Anglistik III: English Language and Linguistics
Section English Language and Linguistics
There are two professors in ‘English Language and Linguistics‘, Tania Kouteva and Ingo Plag, and a number of post-doctoral researchers and PhD students. Tania Kouteva is an internationally renowned specialist in language development and grammaticalization, Ingo Plag is a leading researcher in morphology and in creole studies.
Research and teaching covers a broad range of topics in all linguistic subsystems: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and text linguistics, with specializations in the following domains:
- Varieties of English (Jessica Sabban),
- discourse grammar (Hülya Belketin, Tania Kouteva),
- NP syntax (Christine Günther),
- functional syntax and text linguistics (Heidrun Dorgeloh, Gero Kunter),
- phonological theory (Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Christian Uffmann),
- word-formation (Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Linda Hilkenbach, Gero Kunter Ingo Plag),
- morpho-phonetics (Sonia Ben Hedia, Julia Homann, Gero Kunter, Ingo Plag),
- second language acquistion and language contact (Katja Jäschke, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Ingo Plag, Christian Uffmann),
- analogical modeling of language (Sabine Arndt-Lappe),
- grammatical variation (Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Christine Günther, Gero Kunter, Katja Jäschke, Ingo Plag),
- word-formation semantics (Lea Kawaletz, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Ingo Plag) and
- pragmatics (Charissa Claussmann-Chong, Julia Muschalik).
News
14.01.2015
Prof. Dr. Ingo Plag receives renowned Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2014 from the Linguistics Society of America
This year's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award was presented to a team of authors consisting of Ingo Plag (Department of English and American Studies, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Laurie Bauer (Victoria University, Wellington, Neuseeland) and Rochelle Lieber (University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA) for their book The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology.
The Leonard Bloomfield Book Award is presented yearly by the Linguistic Society of America to 'a volume that makes an outstanding contribution of enduring value to our understanding of language and linguistics'.