Prof. Dr. Helmut Weiß

Helmut Weiß is full professor for historical German linguistics at the Department of Linguistics. He is one of the leading experts for the syntax of German dialects who has co-edited the Syntactic Atlas of Hessian dialects (http://www.syhd.info/startseite/) and a volume on Bavarian syntax. He is the author of the Syntax des Bairischen (1998) and he has published many studies in journals and books on topics like complementiser agreement, negative concord, possessive constructions, and pronominal syntax.