Katharina Turgay is associate Professor for German Linguistics at the Faculty for Philology and is also associated with the work group fro German Linguistics/Language System with her research and teaching.

• Grammar: word order, grammatical features, spoken languaege data, intensifiers, exclamatios, punctuation, creative constructions
• Second language aquistion: prepositional phrases, functional categories, case and gender
• Language and society: discriminatory language, gender linguistics, fake news, bullshit, trolling
• Language and the media: linguistic constructions and narrative structures in social media, fiction
• multilingualism: didactics for multilingualism, contrastive linguistics

• 2017 – Habilitation, University of Landau: German Linguistics
• 2010 – Dr. phil, University of Mainz: Descriptive Linguistics
• 2006 – M.A., University of Mainz: German Philology, Comparative Linguistics, Book Studies