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Chair of English Linguistics

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  8. Prof. Dr. Manfred Krug

Prof. Dr. Manfred Krug

Chair of English Linguistics

An der Universit?t 9, Raum 01.01

D-96047 Bamberg

+49 951/863-2165

manfred.krug(at)uni-bamberg.de

  • 1989-91 & 1992-96: studied English, Latin and Greek at Freiburg University (teaching assistant in English Linguistics and Classical Archaeology; research assistant in English Linguistics; scholarship awarded by the Evangelisches Studienwerk)
  • 1991-92: M.A. in Applied Linguistics, University of Exeter (England)
  • 1996-99: Member of academic staff (50% position) and PhD programme at Freiburg University (major: English Linguistics, minor subjects: Latin and German Linguistics)
  • 1998: USA grant for PhD students: Research stays and presentations at the universities of Albuquerque, NM; Berkeley, CA; Flagstaff, AZ; Stanford, CA
  • 1999-2004: Post-doc/Assistant professor (C1), University of Freiburg
  • 2002: Visiting Professor at Portland State University, Oregon, USA
  • 2003: Completion of postdoctoral project ("Habilitation") in English Philology, University of Freiburg
  • 2004-05: Associate Professor (C2) at Freiburg University
  • 2005-06: Chair of English Linguistics (Focus on Diachrony), University of Mannheim
  • since 2006: Chair of English Linguistics and Language History, University of Bamberg
  • 2003-09: shortlisted for professorships also at Basel, Berlin, Leipzig, Tübingen, Vienna

(Great) Vowel Shifts Present and Past: Meeting Ground for Structural and Natural Phonologists;Penn Working Papers 9.2: Selected papers from 11 NWAVE at Stanford, CA, USA, 107-122.
  • 2007. Modern Methodologies and Changing Standards in English Linguistics. In María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Sonia Hernández Santano & Jorge Casanova (eds.) Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference. Huelva: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. [CD-Rom]
  • 2009. Modality and the History of English Adhortatives. In Raphael Salkie, Pierre Busuttil & Johan van der Auwera (eds.), Modality in English. Theory and Description (Topics in English Linguistics). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 315-347. DOI: Patterns of linguistic globalization: Integrating typological profiles and questionnaire data. In Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja & Sarah Chevalier (eds.) New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building Bridges. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 35-66. DOI: doi.org/10.1075/slcs.177.03kru.
  • 2017. The Great Vowel Shift. In Alexander Bergs & Laurel Brinton (eds.) The History of English (Vol.4): Early Modern English. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 241-266. DOI: doi.org/10.1515/9783110525069-014.
  • 2017 (with Lukas S?nning). Language change in Maltese English: The influence of age and parental languages. In Patrizia Paggio & Albert Gatt (eds.) The languages of Malta (Studies in Diversity Linguistics Series). Berlin: Language Science Press, 247-270. DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1181801
  • 2018 (with Christopher Lucas). Definite article (omission) in British, Maltese, and other Englishes.Special issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 71.2: 261-303. DOI: 10.1515/stuf-2018-0012.
  • 2018 (with Christopher Lucas). Introduction. The Noun Phrase in Maltese and Maltese English. Special Issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 71.2: 169-173.
  • 2020 (with Ole Schützler and Valentin Werner). How British is Gibraltar English? In Paloma Nu?ez Pertejo, María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya & Javier Perez-Guerra, eds. Crossing Linguistic Boundaries: Systemic, Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in English. London: Bloomsbury, 153-186. DOI: doi.org/10.5040/9781350053885.
  • 2020. The Great Vowel Shift. In Dan McIntyre (ed.) History of English: A Resource Book for Students. London, New York: Routledge, 156-166.
  • 2022 (with Ole Schützler, Valentin Werner & Fabian Vetter). Introduction: Perspectives on Structure, Variation and Cognition in Contemporary English. In Krug et al. (eds.) Perspectives on Contemporary English: Structure, Variation, Cognition. Berlin: Lang, 7-11.
  • 2022 (with Lukas S?nning). Comparing study designs and down-sampling strategies in corpus analysis: The importance of speaker metadata in the BNCs of 1994 and 2014. In Ole Schützler & Julia Schlüter (eds.) Data and methods in corpus linguistics: Comparative approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 127-159.
  • 2022 (with Don Watson & Claus-Christian Carbon). The relationship between citations and the linguistic traits of specific academic discourse communities identified by using Social Network Analysis. Scientometrics 127: 1755–1781. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04287-9
  • 2023 (with Julia Schlüter, and Berit Ellies). Supporting Data for 'English Dental Fricatives and Their Substitutes in EFL Learners: A Study of L1-German University Students and Implications for EFL Teaching'. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18710/QXIGWC
  • 2024 (with Lukas S?nning, Fabian Vetter, Paul Messer, Anne Leucht & Timo Schmid). Latent-variable modeling of ordinal outcomes in language data analysis. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 31(2): 77–106. . doi: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/jhv6b
  • 2024. English Dental Fricatives and Their Substitutes in EFL Learners: A Study of L1-German University Students and Implications for EFL Teaching. In Anna Rosen & Katharina Beuter (eds.) Englische Sprachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik im Dialog: Chancen zur St?rkung der Lehrkr?ftebildung. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, pp. 65-80. DOI: doi.org/10.24053/9783381112524.
  • 2024 (with Berit Ellies). The Representation of Black Namibian English in Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007) and the Motivations of Regional Features in World Englishes. Anglistik 35 (3): 37 - 64. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2024/3/6
  • 2024. Variation and Change in English Second Person Pronouns: (Why) Did YE die? In Susan Br?hler und Kerstin-Anja Münderlein (ed.) “When men are unprepared and look not for it”: in Memoriam Christoph Houswitschka. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 475-490. DOI: 10.20378/irb-96531. Permalink: https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/96531
  • 2024 (with Summer, T., Zirkel, M., Fischer, P.). Exploring Poems and Songs in an Interdisciplinary Seminar with Pre-Service English Teachers: Opportunities and Hurdles. In P. Fischer, T. Summer (Eds.). Impulses for Teaching Poetry and Song Lyrics: From Shakespeare to Pop Music (pp. 271-294). Winter.
  • Forthcoming (with Ray Fabri & Michaela Hilbert): Maltese English Morphosyntax: Corpus-Based and Questionnaire-Based Studies; Il-Lingwa Taghna (Special Issue; Alexandra Vella & Ray Fabri, eds.) Towards a Description of Maltese English, 49pp.

    • Plenary and invitational papers

    • Recurrent paths in the evolution of new English auxiliaries. International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, 1998.
    • Frequency, Iconicity, Categorization: Evidence from Emerging Modals; Paper given at the invitational symposium Frequency Effects and Emergent Grammar. Carnegie Mellon University, July 1999.
    • Frequency as a Determinant in Grammatical Variation and Change; Paper given at the invitational symposium Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English. Paderborn, 2001.
    • Adhortative let’s: Negation and Grammaticalization; Plenary paper given at Pau, France: 2nd International Conference on Modality in English, Sept. 2004.
    • Historical Corpus Linguistics and Beyond; Paper given at the invitational symposium Corpus Linguistics – Perspectives for the Future. Heidelberg, Oct. 2004.
    • The Quest for Grammaticalization Parameters; Plenary paper given at Leuven, Belgium: From Ideational to Interpersonal: Perspectives from Grammaticalization (FitiGra), Feb. 2005.
    • Lecture Series on Grammaticalization and Language Change. Santiago de Compostela, May/June 2005.
    • Modern Methodologies and Changing Standards in English Linguistics; Plenary paper given at the Annual meeting of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN, Associación Espa?ola De Estudio Anglo-Norteamericano), Spain. Dec. 2006.
    • Developing a Questionnaire for Investigating English-Romance Contact Varieties of English; Athens, GA, Oct. 2008
    • Recent Change and Grammaticalization in Constructions Marking Intention; Invitational Symposium on Current Change celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Survey of English Usage. London, July 2009.
    • Research Methodologies and Questionnaire Design: Investigating Language Variation and Change; Lecture series Cambridge, Winter 2010.
    • Maltese English: Grammar and Lexicon; Zurich, May 2010.
    • Sprachkontakt in Malta: Amerikanisierung – Globalisierung – Glokalisierung?; Erlangen, June 2010
    • Lecture Series on Contrastive Corpus Linguistics (English vs. German); Auxiliaries, Typology, Grammaticalization. University of South Carolina, March 2011.
    • Synchrony and diachrony: The role of corpora in the investigation of modality in English. Plenary paper at the Conference Modality, Corpus, Discourse; Lund (Sweden), June 2012.
    • 2nd-language varieties of English: Between globalization, regionalisation and exonormative standards. Augsburg, May 2013.
    • Maltese English: Fact or Fiction? October 2013, University of Malta.
    • Lecture Series on Questionnaire Studies and Language Change in English. Ljubljana, May 2014.
    • Questionnaire-based typologies for varieties of English around the world. June 2014, Regensburg.
    • Puerto Rican English: Between American and British English? Feb. 2015, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras.
    • English-Spanish language contact in Puerto Rico and patterns of linguistic globalization. March 2016, University of Texas at Austin.
    • Studies of social and stylistic variation in Englishes around the world. March 2016, University of Texas at Austin.
    • Linguistic Globalization in Varieties of English as a Native, Second and Foreign Language. University of Bayreuth, May 2017.
    • The Great Vowel Shift. University of Leipzig, January 2021.

    Miscellaneous

    Research Interests

    • Language change (historical and in progress, esp. frequency, grammaticalization, lexicalization)
    • Corpus- and questionnaire-based variation studies
    • English-Romance language contact and change in (pen)insular situations (esp. Malta, Gibraltar, Channel Islands, Puerto Rico)
    • Early Modern English (esp. Great Vowel Shift)
    • Modal and auxiliary verbs
    • Pronoun constructions
    • Contrastive linguistics (esp. English - German)
    • Empirical methods in language variation and change

    Projects

    • English-Romance language contact and change in (pen)insular situations: Malta, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, Puerto Rico (with the universities of Malta, Puerto Rico and Cambridge)
    • Scottish English (with the University of Münster): Compilation of ICE-Scotland; Morphosyntactic variation in Scottish Standard English
    • Bamberg Centre for Innovative Applications of Computer Science: Digital Heritage
    • Expansion of the Historical ARCHER Corpus (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers, 1650-1990). Cooperation with the following universities:
      Department of English, Northern Arizona University; Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California; Department of English, Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg; Department of English, Ruprecht-Karls-Universit?t Heidelberg; Department of English, University of Helsinki; Department of English, Uppsala University; Department of English, University of Michigan; Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
    • Project on Language Variation and Change with the Universities of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

    Editorial activities

    • Co-editor of the Series Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics (Lang)
    • Co-editor of the Series Bamberger Beitr?ge zur Linguistik (University of Bamberg Press)
    • Member of the Editorial Board of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (Mouton de Gruyter)
    • Member of the Advisory Board for the series Language in Performance (LIP; Narr-Francke-Attempto, Tübingen)
    • Member of the Board of Consulting Editors for Linguistics (2005-2010)
    • Member of the Board of Consulting Editors for ATLANTIS, Journal of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN), section Historical Linguistics
    • Member of the editorial/advisory boards and scientific committees of the conference series Modality in English; The (Biennial) International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE 2005ff.); Gibraltar International Conference (Gibraltar English: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Perspectives)
    • Referee for (inter alia): British Academy; Swiss National Science Foundation; Humboldt Foundation; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); Research Foundation Flanders
    • Referee reports for volumes on corpus linguistics, modality, grammaticalization, usage-based approaches, construction grammar, historical linguistics, research methods and varieties of English for Benjamins, Blackwell, CUP, EUP, OUP, Lang, Mouton de Gruyter
    • Referee reports for (inter alia) the journals Digital Scholarship in the Humanities;English Language and Linguistics; English World-Wide; Journal of Germanic Linguistics; Language;  Language in Society; Language Sciences;Language Variation & Change; Teaching English as a Second or Other Language, and the series Studies in the History of the English Language.

    Memberships

    • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
    • Anglistenverband
    • Member of the Nominating Committee for the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE; with Bas Aarts, Laurie Bauer, Anne Curzan and Rajend Mesthrie) 
    • Trimberg Research Academy; Bamberg Graduate School of Linguistics; Bamberg Centre for Medieval Studies
    • Bamberg Centre for Innovative Applications of Information Technology
    • Alumnus of and grants by (inter alia): Bavarian Ministry for Science and Research; DAAD, DFG, Fulbright and Villigst.
    • Project "WegE": Pioneering Teacher Education

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