Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics, Kiel University
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
We invite papers for an online workshop (1–2 June 2023) entitled Diasystematic Construction Grammar, what next? Current research and future prospects. You can find more information here.
Constructions in Contact. Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages (edited by Hans Boas and myself) is available as an e-book; the print version is expected in December 2018. This edited volume brings together contributions from scholars working on different language contact situations that involve Germanic languages. It also contains a new theoretical article … Read more