Dissertation: South Schleswig Danish

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

Article: South Jutlandic data from Wenker’s atlas

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

Successful grant: Language Contact Phenomena in Multilingual First Language Acquisition

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

GrammArNord project launched

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