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since 2015: Professor of English Linguistics, Department of English & Linguistics, University of Mainz
2012-2015: departmental lecturer in English language, English Faculty, University of Oxford
2009-2012: wiss. Mitarbeiterin (assistant professor), English Language & Linguistics, IAA, Chemnitz University of Technology
2008-2009: Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow, SECL, University of Kent (Canterbury)
2000-2008: wiss. Angestellte (lecturer/academic staff member), English Department, University of Freiburg
2012 Habilitation (post-doctoral thesis) in English Linguistics; Chemnitz University of Technology
2003 Dr. phil. in English Philology; University of Freiburg
1999 Magister Artium in English Philology, Latin Philology, General Linguistics; University of Freiburg
1995 Abitur (high school diploma); Bismarck-Gymnasium Karlsruhe
- Never saw one - first Person null subjects in spoken English
- Frequency ...
- & sociophonetics
- & null subjects
- & (ING)
- Women are uncertain, natural sciences are objective: De-mystifying academic writing clichés
- statistical analysis of some 100.000 research article bstracts covering 4 academic fields
- quantitative Analysis of well-known predictors such as author commitment, hedging, certainty/uncertainty
nach oben
(under revision)
Never saw one - first person null subjects in spoken English.
in print
English non-finite clauses in German student writing: frequency, use and accomplishment. In Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara et al. (eds.) Languages and Cultures in Contact and Contrast. Chambéry: Éditions de l'Université de Savoie.
2013
South West English. In Hopkins, Tometro and John McKenny (eds.), World Englishes - Volume I - The British Isles. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 167-188.
2012a
Null subjects in English - variable rules, variable language? Habilitationsschrift, Philosophische Fakultät, TU Chemnitz.
2012b
Late Modern English Dialects. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110251593.915
2012c
Pronominal Systems. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110279429.379
2012d
Southwest English dialects. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110280128.78
2012e
Newfoundland English. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110280128.109
2011a
Concessives and Contrastives in Student Writing: L1, L2 and Genre Differences. In Schmied, Josef (ed.), Academic Writing in Europe: Empirical Perspectives. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 23-49.
2011b
Dialects of Southwest England dataset. In Kortmann, Bernd and Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.), The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English. München/Berlin: Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with Mouton de Gruyter. http://www.ewave-atlas.org.
2010
with Bernd Kortmann. Changes and continuities in dialect grammar. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511781643.015
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV)
2014, 2011, 2008, 2005, 2002
Methods in Dialectology
2014, 2008
International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
2012, 2008, 2006, 2004
Sociolinguistics Symposium
since 2001
4 other conferences
2002-2014
11 invited guest talks in Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
Lectures
World Englishes, Sociolinguistics, To boldly go...: Grammar and beyond, Introduction to English Language & Culture; Applied Linguistics
Seminars
World Englishes, Topics in the Structure of English, Fundamentals of English, Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Research Seminar, Second Language Acquisition, Using & Learning English World-wide, Conceptualising English Language Systems, The Study of Dialects, Dialects & Transplanted English(es), Introduction to Sociolinguistics, English Dialects, Corpus Linguistics, Methods in Sociolinguistics, Dialectology
Other
tutorials: Sociolinguistics, English Language
Übungen: Praktische Grundlagen der Sprachwissenschaft, Einführung ins Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, Linguistic Analysis