Dr. Lukas Pietsch

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Background

Research Interests

Grammatical variation, English dialects, historical syntax of English, language contact, linguistic typology.

Studies

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.

Research Projects

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.

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Publications

Books
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
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
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
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
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
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

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Teaching

Courses Taught

• 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)

For Students

• 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.

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Other Stuff

• Computer stuff: My old page on Keyman keyboard drivers (no longer actively maintained)

• Music stuff (various)