"Languages around the world: an introduction to language typology"

is now in R11 T05 C59!

Curriculum Vitae

Nuria studied English and Romance Philology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. She obtained her teaching qualification in secondary education (Staatsexamen) and an MA in English and Romance Philology in 2001. After her studies, she spent several years abroad working as a linguistic consultant. She completed her doctoral dissertation on the use of non-standard pronouns in the dialects of England in 2010 and is now a lecturer at the department of Anglophone studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Full CV available here.

Research Interests

• General linguistics

• Dialectology, Corpus Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
  

• New Media language

• Special interests: morphosyntactic variation

Courses

Summer term 2012

• Language variation and change (PS)
• Languages around the world: an introduction to language typology (PS)
• City talk: Studies in urban dialectology (HS)

Previous courses - undergraduate

• Introduction to Linguistics (WS 2010,WS 2011)
• Word formation (WS 2010)
• English dialects (SS 2011)
• Ways of approaching language: the different schools of linguistics (SS 2011)

Previous courses - graduate

• Investigating real language (SS 2011)
• Language in the new media (WS 2011/12)

Publications

2002. “A Context Hierarchy of Untriggered Self-Forms in English.” In: Ekkehard König and Volker Gast (eds.),

           ZAA Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture. Special issue 3/2002:

           Reflexives and Intensifiers: The Use of Self-forms in English, 269–284.

2006.  User’s Guide to FRED: Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects.

            Available online at http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/2489.

2007, with Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. Manual of Information to Accompany the Freiburg Corpus of English

          Dialects Sampler FRED-S. Available online at http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/2859.

2008. Entry for the FRED corpus in the Corpus Resource Database of Helsinki University,

           http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/FRED.

2011. Nuria Hernández, Daniela Kolbe and Monika Schulz (eds.). A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects II:

         Modals, Pronouns, and Complement Clauses. Topics in English Linguistics 50.2. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

2011. “Pronouns.” In: Hernández/ Kolbe/ Schulz (eds.), A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects II: Modals,

          Pronouns, and Complement Clauses, Topics in English Linguistics 50.2, Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 53–191.

2012. Personal Pronouns in the Dialects of England: A Corpus Study of Grammatical Variation in Spontaneous Speech.

         http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/8431 (doctoral dissertation; print on demand)

2012 (to appear) “New media, new challenges: Exploring the frontiers of corpus linguistics in the linguistics curriculum.”

        Conference proceedings of CILC 2012.

2012 (in preparation) DMC Corpus Essen - The User Manual

Info for students

Linguistics links

Visit our linguistics website at http://www.uni-due.de/ELE/

Check out our dictionary of linguistics at http://www.uni-due.de/ELE/PDF_Dictionary.htm

Read more about the history of English at http://www.uni-due.de/SHE/

Read more about varieties of English at http://www.uni-due.de/SVE/

Linguistik-Server Essen

Term papers

(please hand in printed copy in loose leaf binder with transparent front cover)

Click here for a template which you can copy and edit if you wish.

Proseminar: Module papers for undergraduate seminars should have 10-12 pages of running text

                    (not counting the title page, table of contents, references and appendix).

Hauptseminar: Module papers for graduate seminars should have 15-20 pages of running text.

Format: Times New Roman, 12 pt, line spacing 1.5, page borders top/bottom 2 cm, left/right 3 cm, text justified

5 golden rules:

Start working on your paper in due time to meet the official deadline.

Choose a feasible topic: interesting, but not too wide for the size of paper you planned. Let me know about the topic before you start writing.

Don't just reproduce the literature. A good paper is an innovative paper. It should reflect your own opinions and ideas.

Use a consistent format (see template above).

Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. I'm there to support you all the way through the writing process.                                                                         

Dictionaries of linguistics (available at the university library)

Hadumod Bußmann. 2006. Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics. London: Routledge.

                             (also available in German as Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft)

David Crystal. 2008._⁶ A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Peter Matthews. 2007._² The concise Oxford dictionary of linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jack Richards, John Platt and Heidi Weber. 1985. Longman dictionary of applied linguistics. Harlow: Longman.

... many more to be found in the university library ...

A good online source is: http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOflinguisticTerms/

Books on academic writing (available at the university library)

Murray, Neil. 2012. Writing Essays in English Language and Linguistics. Principles, Tips and Strategies for

    Undergraduates. Cambridge University Press. (ordered, should be in university library soon)

Bailey, Stephen. 2006. Academic writing: a handbook for international students. London: Routledge.

Gibaldi, Joseph (ed.). 2010⁷. MLA handbook for writers of research papers. New York: Modern Language                

    Association of America.

Swales, John. 2007. Academic writing for graduate students: essential tasks and skills. University of Michigan

Walter, Krämer. 2009. Wie schreibe ich eine Seminar- oder Examensarbeit? Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag.

Templates

Click here for a project report template which you can copy and edit if you wish (OpenOffice document).

Click here for a protocol template.

Useful documents and links

Grammar, punctuation and style (University of Houston-Victoria, Texas)

Subject-Verb Agreement (University of Houston-Victoria, Texas)

Where to practice your English language skills in Essen and Duisburg

Deutsch-Amerikanischer Freundeskreis Niederrhein (www.daf-niederrhein.de)

Donnerstag-Stammtisch every last Thursday of the month (except in December) 7 pm at the Cafe Museum Duisburg, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Str. 64

NEW: Since July 2011 additional "English Evenings" every Thursday between the Stammtisch dates at the Language Learning Center Duisburg

Conversation Club Essen (http://www.conversationclub.gmxhome.de/)

Meets every Wednesday from 6 - 9 pm, Kopernikusstr. 8, 45143 Essen (Altendorf)