Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics, Kiel University
At the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 59), held in Osnabrück in August 2026, I delivered this year’s plenary lecture. The talk introduced the core ideas of Diasystematic Construction Grammar, discussed current issues, and explored its implications for usage-based linguistics more broadly. The SLE is Europe’s largest professional association for linguistics. ... Read more
Together with Sabrina Goll and Nina Sternitzke, I presented a paper on the GrammArNord project at ICLaVE 11. The slides are available here.
The workshop Constructions in the Nordics 1 (CxGN 1) was held at Kiel University on the 24– 25 October 2019. This workshop gathered both constructionist researchers in the Nordic countries, regardless of what languages they are studying, and linguists applying constructionist approaches to any of the Nordic languages, regardless of where they are. Construction Grammar ... Read more
Nordic Research on Accent, Acceptability and Acquisition (NordAc³), the concluding workshop for the project Danish as a Neighbour Language (dans): Pronunciation Competence in Danish in German Schools (2015–2018), will be held in Kiel on 21–22 March 2019. The workshop focuses on current empirical findings: Which perspectives on L2 pronunciation, including the use of listener ratings, ... Read more