Berit Johannsen
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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Teaching assistant R. 216 Sprechstunden / Office hours: |
Forschungsinteressen / Research interests
- Grammatical and semantic change (Focus on periphrastic verbal constructions)
- Old English
- Construction Grammar and usage-based approaches to language (change)
- Corpus-linguistic methods
Publikationen / Publications
- Johannsen, Berit. 2016. From possessive-resultative to perfect? Re-assessing the meaning of [hæbb- + past participle] constructions in Old English prose. In Valentin Werner, Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.), Re-assessing the present perfect: Corpus studies and beyond, 23–42. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Vorträge auf Konferenzen / Conference papers
- 2016. "Verb types in Old English [have + past participle] constructions as evidence of semantic change". Paper presented at ISLE 4, Poznań, September 20.
- 2016 (with Kirsten Middeke). "Text typology and morphosyntactic variation in Old English: Classifying the texts in the YCOE". Paper presented at ICEHL 19, Essen, August 22.
- 2016. "Reassessing and rethinking the history of the English have-perfect". Presentation at VARIENG, University of Helsinki, February 18.
- 2015. "Variability of corpus data and its implications for frequency changes and grammatical change". Paper presented at MaLT 2015, Bamberg, November 27.
- 2015 (with Susanne Flach). "Systematicity beyond obligatoriness in the history of the English progressive". Paper presented at ICAME 36, Trier, May 28.
- 2014. "The function(s) of the have-perfect in Old English". Paper presented at ICEHL 18, Leuven, July 14.
- 2014. "Speakers have a construction used – Speakers have used a construction: The construction HAVE + past participle in Old English – resultative or perfect?". Paper presented at ICAME 35, Nottingham, April 30.
Lehrveranstaltungen / Teaching
- Construction Grammar (BA)
CAU Kiel: Spring 2018 - Word Formation (BA)
CAU Kiel: Fall 2017 (x2), Spring 2018 - Lexical Semantics (BA)
CAU Kiel: Spring 2017 (x2), Fall 2017 (x2) - Early Modern English (MA)
CAU Kiel: Fall 2016 (x2) - Morphology (BA)
CAU Kiel: Fall 2016 (x2) - The Structure of English: Basic Course in Linguistics (BA)
CAU Kiel: Spring 2016 (x2), Spring 2017 (x3), Spring 2018 (x3) - Morphology and Syntax from Shakespeare to Today (MA)
CAU Kiel: Fall 2015 (x3) - English Morphology from a Historical Perspective (BA)
CAU Kiel: Fall 2015 (x2), Spring 2016 (x2) - Semantics (BA)
Freie Universität Berlin: Fall 2014 - Introduction to Linguistics (BA)
Freie Universität Berlin: Fall 2013, Fall 2014 (x2) - History of English (BA)
Freie Universität Berlin: Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014