Werdegang:
1967-69 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent ("Assistant professor"), University of Cologne
1969-71 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Nairobi, and Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi
1971-75 Dozent ("Senior Lecturer"), University of Cologne
1975-78 Visiting Professor, University of Nairobi
1978-2004 Professor (H4) and Director, Institut für Afrikanistik, University of Cologne
1994-1995 Visiting Professor, LaTrobe University, Melbourne
1994 Faculty member, Australian Linguistic Institute
1995 Faculty member, Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1999-2000 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, USA
2002 Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
2003 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University, Melbourne
2004 Professor Emeritus, University of Cologne
2005 Visiting Professor, University of Graz, Austria
2005-6 Member, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar
2006 Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg (August)
2007 Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Etudes (CRLAO), Paris (May)
2007 Visiting Professor, Federal University, Rio de Janeiro (June)
2008-9 Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
2009-11 Visiting Professor, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, S. Korea
2010 Visiting Professor, University of Graz, Austria (March)
2011 Faculty member, Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Boulder, Colorado (declined)
2012 Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town (October - December 2012)
2014 Short-term Visiting Professor, Universidade Federal Fluminense Niterói (Rio de Janeiro), 3-9 May, 2014
2015 Visiting professor, University of Cape Town (January to March, 2015)
2014-2016 Visiting Professor (Yunshan Chair Professor), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
2023 Visiting Professor, University of Graz, Austria (Summer Semester)

Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Afrikanistik, Sprachwissenschaft, Diskursgrammatik      

Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen:
1986 Hans Wolff Memorial Lecturer, Indiana University
1990 Raymond Dart Memorial Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
1990 Kenya Kiswahili Association Award, Nairobi, 1990
1994 Fellow, Australian Research Council
1995 Award, National Kiswahili Council, Federal Republic of Tanzania
1995 August Klingenheben Memorial Lecturer, University of Leipzig
1995 Member, New York Academy of Sciences
1996 Corresponding Fellow, British Academy (FBA)
1997 President, Standing Committee for the World Congress of African Linguistics
1999 Fellow, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
1999 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, USA
2002 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The Institute for Advanced Study, Melbourne
2005 Fellow, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar. Also Member of the Fellows' Committee of NIAS
2008 Distinguished World-Class Scholar, Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, South Korea
2009 Life Time Achievement Award of the Evolutionary Linguistics Association, Brussels
2012 Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America
2012 A.W. Mellon Visiting Fellow Award to visit the University of Cape Town from October 1 to November 31, 2012
2014-2017 Yunshan Chair Professor, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
2015 Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE)
2016 Member of the European Science Foundation (ESF) College of Expert Reviewers
2020 Honorary Member of the Philological Society, London.

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen:
1986 Hans Wolff Memorial Lecturer, Indiana University
1990 Raymond Dart Memorial Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
1990 Kenya Kiswahili Association Award, Nairobi, 1990
1994 Fellow, Australian Research Council
1995 Award, National Kiswahili Council, Federal Republic of Tanzania
1995 August Klingenheben Memorial Lecturer, University of Leipzig
1995 Member, New York Academy of Sciences
1996 Corresponding Fellow, British Academy (FBA)
1997 President, Standing Committee for the World Congress of African Linguistics
1999 Fellow, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
1999 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, USA
2002 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The Institute for Advanced Study, Melbourne
2005 Fellow, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar. Also Member of the Fellows' Committee of NIAS
2008 Distinguished World-Class Scholar, Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, South Korea
2009 Life Time Achievement Award of the Evolutionary Linguistics Association, Brussels
2012 Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America
2012 A.W. Mellon Visiting Fellow Award to visit the University of Cape Town from October 1 to November 31, 2012
2014-2017 Yunshan Chair Professor, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
2015 Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE)
2016 Member of the European Science Foundation (ESF) College of Expert Reviewers
2020 Honorary Member of the Philological Society, London.

Ausgewählte Publikationen:
His over 40 authored or co-authored books include Possession: Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization (CUP, 1997); Auxiliaries: Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization (OUP, 1993); Cognitive Foundations of Grammar (OUP, 1997); with Derek Nurse, African Languages: An introduction (CUP, 2000); A Linguistic Geography of Africa (CUP, 2008);
with Tania Kuteva, World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (CUP, 2002; 2019); Language Contact and Grammatical Change (CUP, 2005); The Changing Languages of Europe (OUP, 2006); with Heiko Narrog, The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2010; 2015); The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization (OUP, 2011); Grammaticalization (OUP, 2021).
His present main research area is discourse grammar, where he has published The Rise of Discourse Markers (CUP, 2021, three co-authors) and The Grammar of Interactives (OUP, 2023).

Link zur Liste der gesamten Publikationen:
www.prof-bernd-heine.de