Peter Auer (born 1954) is professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
Auer graduated from the University of Constance in 1983.
[1] Auer has authored several monographs and edited numerous collections of scholarly research, including work on code-switching, contextualization, multilingualism, dialectology, and other areas of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.
He served as the German science foundation's referee for general linguistics from 2000 to 2008.
This article on a German linguist is a stub.