All Publications
The following is a chronological list of all types of publications (monographs, articles, etc.) by members of the English Department.
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2026
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Journal Article
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The Pragmatics of Emotion in Fiction Studia Philologica Universitatis Velikotarnovensis, 43 (2025), 57–70. https://doi.org/10.54664/GSYT4069
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Preterite and present perfect: Towards modelling the connection between usage, (meta)linguistic awareness, norm orientation and constructional knowledge Constructions, 18, online. https://doi.org/10.24338/cons-785
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English World Englishes, Epub ahead of print-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.70022
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Norse-derived Terms in Siege of Jerusalem : Dialectal Variation in the Nine Extant Manuscripts. English Studies, 107, 734–755. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2025.2579925
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“Pray, Sir, Proceed”: The politeness of requests in epistolary novels of the long eighteenth century Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 27, 114–138. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00082.juc
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Book Section
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Historical Pragmatics: The Evolution of Language Use In H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Vol. 3, pp. 29–34). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-95504-1.00772-9
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Dissertation
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Subject Omission in English: A Corpus-Based Approach (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-284000
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Beyond the Human Eye: Seeing Subjects in the Twenty-First Century (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-283862
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Crip Subjectivities in Early Modern English Drama (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-435713
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Scientific Publication in Electronic Form
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Jafar Panahi, Filmemacher und Dissident https://www.xenix.ch/programm/februar-2026/jafar-panahi
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2025
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Journal Article
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Individual Differences in Perceived Linguistic Change Following Life-Course Transitions in the Personal Domain Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1470542725100135
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Typen des individuellen Sprachwandels nach wesentlichen Lebensereignissen Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik, 53, 489–522. https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2025-2018
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Der Aufstieg und Fall der Weihnachts-Rom-Com Filmbulletin: Zeitschrift für Film und Kino, 67, 80–85.
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Absorption in German Online Book Reviews. Presenting the German-Language AbsORB Metadata Corpus and Annotation Guidelines Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11, 58. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.375
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Can frame-semantic congruence enhance incidental memory for food labels? Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 12, 377–405. https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.23018.joh
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‘Necessity Has No Law’: Justice and Affective Communities in 2 Henry VI Shakespeare Survey, 78, 120–131. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009647564.012
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Review: Dean G. Lampros, Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), 385 pp. Amerikastudien / American Studies, 70, 372–374. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2025/3/14
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The love factor in variationist SLA: Effects of multilingual coupledom on sociolinguistic development in second language German Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263125101320
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Der filmisch (fast) unsichtbare «Boss» Filmbulletin: Zeitschrift für Film und Kino, 67, 76–79.
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Emanzipation durch Körpertausch? Filmbulletin: Zeitschrift für Film und Kino, 67, 74–76.
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Language attitudes across adolescence and adulthood: Evaluative judgement trajectories and significant life events as critical inflection points ZFAL, 2025, 356–386. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2025-2017
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Reconciling Inter- and Intra-Individual Variation in L2 Socio-Pragmatic Development: Intensifier Variation in Spoken German Languages, 10, 139. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10060139
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Robert Zemeckis, Schutzpatron des Uncanny Valley Filmbulletin: Zeitschrift für Film und Kino, 67, 30–35.
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I’m all virtual-peopled out: Creativity and productivity in the case of the English ‘exhaustive’ construction Functions of Language, 32, 43–73. https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.23015.zeh
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Disinherited protagonists in the early history of T/V variation in Middle English Language and Literature, 34, 168–186. https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470251327500
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Gebrauchsstandard in der deutschen Alltagssprache: Eine integrative Modellierung räumlicher und sozialer Variation Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik, 53, 97–125. https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2025-2003
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Tracing the development of the perfect alternation in Early Modern English Diachronica, 42, 47–81. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23040.hun
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Reconciling the social and spatial: An apparent-time analysis of variation intensity in colloquial German Journal of Linguistic Geography, 13, 57–70. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2025.10001
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Review of Gabriella Mazzon (ed.). 2023. Language contact and the history of English English Language and Linguistics, 29, 173–181. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674324000121
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Obsolescence and Innovation in the Middle English Religious Lexicon Transactions of the Philological Society, 123, 137–162. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968x.12310
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Major life events as drivers of perceived linguistic change across adulthood Language Variation and Change, 37, 87–110. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095439452400019X
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Yet ar ye not lyche, for thu art a fals strumpet: Pronominal terms of address in The Book of Margery Kempe Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 26, 39–68. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.22006.tim
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Emotion in Nonverbal Communication: Comparing Animal and Human Vocalizations and Human Text Messages Emotion Review, 17, 30–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241303505
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The English conative alternation between complexity effects and lexical biases: a historical perspective Language and Cognition, 17, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2025.10007
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Individual differences in event experiences and psychosocial factors as drivers for perceived linguistic change following occupational major life events Open Linguistics, 11, 20240037. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2024-0037
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‘Quirky construction looking for syntactically flexible verb’: creativity and productivity in a dynamic link-based network perspective English Language and Linguistics, 29, 298–318. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674325000255
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Diachronicity: An issue shared between linguistics and literary studies Language and Literature, 34, 83–90. https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470251327482
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Liberation, Re-Education, Democratisation: The Politics of Gratitude in German-American Relations after 1945 Contemporary European History, 34, 276–289. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777324000055
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Book Section
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Corpus Analysis of Pragmatic Meaning In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (pp. 1–7). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20504
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Four Old English Legal Texts in a Gospel-Book. Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 671, fol. 75v‒76v In A. Seiler & N. Studer (Eds.), Old English in Switzerland: Manuscripts, Texts and Libraries (pp. 151–169). Schwabe. https://doi.org/10.24894/978-3-7965-5205-2
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Old English Glosses from Einsiedeln In A. Seiler & N. Studer (Eds.), Old English in Switzerland - Manuscripts, Texts and Libraries (pp. 69–87). Schwabe Verlag. https://doi.org/10.24894/978-3-7965-5205-2
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Introduction In A. Seiler & N. Studer-Joho (Eds.), Old English in Switzerland: Manuscripts, Texts and Libraries (pp. 21–42). Schwabe Verlag. https://doi.org/10.24894/978-3-7965-5205-2
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In(ter)dependent dialect and standard L2 systems? In L. Rosseel & E. Zenner (Eds.), Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity (Vol. 34, pp. 240–260). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.34.12end
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Latin in the early history of English In L. Wright & R. Hickey (Eds.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Context, Contact and Development (Vol. 1, pp. 193–218). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009205702.010
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Ambiguity (Avoidance) in Language Change In H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.), Reference Module in Social Sciences (p. online). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01115-7
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Redundancy in Language Change In H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.), Reference Module in Social Sciences (p. online). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01070-X
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Frequency in Language Change In H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.), Reference Module in Social Sciences (p. online). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01071-1
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Grammatical Treatises in Early English In M. Kytö & E. Smitterberg (Eds.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Documentation, Sources of Data and Modelling (Vol. 2, pp. 409–432). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009205443.020
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Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change In M. Kytö & E. Smitterberg (Eds.), The new Cambridge history of the English language. Volume II, Documentation, sources of data and modelling (pp. 820–845). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009205443.036
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