David Huenlich

Between 2001 and 2008 David Huenlich received training in linguistic typology at the University of Leipzig (Germany) with field work in Manang (Nepal) and Övörkhangai (Mongolia). In 2016, he completed a PhD in German Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) while working for the Texas German Dialect Project. Ever since, his focus in linguistics is on migration-related language change and language acquisition.

At the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (IDS), David coordinated a study of migrant language learning in state-run integration courses in 2016. He also documented the vocational training of recent refugees. Since 2019, he is pursuing a PhD in history at the University of Osnabrück, studying the occupational patterns in present-day German American communities. He continues as a part-time researcher at the IDS in the project "Deutsch in der Welt" (German in the World) where he analyses the historic role of German in America.