Forum for Germanic Language Studies
Directory of Researchers
This page is under construction. The intention is to have a list of researchers in Germanic linguistics, with details of their interests.
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- Jennifer Bruen
Email: Jennifer.Bruen@dcu.ie
Jennifer Bruen, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, Dublin 9,Ireland
foreign language acquisition
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.
Email: wid@aber.ac.uk
Dept of European Languages, UWA, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DY, Wales.
sociolinguistics; language awareness; standardisation processes; language attitudes
At present I am working with Dr Nils Langer (Bristol) and two postgraduate students on an AHRB-funded project entitled: The development of the concept of 'bad language' in German folk linguistics.
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
- Sally Johnson
Email: s.johnson@lancaster.ac.uk
Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YT
Sociolinguistics, orthography, discourse analysis, language and gender.
I am currently working on a sociolinguistic account of the disputes over the recent reform of German orthography. I am also interested in discourses of `political correctness', and have previously published on language and gender issues in relation to both German and English.
- Thomas Klein
Eamil: thomas.klein@man.ac.uk
Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
German phonology; German morphophonology; Icelandic phonology; Icelandic morphophonology
My research in the area of Germanic linguistics is focused on theoretical issues in the phonology and morphophonology of German, Icelandic and English, e.g. stress and prosodic structure as well as umlaut and other morphophonological alternations, in the framework of Optimality Theory.
- 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.
Email: nils.langer@bris.ac.uk
Nils Langer, 21 Woodland Road, Dept of German, University of Bristol, BS8 1TE
Linguistic Purism, Folk Linguistics; effectiveness of prescriptive grammarians; History of Germany, esp. Early New High German; Low German
origin and current status of 'bad' German; the making of High German in the C17th; standardisation of Germanic languages, in particular Low German; Language survival efforts in Northern Germany
- Nicola McLelland
Email: nicolamc@tcd.ie
Department of Germanic Studies,Trinity College, Dublin 2, IRELAND
history of linguistic thought
currently working on a book on the 17th century `father of German grammar', Justus-Georg Schottelius
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
- 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.
- Jonathan West
Email: jon.west@ncl.ac.uk
Department of German, School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
German and Germanic Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexicography
Currently engaged in a new grammar of Modern German organized on functional-notional principles, Volume Q-SR of the Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch, and word formation in Middle High German