Address

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft
einschließlich Sprachgeschichte
An der Universität 9
D-96045 Bamberg

Tel. +49 (0)951/863-2258
valentin.werner(at)uni-bamberg.de

Biodata

May 2012 member of the Bamberg Graduate School of Linguistics

2012 Certificate in Humanities Computing for Languages (with distinction)

September 2011-March 2012 study visit to the University of Cambridge, England (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics)

since December 2009 research and teaching assistant at the University of Bamberg, Chair of English Linguistics and Language History

2009 M.A. and first state exam for secondary school teaching

2006-2009 studies in English, History, Italian and Pedagogy at the University of Bamberg (student assistant at the Chair of English Linguistics and at the Chair of American Studies)

2005-2006 Teaching Assistant at Coláiste Chiaráin College and guest student at the University of Limerick, Ireland

2003-2005 undergraduate studies in English, History and Italian at the University of Bamberg

alumnus of the Max Weber-Programm (German National Academic Foundation/Elite Network of Bavaria) and e-fellows
didactics certificate (FBZHL Nordbayern)

Research interests

corpus linguistics
variational linguistics (World Englishes)
register and genre
diachronic linguistics
applied linguistics

PhD project

Usage and alternation of past time reference in World Englishes (working title)

Publications

Forthcoming. Temporal adverbials and the present perfect/past tense alternation. English World-Wide 34.

Forthcoming. The present perfect and definite temporal adverbials: Reference grammars and corpus evidence. ELOPE 10.

2012. Love is all around: A corpus-based study of pop music lyrics. Corpora 7 (1). 19–50.

Conference papers (peer-reviewed)

"Overlap and divergence - aspects of the present perfect in World Englishes." Englishes in a multilingual world: New dynamics of variation, contact and change. Freiburg. April 2013.

"Temporal adverbials and present perfect/past tense alteration across Englishes." ICAME 33 Corpora at the centre and crossroads of English linguistics. Leuven. June 2012. (awarded the "Stig Johansson Bursary")

"Temporal adverbials and present perfect/preterit tense alternation". SDAS The Changes in Epochal Paradigms and the Opportunities They Offer for English Studies. Ljubljana. May 2012.

"The present perfect in World Englishes - overlap or divergence?". The Pragmatics of Aspect in Varieties of English. Innsbruck. April 2012.

"Alternation of past time reference in World Englishes (focus on the present perfect)". ICAME 32 Trends and Traditions in English Corpus Linguistics. Oslo. June 2011.

"Love is all around. The language of pop music." Language in the Media 4. Limerick. June 2011.

"Alternation of past time reference in World Englishes - focus on the present perfect". Schnittstellen - 1. Diskussionsforum Linguistik Bayern. Bamberg. March 2011.

Teaching

Introduction to linguistics

Revision course for exam candidates

The language of pop culture

Early Modern English

World Englishes

Workshop Introduction to English linguistics

Translation English-German