Current research projects
Konturierung und Verwischung sprachlicher Humandifferenzierung. Ruander oder Burunder?
since 07/2021: Teilprojekt B02 des DFG-geförderten Sonderforschungsbereichs 1482 „Humandifferenzierung“ an der JGU Mainz. Nico Nassenstein (PI) und Deborah Wockelmann (Mitarbeiterin).
Microvariation and youth language practices in Africa
since 12/2021: funded by DFG-AHRC
Nico Nassenstein (PI) and Andrea Hollington (Postdoc) together with Hannah Gibson (University of Essex)
Completed research projects
Afrikaner*innen im Rhein-Main-Gebiet: Ein afrikalinguistisches Forschungsprojekt zu sprachlicher Integration
since 01/2019, funding by RMU-Initiativfonds Forschung (with Prof. Axel Fleisch, GU Frankfurt)
An Inter-disciplinary Approach to the Diversity and Dynamics of Swahili Varieties
(joint research project with colleagues from ILCAA, TUFS, Tokyo) with a panel at the Sintu 2018 conference (Cape Town, RSA, July 2018), a co-organized workshop in Mainz in 2019 and a workshop in Tokyo 2020 (among others).
Tourism, Language and Migration in Mallorca: Artefacts from Various Souths and Norths
since 09/2016, funding by DFG (Leibniz) (with Anne Storch, Angelika Mietzner, Janine Traber, University of Cologne/JGU Mainz).
A Grammar of Rufumbira
09/2012–08/2015, funded by DAAD & Cusanuswerk e.V. (PhD project, University of Cologne)