented at the conference Grenzen überschreiten: Sprach-, literatur- und kulturübergreifende Perspektiven. Deutsche Sprache in interkulturellen Kontexten und mehrsprachigen Regionen Mitteleuropas, Opole (Poland), 11–12 April 2024 (online).

“Von Nisi, Raffa, Wolle und Schnitzel – Einblicke in die Spitznamenforschung.” Public lectures delivered as part of the Kinderuni (university for kids) programme at TH Ingolstadt (18 October 2024) and at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (8 November 2024).

With Lucas Löff Machado: “Language attitudes, language ideologies, belonging: Meta-linguistic stances marking distinction and adequation in German-speaking communities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.” Paper presented at the workshop Postcolonial Frontier Spaces in South America, Eichstätt, 20–22 November 2024.

 

2025:

“Variationslinguistisches Perspektiven zum Deutschen im Süden Brasiliens.” Invited lecture, University of Bamberg, 30 January 2025.

“Mit Spatzen und Orcas ins Wolfsrudel: Namen von Sportmannschaften und ihre Vermarktung auf Basis von Tierbezeichnungen.” Paper presented at the workshop Tierlinguistik / Animal Linguistics, University of Mainz, 27–28 March 2025.

“The formation of nicknames in Germanic languages – Han, HJ, Hannane, and Hannis meet Patje, Squeak, Päde, and Patti.” Lecture at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), 1 April 2025.

“‘Die Affenbande brüllt nicht mehr’ – Der Gebrauch von Spitznamen für Sportmannschaften zur Fremd- und Eigenreferenz.” Paper presented at the conference of the Society for Name Research, Namen im Kontext, Uppsala (Sweden), 2–4 April 2025.

“Pirates and Golden Dragons vs. Satellites and Hauptstadtsprinter: Marketing names of German sports teams.”
Paper presented at the alumni meeting of the MA Werbung interkulturell – Sprache, Medien, Marketing, Åbo Akademi University, Turku (Finland), 30–31 May 2025.

“Nordisch by nature: Constructions of ‘Nordisch’ language and multilingualism in recent popular cultures.”
Paper presented at the workshop The North as a Symbolic Landscape, Eichstätt, 4 July 2025.

With Lucas Löff Machado: „Zugehörigkeit, Spracheinstellung, Sprachideologie: Metasprachliche Positionierungen zur inneren und äußeren Mehrsprachigkeit bei deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaften in Rio Grande do Sul, Brasilien.“ Presentation at the 8th Congress of the International Society for German Dialectology (IGDD): “Dialekte im Urbanen Raum/Dialects in Urban Spaces” at the HU Berlin, 18.–20. September 2025.

“Kua oder Kou ‘Kuh’? Die Realisierung der Diphthongvariable mittelhochdeutsch ie, uo, üe im Bairischen von São Bento do Sul (Santa Catarina, Brasilien).” Paper presented at the conference German Abroad 6 – Deutsch weltweit: Diversität und Vitalität, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, 1–3 October 2025.

Publications

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Current Teaching

Winter Semester 2025/2026

  • Linguistic Problem-Solving: History of Language, exercise, Fri 12:30–02:00 pm, UA-030
  • Fundamentals of Advertising Language, seminar, Thu 2:15–3:45 pm, UA-135
  • German In and Beyond Europe, lecture, Fri 2:15–3:45 pm, UA-135
  • German In and Beyond Europe, lecture tutorial, online
  • Introduction to European Linguistics I, online lecture; lecture tutorial, Thu 12:15–13:00 pm, UA-134

 

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