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As a linguist, I focus on the particularities of the German language in its development and use. My interests focus on construction-grammatical approaches to contemporary language, indexing and machine analysis in the context of digital humanities, discourse- and domain-specific communication in the past and present, functional and regional varieties as well as topics of applied linguistics.

I follow the principles of the open access community in my teaching and research and am committed to the establishment of open educational resources (OER). I pay particular attention to collaborative forms of work and making the interlinking of research and teaching visible.

Since January 2025, I have held the office of Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies (SLK), after having held the office of Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies (SLK) between 2019 and 2025 and also the office of Chairperson of the Examination Committee since September 2020. I will continue to hold these offices beyond 2025 for the Master's degree program in Digital Humanities (since December 2021). Since the end of September 2022, I have been the second chair of the Gesellschaft für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG) (first chair from 2018 to 2022). I am also pleased to be able to support the cooperation between TU Dresden and Dresden University School as a member of the Board of Directors of the University School Research Center (ForUS).

Scientific Career
  • since 10/2017: Chair of Linguistics and History of German; Technische Universität Dresden
  • 2016: Habilitation - Venia Legendi for German Linguistics; Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
  • 2012-09/2017: Research and teaching associate; Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
  • 2011-2012: Deputy Head of Chair of Applied Linguistics; Technische Universität Dresden
  • 2006-2011: Research and teaching associate; Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
  • 2004-2006: Research and teaching associate; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 2001-2004: Promotion - Doctorate in German Linguistics; Technische Universität Dresden
  • 1995-2000: Teaching degree German/History Gymnasium (secondary school); Technische Universität Dresden
Research Focus & Scientific Societies
Conference organisation
  • Historische (Morpho-)Syntax. 14. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für germanistische Sprachgeschichte. 28., 29. und 30. September 2022 in Dresden.
  • Konstruktionsgrammatik germanischer Sprachen. Forschungsstand - Desiderata - Perspektiven. 24. und 25. März 2022 in Dresden.

  • Sprache und Religion. 4. Arbeitstagung Religionslinguistik. 3. und 4. Dezember 2020 in Dresden.

  • Opfer. 3. Arbeitstagung Religionslinguistik. 17. und 18. Oktober 2019 in Dresden.
  • Sprache und Vermittlung – Kommunikation in Ausstellungen. Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, 11. und 12. Oktober 2018.
  • Historische Konstruktionsgrammatik. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 17. und 18. Februar 2016 (gemeinsam mit Alexander Ziem [Düsseldorf]). Förderung: DFG.
  • Deutsch im Norden. Varietäten des norddeutschen Raumes im Spiegel der germanistischen Sprachgeschichtsschreibung. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG) e.V.  Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 25.-27. September 2014 (gemeinsam mit Markus Hundt).
  • Konstruktionen – Wissen  – Diskurs. Internationales Kolloquium der Graduiertenplattform des Forschungsnetzwerks »Sprache und Wissen«, des Internationalen Wissenschaftsforums und des Germanistischen Seminars der Universität Heidelberg am 11.-12. September 2012 (gemeinsam mit Marcus Müller [Heidelberg] und Alexander Ziem [Düsseldorf]).
  • Konstruktionen als soziale Konventionen und kognitive Routinen. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 31. August bis 1. September 2011 (gemeinsam mit Alexander Ziem [Düsseldorf]).
  • Konstruktionsgrammatik: Neue Perspektiven zur Untersuchung des Deutschen und Englischen. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 18.-20. Februar 2010 (gemeinsam mit Alexander Ziem [Düsseldorf]). Förderung: FTS.
  • perceptual dialectology  – Neue Wege der Dialektologie. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 22.-24. Mai 2008 (gemeinsam mit Markus Hundt & Christina A. Anders). Förderung: FTS.
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  • Tempus. A construct grammatical view of core grammar. Linguistic colloquium. Munich, 31.01.2024. Presentation.

  • Construction grammatical narratives? Kiel, 10.01.3024.

  • Interface competencies. The study of Digital Humanities (at the TUD). Lecture as part of the lecture series "Digital Humanities in Focus: Methods, Applications and Perspectives" (WiSe 2023). Rostock, 18.12.2023. Presentation.

  • Internal structure of constructions: Meaning and form. IDS-Workshop "Valenzen - Muster - Konstruktionen" Mannheim, 7. and 8.12.2023. Presentation & Recording.

  • Are there still living people in Germany who were missionaries in America? and what are their names? and where do they live? On the fragility of grammatical networks of scholars at the beginning of the 19th century. International conference "Halle and Herrnhut Pietism: Conflicts - Strategies - Practices". Halle, 22-25.11.2023. Presentation and recording.

  • No Experiments! Exploring the Public Discourse on Educational Transformation. International conference "Discourses in/of Disruption". Dresden, 16. and 17.11.2023 (together with Sophia Seemann)

● On the loss of interpretative sovereignty. Barrier-free communication and servicelearning. Workshop "Inconceivable interventions in the contact zone. Inclusion at educational institutions", Dresden, 2 and 3.11.2023.

● Hamlet for all. Theater as an inclusive meeting space. Lecture as part of the inclusive cultural festival of the same name. Stadtmuseum Dresden, 13. and 14.10.2023.

● Do not disrupt me. Homo ludens and AI in interaction in The Captain. Disruptive Imaginations, Dresden, 15-19.08.2023. Presentation (together with Alexander Bärtl).

● Hybrid teaching and course development. Lessons Learned 5, Dresden, July 19-21, 2023. presentation.

● Exploring Moravian (Text) Worlds. Presentation for the panel "PN-W2G: Transforming the Pietist Tradition" at the DH2023 ("Collaboration as Opportunity") from July 10-14, 2023 in Graz. The focus is on the virTUos collaboration with Katherine Faull (Bucknell University) and Juan Garcés (SLUB Dresden). Presentation & recording.

● Counting and telling. Are grammatical constructions the measure of all things? Paderborn, June 19, 2023. presentation & recording.

● Constructionalization & Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics. 38th Romance Studies Colloquium, Jena, June 8-10, 2023. presentation.

● Virtual and hybrid - new approaches and challenges for (academic) teaching. Microsoft Education, May 25, 2023.

● Handwriting, keyboard, dictation. The future of writing. Evening of the DGfS regional group Dresden, May 22, 2023. presentation.

● Herrnhut and our view of the world. Evening lecture at the G. E. Lessing City Library, Kamenz, April 17, 2023.

● Herrnhut sources as a basis for construct grammatical analyses. Dresden, March 6, 2023 Presentation.

● "Trust" as a collective resource in Herrnhut rituality. Lecture as part of the public lecture series "Vertrauen und Sprache in Geschichte und Gegenwart". Hamburg, 15.12.2022.

● Podcasts in and for teaching. Lessons Learned IV, Dresden, 15.07.2022. Lecture recording.

● Kleinwelka as a knowledge archive. Kleinwelka, 17.07.2022 together with Nora Kindermann and Sarah Wagner. Documentation.

● Simple language. Barrier-free administration symposium, Dresden, 17.06.2022.

● Looked in the mouth: Language and reformation. "In the beginning was the word: language, religion and politics". Meissen, May 20 to 22, 2022.

● At the grave and beyond. Funeral sermons and Herrnhut life descriptions in (constructional-grammatical) comparison. T.EVO-Workshop "From the surface to the pattern". Paderborn, March 22 and 23, 2022.

● Multimodal and agile corpora in the research hub #DigitalHerrnhut. Annual conference of the IDS Mannheim "Corpora in German linguistics - oral, written, multimedia". Mannheim, March 15 to 17, 2022.

● Language and religion: Herrnhut in focus. Sorbian Institute Bautzen on March 9, 2022. ● Hamlet barrier-free and digital. Contribution to the symposium "Digitale Chancen - Chancen digital" on December 1 and 2, 2021.

● Broadcast. Lecture at the fifth workshop "Religious Linguistics" on the topic "Interferences between religious and political language use" on November 26, 2021.

● Disruption through empiricism - Consequences of data-driven analyses for the reconstruction of language acquisition processes. Societal Change Forum. Dresden, November 23, 2021.

● Open Educational Resources (OER) - Collaboration needs open resources. Presentation at the theme day of the Dresden OpenSource UserGroup (DDOSUG) "Open Source in Education". Dresden, November 20, 2021.

● Shaping the world with language. Herrnhuter:innen as observers. Lecture at the conference "Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine als Impulsgeber für religiöse und kulturelle Innovation im 18. Jahrhundert". Herrnhut November 18-21, 2021.

● Alexander Lasch, Marlene Rummel & Robert C. Schuppe. Virtual excursion Kleinwelka. Presentation at the "Lessons Learned 3". Dresden, October 2021.

● Predestination. How trust becomes certainty. "Language and Trust", annual conference of the research network "Language and Knowledge". Heidelberg September 2021.

● #DigitalHerrnhut: German language history in virtual, collaborative, interdisciplinary and international learning environments. "Language history and education". Annual conference of the GGSG 2021 in Innsbruck, 21.09.2021 (together with Marlene Rummel).

● Construction grammatical annotation practices. Bochum, 15.06.2021. Recording. Recording.

● And at the end of the road, if I have to, I'll carry you across the river. Founding event of the Saxon Children's Palliative Care Center at the University Hospital Dresden, 14.06.2021. Stream and recording (total), excerpt.

● Open Educational Resources. Environmental lecture "Rethinking education". Dresden, 16.05.2021. Recording.

● DigitalHerrnhut: Potentials of a research hub I and II. Dresden, 11.05.2021 and 08.06.2021. Recording.

● Virtual teaching and learning at TU Dresden in an open source context (virTUos). Lessons Learned II, Dresden, 19.03.2021.

● On the Operationalization of Othering in Linguistics. The description of "others" in multilingual sources of the North American mission in the late 18th century. A.R.T.E.S.-Forum, Cologne, 14.01.2021.

● Talking is not everything. Management communication on the applied linguistic test bench. Vienna, 11.01.2021.

● That has to be communicated [Xer]. Lecture as part of the series "Man in the Digital Age - Linguistic Perspectives". Krupp-Kolleg Greifswald, 09.12.2020.

● The Americans consider the *Indians to be Cananites [...] who should definitely be exterminated. Discourse actor roles in multilingual sources of the North American mission in the late 18th century. Discourse invective, Dresden, November 12 and 13, 2020. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4568338.

● Collaborative learning in virtual space. A new learning culture of digitality. Microsoft Envision Education, 05.11.2020.

● Open Educational Resources (OER) in Digital University Teaching. Principles Legal foundations Implementation. Dresden, 22.09.2020. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4568342.

● Scientific culture of digitality. Dresden, 08.09.2020. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4568345.

● Constructing a Constructicon. Dresden / Trento, 22.05.2020.

● Presentation of the audio guide "Albrechtsburg Meissen: barrier-free - public domain - participatory". Meissen, January 27, 2020. website: Documentation. Presentation: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4568397.

● "The communicative burden of rare diseases". Klagenfurt, January 10, 2020. ● "Einführung in die gebrauchsbasierte Konstruktionsgrammatik". Graz, January 7, 2020. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4568406.

● "Sacrifice(ing)". Third Workshop on Religious Linguistics on the topic of "Sacrifice". Dresden, 17. and 18.10.2019: Presentation.

● "Das Spiel als Gegner (Man & Machine. Let's Plays in der Forschung)". #LNDWDD Dresden, 14.06.2019: Presentation and recording.

● "Patterns, Schemata, Constructions". Bamberg, 20.05.2019: Presentation and recording.

● "Of norms and rules". Dresden, 29.04.2019: Presentation and recording.

● "Annotation of grammatical constructions (using the example of transfer constructions)". Paris, 06.04.2019: Presentation.

● "Die (syntaktische) Negation im Konstruktionsnetzwerk des Deutschen", Bonn & Dresden, 20.03.2019: Presentation.

● "Between participation and procrastination. Science communication on blogs". Annual Conference of the Institute for German Language, Mannheim, 12.03.2019: Presentation.

● "Society or state? Eine linguistische Framing-Analyse politischer Grundsatzprogramme" at the University of Leipzig, 28.01.2019 (together with Oliver Czulo).

● "Aktuelle Tendenzen in der sprachgebrauchsbasierten Konstruktionsgrammatik des Deutschen" at the CAU zu Kiel, 21.01.2019: Presentation and recording.

● "Annotation of phrasal and transphrastic units: the difficult handling of patterns, schemata and constructions". Lecture at the InterGramm workshop "Challenges in the (grammatical) analysis of historical corpora" at the University of Paderborn 29/30.11.2018: Presentation and recording.

● DEAR HUMANS... || Public evening lecture on the presentation of selected cognitive linguistic foundations for the cooperation "Human AI Affairs". Altana Library of the TUD Dresden University of Technology. 02.11.2018: Presentation and lecture.

● "Easy language in the public space". Conference "SPRACHE UND VERMITTLUNG - KOMMUNIKATION IN AUSSTELLUNGEN" at the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin in cooperation with the TUD Dresden University of Technology. 11/12.10.2018 // DHM Berlin: Presentation and recording.

● "Fear of the dark. Linguistic confrontation with difference as a source of the religious". Conference of the research network "Language and Knowledge" on the topic of "Language and Fear". 04/05.10.2018 // Heidelberg University: Presentation and recording.

● "Corpus linguistic modeling of the archiving of linguistic patterns". Annual conference of the GGSG "Historical Corpus Linguistics". 20-22.09.2018 // University of Bamberg: Presentation and recording of the talk.

● "Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics. Proposals for the annotation of machine-readable corpora". Workshop "Identification and Analysis of Frames, Patterns, Schemata and Constructions using Quantitative Methods". 09.07.2018 // TU Dresden: Presentation and recording of the talk.

● "Digitalization - Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Teaching". Scientific Area Network (SAN) "Change Through Digitalization". 6 June 2018 // TU Dresden: Presentation (*.pdf)

● "Open Access -- more than a funding requirement?". Workshop of the Graduate Academy of TU Dresden. 30.05.2018 // TU Dresden: Presentation (*.pdf).

● "Narratives of revival". Second Workshop on Religious Linguistics "Autobiographical Narratives of Transcendence. Conversion, revival, awakening". 24. and 25.05.2018 // University of Koblenz: Presentation and recording of the lecture.

● "Language and Racism". 07.02.2018 // Lecture as part of the academic week at the Landesgymnasium "St. Afra" Meißen (invitation).

● Literary studies meets linguistics. 30.01.2018 // University of Leipzig (invitation): Presentation (*.pdf), (unedited) lecture notes (*.pdf) and recording.

● Constructional resources of language use. 29.01.2018 // GSW Lightning Talks // TU Dresden: Recording.

● Experiences with pediatric outpatient palliative care. PPC 2018, 18.01.2018 // Palliative Center Dresden (invitation).

● Nonagentive constructions of German. Workshop "Construction grammar". 15.01.2018 // University of Regensburg (invitation): (Unedited) lecture notes and presentation (*.pdf) as well as recording.

● Construction site of early New High German: Luther's revisions of his own Bible translation. 10.01.2018, 19.00 // TUD, SLUB (invitation): (Unedited) lecture notes and presentation (*.pdf) as well as recording.

● "No rich person was not there". Constructions of negation as a challenge for a variety-linguistically oriented KxG. Workshop "Konstruktionen, Kollokationen, Muster - Geerbte Strukturen, Übertragung in neue Realitäten". 16.11.2017. Montpellier (invitation): Presentation (*.pdf) of the lecture.

● Luther as puer robustus. On the significance of invectives for the positioning of threshold walkers. 35th Annual Conference of the International Working Group for Historical Urban Language Research "Stadtsprache(n) im Zeitalter von Reformation und Konfessionalisierung". Dresden, 05.09.2017.

● "I have 1 Mission:Impossible for you vong Challenge her". When does construction grammar speak of a construction? Kiel, 17.05.2017 (inaugural lecture). Lecture notes (*.pdf; not edited) and presentation (*.pdf).

● Easy or simple language? An empirical foundation. Berlin, 30.03.2017 (invitation): Presentation (*.pdf).

● Language use-based construction grammar. Theory - method - application. Düsseldorf, 6.12.2016 (invitation).

● Grammatical constructions as the basis of narrative routines. 25th German Studies Conference on the framework topic "Narration". Bayreuth, 27.09.2016. Lecture notes and presentation (*.pdf).

● Forgetting and remembering. Mission reports as a (forgotten) corrective of colonial history. Düsseldorf, 15.06.2016 (invitation).

● "Easy language" as a challenge for knowledge transfer processes. Cologne, 08.06.2016 (invitation).

● "Deutschlandfunk for idiots?" Functional varieties of 'easy' or 'simple language' between comprehensibility and social acceptance. Lecture in the habilitation process. Kiel, 01.06.2016.

● "The world is turning black" (Achille Mbembe). Analysis of discourse-pragmatic evidence for the revival of racist thinking with regard to an expansion of the 'alterity' concept. Dresden, 27.04.2016: Lecture notes (*.pdf) and presentation (*.pdf).

● An 'easy or simple language' as a functional variety. International conference "Leichte Sprache" im Spiegel theoretischer und angewandter Forschung, 14.04.2016, University of Leipzig (invitation).

● Entanglement of abstract grammatical constructions. On the 'Perfect Gap' in Early New High German. Workshop Historische Konstruktionsgrammatik, 18.02.2016, HHU Düsseldorf: Presentation of the lecture (*.pdf) and lecture notes (*.pdf).

● Everyday unity. Easy language from a linguistic perspective. Lecture at the German Historical Museum. Berlin, January 21, 2016 (invitation): Presentation (*.pdf).

● Nonagentive constructions of German. Results of the usage-based study on contemporary German. Research colloquium Kiel, January 14, 2016 (invitation).

● From "Closed Access" to "Open Access", from print to digital - a field report. Lecture at the 9th Open Access Days. Zurich on September 7 and 8, 2015 (together with Christa Dürscheid): Presentation (*.pdf).

● How will we talk about the church in the future? Reflections from a linguistic perspective. Conference What is coming? Talking differently about the future. Bonn from December 12 to 14, 2014 (invitation).

● Prospections: What the church of today knows about its role of tomorrow. Conference Discourse Futures of the research network "Language and Knowledge" in Heidelberg from September 18 to 20, 2014.

● "She was beautiful and tall and at the same time seemed powerful, fully grown and yet delicate and almost transparent" (Martin Walser). An analysis of "wirken" + (deverb.) ADJ. Workshop Diachrony of Passive Constructions at the University of Hanover on March 20 and 21, 2014.

● On the compatibility of machine language analysis and discourse linguistic historiography using the example of the "Islamism" discourse. Annual conference of the GGSG, September 26-28, 2013, University of Kassel.

● "If I work restlessly to my end..." - the construction [[wirken] +[VVPP]/[ADJD]]. Workshop on corpus linguistics at the TU Dresden on July 19, 2013 (invitation): Presentation (*.pdf) and recording.

● Do sounds arouse emotions? Reflections on current findings in cognitive linguistics and possible consequences for the analysis of lyrical texts. International Workshop Klang-Spiele in Zurich on May 23 and 24, 2013 (invitation): Presentation (*.pdf).

● Workshop Konstruktionsgrammatik at the University of Vienna on January 12, 2013 (invitation).

● Who is afraid of Islam? Constructions in the service of argumentation. International symposium Konstruktionen im Spannungsfeld von sequenziellen Mustern, Gattungen und Textsorten in Münster from November 14 to 16, 2012: Presentation (*.pdf).

● "But I say to you". Linguistic construction of reality in performative actions in preaching. Conference "Construction - Knowledge - Discourse" of the research network "Language and Knowledge" and the working group "Construction Grammar of German" in Heidelberg from September 10 to 12, 2012.

● Possibilities and limits of construction grammar. Research colloquium at the CAU in Kiel from January 19 to 21, 2012 (invitation).

● Construction Grammar - Perspectives and Outlook. International symposium Constructions as social conventions and cognitive routines at the HHU Düsseldorf on August 31 and September 1, 2011.

● "Tragen" - linguistic dimensions of the concept. HOMO PORTANS. Carrying. Fascination of the self-evident. International symposium at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden from May 19 to 21, 2011 (invitation).

● "The Assassins are said to come from Egypt". Discursivization of knowledge at the turn of the modern era using the example of the League of Assassins. International symposium Making the incomprehensible tangible. Special language research in the field of tension between the arcane and the profane. Karl-Franzens-University Graz. November 17 to 20, 2010: Presentation (*.pdf).

● God is a friend of life. The (discourse) position of the Christian churches on "palliative medicine" and "euthanasia". International symposium "Knowledge generation and collective attitudes in the field of palliative medicine and euthanasia" of the Marsilius-Kolleg, International Science Forum and German Studies Seminar of the University of Heidelberg from October 29 to 31, 2010: Presentation (*.pdf)

● A new perspective on passive voice(s) in German. Fourth International Conference of the German Association for Cognitive Linguistics (DGKL) at the University of Bremen, October 7-9, 2010: Presentation (*.pdf).

● Construction Grammar: new perspectives for the study of German and English - a critical survey. International conference "Construction Grammar: new perspectives for the study of German and English" at the CAU in Kiel from February 18 to 20, 2010.

● The "having-passive" as a nonagentive construction. Research colloquium at the CAU in Kiel from January 21, 2010 (invitation).

● Historical syntax and perspectivization. Construction-grammatical considerations on the relationship between sentence and text. Annual Conference of the GGSG, September 30 to October 3, 2009, Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig.

● "My heart has remained in Africa". The Herrnhut Mission in the 18th and 19th centuries. Lecture as part of the academic week at the Landesgymnasium St. Afra Meißen on June 9, 2009 (invitation).

● "Es sey das Fewer in der Stadt" Funktionale Aspekte einer Historischen Textgrammatik am Beispiel vormoderner Feuerordnungen. International conference "Historische Textgrammatik und Historische Syntax des Deutschen. Traditions, Innovations, Perspectives". May 7-10, 2008 at the University of Graz: Presentation (*.pdf).

● Notes on the "Cologne Window Controversy" with regard to the establishment of a knowledge domain "Religion". Symposium "Sprachliche Formationen des Wissens" of the International Science Forum of the University of Heidelberg and 3rd Colloquium of the Research Network "Language and Knowledge" - Problems of Public and Professional Communication. October 10-12, 2007 at the University of Heidelberg: Presentation (*.pdf).

● Knights without a religious state. Reflections on the Martina (1293) of Hugo von Langenstein. International conference "Textsortentypologien und Textallianzen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts". June 14-16, 2007 at the University of Erlangen: Presentation (*.pdf).

● Pragmatics of the excuse. Lecture during the academic week at the Landesgymnasium St. Afra Meißen on February 9, 2006 (invitation).

● Jörg Wickram's Rollwagenbüchlein - Polemics in religious contexts. Lecture at the working meeting of the sub-project "Autorität des Nichtigen" at the SFB 573 "Pluralisierung in der Frühen Neuzeit" at the LMU Munich on 27 and 28 October 2005.

● "Intervening thinking". Recipient control from a pragmatic perspective in Hartmann von Aue's 'Erec'. Paper presented at the conference "Imagination und Deixis - Stimulation und Lenkung von Wahrnehmung in mittelalterlichen Texten und Bildern" (= 7th meeting of North American and German junior academics in German medieval studies) in Berlin, September 29 - October 1, 2005.

● 'Simeonsgemüth' and 'Marthanatur'. The values of Pietist communities as reflected in the biographies of their members. Lecture at the International Center for the Study of Pietism in Halle/S. on February 10, 2004 (invitation).

Teaching and Evaluation

Overview of teaching evaluations (*.pdf)

Overview of courses

TU Dresden - Institute for German Studies

● SoSe2026; [BA/MA-V] Grammar at school, [BA/MA-S] Morphology, [BA/MA-S] Barrier-free communication

● WiSe2025; [BA/MA-V] Construction Grammar, [BA/MA-S] Language and Religion, [BA/MA-S] Digital Edition

● SoSe2025; [BA/MA-V] Language and Religion, [BA/MA-S] Barrier-free communication, [BA/MA-S] All Text? Language and play

● WiSe2024; [BA/MA-V] Language and Play, [BA/MA-V] Language History of the 17th and 18th Centuries, [BA/MA-S] Indexing Pre-Modern Manuscripts

● SoSe2024; [BA/MA-V] Basic knowledge of linguistics II, [BA/MA-S] Barrier-free communication, [BA/MA-S] Morphosyntax

● WiSe2023; [BA/MA-V] Basiswissen Sprachwissenschaft, [BA/MA-S] Was kann Grammatik?, [BA/MA-S] Historische Linguistik und Wikiversum, [BA-Ü] Einführung in die germanistische Sprachwissenschaft

● SoSe2023; [BA/MA-V] Attention, metaphor!, [BA/MA-S] Text archives, [BA/MA-S] Barrier-free communication

● WiSe2022; [BA/MA-V] Cognitive Linguistics, [BA/MA-S] Construction Grammar, [BA/MA-S] From Manuscript to Edition

● SoSe2022; [BA/MA-V] History(s) of Language, [BA/MA-S] Variant Grammar, [BA/MA-S] Accessible Communication

● WiSe2021; [BA/MA-S] Auxiliarity, [BA/MA-S] DigitalHerrnhut, [BA/MA-V] Colonial Linguistics

● SoSe2021: [BA/MA-S] Grammar of German, [BA/MA-S] Barrier-free Communication, [BA/MA-V] Language and Space

● WiSe2020: [BA/MA-S] Colonial Linguistics, [BA-S] Morphology, [BA/MA-S] Cognitive Grammar, [BA/MA-V] Reformation(s) and Revolution

● SoSe2020: [BA/MA-S] Barrier-free communication, [BA/MA-S] Small text forms, [BA/MA-V] Digitality

● WiSe2019: [BA/MA-S] Digital Humanities, [BA/MA-S], media networks, [BA/MA-V] language change

● SoSe 2019: [BA/MA-S] Digital Humanities, [BA-S] Accessible Communication, [BA/MA-V] Discourse Semantics: Ideology and Power

● WiSe 2018: [BA-S] Linguistik trifft Literaturwissenschaft, [BA/MA-S] Digital Humanities, [BA/MA-V] Konstruktionsgrammatik, [MA-S] Perfektivität: Tempus und Modus

● SoSe 2018: [BA-S] Simple Language, [BA/MA-S] Digital Humanities, [BA/MA-V] Cognitive Linguistics, [MA-S] (Historical) Construction Grammar

● WiSe 2017: [BA-S] Functional Grammar, [BA-S] History of Linguistics, [BA/MA-V] Language and Politics, [MA-S] Protestant Reform Movements in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Further: Advanced seminar and colloquium as well as [MA-S] Workshop Theory (EUROS)

● All information and materials up to the winter semester 2017 can be found on my blog "Sprachpunkt" under the category "Lehre". They are still available there. From the summer semester 2018, all content for teaching will be continued here.

CAU Kiel - Department of German Studies

● SoSe 2017 Lecture "Topics in applied linguistics"

● SoSe 2017 Seminar "Diachronic description of the German language"

● WiSe 2016 Seminar "Machine language analysis"

● WiSe 2016 Seminar "Diachronic description of the German language"

● SoSe 2016 Seminar "Easy language, simple language? Functional varieties of comprehensibility"

● SoSe 2016 Seminar "Diachronic description of the German language"

● WiSe 2015 Seminar "Synchronous description of the German language"

● WiSe 2015 Seminar "Language and power"

● SoSe 2015 Seminar "Synchronous description of the German language"

● SoSe 2015 Seminar (MA) "Text linguistics"

● WiSe 2014 Seminar "Diachronic description of the German language"

● Winter semester 2014 Seminar (MA) "Historical Sociolinguistics"

● SoSe 2014 Seminar "Diachronic description of the German language"

● SoSe 2014 Seminar "Discourse Semantics"

● SoSe 2013 Seminar "Diachronic description of the German language"

● SoSe 2013 Seminar (MA) "Forensic Linguistics"

● WiSe 2012 Seminar "Introduction to German Linguistics"

● WiSe 2012 Seminar "Construction Grammar and Corpus Linguistics"

TU Dresden - Institute for German Studies

● SoSe 2012 Lecture (BA) "Introduction to Applied Linguistics"

● SoSe 2012 Seminar (MA) "Pragmalinguistics"

● SoSe 2012 Seminar (MA) "Forensic Linguistics"

● SoSe 2012 Seminar (MA) "Current research in the field of applied linguistics"

● WiSe 2011 Lecture (MA) "Language media and media language in contemporary German"

● WiSe 2011 Seminar (MA) "Corporate communication - how do you woo students?"

● WiSe 2011 Seminar (MA) "Language and religion"

● WiSe 2011 Seminar (BA) "Discourse Linguistics"

CAU Kiel - German Studies Seminar

● [Parental leave WiSe 2010 and SoSe 2011]

● SoSe 2010 Seminar "Diachronic description of the German language"

● SoSe 2010 Seminar "Linguistics of doubtful cases"

● WiSe 2009 Seminar "Communication in Web 2.0"

● WiSe 2009 Seminar "Synchronous description of the German language"

● SoSe 2009 Seminar "Old High German"

● SoSe 2009 Seminar "Diachronic description of the German language"

● WiSe 2008 Seminar "Grammatical categories of the verb"

● WiSe 2008 Seminar "Introduction to German Linguistics"

● SoSe 2008 Seminar "(Historical) Text Linguistics"

● SoSe 2008 Seminar "Diachronic description of the German language"

● WiSe 2007 Seminar "Rethinking grammar? The perspective(s) of a construction grammar"

● WiSe 2007 Seminar "Diachronic description of the German language"

● SoSe 2007 Seminar "Linguistics of conversation"

● SoSe 2007 Seminar "Synchronic description of the German language"

● WiSe 2006 Seminar "Synchronous description of the German language"

● WiSe 2006 Seminar "Introduction to German Linguistics"

LMU Munich - Institute for German Philology

● SoSe 2006 Proseminar "ez ist nu tac - Tagelieder in der mittelhochdeutschen Lyrik"

● Winter semester 2005 Proseminar "Hartmann von Aue: Erec"

● SoSe 2005 Proseminar "Der Nibelunge nôt - alte mæren vom Untergang der Welt"

● WiSe 2004 Proseminar "Of Time and Eternity. Ideas of the afterlife in pre-modern German-language literature"

TU Dresden - Institute for German Studies

● WiSe 2003 Seminar "Genesis. Linguistic and literary approaches to the origin stories of the Occident" (together with Ludger Lieb [now Heidelberg])

● SoSe 2003 Seminar "Modern German language history"

● Winter semester 2002 Seminar "Historical Semantics"

● SoSe 2002 Seminar "Language and Ritual"

● WiSe 2001 Seminar "Language history of the 18th century"

● SoSe 2001 Seminar "Language and Media in the 20th Century

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