Berit Johannsen
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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Teaching assistant R. 216 Sprechstunden / Office hours: |
Forschungsinteressen / Research interests
- Grammatical and semantic variation and change (Focus on periphrastic verbal constructions)
- Construction Grammar and usage-based approaches to language (change)
- Interactional Linguistics
- Corpus-linguistic methods
- Old English
In my PhD thesis (completed July 2021) I combined cognitive and interactional approaches in order to describe the meaning variation of have-NP-past participle sequences in informal conversations from a usage-based perspective.
Publikationen / Publications
- Johannsen, Berit. To appear. She has a stadium named after her – Meaning variation in spoken interaction. Constructions and Frames Special Issue.
- 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
- 2021. "Between causative and passive The affactive as a voice and valency-increasing construction". Paper presented at ICCG11, Antwerp, August 19.
- 2021. (with Robert Daugs). "Getting used to usage: On the benefits of teaching usage-based linguistics early on". Paper presented at ISLE 6, Joensuu, June 2.
- 2019. "Exploring the meaning potential of verbs using semantic similarity networks". Paper presented at ICAME 40, Neuchâtel, June 4.
- 2018. "Modeling a constructional network for the readings of have-past participle-sequences". Paper presented at SLE 51, Tallinn, September 1.
- 2018. "A Cognitive Grammar approach to dynamic uses of have". Paper presented at ICCG 10, Paris, July 16.
- 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.
- 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.
Gastvorträge / Invited talks
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2018. "Is this the real grammaticalization? Is this just language change? The have-perfect in Old English". Université de Neuchâtel, November 26.
- 2016. "Reassessing and rethinking the history of the English have-perfect". VARIENG, University of Helsinki, February 18.
Lehrveranstaltungen / Teaching
- Cognitive Grammar (BA)
CAU Kiel: Fall 2018 (x2), Fall 2019 (x) - Construction Grammar (BA)
CAU Kiel: Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2020 - Word Formation (BA)
CAU Kiel: Fall 2017 (x2), Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2020 (x2), Spring 2021 (x2) - Lexical Semantics (BA)
CAU Kiel: Spring 2017 (x2), Fall 2017 (x2), Fall 2019 (x2), Fall 2020 (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), Spring 2019 (x3), Spring 2021 (x2) - 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