Dr Eva Berlage
Lecturer in Linguistics
Address:
Samuel Alexander Building (room N.1.6)
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
Phone: +44-(0)161-275 3291E-mail: eva.berlage@manchester.ac.uk
Office hours (semester 1, 2008-9): Wednesday, 9am-11am
Research specialisation
Variation and change, functional grammar, regional variation, corpus analysis
Prizes
2008. Honorable mention in the Richard M. Hogg Prize competition for the paper "The story of taking people prisoner(s) unfolded or how take prisoner(s) lost plural marking".
2008. Prize awarded by the University of Paderborn for excellent dissertation.
2006. Prize awarded by the University Association for excellent 'Staatsexamen' thesis.
Publications
in prep. Is more wordy more complex? Or why longer noun phrases are not always more difficult to process than shorter ones.
in prep. "The story of taking people prisoner(s) unfolded or how take prisoner(s) lost plural marking."
submitted. The gradual denominalization of nominal complements in English." Special issue of Transactions of the Philological Society 107.2.
2009. Prepositions and postpositions. In: Günter Rohdenburg & Julia Schlüter (eds.), One language, two grammars? Differences between British and American English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2007. Processing complexity and grammatical variation in British and American English. Unpublished PhD, University of Paderborn.
2005. Aller guten Dinge sind zwei oder Warum Briten appeal against the decision und Amerikaner appeal the decision sagen. Forschungsforum 2005.
Presentations
2008. "Is more wordy more complex? How variation is affected by NP-length and NP-structure." Paper presented at ISLE1, Freiburg (Germany), 8-11 October 2008.
2008. "As far as going to Ascona is concerned/goes/ø: Discourse factors and the variable absence of the verb phrase in topic-restricting as far as constructions." Paper presented at ICAME 29, Ascona (Switzerland), 14-18 May 2008.
2008. "Aspects of denominalization in English." Paper presented at the Workshop on the English NP, Sheffield (GB), 4-5 April 2008.
2008. "Komplexitätsunterschiede und reduzierte Nominalphrasen in der Umgebung von Adpositionen." 9. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Bielefeld (Germany), 5-6 March 2008.
2008. Invited speaker at the University of Düsseldorf: "Postpositions and the shortening of noun phrases." Düsseldorf (Germany), 23 January 2008.
2007. Invited speaker at the University of Osnabrück: "May I take the audience prisoner(s)? Sprachwandel und Variation am Beispiel der Kollokation take s.o. prisoner(s)." Osnabrück (Germany), 30 October 2007.
2007. Invited speaker at the University of Uppsala (Sweden): "And then he took them prisoner(s): The history and present behaviour of an emergent multi-word predicate." Uppsala (Sweden), 18 October 2007.
2007. "Truncated noun phrases and the placement of adpositions." 2nd International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE), Toulouse (France), 2-4 July 2007.
2007. "Is more wordy more complex? - Oder warum längere NPs nicht automatisch schwieriger zu verarbeiten sind als kürzere." 8. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Göttingen (Germany), 7-8 March 2007.
2006. "Cognitive Complexity at the lexis-grammar interface: The loss of the verbal coda in topic-restricting as far as constructions." Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface (ELeGI), Hanover (Germany), 5-7 October 2006.
2006. "And then we took them prisoner(s): The loss of number agreement with object predicatives." 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Bergamo (Italy), 21-25 August 2006.
2006. "And then we took them prisoner(s): Der Verlust der Pluralkongruenz bei Objektprädikativen." 7. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Bremen (Germany), 2-3 March 2006.
2006. "Cognitive complexity and horror aequi as determinants of grammatical variation: Marked vs. unmarked infinitives following transitive uses of help." 28th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Bielefeld (Germany), 22-24 February 2006.
2005. "Word-order variation in the case of notwithstanding: Structural complexity as a determinant of grammatical variation." 1st International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE), Edinburgh (GB), 23-25 June 2005.