Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics, Kiel University
Sabrina Goll (Europa-Universität Flensburg) has now published her Kiel dissertation on South Schleswig Danish (open access). In this study, she analyses characteristic structural features of this Danish variety based on a questionnaire survey from a sociolinguistic, contact linguistic and construction grammar perspective.
In autumn 2025, another anthology on the topic of construction grammar and language contact was published, edited by Hans Boas (University of Texas at Austin) and myself, with eight contributions on various topics and issues in this field: It also includes two theoretical contributions by the editors and a contribution by Anna Hagel, who completed … Read more
One week and a half ago, Anna Hagel successfully defended her PhD thesis Phonological schematicity in Interscandinavian decoding. A psycholinguistic constructionist approach to investigating the acquisition and use of Danish-Swedish sound correspondence patterns at Kiel University. In her work, she combines a Diasystematic Construction Grammar perspective with experimental research on the acquisition (and learnability) of … Read more
A new website about Diasystematic Construction Grammar is available online at dcxg.org. The website contains a more or less up-to-date DCxG bibliography, a glossary that provides basic definitions of key concepts, and an overview of research using DCxG. I hope you’ll find it useful – and if so, please let me know if you have … Read more
In June 2023, Sabrina Goll successfully defended her dissertation Südschleswigdänisch. Strukturelle Bestandsaufnahme aus dialektologischer Perspektive (South Schleswig Danish. A structural survey from a dialectological perspective). Her work is the first to systematically examine the question of how grammatical features of South Schleswig Danish – the non-standard variety used by the Danish minority in South Schleswig … Read more