last update: 01/08/12

Forschungsinteressen/Research interests

▪     Corpus linguistics

▪     Phraseology; the interface of lexis and grammar

▪     Applied linguistics; second language acquisition

▪     Academic discourse analysis

▪     Genre and register variation

Laufende Projekte/Ongoing projects

▪      Creating meaning in academic discourse. The development of a local lexical grammar of evaluation (book project; working title); a project in phraseology and academic discourse analysis; includes the development of a new analytical model that leads to a profile of the central phraseological items in a selected text type;

▪      Phraseological items, disciplinary variation and proficiency development in apprentice academic writing; a project based on the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP);

▪      Exploring the positional variation of academic n-grams and phrase-frames in MICUSP (Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers); with Matthew B. O’Donnell;

▪      Native and non-native speakers' knowledge of verb-argument constructions; the project combines corpus and psycholinguistic/ experimental evidence; with Nick C. Ellis and Matthew B. O’Donnell; link to project description

▪      Measuring formulaic language; with Nick C. Ellis, Matthew B. O’Donnell, Stefan T. Gries & Stefanie Wulff; link to project description

Past and present collaborators/co-authors

▪     Annelie Ädel, University of Stockholm

▪     Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Indiana University

▪     Nick C. Ellis, University of Michigan

▪     Eric Friginal, Georgia State University

▪     Stefan T. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara

▪     Jack Hardy, Georgia State University

▪     Monika Klages, University of Cologne

▪     Nadja Nesselhauf, University of Heidelberg

▪     Matthew B. O'Donnell, University of Michigan

▪     Audrey Roberson, Georgia State University

▪     Rainer Schulze, Leibniz University of Hanover

▪     John M. Swales, University of Michigan

▪     Stefanie Wulff, University of Florida