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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2025
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Journal Article
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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(3), 372–374. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2025/3/14
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Tracing the development of the perfect alternation in Early Modern English Diachronica, 42(1):47-81.
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Review of Gabriella Mazzon (ed.). 2023. Language contact and the history of English English Language and Linguistics, 29(1):173-181.
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Liberation, Re-Education, Democratisation: The Politics of Gratitude in German-American Relations after 1945 Contemporary European History, 34(2), 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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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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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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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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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: Porck, Thijs; Dekker, Kees; Chardonnens, László Sándor . Cultural Connections Between the Continent and Early Medieval England: Philological Studies in Honour of Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 227-250.
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Das Konzept der Höflichkeit in England und Deutschland im 18. Jahrhundert in den Werken von Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4. Graf von Chesterfield, und Adolph Freiherr von Knigge. In S. Elspass, H. Hosokawa, & M. Sato (Eds.), Sprachgeschichte - soziolinguistisch, pragmatisch und politisch (pp. 187–202). Universitätsverlag Winter.
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Communities of Practice in the History of English In J. Beal (Ed.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume III. Transmission, Change and Ideology (Vol. 3, pp. 751–773). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009205870
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Historical Pragmatics In L. Wright & R. Hickey (Eds.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume 1. Context, Contact and Development (Vol. 1, pp. 666–719). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009205702
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Dissertation
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"A Vision that Is Diseased": Madness and Masculinity in British Fiction, 1790–1900 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Home Trouble: Cross-Cultural Depictions of Home and Disruptions of Belonging in American Westerns, Hong Kong Gangster Films, and Chinese Melodramas 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Newspaper Article
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Don’t think small: first Swiss Netflix series, ‘Winter Palace’ sets tone of what’s to come In: SWI swissinfo.ch, 16 Januar 2025, online.
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Scientific Publication in Electronic Form
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Kendrick Lamar vs. Trumps Amerika? Battle-Rap und populärkultureller Protest beim Super Bowl https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/kendrick-lamar-vs-trumps-amerika-battle-rap-und-populaerkultureller-protest-beim-super-bowl/
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Glossar https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/WSK/entry/wsk_id_wsk_artikel_artikel_16600/html
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2024
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Journal Article
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The Histrionics of Warrior Masculinity in 1 & 2 Tamburlaine (1587) conexus, (7/1):112-132.
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Spatial, occupational, and age-related effects on reported variation in colloquial German Language Variation and Change, 36(3), 307–331. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394524000188
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Signature Dynamics of Development in Second Language Sociolinguistic Competence: Evidence From an Intensive Microlongitudinal Study Language Learning, 74(3):707-743.
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A sisterhood of constructions? A structural priming approach to modelling links in the network of Objoid Constructions Cognitive Linguistics, 35(3):313-344.
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Sociolinguistic competence and varietal repertoires in a second language: A study on addressee‐dependent varietal behavior using virtual reality Modern Language Journal, 108(2):385-411.
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A quantitative exploration of the functions of auxiliary do in Middle English English Language and Linguistics:1-21.
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They worked their hardest on the construction’s history: Superlative Objoid Constructions in Late Modern American English Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 20(1):91-121.
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Alternations (at) that time: NP versus PP time adjuncts in the history of English Linguistics Vanguard, 10(S1):19-28.
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“Is that a request or a command?”: Speech act meta discourse and illocutionary indeterminacy SPELL: Swiss papers in English language and literature, 2024(44):103-119.
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Unsettling bodies. Video essay as embodied research Akademisk Kvarter, (27):57-70.
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Review of Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Communities, and Bad Hope in the American Century by J. Jesse Ramírez Amerikastudien / American Studies, 69(4):450-451.
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Low German in The Book of Margery Kempe POETICA: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies, 99&100:23-39.
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An extended lunch break: a response to Wolfgang Klein [Journal of Pragmatics] International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2024(289-290):75-78.
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Book Section
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“I rede þou lerne wel þis of me”: Advice giving in Middle English medical discourse In: Räikkönen, Jenni; Suhr, Carla; Palander-Collin, Minna; Nurmi, Arja; Nevala, Minna; Hiltunen, Turo . Multilingualism and Language Variation in English across Genres and Registers : A Festschrift in Honour of Päivi Pahta. Helsinki: Modern Language Society of Helsinki, 97-122.
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"It is my story!” Medienreflexive Momente weiblicher Autorschaft im Film In: Stauffer, Isabelle . Literatur und Film im Spiegel des Digitalen: Intermediale Reflexivität in der Gegenwart. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 125-145.
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Vom Recht der Frau zu Frauenrechten im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts In: Karremann, Isabel; Michoux, Anne-Claire; Stiening, Gideon . Vom Recht der Frau zu Frauenrechten im Europa der Aufklärung = Women and the Law in Enlightenment Europe. Berlin, Heidelberg: J. B. Metzler Verlag, 2-12.
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Women and the Country House: Enlightenment Critiques of Property Law and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing In: Karremann, Isabel; Michoux, Anne-Claire; Stiening, Gideon . Vom Recht der Frau zu Frauenrechten im Europa der Aufklärung I Women and the Law in Enlightenment Europe. Berlin, Heidelberg: J. B. Metzler Verlag, 65-91.
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Automatically detecting directives with SPICE Ireland In: Schweinberger, Martin; Ronan, Patricia . Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland: Using Pragmatic Variation to Construct Social Identities. Berlin: De Gruyter, 205-234.
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A. A. Milne's "The Red House Mystery" In: Berensmeyer, Ingo; Birke, Dorothee . The Unknown 1922: Literary Explorations Beyond Modernism. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 121-135.
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The Visualisation and Evaluation of Semantic and Conceptual Maps In: Laitinen, Mikko; Tyrkkö, Jukka . Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders: The March of Data. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 67-94.
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Conclusion and envoi: Language acquisition at the intersection of sociolinguistics and World Englishes research In: Buschfeld, Sarah; Vida-Mannl, Manuela; Schmalz, Mirjam . Acquisition and Variation in World Englishes: Bridging Paradigms and Rethinking Approaches. Berlin: De Gruyter, 361-378.
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Experiments in Self-Narration: Women's Scientific Autobiographies for the ELT Classroom In: Prusse, Michael C; Mayer, Nikola . This is My Story: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives in English Language Teaching. Bern: hep Verlag, 69-86.
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Investigating child language acquisition from a joint perspective: A comparison of traditional and new L1 speakers of English In: Schmalz, Mirjam; Vida-Mannl, Manuela; Buschfeld, Sarah . Acquisition and Variation in World Englishes: Bridging Paradigms and Rethinking Approaches. Berlin: De Gruyter, 133-157.
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Introduction In: Karremann, Isabel . Shakespeare / Space. London: The Arden Shakespeare, 1-21.
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Dissertation
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Mediating the Real – Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Lexical Loss, Survival, and Innovation in Middle English 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Verb-Dependent Prepositional Phrases in Varieties of Englishes: A Variationist Construction Grammar Perspective 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Edited Scientific Work
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Vom Recht der Frau zu Frauenrechten im Europa der Aufklärung Edited by: Karremann, Isabel; Michoux, Anne-Claire; Stiening, Gideon (2024). Heidelberg, Berlin: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
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