
Nadine Yuen, M.A.
Anglistik I
B 6, 30–32 – Room 38
68159 Mannheim
By appointment
Research
Since December 2021, Nadine Yuen is an academic staff member and doctoral student at the department of English Linguistics (Anglistik I) within the Research Unit Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach (RUEG), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Her primary research interests are in morphosyntax in connection to semantics and pragmatics, illuminated by multilingualism and diverse methodological approaches in corpus and psycholinguistics.
Biographic Information
Nadine Yuen completed her B.Ed. in English and Mathematics in July 2018 and subsequently her M.A. in Language and Communication in November 2021.
Since December 2021, she is an academic staff member and doctoral student at the SP for English Linguistics department as part of the P11 project “The heritage speaker lexicon: dynamics and interfaces” (https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/455887772?language=en), which is part of the Research Unit Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach (RUEG, https://www.phil.uni-mannheim.de/en/department-of-english/sub-depts/anglistik-i/research/rueg/), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Teaching
During the fall semester 2025, Nadine Yuen teaches the seminar “Introduction to R”, which accompanies the seminar “ANG 505 Linguistic Methodology”, for students enrolled in the master’s programs.
Veröffentlichungen
- Zürn, N. (2024). Investigating morphologically and syntactically complex noun phrases with comparative bilingual data: Why representations are integrated. The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL), Poznań, Poland.
- Keller, M. and Zürn, N. (2023). Collocational competence of heritage speakers. EUROPHRAS 2023 – New Trends in Phraseology: Languages and Cultures in Comparison, Milano, Italy.
- Keller, M., Zürn, N., Katsika, K. and Tausch, J. (2023). Workshop Organization: Exploring Novel and Routine Patterns in Heritage Language Narratives. 45. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 2023) – Rahmenthema: Sprachliche Kreativitaet und Routine, Köln, Germany.
- Zürn, N. and Keller, M. (2023). Collocational Ties in Heritage Language Research: The Devil lies in the Details. 45. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 2023), Köln, Germany.
- Zürn, N. and Keller, M. (2023). Collocations, variation, and register-specificity – a study of German bilinguals. International Symposium on Bilingualism 14 (ISB14) – Diversity Now, Sydney, Australia.
- Zürn, N., Keller, M., Tracy, R. and Lüdeling, A. (2025). Dynamic properties of the heritage speaker lexicon. In Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers : insights from the RUEG group (S. 325–375). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Reviewer Activities
Journal Editor and Reviewer at Mannheim Papers in Multilingualism, Acquisition, and Change (MAPMAC, https://majournals.bib.uni-mannheim.de/index.php/mapmac)