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This page is constantly being reviewed. The intention is to have a list of researchers in Germanic linguistics, with details of their interests.
To add your details to our list, please get in touch with the Forum's secretary or president.
Christopher Beedham
E-mail: c.beedham@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dept. of German, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9PH, Scotland
Research interests: grammar and lexis of modern German (also English and Russian); the method of lexical exceptions; the passive; irregular verbs
John Bellamy
john.bellamy@sheffield.ac.uk
Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Sheffield
Jessop West, Upper Hanover Street, Sheffield S3 7RA
Research interests: Sociolinguistics, language attitudes, language variation
Jennifer Bruen
Email: Jennifer.Bruen@dcu.ie
School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
Applied Linguistics: all aspects of foreign language learning and acquisition in particular the use of language learning strategies and the influence of individual learner differences including learning styles and learner motivation on the acquisition process. Interests also include the teaching / learning of German as a foreign language and German for Business.
Wini Davies
Email: wid@aber.ac.uk
Dept of European Languages, UWA, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DY, Wales.
sociolinguistics; language awareness; standardisation processes; language attitudes, bad German
Email: Martin.Durrell@manchester.ac.uk
German Studies, SLLC, University of Manchester, M13 9PL
Main research interests: German dialectology and sociolinguistics; standardisation of German; German linguistic historiography
Current research: an ESRC/AHRC-funded project for the compilation of a representative historical corpus of German for 1650-1800
Research interests: corpora, discourse studies, language in the (new) media, narratology/stylistics (English, German)
Carol Fehringer
Email: Carol.Fehringer@ncl.ac.uk
School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle, NE1 7RU
German and Dutch morphology, German and Dutch phonology, Dialectology
The application of current theories of morphology and phonology to modern German and Dutch, with particular emphasis on modern German dialects. The analysis of morphological and phonological change from Middle High and Middle Low German to modern High and Low German dialects.
John L. Flood
Email: jflood@sas.ac.uk
University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP, UK
Lexicography; Purism
History of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein, especially its London Branch
Geraldine Horan
Email: g.horan@ucl.ac.uk
Department of German, University College London. Gower St. London. WC1E 6BT.
Research interests: sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, gender and language, discourses of nationalism and National Socialism, history of cursing and swearing.
Kristine Horner
Email: k.horner@sheffield.ac.uk
Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/german/staff/kristinehorner
Address: Department of Germanic Studies, University of Sheffield, Jessop West,
Upper Hanover Street, Sheffield S3 7RA
sociolinguistics, politics of language, language, migration and globalization, ethnic and national identities, multilingualism in Luxembourg.
My current work focuses on the multilayered dimensions and potential negotiability of language policy, especially in relation to recent decisions to introduce language requirements for citizenship in a number of European Union member-states.
Sally Johnson
Email: s.a.johnson@leeds.ac.uk
Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds, Leeds
Sociolinguistics, orthography, discourse analysis, language and gender.
Howard Jones
howard.jones@keble.ox.ac.uk
Keble College, Oxford OX1 3PG
Germanic philology, German historical linguistics, verb semantics
Cédric Krummes
Email: C.Krummes@sheffield.ac.uk
Centre for Luxembourg Studies, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN
Luxembourgish modal particles, Luxembourgish discourse particles, computer-mediated communication, word corpora
My PhD covers the use of Luxembourgish modal particles and discourse particles found in my two word corpora: a Luxembourgish e-mail word-corpus and a Luxembourgish plays word-corpus. I am intrigued to find out why Luxembourgish modal particles are either German or Germanic, but discourse particles also include French origins. Also interested in the sign language and deaf education situation in Luxembourg.
Nils Langer
Email: nils.langer@bris.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bris.ac.uk/german
School of Modern Languages, 21 Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1TE
Linguistic Purism, Folk Linguistics; effectiveness of prescriptive grammarians; History of Germany, esp. Early New High German; Low German
current research: language and identity in nineteenth-century USA and northern Germany
Peter Rolf Lutzeier
e-mail: P.Lutzeier@hull.ac.uk
Pro-Vice-Chancellors' Office, The University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, England
Research interests: Lexicology, Semantics, Branding;
Current research topic: Wörterbuch des Gegensinns im Deutschen. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter (planned 3 volumes; Band 1: A-G published in 2007).
Nicola McLelland
Email: nicola.mclelland@nottingham.ac.uk
Dept of German Studies, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD
history of linguistic thought, currently working on a book on the 17th century `father of German grammar', Justus-Georg Schottelius
John Partridge
Email: jgp@kent.ac.uk
School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF
pragmatics, German-English comparison, prosody, lexis and structure, ICT applications for language purposes
Currently looking into the relationship between accent, discourse particles and discourse context in English and German, also the expression of passive sense in both languages
Gertrud Reershemius
g.k.reershemius@aston.ac.uk
LSS-German; Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET
Research Interests: Language contact, bi- and multilingualism, Yiddish and Low German
Current research topics: Postvernacular linguistic practices in lesser used
languages, remnants of North-western Yiddish
Regina Weinert
Email: r.weinert@sheffield.ac.uk
Department of Germanic Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN
I am currently working on complement clauses and presupposition in general, existential constructions in German and English and anaphoric and non-referential uses of pronouns in spoken German. I am interested in syntax, discourse and pragmatics, especially of spoken language, deixis, the nature oflinguistic generalisations, as well as the implications of spoken language analysis for linguistic theory and language acquisition.
Melanie Schroeter
Email: m.schroeter@reading.ac.uk
Department of German Studies, School of Languages and European Studies, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AA
Discourse analysis, text linguistics, language and politics, language in the media, silence
My current work focuses on public / media discourses about political scandals and language scandals (in Germany). On the basis of text corpora from public / media discourses about a number of such scandals, I analyse metalinguistic comments about the language use (and silences) of those who are involved in these scandals.
horst.simon@kcl.ac.uk
Department of German, King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
Research areas: synchronic and diachronic variation in German grammar and pragmatics; grammatical theory and theory of language change; politeness
Current research projects: Comparing Diachronies; German Morphology in Contrast; Dialects in New Media
Patrick Stevenson
prs1@soton.ac.uk
Modern languages, School of Humanities, University of Southampton SO17 1BJ
Research interests: German and comparative sociolinguistics, multilingualism, the politics of language and language policy research, language ideologies, language biographies
Johanneke Sytsema
e-mail: Johanneke.sytsema@ouls.ox.ac.uk
Taylor Institution Library, Oxford University, St. Giles', Oxford OX1 3NA
Research interests: Old-Frisian linguistics and philology, currently working on a text edition with grammar of Codex Unia.
Roel Vismans
Email: r.vismans@sheffield.ac.uk
Department of Germanic Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN
Dutch word order; politeness in Dutch; Dutch second-person pronouns; acquisition of Dutch as a foreign language
My current research covers Dutch word order and prosody (accentuation and intonation), and politeness in Dutch, especially the use of the second-person pronouns and their acquisition by students of Dutch as a foreign language. I have also carried out research into durative constructions, modal particles and computer-assisted language learning.
Sheila Watts
sw271@cam.ac.uk
Department of German and Dutch, University of Cambridge
postal address: Newnham College, Cambridge CB3 9DF
Research interests: Older Germanic languages, especially Old Saxon;
history (especially historical morphology) of German; expression of tense and
aspect in the history of German; German conjunctions, particles and
adverbs and their development; variation in German.
Jonathan West
Email: dasypod1us@yahoo.co.uk
High Rochester, Northumberland
German and Germanic Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexicography
Currently engaged in a new grammar of Modern German organized on functional-notional principles, and word formation in Middle High German
E-Mail: Richard.Whitt@manchester.ac.uk
Research Associate, The GerManC Project, The University of Manchester,
176 Waterloo Place, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9QQ
Research interests: Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax, Evidentiality,
Modality, Grammaticalization, Historical Germanic Linguistics, Cognitive
Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Comparative/Contrastive English &
German Linguistics
Current research: I am currently work at the GerManC Project, a corpus
development project seeking to build a representative corpus of Early
Modern German from 1650-1800.