Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics, Kiel University
My latest paper (in Danish) has been published in Målbryting dealing with the potential of the South Jutlandic data collected for the German Wenker Atlas in the late 19th century. The material has long been dismissed as little useful in dialectology, but in fact it provides information about the extent to which contact-related grammatical features … 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 German Research Foudation has accepted a proposal for a scientific network that I am part of. The network on Language Contact Phenomena in Multilingual First Language Acquisition has been proposed by (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) und (Leipzig University). It brings together scholars working in the fields of multilingualism and … Read more
Despite the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the project on Grammatical Areality in the Nordic Countries and Northern Germany (GrammArNord) was launched at the beginning of March. The project investigates grammatical similarities between Nordic and Northern German varieties from the perspective of areal and contact linguistics. Particular focus is placed on morphological and syntactic … Read more
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