Contact Details
English Department
University of Hamburg
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
phone: +49-40 / 42838-4537
E-mail: lukas.pietsch uni-hamburg.de
Researcher
English Department
University of Hamburg
English Department
University of Hamburg
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg
phone: +49-40 / 42838-4537
E-mail: lukas.pietsch uni-hamburg.de
Grammatical variation, English dialects, historical syntax of English, language contact, linguistic typology.
1991–93 | University of Münster, Germany |
1993–94 | Royal Holloway College, University of London |
1994–2003 | University of Freiburg, Germany |
1996 | M.A. degree in music history, English and German |
1998 | Teacher's degree (Erstes Staatsexamen) in English and German |
2003 | Ph.D. in English linguistics, University of Freiburg. Dissertation topic: Subject-Verb Agreement in Northern Dialects of English. |
2000–2003 | Research assistant in the project “Dialect Syntax in a Typological Perspective”, project funded by the German Science Foundation at University of Freiburg, directed by Prof. Bernd Kortmann. |
2003–2009 | Researcher in the project H5 “Hiberno-English: Variation and Universals in Contact-Induced Language Change”, project funded by the German Science Foundation as part of the Collaborative Research Center 538 “Multilingualism”, University of Hamburg, directed by Prof. Peter Siemund. |
2009–2011 | Substitute professor, University of Hamburg. |
Books |
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2005 | Variable grammars: Verbal agreement in northern dialects of English. Tübingen: Niemeyer. |
2009 | English in Ireland: Grammar in language contact. Post-doctoral thesis, University of Hamburg |
Peer-Reviewed Papers |
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2007 | Nominative subjects of non-finite constructions in Hiberno-English. In: Jochen Rehbein, Christiane Hohenstein, Lukas Pietsch (eds.), Connectivity in grammar and discourse. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 165–184. |
2008 | Prepositional aspect constructions in Hiberno-English. In: Peter Siemund, Noemi Kintana (eds.), Language contact and contact languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 213–236. |
2009 | Hiberno-English medial-object perfects reconsidered: A case of contact-induced grammaticalisation. Studies in Language 33: 528-568. |
Other papers |
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2005 | “Some do and some doesn’t”: Verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles. In: Bernd Kortmann, Tanja Herrmann, Lukas Pietsch, Susanne Wagner (eds.), A comparative grammar of English dialects: Agreement, gender, relative clauses. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 125–210. |
2006 | The conditioning of verbal concord variation in English dialects. In: Maurice Vliegen (ed.), Variation in Sprachtheorie und Spracherwerb: Akten des 39. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Amsterdam, 25.–27. August 2004. Frankfurt: Lang. 245–254. |
2008 | (with Peter Siemund:) Contact-induced change and linguistic universals: The case of Irish English. In: Klaus Stierstorfer et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Anglistentag 2007, Münster. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. 369–381. |
2010 | What has changed in Hiberno-English: Constructions and their role in contact-induced change. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 63: 118–145. |
2011 | (with Peter Siemund, Julia Davydova, Michaela Hilbert:) Comparing varieties of English: Problems and perspectives. In: Peter Siemund (ed.), Linguistic universals and language variation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 291–326 |
to appear (2011) |
Verbal concord. In: Raymond Hickey (ed.), Areal features of the anglophone world. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. |
Reviews |
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2008 | Review of Alexander Onysko: Anglicisms in German: Borrowing, Lexical Productivity and Written Codeswitching, Berlin: de Gruyter. Journal of Language Contact, Varia 1. |
Edited Works |
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2005 | (with Bernd Kortmann, Tanja Herrmann, Susanne Wagner:) A comparative grammar of English dialects: Agreement, gender, relative clauses. (Topics in English Linguistics, 50.1.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. |
2007 | (with Jochen Rehbein, Christiane Hohenstein:) Connectivity in grammar and discourse. (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 5.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. |
Conference Presentations |
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2001 | “Subject-verb agreement in Northern Irish English”. 3rd UK Language Variation Conference. York, July 2001. |
2004 | “A linguistic melting pot: preliminary observations on dialect mixture and contact features in a corpus of Irish emigrant letters”. International Colloquium on Multilingualism and Diachronic Change. Hamburg, April 2004. |
2004 | “The conditioning of verbal concord variation in English dialects”. 39. Linguistisches Kolloquium. Amsterdam, August 2004. |
2004 | “Case-marking in Irish English nonfinite clause constructions”. International Colloquium on Connectivity in Multilingual Settings. Hamburg, November 2004. |
2006 | What has changed in Hiberno-English: Constructions, “usage patterns” and/or discourse preferences. 39. Jahrestagung der Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Bremen, August 2006. |
2007 | Contact-induced grammatical change in Hiberno-English: Constructions, parameters, or what else? 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB), Hamburg, May 2007 |
2007 | Backwaters of standardisation: Letter writing as a channel of language contact and change in Ireland. 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), Montreal, August 2007. |
2007 | Borrowing verbal periphrases in Irish English: The role of construction-based grammatical representation. Vortrag, 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), Montreal, August 2007. |
2007 | (with Peter Siemund:) Contact-induced change and linguistic universals: The case of Irish English. Anglistentag. Münster, September 2007. |
2008 | What’s the Northern Subject Rule Doing in Southern Ireland? 15th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Munich, August 2008. |
2008 | What’s the Northern Subject Rule Doing in Southern Ireland? First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), Freiburg, October 2008 |
2010 | The Hamburg Corpus of Irish English: Archaism and dialect in Irish emigrant letters. Workshop “New Perspectives on Irish English”, Dublin, March 2010 |
Winter 2001/01: “Linguistic Analysis” (Freiburg)
Summer 2001: “Linguistic Analysis” (Freiburg)
Summer 2001: “Block tutorial for exam candidates” (Freiburg)
Summer 2001: “Reading tutorial: Modern historical linguistics” (Freiburg)
Winter 2001/02: “Linguistic Analysis” (Freiburg)
Summer 2002: “Linguistic Analysis” (Freiburg)
Summer 2004: Seminar Ib “Grammaticalisation: Tense, aspect and modality in English” (Hamburg)
Winter 2004/05: Seminar Ib “Dialects of English” (Hamburg)
Summer 2005: Seminar Ib “Basics of English Syntax” (Hamburg)
Winter 2005/06: Seminar Ib “Grammatical Change in English” (Hamburg)
Summer 2006: Seminar Ia “Introduction to Linguistics” (Hamburg)
Summer 2007: Seminar Ib “Prescriptive Grammar in English” (Hamburg)
Winter 2007/08: Seminar Ib “Basics of English Syntax” (Hamburg)
Summer 2008: Seminar Ib “Introduction to Old English” (Hamburg)
Winter 2009/10: Lecture course “The Structure of English” (Hamburg)
Winter 2009/10: Seminar Ib “Introduction to Old English” (Hamburg)
Winter 2009/10: Seminar Ib “English and German in Contrast” (Hamburg)
Winter 2009/10: Seminar II “Grammaticalization” (Hamburg)
Summer 2010: Lecture course “Survey of Language and Linguistics” (Hamburg)
Summer 2010: Lecture course “History of the English language” (Hamburg)
Summer 2010: Seminar Ib “Introduction to Middle English” (Hamburg)
Summer 2010: Seminar II “Language Contact” (Hamburg)
Winter 2010/11: Lecture course “Survey of Language and Linguistics” (Hamburg)
Winter 2010/11: Seminar Ia “Einführung in die Linguistik des Englischen” (Hamburg)
Winter 2010/11: Seminar Ib “Syntax” (Hamburg)
Winter 2010/11: Seminar II “The Emergence of Standard English” (Hamburg)
Sommer 2011: Lecture course “History of the English language” (Hamburg)
Summer 2011: Seminar Ia “Einführung in die Linguistik des Englischen” (Hamburg)
Summer 2011: Seminar II “Celtic Englishes” (Hamburg)
Stylesheet and hints for writing a term paper (MS Word .doc file)
Old English Grammar Reader (course script for summer 2008 class, split in three .pdf files) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Further material for classes at Hamburg University is made available online on the university's STiNE system.
Computer stuff: My old page on Keyman keyboard drivers (no longer actively maintained)
Music stuff (various)