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Waltz, Heidi
heidi.waltz@ucr.edu

HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

(951) 827-1259 (Voice)
(951) 827-2160 (Fax)

    Waltz, Heidi

    Lecturer in Linguistics and German

    College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
    Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages

    Biography

    Heidi Waltz's areas of instruction are linguistics and German. She embarked on her undergraduate studies at Heidelberg University, Germany, and completed her graduate work at UCLA after a DAAD scholarship brought her to the United States. Her main interests are in comparative-historical syntax, language acquisition, and heritage language learning. She has lectured and published on issues in Germanic syntax, historical dialectology, and heritage language acquisition.

    Degrees

    B.A. French 1984
    California State University, Fullerton
    M.A. Linguistics 1986
    California State University, Fullerton
    Ph.D. Indo-European Linguistics 1993
    University of California, Los Angeles

    Awards

    DAAD Scholarship Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg/Germany

    Research Area

    Historical Germanic syntax; bilingualism; comparative Indo-European dialectology, language pedagogy, etymology

    Publications

    Please see department web page: http://complitforlang.ucr.edu/people/faculty

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