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Bernd Kortmann

Bernd Kortmann (*March 22, 1960) is a German Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Freiburg, Germany and Director of the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS) for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His publications include four monographs, ten edited volumes, the two-volume multimedia reference work A Handbook of Varieties of English (published in 2004, as paperback in 2008), one print atlas on grammatical variation in the anglophone world (2012), the open access electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (www.ewave-atlas.org; version 2.0 published November 2013), and about 90 research articles and reviews in journals and collective volumes. He has published on semantics, semantic change, grammaticalization, typology, language complexity, history of linguistics, and English grammar. His main research interest over the last decade has been the grammar of non-standard varieties of English around the world, especially from a typological perspective.

At the University of Freiburg, Bernd Kortmann served as Dean of the Philological Faculty from 1997 to 1999 and 2010 to 2014. He was director of the graduate programme Master of European Linguistics from 2004 to 2014, and has been Chairman of the Board of the Language Teaching Centre since 2003 and a member of the Board of the Hermann Paul Centre of Linguistics since 2006. From April 2008 until September 2009 he was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Language and Literature of the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS). In December 2013 he was appointed Director of the FRIAS for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Education/Training

  • 1978-1985: M.A. English and History, German Staatsexamen (University of Trier, Germany; Lancaster, UK; Jesus College, Oxford, UK)
  • 1989: Dr. phil. English Linguistics (University of Hannover, Germany)
  • 1994: Habilitation English Philology (Free University of Berlin, Germany)

Positions and Honours

Employment/Experience

Honours, Awards and Scholarships

Major research and travel grants from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), European Science Foundation (ESF), Thyssen Foundation, German Academic Research Council (DAAD), Fulbright Commission. In August 2014 Bernd Kortmann was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Eastern Finland and elected member of the Academia Europaea.

Other Scientific Activities

Peer reviewer for many national and international science foundations and institutions (e.g. ESF, DFG, NSF, CNRS, and their counterparts in the UK, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, The Netherlands), for individual universities (search committees, research evaluations), and many international journals and publishers (e.g. OUP, CUP. Bernd Kortmann serves as co-editor of two book series, both published by De Gruyter Mouton: Topics in English Linguistics and Dialects of English (formerly Edinburgh University Press). As of June 2012, Bernd Kortmann also serves as one of three editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics (Cambridge University Press). Apart from his duties as a series and journal editor, he is a member of the editorial boards of the journals English Today and Transactions of the Philological Society.

Research Interests

Publications

Monographs

  • Kortmann, B. 2005. English Linguistics: Essentials. (rev. and enlarged version of Kortmann 1999) Berlin: Cornelsen. (also available as e-book)
  • Kortmann, B. 1999 (several reprints since). Linguistik: Essentials. (Studium kompakt Anglistik/Amerikanistik). Berlin: Cornelsen.
  • Kortmann, B. 1997a. Adverbial Subordination. A Typology and History of Adverbial Subordinators Based on European Languages. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. {reviewed by Pieter A.M. Seuren in Cognitive Linguistics 1998 (9-3): 318-319; Maria Załeska in Linguistics 1998: 621-623; Friedrich Ungerer in Anglia 1999, 117/1: 99-103; Ursula Lenker in Word 2000, 51/3: 430-434; Michele Prandi in Sprachtypologische Universalienforschung (STUF) 1999, 52: 87-91}
  • Kortmann, B. 1997b. A Cross-Linguistic Dictionary of Adverbial Subordinators. (Linguistic Data on Diskette). Munich: LINCOM EUROPA.
  • Kortmann, B. 1991. Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English: Problems of Control and Interpretation. London/New York: Routledge. {reviewed by Herbert Penzl in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 1994, LXI/2: 94-95; Joachim Schmole-Rostosky in Anglia 112/1-2: 157-160; Werner Abraham in Linguistics 1994, 32: 135-137; Frederike van der Leek in The Year's Work in English Studies 1991, 72: 47-48}
  • Kortmann, B. 1984. The Expanded Form as Grammatical Marker of the Imperfective Aspect. An Inquiry into its Present-day English Usage and the Theory of Aspect. (Unpublished M.A. thesis University of Trier). 237 pp.

Edited Volumes (selection)

  • Kortmann, B./K. Lunkenheimer, eds. 2013. The electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English 2.0. [eWAVE 2.0]. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. <http://ewave-atlas.org>
  • Kortmann, B./K. Lunkenheimer, eds. 2012. The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Kortmann, B. (area ed.), 2012-. Theories and Methods of Linguistics. [Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online (Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Science Online)]. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
  • Kortmann, B./B. Szmrecsanyi, eds. 2012. Linguistic Complexity: Second Language Acquisition, Indigenization, Contact. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
  • Kortmann, B./J. van der Auwera, eds. 2011. The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. {reviewed by James Costa in: LINGUIST List 23.1163, Wed Mar 07 2012; Bohumil Vykypel in Linguistica Brunensia 60/2012, pp. 284-285}
  • Kortmann, B./C. Upton, eds. 2008. Handbook of Varieties: The British Isles. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.{reviewed by Steven Levey in English World-Wide 31:1 (2010): 83-89. reviewed by Gunnel Melchers in English Language and Linguistics 14.3 (2010): 485–506. reviewed by Andrea Sand in Anglia 128.1 (2011): 129-131}

Articles (selected)

  • Kortmann, B. 2013. "How powerful is geography as an explanatory factor of variation? Areal features in the Anglophone world." In: Auer, P./M. Hilpert/A. Stukenbrock/B. Szmrecsanyi, eds. Space in Language and Linguistics: Geographical, Interactional, and Cognitive Perspectives. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter. 165-194.
  • Anderwald, L./B. Kortmann. 2013. "Typological methods in dialectology." In: M. Krug/J. Schlueter, eds. Research Methods in Language Variation and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 313-333.
  • Blumenthal, A./B. Kortmann. 2013. "Die Verschiedenheit der Sprachen." In: P. Auer, ed. Sprachwissenschaft: Grammatik - Interaktion - Kognition. Stuttgart: Metzler. 285-317.
  • Kortmann, B. 2012a. "Typology and typological change in English historical linguistics." In: T. Nevalainen/Elizabeth Traugott, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. New York: Oxford University Press. 605-621.
  • Kortmann, B. 2012b. "Regional profile: The British Isles". In: B. Kortmann/K. Lunkenheimer, eds. The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton. 678-702.
  • Kortmann, B./C. Langstrof. 2012. "Regional varieties of British English." In: A. Bergs/L. Brinton, eds. Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook. [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1928-1950.

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