Professor Mair | Dissertations & Habilitations
Dissertations
In progress:
- Bailey, Kebrina
"Creole and English in a British Overseas Territory. Language Variations and Language Attitudes in 21st Century Anguilla" - Bonnet, Isolde
"The spread of Bislama: postcolonial identity construction and multilingualism in Vanuatu" - Cuthbertson, Laura
"Beyond Tense and Aspect: Temporal Conceptualisation in Present-day Spoken English" - Mahler, Hanna
"English-German Contrastive Linguistics: A Quantitative Perspective" - Müller, Julia
"Gender Systems as a Cause of Interference in Second-Language Processing" - Neuhausen, Miriam
"Language and Identity in Mennonite Communities in Southern Ontario, Canada" - Nte, Lucky, Co-tutelle with Université Lyon 2 (Lumière)
"West African Users of English as Lingua Franca in France and Germany: Case Studies from the Medical Field"
- Song Shuang
"Linguistic Expression of Emotions in English and Chinese Computer-mediated"
Completed:
- AYAFOR, Munang Isaiah (2005). Official Bilingualism in Cameroon: An Empirical Evaluation of the Status of English in Official Domains
- CHITEZ, Madalina (2014). Learner Corpus Profiles: The Case of Romanian Learner English
- DEUBER, Dagmar (2005). Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language Contact, Variation and Change in an African Urban Setting
- DIACONU, Gabriela. (2012). Modality in New Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study of Obligation and Necessity
- GÜNTHER, Ulrike (2002). What's in a Laugh? Humour, Jokes and Laughter in the Conversational Corpus of the BNC
- GUNDERMANN, Susanne (2014). English-Medium Instruction: Modelling the Role of the Native Speaker in a Lingua Franca Context
- HAJIYAN, Mehdi (2015). Connectors in Contrast: A Comparative Study of Iranian-Learner and Native-Speaker Usage
- HINRICHS, Lars (2006). Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in E-mail Communication
- HÖHN, Nicole (2011). Quotatives in the Jamaican Acrolect: Corpus-Based Variationist Studies of Vernacular Globalisation in World Englishes
- HONKANEN, Mirka (2018). "'like my homeboy will say, THIS NA REALLY NAIJA': African-American and Nigerian resources in U.S.-Nigerians' Digital Communication"
- HORCH, Stephanie (2016). Conversion in Asian Englishes: A Usage-Based Account of the Emergence of New Local Norms
- HUNDT, Marianne (1998). New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction? A Corpus-Based Study in Morphosyntactic Variation
- JANTOS, Susanne (2009). Agreement in Educated Jamaican English: A Corpus Investigation of ICE-Jamaica
- KOSSMANN, Bianca (2007). 'Rich' and 'Poor' in the History of English: Corpus-Based Analyses of Lexico-Semantic Variation and Change in Old and Middle English
- LAVERSUCH, Iman N. (2005). "The Discourse of Race: A Historical Analysis Based on Usage in the US: Census and Related Sources"
- LEUNG, Glenda-Alicia (2013). A Synchronic Sociophonetic Study of Monophthongs in Trinidadian English
- LI, Jingying (2020). Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition: A Corpus-based Comparison of Chinese and German Learner English
- LORENZ, David (2013). Contractions of English Semi-Modals: The Emancipating Effect of Frequency
- MAZAHERYLAGHAB, Hamzeh (2013). Iranian Learner English: A Corpus-Based Study of Phrasal Verb Usage
- MOLL, Andrea (2015). Jamaican Creole Goes Web. Sociolinguistic Styling and Authenticity in a Digital Yaad
- MOLLIN, Sandra (2006). Euro-English: Assessing Variety Status
- NITZL, Irene (1999). Formen und Funktionen des Pidgin im zeitgenössischen nigerianischen Drama
- PERCILLIER, Michael (2016). World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes
- ROHE, Udo (2018). The Progressive in Present-day Spoken English: Real-time Studies of its Spread and Functional Diversification
- ROSENFELDER, Ingrid (2009). Sociophonetic Variation in Educated Jamaican English: An Analysis of the Spoken Component of ICE-Jamaica
- RUDNICKA, Karolina (2018). The Statistics of Obsolescence: Purpose Subordinators in Late Modern English
- SAND, Andrea (1996, publ. 1999). Linguistic Variation in Jamaica: A Corpus-Based Study of Radio and Newspaper Usage
- SANDERSON, Tamsin (2008). Corpus • Culture • Discourse
- SCHRÖDER, Anne (2003). Status, Functions, and Prospects of Pidgin English: An Empirical Approach to Language Dynamics in Cameroon
- SEDLATSCHEK, Andreas (2009). Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change
- SEGGEWISS, Friederike (2012). Current Changes in the English modals – A corpus-based Analysis of Present-day Spoken English
- TERASSA, Laura (2017). Morphological Simplification in Asian Englishes: Frequency, Substratum Transfer, and Institutionalization
- TRAŞCĂ, Luminiţa (2014). [NOUN + NOUN] Constructions in English and Romanian Written Styles: A Corpus-based, Comparative Study of Frequency, Change and the Modernisation of Discourse Norms
- VON SCHILLING, Martin (2007). Learner Training, Attitudes and Motivation – Exploring One Route to a Better Learner: An Investigation into the Effects of Learner Training on Young Adults Learning English as a Foreign Language
- WAIBEL, Birgit (2007). Phrasal Verbs in Learner English: A Corpus-Based Study of German and Italian Students
- WINKLE, Claudia (2015). Non-Canonical Structures, They Use Them Differently: Information Packaging in Spoken Varieties of English
- ZÁMEČNIK, Jiří (2019). "Information Density, Language Processing and the Rational Speaker"
Habilitations
In progress:
- Bohmann, Axel. "Locating Superdiversity: Communicative Repertoires of Refugees in Germany"
- Honkanen, Mirka. "Derivational Productivity in World Englishes"
- Lacoste, Véronique. "Haitians' Diasporic English: Development, Structure and Social Functioning"
Completed:
- DEUBER, Dagmar (2010). "Style and Standards in English in the Caribbean: Morphological and Syntactic Variation in Jamaica and Trinidad"
(2014) English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - FISCHER, Roswitha (1996). "Motivation, Institutionalization and Productivity of New Words of the English Language: A Corpus-Based Study"
(1998) Lexical Change in Present-Day English: A Corpus-Based Study of the Motivation, Institutionalization, and Productivity of Creative Neologism. Tübingen: Narr.
- HUNDT, Marianne (2002). "English Mediopassive Constructions: A Cognitive, Corpus-Cased Study of Their Origin, Spread and Current Status."
(2007) English Mediopassive Constructions. A Cognitive, Corpus-Based Study of Their Origin, Spread and Current Status. Amsterdam: Rodopi. - LEIMGRUBER, Jakob R. E. (2018). "Language Planning and Policy in Quebec: A Comparative Perspective"
(2019) Language planning and policy in Quebec. A comparative perspective with views from Wales and Singapore. Tübingen: Narr.
- SAND, Andrea (2005). "Angloversals? Shared Morphosyntactic Features in Contact Varieties of English"
(forthcoming) Angloversals? Shared Morphosyntactic Features in Contact Varieties of English. Amsterdam: Benjamins
Administrative advising in the final stages:
- Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar (2013). "Cesuring in Talk-in-interaction: A parametric Approach to Intonation Units and their Role in Turn-taking, Backchanneling, Language Variation and Language Change"
(2016) Intonation Units Revisited: Cesuras in Talk-in-interaction. Amsterdam: Benjamins - Gut, Ulrike (2006). "Non-native Speech: A Corpus-linguistic Approach"
(2009) Non-native Speech: A Corpus-based Analysis of Phonological and Phonetic Properties of L2 English and German. Frankfurt: Peter Lang - Häcker, Martina (2006). "Origins and History of [h]-dropping and [h]-insertion in English: A Corpus-based Study"
- Hilpert, Martin (2013). Constructional Change in English: Developments in Allomorphy, Word Formation, and Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Matthews, Richard (1994). Kumulative Habilitation
- Stukenbrock, Anja (2012, publ. 2015). Deixis in der Face-to-Face-Interaktion. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter