Matthias Hüning<p><a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Introduction</span></a> (since I am still new here): I am a linguist at Freie Universität Berlin, working on <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Dutch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dutch</span></a> and other <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Westgermanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Westgermanic</span></a> languages (<a href="https://berlin.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>German</span></a>, <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>English</span></a>, <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Afrikaans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Afrikaans</span></a>, <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Plattdeutsch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Plattdeutsch</span></a> etc.). My focus is on <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/morphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>morphology</span></a> and <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LanguageChange</span></a>, mostly from a <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/contrastive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>contrastive</span></a> perspective. Also interested in <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sociolinguistics</span></a> and the relationship between language and society. <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/StandardLanguageIdeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StandardLanguageIdeology</span></a> and <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/prescriptivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>prescriptivism</span></a> are central topics in our <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Graduiertenkolleg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Graduiertenkolleg</span></a> on <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/normativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>normativity</span></a> at <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/FUBerlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FUBerlin</span></a>.</p>