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Prof. Dr. Susanne Wagner
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Short curriculum vitae
I studied English, Latin and General Linguistics at the University of Freiburg, where I received my Magister Artium in 1999 and my PhD in 2003. My PhD thesis focussed on a traditional feature of English dialects in Southwest England and Newfoundland, Canada. I continued to pursue my interest in Newfoundland English with the help of a two-year DFG grant for my own project. I spent the academic year 2008/2009 as a Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where I concentrated on my postdoctorate thesis, which will focus on null subjects in English. I have been a member of ELL at Chemnitz since WS 2009/10.
Research Interests
My main research area is Language Variation and Change in dialects of English, with particular emphasis on morphosyntactic variation in varieties of the British Isles and Newfoundland. I include both traditional dialectology and sociolinguistics in my approach, as well as quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. I am also interested in the history of English dialects, particularly of the Late Modern English period. I have also worked on issues in corpus linguistics and areal typology.
Publications
| fc a | Pronominal systems. In: Hickey, Raymond (Hrsg.), Areal Features of the Anglophone World. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. |
| fc b | Southwest England. In: Kortmann, Bernd (Hrsg.), World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. |
| fc c | South West English. In: Hopkins, Tometro, John McKenny und Kendall Decker (Hrsg.), World Englishes - Volume 1 - The British Isles. London: Continuum. (erscheint lt. Verlagswebseite Mai 2012) |
| fc d | Dialects of Southwest England. In: Kortmann, Bernd und Kerstin Lunkenheimer (Hrsg.), The Electronic World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. München/Berlin: Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with Mouton de Gruyter. |
| fc e | Newfoundland English. In: Kortmann, Bernd und Kerstin Lunkenheimer (Hrsg.), The Electronic World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. München/Berlin: Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with Mouton de Gruyter. |
| 2012 | Late Modern English Dialects. In: Brinton, Laurel und Alexander Bergs (Hrsg.), Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook. Vol. 1. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 915-938. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110251593.915 |
| 2011 | Concessives and Contrastives in Student Writing: L1, L2 and Genre Differences. In: Schmied, Josef (Hrsg.), Academic Writing in Europe: Empirical Perspectives. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 23–49. |
| 2010 | mit Bernd Kortmann. Changes and continuities in dialect grammar. In: Hickey, Raymond (Hrsg.), Eighteenth Century English. Ideology and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 269–292. |
| 2008 | English dialects in the Southwest: morphology and syntax. In: Kortmann, Bernd und Clive Upton (Hrsg.), Varieties of English - The British Isles. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 417–439. |
| 2007a | mit Lieselotte Anderwald. The Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED) – Applying Corpus-Linguistic Research Tools to the Analysis of Dialect Data. In: Beal, Joan, Karen Corrigan und Herman Moisl (Hrsg.), Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Vol. I: Synchronic Corpora. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 35–53. |
| 2007b | mit Bernd Kortmann. A Fresh Look at Late Modern English Dialect Syntax. In: Pérez-Guerra, Javier, Dolores González-Álvarez, Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso und Esperanza Rama-Martínez (Hrsg.), Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed. New Insights into Late Modern English. Bern/Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 279–300. |
| 2007c | Unstressed periphrastic do – from Southwest England to Newfoundland? English World-Wide 28: 249–278. |
| 2006/7 | The Tocque Formula and Newfoundland English. Papers from Methods XII, Moncton 1-5 August 2005. Special issue of Linguistica Atlantica (27–28): 141–146. |
| 2005a | Gender in English pronouns: Southwest England. In: Kortmann, Bernd, Tanja Herrmann, Lukas Pietsch und Susanne Wagner, Comparative Grammar of English Dialects: Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 211–367. |
| 2005b | mit Bernd Kortmann. The Freiburg English Dialect Project and Corpus. In: Kortmann, Bernd, Tanja Herrmann, Lukas Pietsch und Susanne Wagner. A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects: Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1–20. |
| 2004a | ‘Gendered’ pronouns in English dialects. In: Kortmann, Bernd (Hrsg.), Dialectology Meets Typology. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 479–496. |
| 2004b | English dialects in the Southwest: morphology and syntax. In: Kortmann, Bernd und Edgar Schneider (Hrsg.), A Handbook of Varieties of English, Vol. II: Morpholgy and Syntax. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 154–174. |
| 2003 | Gender in English pronouns - myth and reality. Dissertation, Englisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg. Online version |
| 2002 | We don' say she, 'do us? Pronoun Exchange – a feature of English dialects? Manuscript, Universität Freiburg, 2002. pdf |
| 2000 | Depends how long you want for it to take: For/to clauses in present-day spoken British English. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 25: 191–211. |
Conference presentations
| 07/2010 | 16th Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 16) Vancouver/CAN |
| 07/2011, 07/2009, 07/2007, 06/2005 |
International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE) Osnabrück/D, London/UK, Toulouse/F, Edinburgh/UK |
| 10/2008 | First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE I) Freiburg/D |
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08/2011, |
Methods in Dialectology London (ON)/CAN, Leeds/UK, Moncton/CAN, Joensuu/FIN |
| 10/2009, 10/2007, 11/2006, 09/2004 |
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) Ottawa/CAN, Philadelphia, PA/USA, Columbus, OH/USA, Ann Arbor, MI/USA |
| 04/2008, 07/2006, 04/2004 |
Sociolinguistics Symposium Amsterdam/NL, Limerick/IRL, Newcastle/UK |
| 09/2003 | Societas Linguistica Europaea 36 Lyon/F |
| 07/2001 | Third Language Variation and Change Conference York/UK |
Guest Lectures
| 2002-2011 |
Guest talks at the following universities: University of Regensburg (D), York University (Toronto/CAN), Sheffield University (UK), Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John’s/CAN), University of Manchester (UK), University of Kent (Canterbury/UK), Chemnitz University of Technology (D) |