Berit Johannsen
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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Teaching assistant R. 216 Sprechstunden / Office hours: |
Basic Course (Summer 2021):
Students who wish to participate in a Basic Course but have not managed to sign up yet are asked to be patient and to check QIS regularly as the number of seats per class will be raised step by step. If there are still students without a class by the end of the registration period, they will be allocated to one of the classes by lot.
Forschungsinteressen / Research interests
- Grammatical and semantic variation and change (Focus on periphrastic verbal constructions)
- Construction Grammar and usage-based approaches to language (change)
- Corpus-linguistic methods
- Old English
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
- 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.
- 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, Spring 2019 - Word Formation (BA)
CAU Kiel: Fall 2017 (x2), Spring 2018, Fall 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), Spring 2019 (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