FGLS officers

The Officers of FGLS are:

President
Dr Nils Langer, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, 17 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK, Homepage

Nils Langer was born and bred in Schleswig-Holstein and came to the UK in 1991 to study German and English Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where he completed his PhD on the effectiveness of prescriptive grammarians in the seventeenth century in 2000. After teaching appointments at Newcastle and UCD, he went to Bristol in 2000 where he has been a Reader in German Linguistics since 2008. His current research interests lie in the field of historical sociolinguistics and he is a member of the executive of the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON).

Treasurer
Dr Sheila Watts, Department of German, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, UK, Homepage

Sheila Watts is a graduate of Dublin University who has been teaching in Cambridge since 1998. The main focus of her research to date has been on tense and aspect, and on other phenomena linked to grammaticalization in the older Germanic languages. Another interest concerns ideas about the German language in the seventeenth century. Also, she is committed to all aspects of language teaching, and has published on ab initio learners as well as on the teaching of spoken German at third level.

Secretary
Dr Johanneke Sytsema, Taylor Institution Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3NA, Homepage

Johanneke Sytsema holds a PhD in Old-Frisian philology from the Free University in Amsterdam and is currently working as a Subject Librarian for Linguistics for Oxford University Library Services. She also catalogues websites on Dutch and Frisian studies for www.intute.ac.uk. Her research interests are in Old-Frisian linguistics and philology, and she is preparing a text edition with grammar of Codex Unia, part of the Junius Collection in
the Bodleian Library.