Prof. Dr. Manfred Krug

Research

Research Interests

• Corpus-related research into language change (historical and in progress)

• Variation studies, in particular: Frequency, grammaticalization, lexicalization

• Modal and auxiliary verbs

• Great Vowel Shift

• Pronoun constructions

• Contrastive linguistics: English - German
  
  

Projects

• Project on Language Variation and Change with the Universities of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

• Expansion of the Historical ARCHER Corpus (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers, 1650-1990). Cooperation with the following universities:
  Department of English, Northern Arizona University; Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California; Department of English, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Department of English, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Department of English, University of Helsinki; Department of English, Uppsala University; Department of English, University of Michigan; Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

• English-Romance language contact and change in European (pen)insular situations: Malta, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey (with the universities of Malta and Cambridge)

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