Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Teaching assistant R. 216 Tel.: +49 431 880 3337 E-mail: johannsen(at)anglistik.uni-kiel.de Sprechstunden / Office hours: Di / Tue 13-14

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

• Lexical Semantics (BA)
  CAU Kiel: Spring 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)
• 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