Heike Wiese

Wiese in Göttingen, 2014Heike Wiese (born 1966) is a German linguist who is a professor of German in multilingual contexts at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Early life Wiese was born during 1966 in Einbeck.

Education, career and honours Wiese studied German and philosophy at the University of Göttingen from 1985 to 1992.

From 1998 to 1999 she spent six months as a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Brandeis University, and from 2005 to 2006 she spent ten months as a visiting associate professor at the linguistics department of Yale University; between 1993 and 2005 she was otherwise employed at the Humboldt University. In 2024 she was elected Member of the Academia Europaea. Aspects of Kiezdeutsch she has investigated include verb-second and verb-third constituent order, numerals and mass nouns, grammatical particles and discourse markers.

Selected publications Wiese, Heike. 2003. Numbers, language, and the human mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wiese, Heike. 2003. Iconic and non-iconic stages in number development: The role of language. Trends in cognitive sciences 7 (9), 385–390. Wiese, Heike. 2006. "Ich mach dich Messer": Grammatische Produktivität in Kiez-Sprache ("I do you knife": grammatical productivity in Kiez language). Linguistische Berichte 207, 245–273. Wiese, Heike. 2009. Grammatical innovation in multiethnic urban Europe: New linguistic practices among adolescents. Lingua 119 (5), 782–806. Wiese, Heike. 2012. Kiezdeutsch: Ein neuer Dialekt entsteht (Kiezdeutsch: a new dialect emerges). Munich: C. H. Beck.