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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“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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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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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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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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How synonymic taste words alter perceived taste in American consumers Languages, 10, 132. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10060132
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Robert Zemeckis, Schutzpatron des Uncanny Valley Filmbulletin: Zeitschrift für Film und Kino, 67, 30–35.
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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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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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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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Lebensereignisse im Bildungsbereich als Erklärung für individuellen Sprachwandel ZFAL, 2025, 172–206. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2025-2006
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Tamara Bouso, Changes in argument structure: The transitivizing reaction object construction (Linguistic Insights 277). Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. Pp. 392. ISBN 9783034340953 English Language and Linguistics, 29, 647–653. https://doi.org/10.1017/S136067432400042X
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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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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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Regional and social influences on pragmatic variation in colloquial German Zeitschrift Für Sprachvariation & Soziolinguistik, 1, 73–94. https://doi.org/10.5282/jlvs/9
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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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Biblical Glosses and Glossaries: St.Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod.Sang.913, 283, 9, 295, 296; Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod.258, Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod.32(1060) In A. Seiler & N. Studer-Joho (Eds.), Old English in Switzerland: Manuscripts, Texts and Libraries (pp. 43–67). 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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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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Perceived varietal contact and use in the lives of adult migrant L2 learners in Austria In L. Rosseel & E. Zenner (Eds.), Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity (Vol. 34, pp. 222–239). John Benjamins Publishing Co. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.34.11wir
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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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Prepositions in English Argument Structure Constructions: Gauging the importance of language contact for diachronic and regional constructional variation In H. C. Boas & S. Höder (Eds.), Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact (Vol. 40, pp. 79–110). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.40.03hun
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“Where the City Started and the Suburbs Ended”: The (Sub)urban Confinement of Post-Industrial America in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows In F. Güzel (Ed.), Narratives of Confinement in American Popular Culture (Vol. 67, pp. 87–102). Walter de Gruyter GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111474137-007
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Using Granger Causality to investigate causes of change in L2 oral development In W. Lowie, Rosmawati, & V. De Wilde (Eds.), Research methods in complex dynamic systems theory approaches to second language development (Vol. 14, pp. 102–120). John Benjamins Publishing Co. https://doi.org/10.1075/rmal.14.06dew
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Introduction: Trying to Hit a Moving Target: (Non-)Canonical Word Order in the History of English In S. Leuckert & T. Pham (Eds.), Non-Canonical English Syntax (pp. 43–60). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108863858.004
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Mæw or Meg (‘Seagull’)? Mercian Dialect Features in an Early Old English Glossary from the Continent In T. Porck, K. Dekker, & L. S. Chardonnens (Eds.), Cultural Connections Between the Continent and Early Medieval England: Philological Studies in Honour of Rolf H. Bremmer Jr (pp. 227–250). Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.25577220.16
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Theoretical, methodological, and computational perspectives on immersive virtual reality in variationist SLA In M. Solon, M. Kanwit, & A. Gudmestad (Eds.), Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin (pp. 317–343). John Benjamins Publishing Co. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.43.12wir
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Envoi: How diverse is multilingualism research? In P. Siemund, G. Stein, & M. Vida-Mannl (Eds.), World englishes in their local multilingual ecologies (Vol. 9, pp. 384–395). John Benjamins Publishing Co. https://doi.org/10.1075/hsld.9.17pfe
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Institutioneller, struktureller und systemischer Rassismus In S. Niedermeier (Ed.), Rassismus in den USA: Handbuch zu Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Politik (pp. 27–36). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft. https://doi.org/10.36198/9783838562933
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