PD Dr Nicole Eller-Wildfeuer

• 1997 - 2001: First State Examination in German Philology for the Teaching Profession at Secondary Schools
• 2002 - 2005: Doctoral programme with German linguistics as main subject and German literature and pedagogy as minor subjects at the University of Passau (dissertation project: Syntax of the Bavarian basic dialect in the Bohemian Forest)
• 2005: Doctorate (Dr phil.) at the University of Passau
• October 2005 - November 2006: Habilitation scholarship from the University Science Programme for the Promotion of Women in Science and Teaching
• April 2006 - September 2021: Lecturer at the University of Passau at the Chair of German Linguistics
• December 2006 - January 2007: Postdoctoral scholarship under the Bavarian Elite Support Programme
• February 2007 - January 2010: Research Assistant at the Institute of German Language and Literature at the University of Regensburg (Professor Dr Albrecht Greule) in the DFG project "Names on Merovingian Monetary Coins"
• June 2007 - February 2008: Research Assistant at the Chair of German Linguistics at the University of Passau (Professor Dr Rüdiger Harnisch) in the EU project "Settlement names in the border region of the Bavarian Forest and the Bohemian Forest"
• 2008 to 2012: Project leader in the TransCoop project "The German Varieties in North America", which was funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and carried out in cooperation with Professor Dr William D. Keel, director of the Linguistic Atlas of Kansas-German Dialects (University of Kansas/Lawrence)
• October 2008 - December 2011: Research Assistant at the Chair of German Linguistics at the University of Passau (Professor Dr Rüdiger Harnisch) in the EU project "Settlement Names in the Bavarian-Bohemian Border Region"
• February 2010 - September 2011: Assistant Professor at the Institute of German Language and Literature at the University of Regensburg (Professor Dr Rupert Hochholzer)
• Since 1 October 2011: Lecturer for special tasks at the Institute of German Language and Literature at the University of Regensburg (German Linguistics; Professor Dr Paul Rössler)
• Winter semester 2011/12 and summer semester 2012: Lecturer at the University of Regensburg for the department of German as a second language (Professor Dr Rupert Hochholzer)
• January 2012: Habilitation as a private Lecturer at the University of Passau; venia legendi for "German linguistics"
• Summer semester 2013: Lecturer at the University of Augsburg for the Department of German Linguistics
• Winter semester 2015/16 and summer semester 2016: Lecturer at the University of Augsburg for the DaZ/DaF department
• Since September 2018: Advisory board member of the International Society for Dialectology of German (IGDD); head of the section for "Multilingualism and Minority Languages" (together with Prof Dr Silvia dal Negro)
• September 2019 until October 2023: Chair of the jury for the award of the Johann Andreas Schmeller Prize
• January 2021: Awarded the teaching qualification for the subject area "German linguistics" at the University of Regensburg
• 2022: Cultural award winner of the district of Regen for the year 2021
• 1. April 2024 to 30 September 2024: Representation of the Professorship for German Linguistics at the University of Regensburg

Monographs and anthologies

Maitz, Péter/Wildfeuer, Alfred/Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (eds.) (2018): Language contact research - explanatory. Issue of the Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics. Stuttgart.

• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Rössler, Paul/Wildfeuer, Alfred (eds.) (2018): Alpindeutsch. Influence and use of German in the Alpine region. Yearbook of the Johann Andreas Schmeller Society 2017, Regensburg.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2017): Speaker biographies and multilingualism. German-based minority languages in east europe and overseas. Tübingen (Stauffenburg Linguistics, Volume 96).
• Eller, Nicole/Hackl, Stefan/L`upták, Marek (eds.) (2008): Names and their potential for conflict in a European context. Regensburg (= Regensburger Studien zur Namenforschung 4).
• Eller, Nicole (2006): Syntax of the basic Bavarian dialect in the Bohemian Forest. Regensburg (= Regensburger Dialektforum 8).

Series editions

Series Sprachen im Kontakt (together with Alfred Wildfeuer)

• Volume 1: Koch, Günter (ed.) (2013): Language minority, identity and language biography. Regensburg.
• Volume 2: Neuber, Barbara (2017): Schwobisch in Munkatsch - Linguistic identity and linguistic self-concept of speakers of a German variety in Transcarpathia. Regensburg.

essays

• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (i. V.): Phenomena of code-switching produced by speakers of German based minority languages in the USA and in Brazil. In: Boas, Hans C. (ed.): German Abroad 2 [working title]. Leiden. [submitted].

• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2022): Könik Ludwik or Könich Ludwich. In: Förderverein Bairische Sprache und Dialekte e.V. (ed.): Rundbriaf, No. 97, July 2022, 20-21.

• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Wildfeuer, Alfred (2022): Authentic multilingualism instead of language deficit - linguistic variation as a component of competence-oriented German lessons at secondary level. In: Fäcke, Christiane/Vali, Sara (eds.): Perspektiven der Mehrsprachigkeit heute in Forschung und Praxis: Lehramtsstudierende, Lehrpraxis, Lehrmaterialien. Berlin et al., 177-200.
• Wildfeuer, Alfred/Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2021): Ukrainian German Bohemians. A Bavarian speaking community in East Central Europe [online]. Augsburg: University of Augsburg. Access to the publication: https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/83251
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2021): Linguistic Landscape in a Minority Language Context: Multilingualism as a Cultural and Economic Factor in Bavarian and Alemannic Language Settlements in the Italian Alps. In: Földes, Csaba (ed.): Kontaktvarietäten des Deutschen im Ausland. Tübingen, 391-407.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Wildfeuer, Alfred (2019): ... und do zuigt er herum in der Frei zu dö Menscher - Individuelle Mehrsprachigkeit in den Erzählungen Karl Klostermanns. In: Ederová, Marketa/Malechová, Magdaléna (eds.): Language and Identity. Limits and possibilities of a constellation. Prague.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Wildfeuer, Alfred (2019): German minority languages in Central and South America. In: Schmidt, Jürgen E./Herrgen, Joachim (eds.): Sprache und Raum - Ein Internationales Handbuch der Sprachvariation / Language and Space - An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation. Vol. 30.4: German. With the co-operation of Fischer, Hanna/Ganswindt, Brigitte. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1153-1176 (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 30.4).
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2019): Examining and reflecting on language: In: Wild, Johannes/Wildfeuer, Alfred (eds.): Sprachendidaktik. An introduction to and continuation of first and second language didactics. Tübingen, 47-79.
• Wildfeuer, Alfred/Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2018): Die Hex von Wittersitt - Eine sprachliche Analyse von Hexenprozess-Verhörtprotokollen aus dem Bayerischen Wald. In: Funk, Edith/Schamberger-Hirt, Andrea/Schnabel, Michael/Erhard, Felicitas (eds.): Dialects are Forever. The unbridled pleasure of word-smithing. Festschrift for Anthony R. Rowley on his 65th birthday. Regensburg.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Wildfeuer, Alfred (2018): Thinking in continua - reflections on dealing with norms and variation in GFL and GSL lessons. In: Target language German 45, 1 (2018), 3-30.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Wildfeuer, Alfred (2018): Doanagsindl and Woidhausmich: Bavarian names of legendary figures. In: Information on Names (NI) 109/110 (2017): Focus on names in Europe. Onomastic contributions from history and the present in a cultural context. Festgabe for Dieter Kremer and Albrecht Greule. Leipzig, 174-187.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Rössler, Paul/Wildfeuer, Alfred (2018): Alpindeutsch - On the establishment of a new term. In: Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Rössler, Paul/Wildfeuer, Alfred (eds.): Alpindeutsch. Influence and use of German in the Alpine region. Regensburg, 7-12 (Yearbook of the Johann Andreas Schmeller Society 2017).
• Wildfeuer, Alfred/Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2018): A chair repaired and a bed rebarred - Analysis of a historical technical language of the carpentry trade. In: Czajkowski, Luise/Ulbrich-Bösch, Sabrina/Waldvogel, Christina (eds.): Sprachwandel im Deutschen. Berlin/Boston, 271-280 (Lingua Historica Germanica. Studies and Sources on the History of German Language and Literature, Vol. 19).
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2017): Grammatical aspects of the language use of heritagesprecherinnen und -sprechern. In: Lenz, Alexandra N./Breuer, Ludwig M./Ernst, Peter/Glauninger, Manfred M./Kallenborn, Tim/Patocka, Franz (eds.): Dynamik, Struktur und Funktion bayerisch-österreichischer Varietäten. Stuttgart, 389-405 (Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics. Supplements).
• Buchner, Sabina/Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Eufe, Rembert/Greule, Albrecht/Hackl-Rössler, Sabine/Selig, Maria (2017): Die Legenden der merovingianischen Münzen des Münzkabinetts Berlin aus linguistics Sicht. Historical, numismatic and philological study based on the holdings of the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In: Greule, Albrecht/Kluge, Bernd/Jarnut, Jörg/Selig, Maria (eds.): Die merovingianischen Monetarmünzen als interdisziplinär-mediaevistische Herausforderung. Paderborn, 125-154 (Mittelalterstudien des Instituts zur Interdisziplinären Erforschung des Mittelalters und seines Nachwirkens, Paderborn, vol. 30).
• Buchner, Sabina/Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Eufe, Rembert/Greule, Albrecht/Hackl-Rössler, Sabine/Selig, Maria (2017): Comments on the personal names occurring on the Merovingian coins of the Münzkabinett Berlin. In: Greule, Albrecht/Kluge, Bernd/Jarnut, Jörg/Selig, Maria (eds.): Die merovingianischen Monetarmünzen als interdisziplinär-mediaevistische Herausforderung. Paderborn, 293-401 (Mittelalterstudien des Instituts zur Interdisziplinären Erforschung des Mittelalters und seines Nachwirkens, Paderborn, vol. 30).
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Wildfeuer, Alfred (2016): Dees ka ich wohl. Botz! Dialect in the stage plays of Sebastian Sailer. Published in: Wolf, Klaus (ed.): Der Schwabenspiegel: Dramatisches Schwaben (Yearbook 2015). Augsburg, 46-58.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2016): Lay linguistic explanations of language loss and language preservation of German-Bohemian informants from east europe and overseas. In: Sprenzinger, Maximilian (ed.): Bairisch in der Welt. Regensburg, 152-168.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2016): Bavarian-speaking settlements in the USA and Brazil - Current situation, speaker typology and multilingual constellations. In: Lenz, Alexandra N. (ed.): German Abroad. Perspectives on variation linguistics, language contact and multilingualism research. Göttingen, 45-60.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Wildfeuer, Alfred (2014): Titsch und Töitsch - Eine Reise zu alemannischen Sprachsiedlungen im italienischen Alpenraum. In: Wolf, Klaus (ed.): Der Schwabenspiegel: Schreiben in der Fremde (Yearbook 2014). Augsburg, 38-47.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Wildfeuer, Alfred (2014): Acquisition of the correct use of past tense verb forms in pupils with German as a second and first language - An empirical study on the development of grammaticality. In: German as a second language 2/2014, 38-48.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2013): German-Bohemian minority languages. In: Koch, Günter (ed.): Language minority, identity and language biography. Regensburg, 85-108.
• Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2013): The interplay of language and identity. In: Harnisch, Rüdiger (ed.): Currents in the development of dialects and their research. Contributions to the 11th Bavarian-Austrian Dialectology Conference in Passau, September 2010. Regensburg, 420-428.
• Buchner, Sabina/Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole (2013): Germanic personal name elements on Merovingian monetary coins. In: Jarnut, Jörg/Strothmann, Jürgen (eds.): Die Merovingian Monetarmünzen als Quelle zum Verständnis des 7. Jahrhunderts in Gallien. Paderborn, 601-611.
• Eller, Nicole (2011): The trade route of the "Goldener Steig" and its significance for the history of settlement on both sides of the border. In: Erkens, Franz-Reiner: A thousand years of the Goldener Steig. Lectures from the conference on 24 April 2010, Passau, 83-90.
• Eller, Nicole (2010): Neue Forschungen zu Ortsnamen in Ostbayern und angrenzenden Gebieten. In: Beiträge zur Namenforschung, Band 45, Heft 1/2010. Heidelberg, 1-26 (in co-operation with Forschergruppe Namen, Universität Regensburg).
• Eller, Nicole (2010): "I`m still Bohemian minded!" A study of selected language biographies of speakers of German-Bohemian varieties around the world. In: Franceschini, Rita (ed.): Language and Biography. Stuttgart/Weimar, 151-166 (= Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistics Jahrgang 40/160).
• Christl-Sorcan, Astrid/Eller, Nicole (2008-2010): "Iazd muasst deitschbehmisch redn, ned des Englisch!" German-Bohemian dialects in Kansas and Minnesota. With an outlook on the German-Bohemian dialects in New Zealand. In: Klagenfurt contributions to linguistics. Akten der 10. Arbeitstagung für bayerisch-österreichische Dialektologie (Klagenfurt, 19-22 September 2007), vol. 34-36. Vienna, 58-76.
• Eller, Nicole/Hackl-Rößler, Sabine/Strothmann, Jürgen (2009): Person and place names on Merovingian coins of the 7th century. The interdisciplinary DFG project "Die merovingianischen Monetarmünzen als interdisziplinär-mediävistische Herausforderung" - eine Projektskizze. In: Greule, Albrecht/Springer, Matthias: Names of the early Middle Ages as linguistic testimonies and historical sources. Berlin/New York, 121-136.
• Eller, Nicole (2009): Intercultural communication and identity through language. In: Arlt, Herbert: KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and Transformation of Societies (TRANS: Internet Journal for Cultural Studies). Available at: www.inst.at/trans/17Nr/2-1/2-1-_eller17.htm
• Eller, Nicole (2008): The temporal system of the basic Bavarian dialect. In: Patocka, Franz/Seiler, Guido (eds.): Dialektale Morphologie, dialektale Syntax. Contributions to the 2nd Congress of the International Society for Dialectology of German, Vienna, 20-23 September 2006, Vienna, 27-44.
• Christl-Sorcan, Astrid/Eller, Nicole (2008): Bohemian German dialects in North America. In: Verein für Ostbairische Heimatforschung (ed.): Passauer Jahrbuch. Contributions to the history and culture of Eastern Bavaria 50, Passau, 37-49.
• Eller, Nicole (2008): Toponomastischer Atlas der Grenzregion Bayerischer Wald/Böhmerwald, unter Berücksichtigung der Altstraßensysteme. In: Ernst, Peter (ed.): Namenarten in Bavaria und Österreich. Vienna, 65-83.
• Eller, Nicole (2007): The mule track from Grafenau to Bergreichenstein: From Bad Reichenhall to the border. In: Verein zur Förderung des Waldgeschichtlichen Museums St. Oswald - Riedlhütte e. V. (ed.): Klosteridee St. Oswald. Riedlhütte. 26-33.
• Eller, Nicole (2007): Dialect - Literature from the Bohemian Forest. In: Kanz, Ulrich/Wildfeuer, Alfred/Zehetner, Ludwig: Dialekt - Literatur. Contributions to the 2nd dialectological symposium in Kirchdorf im Wald, April 2005. Regensburg, 113-126 (= Regensburger Dialektforum 10).
• Eller, Nicole (2007): The Bavarian language in the Bohemian Forest. In: Verein für Ostbairische Heimatforschung (ed.): Passauer Jahrbuch. Contributions to the history and culture of Eastern Bavaria 49, Passau, 201-213.
• Eller, Nicole (2006): The spoken language in dialogues and monologues of the basic Bavarian dialect in the Bohemian Forest. In: Höhne, Steffen/Nekula, Marek/Tvrdík, Milan/Cvrkal, Ivan (eds.): Brücken. German language and literature yearbook Czech Republic - Slovakia 2005, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 23-34.
• Eller, Nicole (2005): Selected word order phenomena of the basic Bavarian dialect in the Bohemian Forest. In: Kanz, Ulrich/Wildfeuer Alfred (eds.): Kreuther Kräuterbuschen. Regensburg, 193-208 (= Regensburger Dialektforum 9).

Reviews

• Peterson, John: Language and migration. Published in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, LXXXIII. Jahrgang, Heft 2 (2016), 234-235.
• Riehl, Claudia Maria: Multilingualism. An introduction. Published in: German as a foreign language 2/2016, 111-112.
• Evans, Nicholas: When languages die and what we lose with them. Munich 2013, published in: German language and literature. Internationales Referatenorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen. Volume 56, Issue 1-2 (2015), 24.
• Stöhr, Ingrid: Bilingualism in Bohemia. German elementary schools and grammar schools in Prague during the Kafka era. Published in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. 60 (2011) H. 1. 150-151.
• Janka, Wolfgang/Prinz, Michael (ed.), Beiträge zur bayerischen Ortsnamenforschung. Regensburg 2008 (= Regensburger Studien zur Namenforschung 3). Published in: Huber, Alfons (ed.): Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins für Straubing und Umgebung 110 (2008). Straubing, 2009. 360-362.
• Greule, Albrecht/Janka, Wolfgang/Prinz, Michael (eds.): Gewässernamen in Bavaria und Österreich. Regensburg 2005 (= Regensburger Studien zur Namenforschung 1). Published in: Huber, Alfons (ed.): Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins für Straubing und Umgebung 108. Straubing, 2008. 443-445.

a) Main research areas

• Multilingualism and minority language research (with focus on sociolinguistics and heritage languages in context of German as a second language)
• Acquisition of grammaticality in German as a first and German as a second language learner
• Language biography and language contact research (in multilingual constellations)
• Syntax and variation linguistics

b) Research activities

• Head (together with Dr Alfred Wildfeuer) of the TransCoop project"German Dialects in North America" (cooperation partner: Prof. Dr William D. Keel, University of Kansas, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

• Research into language biographies and language contact phenomena of descendants of German-Bohemian emigrants in east europe and overseas

• Numerous research stays in the USA, New Zealand, Romania and the Ukraine
• Participation in Bavarian Radio programmes on minority languages around the world (cultural programme Capriccio) and place names (multi-part series on types of names in Bavaria).

I offer teaching in the following subject areas:

Exercises: Contemporary language, history of language, syntax

Seminars: Word formation, text linguistics, syntax, naming, grammar knowledge for DaZ students, conversational linguistics, revision in contemporary language