seit 2023 Dekan der Fakultät II

seit 2023 Vorstandsmitglied Centre for Irish Studies

seit 2022 stv. Vorsitzender des Promotionsausschusses der Fakultät II

seit 2022 Mitglied des universitären Promotionsausschusses

2020-24 Mitglied des Senats

seit 2016 Leiter des Friesischen Seminars, seit 2023 Institut für Frisistik und Minderheitenforschung

2022-23 Minderheitenbeauftragter des Präsidiums

2022-23 Sprecher des Instituts für Sprache, Literatur und Medien

2021-23 Mitglied des universitären Forschungsausschusses

2021-22 Vorsitzender einer Berufungskommission

2020 Vorsitzender einer Habilitationskommission

2019-21 Mitglied im Stipendienausschuss

2018-22 stv. Vorsitzender des Prüfungsausschusses für Bildungswissenschaften

2018-23 Mitglied im Zulassungsausschuss M.A. in Kultur-Sprache-Medien

2018-23 Mitglied im Prüfungsausschuss M.A. in in Kultur-Sprache-Medien

2017-2022 Direktor von KURS, dem Zentrum für kleine und regionale Sprachen

2016-23 Mitglied des Vorstands des Instituts für Sprache, Literatur und Medien

1990 Abitur an der Immanuel-Kant-Schule, Neumünster

1990-91 Zivildienst bei der Arbeiterwohlfahrt Neumünster

1991-2000 Studium an der University of Newcastle on Tyne

            1993 ERASMUS-Semester an der Rijskuniversiteit Leiden

            1994 B.A. (Hons) in German and English Language

            1995 M.A. by Research in Theoretical Linguistics

            2000 PhD in German Historical Sociolinguistics

1999-2000 Faculty Fellow in German, University College Dublin

2000-2016 Lecturer / Reader / Professor at the University of Bristol   

            2006 Senior Lecturer in German

            2008 Reader in German Linguistics

            2013 Professor of Germanic Linguistics

            2002,03, 04, 06, 09, 10 Visiting Lecturer in German Linguistics, University of Oxford

seit 2016 Professor für Minderheitenforschung, Minderheitenpädagogik und Nordfriesisch an der EUF

Bücher

2017 mit Patrick Stevenson, Kristine Horner und Gertrud Reershemius. The German-speaking world. (2. vollständig neu konzipierte Auflage). London: Routledge. 175pp.

2006 mit Winifred Davies. The Making of Bad German. Lay linguistic stigmatisations in German, past and present (= VarioLingua 28). Frankfurt/M etc: Peter Lang. 344 pp.

2001 Linguistic Purism in Action – How auxiliary tun was stigmatized in Early New High German (= Studia Linguistica Germanica 60). Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. XI + 312 pp.

Herausgeberschaften

im Druck. mit Samantha M. Litty: Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Focus on Minoritized Languages Past and Present. Oxford: Lang. ca. 200 pp.

2017. Regionale Mehrsprachigkeit im deutschsprachigen Raum. Themenheft mit Aufsätzen von Geraldine Horan, Viola Wilcken, Saskia Schröder, Joseph Salmons und Timothy Jacob-Owens. Muttersprache 127. Wiesbaden. 257-339.

2015 mit Anna Havinga. Invisible Languages in the Nineteenth Century. (= Historical Sociolinguistics 2). Oxford: Peter Lang. 302 pp.

2012 mit Steffan Davies and Wim Vandenbussche. Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography. (= Studies in Historical Linguistics 7). Oxford: Peter Lang. 503 pp.

2011 mit Melani Schröter. Alltagssprache und Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Special volume of GfL-Journal (ww.gfl-journal.de). Munich: Hueber. 147 pages.

2009 (2. Auflage: 2012) mit Geraldine Horan und Sheila Watts. Landmarks in the History of German. (= Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 52). Oxford: Peter Lang. 312 pages.

2007 mit Stephan Elspaß, Joachim Scharloth, and Wim Vandenbussche. Language History from Below in the Germanic Languages. (= Studia Linguistica Germanica 86). Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. 520 pages.

2005 mit Winifred Davies. Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages. (= Studia Linguistica Germanica 75). Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. 374 pages.

Buchkapitel und Zeitschriftenaufsätze

2024b. mit Lena Terhart & Femmy Admiral. Which North Frisian Should Be Maintained? Exploring Language Attitudes and Agency of Speakers and Non-Speakers. In: Linn, Mary & Alexandra Dayan-Fernandez (ed). Agency in the Peripheries of Language Revitalisation. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 115-137. [OPEN ACCESS]

2024a. with Femmy Admiraal & Lena Terhart. "Measuring Effectiveness - A study on changes in minority language use and perception due to revitalisation efforts, with evidence from North Frisian", https://doi.org/10.17026/SS/JJQROY, DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities, V1

2023b mit Meike Ohlsen. Sprachkontakt und Nordfriesisch. In Hans-Bianchi, Barbara & Barbara Voigt (Hgg.). Deutsch im Kontakt. Neue empirische Studien zu Kontaktphänomenen und -szenarien in der Gegenwart. Hildesheim: Olms. 19-52.

2023a mit Johanna Fay und Carolin John Wenndorf. »Teilweise fühle ich mich persönlich beleidigt.« Wie Hochschuldozierende die Rechtschreibung und Rechtschreibfähigkeit von Studierenden wahrnehmen. Muttersprache 133. 222-246.

2022. Standardisierung im Nordfriesischen. In: Walker, Alastair et al. (Hgg.). From West to North Frisia. [FS Hoekstra]. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 218-233. [OPEN ACCESS]

2021b. Pluricentricity and Minority Languages: the Difficult Case of North Frisian. Special Volume Sociolinguistica, edited by Catrin Norrby, Leigh Oakes and Camilla Wide. 73-90.

2021a. mit Johanna Gregersen. 'Linguistic Purism and Smaller Languages - with examples from North Frisian.' In Zimmer, Christian. German(ic) in language contact. Berlin: Language Sciences Press. 159-186.

2020b. mit Temmo Bosse. 'Zur Wahrnehmung von Sprachnormautoritäten im Nordfriesischen.' In: Andresen, Helga, Elin Fredsted & Franz Januschek (Hgg.). Regionale Sprachenvielfalt. Hildesheim: Olms. 59-84.

2020a. 'Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachenpolitik im preußischen Schleswig-Holstein.' In: Liedtke, Julia & Rainer Hering (Hgg.). 'Die Schleswig-Holsteiner sind fortan Preußen.' Schleswig-Holstein als preußische Provinz. Husum: Husum Verlag. 86-96.

2019. 'Ethnic Identities in other nations´ conflicts: defining Frisianness in the 1920s.' In: Fellerer, Jan et al. (eds.). Identities in-between in East-Central Europe. London: Routledge. 271-286.

2018. 'Sprachenpolitik in der Geschichte des Nordfriesischen. In: Kühl, Jørgen (Hg.). Klaar kiming. Bredstedt: Nordfriisk Instituut. 117-129.

2016b mit Robert Langhanke. ‘Ideologies of National and Regional Languages. Metalinguistic Discourses on Low German in the Nineteenth Century.’ In: Rutten, Gijsbert & Kristine Horner (Hgg.). Metalinguistic Perspectives on Germanic Languages. Oxford: Peter Lang. 57-78.

2016a mit James Hawkey: Language policy in the long nineteenth century: Catalonia and Schleswig. In: Russi, Cinzia (Hg.). Current Trends Historical Sociolinguistics – De Gruyter Open. 81-107.

2015 with Anna Havinga, Invisible Languages in Historical Sociolinguistics: A conceptual outline, with examples from the German-Danish borderlands. In: Havinga, Anna & Nils Langer (eds.). Invisible Languages in the 19^th century. Oxford: Lang. 1-34

2014d Standard German in the Eighteenth Century. Norms and Use. In: Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters & Wim Vandenbusssche (eds.). Norms and Usage in Language History 1600-1900. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 277-302.

2014c with Anna Havinga. Sprache im Alltage der Frühen Neuzeit. In: Tienken, Susanne & D. Stoeva-Holm (eds.). von Koechinnen und Gelehrten, von Adeligen und Soldaten. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitetet. 155-178.

2014b. Language Policies in the Duchy of Schleswig under Denmark and Prussia. In: Healy, Roisin & Enrico dal Lago (eds.). The Shadows of Colonialism in Europe's Modern Past. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 73-91.

2014a with Winifred Davies. Die Sprachnormfrage im Deutschunterricht: das Dilemma der Lehrenden. In: Albrecht Plewnia & Andreas Witt (eds.). Sprachverfall. Dynamik-Wandel-Variation. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. 299-323.

2013c. Sprachkritik und Sprachnormen – regionale, mediale und soziale Differenzierungen. In: Zeitschrift des Germanistenverbands. 321-335.

2013b Norddeutsches in holsteinischen Soldatenbriefen. Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch 136. 73-95.

2013a with Robert Langhanke. Metalinguistic Discourses on Low German in the Nineteenth Century, Linguistik-online.de 58, 77-97.

2012d with Stephan Elspaß. Jespersen's Cycle and the History of German Negation - Challenges from a Sociolinguistic Perspective, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen CXIII: 275-292.

2012c  Die Lesebuchfrage in Schleswig-Holstein (1864-1870), in Bär, Jochen & Markus Müller (eds.). Geschichte der Sprache - Sprache der Geschichte. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 565-584.

2012b mit Agnete Nesse. Linguistic Purism. In: Hernandez-Campoy, Juan & J. Camillo Conde-Sylvestre (eds.). The Blackwell Handbook to Historical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley. 607-25.

2012a Finding Non-Dominant Languages in the Nineteenth Century - Problems and Potentials from Historical Sociolinguistics, in Muhr, Rudolf (ed.). Non-dominating Varietes of Pluricentric Languages. Vienna: Peter Lang. 83-106.

2011 Historical Sociolinguistics in Nineteenth-Century Schleswig Holstein – Evidence from School Inspection Reports. German Life and Letters. 64: 167-187.

2010 Sprechereinstellungen zur Zielsprache im britischen und irischen DaF-Unterricht.  In Christina Anders et al. (eds.). perceptual dialectology – Neue Wege der Dialektologie. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. 409-431.

2009b Sociolinguistic Changes in the History of Low German. In: Horan, Geraldine, Nils Langer, & Sheila Watts (eds). Landmarks in the History of German. Oxford: Peter Lang. 211-232.

2009a Sprachverfall in the New Germany. Invited submission to Germanistik in Ireland. 117-132.

2008  German Language and German Identity in America – Evidence from School Grammars 1860-1918 In: German Life and Letters. 61: 497-513.

2007b Locating Standard German. On the difference between a codex in the head and a codex on the bookshelf. In: Fandrych, Christian & Reinier Salvierda (eds.). Standard, Variation and Language Contact in the Germanic Languages. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 217-241.

2007a mit Winifred Davies. Schlechtes Deutsch in präskriptiven Grammatiken. in: Harnisch, Rüdiger et. al. Akten des 11. Weltkongresses der IVG. Frankfurt etc.: Peter Lang. 155-162.

2006 mit Winifred Davies. "Gutes Deutsch" - "schlechtes Deutsch" von 1600 bis 2005. In: Sprachreport 3/2006. 2-9.

2004 Frühe Fremdsprachengrammatiken als Vermittlerinnen deutscher Standardsprache. In: Mattheier, Klaus & Haruo Nitta (eds.). Wurzeln und Wandeln in der deutschen Sprachgeschichte. Munich: iudicium. 223-243.

2003 Low German.  In: Deumert, Ana & Wim Vandenbussche (eds.). Germanic Standardizations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 282-302. 

2002 Tracing Standard German: Evidence from Foreign Language Grammars of the 16th and 17th century. In: McLelland, Nicola & Andrew Linn (eds.). Standard Germanic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 67-82.

2001 The Distribution of Non-Lexical DO in Early New High German. In: Watts, Sheila, Solms, Hans-Joachim & Jonathan West (eds.): The Germanic Verb. (Linguistische Arbeiten 446). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. 155-173.

2001 The Rechtschreibreform: A Lesson in Linguistic Purism. In: German as a Foreign Language. Vol. 3/2000. URL: http://www.gfl-journal.de. 15-35.

2000 Wornach die Bürger sonst die Finger lecken thun - Zur Verteilung der tun-Periphrase im Frühneuhochdeutschen In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. 67: 287-316.

2000 On the Polyfunctionality of Auxiliary tun.  In: Hall, Christopher & David Rock (eds.). German Studies in the New Millenium. Frankfurt etc.: Peter Lang. 261-282.

1997 Light Verbs in Early New High German. In: Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester. Vol. II. 197-213.

Rezensionen

2022: Rahel Beyer & Albrecht Plewnia. 2020. Handbuch der Sprachminderheiten in Deutschland. Zs. für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft.

2021: Dollinger, Stefan. The Pluricentricity Debate. Zs. für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft.

2019c: Felder, Ekkehard et al. Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online. Aptum

2019b: Ptashnyk, Stefanyia et al. (eds). Gegenwärtige Sprachkontakte im Kontext der Migration. Modern Language Review.

2019a: Dt. Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung & Union der Akademien der Wissenschaften (eds). Vielfalt und Einheit der deutschen Sprache. Muttersprache.

2018 mit Jan-Niklas Heinrich: Weinreich, Ulla (ed.). Wir sprechen gerne Deutsch. Modern Language Review.

2016b Doyle, Aidan. A history of the Irish Language. Language

2016a. McLelland, Nicola. A history of teaching modern languages. Modern Language Review

2014c. Giles, Howard & Bernadette Watson. The social meanings of language, dialect, and accent. Journal of Sociolinguistics

2014b. Jaffe, Alexandra et al. (eds.) Orthography as social action. Language Policy

2014a. Messling, Markus & Ottmar Ette (eds.). Wort Macht Stamm. Rassismus und Determinismus in der Philologie. Historiographica Linguistica

2013. Studer, Patrick & Iwar Werlen (eds.). 2012. Linguistic Diversity in Europe. Language Policy.

2012. Faulstich, Katja. 2009. Konzepte des Hochdeutschen. Der Sprachnormierungsdiskurs im 18. Jahrhundert. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB).

2011. Schulze, M. et al. (Hgg.). 2009. German Diasporic Experiences. Journal of Sociolinguistics.

2010b. Eichinger, L. et al. (Hgg.). 2007. Handbuch der deutschen Sprachminderheiten in Mittel- und Osteuropa.  The Modern Language Review

2010a. Denkler, M. et al (Hgg.). 2008. Frischwärts und unkaputtbar. Sprachverfall oder Sprachwandel im Deutschen. The Modern Language Review

2008b. Law, Claudia. 2005. Sprachratgeber und Stillehren in Deutschland (1923-1967). The Modern Language Review

2008a. Damrau, P. 2006. The Reception of English Puritan Literature in Germany. The Modern Language Review.

2007c. Pickert, J.C. 2006. Lebens-Geschichte des Unterofficier Pickert. Historical Sociolinguistics – Socio-historical linguistics

2007b. Wolf, A. 2005. Kriegstagebücher des 19. Jahrhunderts. Historical Sociolinguistics – Socio-historical linguistics

2007a. Klippelt, F. & W. Hüllen. 2005. Sprachen der Bildung. The Modern Language Review

2006. Young, C. & Th. Gloning. 2004. The History of German through texts. The Modern Language Review

2001. Jones, W.J. 1999. Images of Language — German Attitudes to European Languages. The Modern Language Review

1999b_. Abraham, W. & E. van Gelderen. 1997. German: Syntactic Problems — Problematic Syntax. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Vol. 17.1

1999a. Konopka, M. 1996. Strittige Erscheinungen der deutschen Syntax im 18. Jahrhundert. American Journal of Germanic Literatures and Linguistics, Vol. 10.2

1998c_. Roelcke, T. 1995. Zur Periodisierung der deutschen Sprachgeschichte. Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics. Vol. III

1998b. Roelcke, T. 1997. Sprachtypologie des Deutschen. Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics. Vol. III

1998a. Lenz, B. 1995. Un-Affigierung. Studies in Language Vol. 22.1

1997. Anagnostopoulou, E. (et al.) (eds.). 1997. Materials on Left Dislocation. Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics. Vol. II

2025-28 Volkswagenstiftung. Forschungsprojekt (480.000 €) The neuro-cognitive and behavioral interplay between linguistic awareness, metacognitive efficiency, and decision-making strategies: evidence from bilingual and linguistic minority communities. with Michail Ordin and Leona Polyanskaya

2022 Gastprofessor, Institut für nordische Sprachen, Universität Göteborg

2018-2019 Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (Washington, DC): Forschungsprojekt (US $ 120,000) Measuring Effectiveness of North Frisian Language Policy [URL: https://folklife.si.edu/smile]  mit Femmy Admiral und Lena Terhart

2015      Invited Professor, 9^th HiSoN summer school in Historical Sociolinguistics, Lesbos, Griechenland

2015      Gastprofessor für germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Regensburg

2011-13 Stipendium für erfahrene Wissenschaftler, Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung (Bonn) zwecks Forschungsaufenthaltes in Schleswig (LAS), Kiel (CAU) und Flensburg (EUF) Sprachenpolitik in Schleswig-Holstein im 19. Jahrhundert

2011-12 Institute for Advanced Studies (UoB), support to run two workshops, £1600, PI Language, Region and Identity in Bristol

2010-11 University Research Fellowship (UoB), £8,750, PI

2010-11 British Academy Small Research Grant, £6,700, PI  Multilingualism in 19^th-century Schleswig-Holstein

2007-09 AHRC Scientific Network, £30,000, PI: Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography

2006      University of Wisconsin-Madison, Memorial Library, US$2000, PI The Representation of German and Germanness in American Schoolbooks

2005      DAAD scholarship for senior academics, (hosted at Universität Potsdam) Orthographic Variation in Formal and Informal Writing in C17th German

2002/3   Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel Fellowship (€ 5000), PI Early Foreign Grammars in the History of Standard German

2001-05 AHRB Major Research Grant, The Origin and Current Status of Bad German as a Concept in German Folk Linguistics

1999      DAAD-Stipendium für DoktorandInnen zwecks Forschungsaufenthaltes in Heidelberg und Wolfenbüttel

1995-99 AHRB Fees only PhD Studentship  The Influence of Grammarians on the Standardisation of German

since 2023: Member (in respect of Germany) of the Committee of Experts, Council of Europe (Strassbourg), Charter for the Protection of Regional or Minority Languages

Reviewer and Assessor for

· for Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (2016, 2018, 2019, 2020) and member of AHRC Peer Review College (incl. serving on grant awarding panels) (2011-2021)

· other national and charitable research foundations (research grants and fellowship proposals in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Iceland, Georgia, Denmark, Switzerland),

· publishing houses (e.g. John Benjamins, Bloomsbury, Hodder Education, Palgrave Macmillan, Edinburgh University Press, Multilingual Matters, Cambridge University Press) and academic journals (e.g. Multilingua, Language & Society, Language Sciences, Journal for Germanic Linguistics, Focus on German Studies, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch)

· world-wide conferences (Bilingualism, Sociolinguistics Symposium)

· for university promotions committees (professorship, readership, senior lectureship), research excellence performance, and postdoctoral fellowships (UK); reviewer of Modern Languages departments and programmes (University of Kent (School Review), Newcastle (MA programme)); external reviewer REF planning at a British university

Invitations to examine research degrees

2023 External Adjudicator (Obergutachter) for a PhD at a German university

2021 External Reviewer of a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

2021 External Reviewer of a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation), University of Zurich

2020 Higher Doctorate (Habilitation), University of Flensburg

2019 External Adjudicator (Obergutachter) for a PhD at a German university

2019 PhD in Frisian Dialectology, University of Kiel

2012 PhD in German Historical Sociolinguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2011 M.A. by Research in Translation, University College Dublin

2010 MLitt in Medieval Low German, Newcastle on Tyne

Invitations to examine taught degrees

2015-19          B.A. in Modern Languages (German), University of Essex

2014-17          B.A. in Luxembourg Studies, University of Sheffield

2011-13          BA in German, King’s College, University of London

2010-14          BA in German with Engineering, University of Bath

2009-13          BA in Language and Linguistics, University of the West of England

2008-12          BA in German, Queen Mary, University of London.

2005-09          BA in German, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

2004-08          BA in Language and Culture, University College London.

2003-07          BA in German, University College London.

2000-01          M.A. in Advanced Language Studies, Liverpool John Moores University

2011-12          MA in Translation, University of the West of England

2009-13          MA in Linguistics, University of the West of England

2014-16          MA in Modern Languages, University of Reading

Others

2021 External Member of Appointment Committee for the Chair in Frisian Studies, University of Kiel

seit 2022         Mitglied des Advisory Boards of the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI, Flensburg)

seit 2020         Mitherausgeber der Buchreihe Kleine und regionale Sprachen, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.

seit 2017         Mitglied des Kuratoriums des Nordfriisk Instituuts, Bredstedt

seit 2014         Mitglied des Herausgeberrats, Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch

seit 2014         Member of Advisory Board, Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, De Gruyter (Berlin)

seit 2012         Editor-in-chief, Historical Sociolinguistics, book series, Peter Lang (Oxford)

seit 2009         Member of Advisory Board, Journal of German Linguistics

seit 2005         founder and executive member of the Historical Sociolinguistics Network

2017-22           Direktor des Zentrums für kleine und regionale Sprachen, Europa-Universität Flensburg

2014-16          Vorstandsmitglied des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung

2013-16          Member of Executive Committee, Alexander von Humboldt foundation UK branch

2007-14          president of the Forum for Germanic Language Studies (fgls.ac.uk)

2007-13          linguistics representative of the Association of German Studies (ags.ac.uk)

2000-02          Co-Editor, Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics, based at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Vorträge

2024e: "Die Soziolinguistik des Nordfriesischen im Kontext europäischer Minderheitensprachen." European Center for Minority Issues. Flensburg.

2024d: mit Karoline Kühl. "Die Minderheiten im deutsch-dänischen Grenzland." ZEBUSS, Europa-Universität Flensburg.

2024c: "Universität und Friesen. Herausforderungen für die Lehrkräfteausbildung." Interfriesischer Kongress. Klappholttal, Sylt.

2024b. "Normautoritäten in kleinen Sprachen." Forschungskolloquium Prof. dal Negro. Freie Universität Bozen.

2024a. "Nordschleswigsch ist kein falsches Deutsch." Linguistic Norms in Minority Languages. FGLS, University of Cambridge.

2023e with Samantha Litty & Temmo Bosse: Neue Narrative der Sprachgeschichtsschreibung: Alltägliche Mehrsprachigkeit im Herzogtum Schleswig. Jahrestagung GSGG, Universität Passau.

2023d Are there endangered languages in Schleswig-Holstein. International Conference on Endangered Languages in Europe. Europa-Universität Flensburg.

2023c with Johanna Fay & Carolin John-Wenndorf. "Teilweise fühle ich mich persönlich beleidigt." – Wie Hochschuldozierende Rechtschreibung und Rechtschreibfähigkeit von Studierenden wahrnehmen. Vortrag am DeDiKo, EUF.

2023b. Was ist eigentlich Nordfriesisch? System, Gebrauch, Wahrnehmung. Akademie Sankelmark.

2023a. Sprachnorm und Sprachgebrauch, am Beispiel des Nordfriesischen. Forschungskolloquium (Lehrstuhl Paul Rössler). Universität Regensburg.

2022f. Minority Language Linguistics and the Case of North Frisian. Three lectures at the University of Gothenburg.

2022e. Zur Wertigkeit von Mehrsprachigkeit: ​das Nordfriesische in der Sprach(en)politik Schleswig-Holsteins. Kolloquium "Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprachkontakt, Sprachvariation (Lehrstuhl Heike Wiese). Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

2022d. mit Tineke Heck-Lemke. Das Nordfriesische in der Sprachenpolitik Schleswig-Holsteins. Freundeskreis Sölring Museen.

2022c. Ideology and Language Teaching: North Frisian in Schools in the 1920s. XIth HiSoN Conference, Universidad de Murcia, Spanien

2022b. with Robert Langhanke. Regional and Minority Languages in Schleswig Holstein and the Handlungsplan Sprachenpolitik. Revitalising Minority Languages. University of Flensburg / Dansk Centralbibliotheket.

2022a Die Politisierung von Minderheitensprachen als Beispiel mehrsprachiger Praxis im Herzogtum Schleswig. Uppsala Universitet [Plenarvortrag]

2021c Creating a Minority – on Redefining Frisianness in the Aftermath of the 1920-Referendum. Danish and German as European Languages. International Conference at the University of Copenhagen.

2021b with Temmo Bosse. Richtiges Friesisch. Sprachnormautoritäten und Sprachwandel im Nordfriesischen. Ringvorlesung. CAU Kiel [4.5.2021]

2021a Linguistic Purism in the History of German. St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

2020 Who owns North Frisian. Identifying Language Norm Authorities. Forschungskolloquium "Sprache und Migration", Viadrina Universität Frankfurt/Oder.

2019e Frööligen Jul - Why not all Germans will wish you Frohe Weihnachten this year. Annual German Department Christmas Lecture, University of Bristol.

2019d Minderheitensprachensprecher im Spannungsfeld von new speakers und Sprachkodizes, am Beispiel des Nordfriesischen. LaienWissenSprache. International Conference at the University of Kiel.

2019c"Book-Frisians are pretty perfect as regards grammar but they are also exhausting, as they keep correcting us" - On evaluating language use, language change and language contact in North Frisian. Language Contact. Freie Universität Berlin. [Plenarvortrag]

2019b "Wan frasch, dan duch uk rucht frasch :)." Zur Wahrnehmung von Sprachrichtigkeit unter MuttersprachlerInnen von Minderheitensprachen. Ringvorlesung, Universität Erlangen.

2019a Is North Frisian a Pluricentric language? Languages, Nations, Cultures. International Conference. University of Stockholm.

2018b with Femmy Admiraal and Lena Terhart. On the identity and role of the Frisian language community. SMiLE intermediate progress conference. NUI Galway.

2018a North Frisian Language Policy. Dept of German Research Colloquium, University of Cambridge.

2017c Nordfriesisch als unsichtbare Sprache, Sommerinstitut Nordfriisk Instituut, Bräist.

2017b Sprachenschutz als universitäre Aufgabe? Antrittsvorlesung, Europa-Universität Flensburg.

2017a On the Invisibility of Language in Defining North Frisian Identity. HiSoN-conference, City University of New York [Plenarvortrag]

2016b Frisian as a Subculture? Identities of Subcultures, Wolfson College, University of Oxford [Plenarvortrag]

2016a  Sheffield Postgraduate Forum

2015c  Language and Mobility: the case of North Frisian and Low German. WUN-conference, Cape Town

2015c Linguistic Invisibilisations. Annual Conference of Humboldt-foundation’s UK branch, UCL

2015b Unsichtbare Sprachen in der deutschen Sprachgeschichte. Freie Universität Berlin

2015a  Modern Pronunciations in historical texts. Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache - UK branch, London

2014d  Low German in School Teaching. Studienkreis zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft Universiteit Leiden [Plenarvortrag]

2014c  The role of politics, schools and speakers in the suppression of German dialects; Inaugural lecture, University of Bristol

2014b  Language Conflicts in the German-Danish borderlands, Aberystwyth Linguistics Forum

2014a  Invisibilising Multilingualism in Schleswig-Holstein. HiSoN conference; University of Sheffield [Plenarvortrag]

2013c  Stigmatising Linguistic Subcultures. Re-defining ‘Sub-culture’: A new lens for understanding hybrid cultural identities, University of Oxford

2013b  The German and Danish Minorities in the Grenzland: a case of subcultures? Wolfson College, University of Oxford

2013a  Die Unsichtbarmachung nicht-dominierender Sprachen im Herzogtum Schleswig. Ringvorlesung at the University of Flensburg

2012g  Methodische Probleme der historischen Soziolinguistik. Dept. of European Anthropology, University of Kiel

2012f  with Julie Blake, Sini Liponen, Tim Shortis: Perceptions of Bristolian: an explanation and critique of two studies focused on south west city based on community engagement and folk-linguistic method. Regional Varieties, language shift and linguistic identities. Aston University

2012e  Low German In C19th Private Letters. Association of German Studies, University of Edinburgh

2012d  Promoting Low German in the nineteenth century. Forum for Germanic Language Studies, University of Sheffield

2012c  Niederdeutsches in holsteinischen Briefen 1848-1851. Faculty of Arts (German Linguistics), University of Vechta

2012b  Danish and German Language Policy in 19^th-century Schleswig-Holstein. Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy?, NUI Galway

2012a  Soldatenbriefe von 1848. Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, Universität Göttingen

2011d  Soziolinguistik in der frühen Neuzeit. Kulturtransfer und Identität in der vormodernen Gesellschaft. Kungliga Bibliotek Stockholm

2011c  Die Lehre von der Variation. Zum Umgang mit sprachlicher Variation in der DaF-Didaktik. Jahreskonferenz der britischen und irischen DAAD-LektorInnen, Windsor

2011b  Danish and German in Historical Sociolinguistics. University of Sheffield

2011a  Problems and Opportunities in Historical Sociolinguistics: the Case of the Duchy of Schleswig. University of Flensburg, Germany

2010c  Linguistic Purism and the Role of Academic Linguistics. University of Bergen, Norway

2010b  Language Policy and Language Suppression in the 19^th-century  University of Newcastle on Tyne

2010a  Language Policies in German Schools.  Linguistics Circle, University of the West of England

2009c Multilingualism in 19^th-century Schleswig-Holstein 

            Research Group on Language and History – University of Oxford

2009a, b On the Sociolinguistics of School Inspection Reports in 19^th-century Germany

Dept of German - King’s College London, Dept of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh

2008    The German diaspora in the American Upper Midwest

            Dept of German, University of Wales Swansea

2007d  Sprachverfall in the New Germany

            plenary lecture at Annual Meeting of Association of Third-Level Teachers of      German in Ireland, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland

2007b, c German-American Identity in Early School Grammars

            Max-Kade Institute, Madison, Wisconsin (USA) and Aberystwyth Linguistics         Forum, UW Aberystwyth.

2007a Viewing the new Heimat in American School Grammars 1860-1918

            School of Modern Languages, University of Exeter

2006c Writing the new Middle High German grammar.

            How the Germans do historical grammatography.

       Unlocking the Potential of Texts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Medieval Greek, University of Cambridge.

2006a, b Bad German from 1600-2005

       The Philological Society, at the University of Oxford and Forschungskolloquium Linguistik, Universität Zürich.

2005e  Making Bad German: Morpho-syntactic stigmatisations from 1700 - 2000.

            Dept of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield.

2005d  Zur Verortung der Standardsprache 1600-2005.

            Dept of German Linguistics, Universität Kassel.      

2005b, c Schlechtes Deutsch in vier Jahrhunderten.

            Research Institute of the Deutsche Sprachatlas, Universität Marburg and

            Institute of German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

2005a  Bristolian – Linguistic Features and Folk Linguistic Feelings.

            Forschungskolloquium at the Department of English, Universität Potsdam.

2003 with Winifred Davies. Who Made Bad German? - studying the origins, development        and current status of stigmatized morpho-syntax.

            Dept of Linguistics, University of Manchester

2002b  Standarddeutsch im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Belege aus dem Barock

            Dept of General Linguistics, Universität Bremen

2002a  Landmark Process: Low German. Death of a (Written) Dialect.

            Invited Lecture, University of Cambridge

2000a, b The Rechtschreibreform - A Lesson in Linguistic Purism.

            University College Dublin and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Conference papers not listed elsewhere

2011 with Robert Langhanke. Language Apocalypse – Concerns about Dialect Survival in the 19^th-century.

            XIII. International Conference on Minority Languages. Sønderborg-Flensburg

2009    Why I like Old High German

            Lecture Series on Old Languages, University of Bristol

2009    Multilingualism in 19^th-century Schleswig-Holstein

            Society for Germanic Linguistics, Banff, Canada

2005 with Anja Voeste. Dual Standards Revisited – Orthographic Variation in Early Modern German

            5th Conference on Language Variation and Change, University of Aberdeen.

2003    Finding Bad German: An Investigation of Baroque Foreign Language Grammars.

            XVIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Copenhagen.

2002    Innovation in Language – the representation and status of the newly-born standard German in early foreign language grammars.

            British Baroque Symposium. University of Bristol

1999    Auf der Suche nach dem verschwundenen Thun - Zur Bestimmung des    Wirkungsgrades frühneuhochdeutscher Grammatiker

            Stipendiaten-Colloquium der Herzog August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel.

(lead organiser unless stated otherwise)

2025 Purity in Minoritised Languages. Europa Universität Flensburg, with Jeff Williams (Texas Tech University), Silvia dal Negro (Bozen/Bolzano), Henrik Rosenkvist (Göteborg)

2023 XIVth HiSoN summer school, Ban Horn (Amrum), with Jan Niklas Heinrich and Samantha Litty

2023 Endangered Languages in Europe, Europa Universität Flensburg, wich Jeff Williams (Texas Tech University)

2022 Regional- und Minderheitensprachen: Reflexionen, Methoden und Strategien zu ihrer Erhaltung und Revitalisierung. Konferenz an der EUF (lead organisier: Eva Gugenberger)

2018 XIIth HiSoN summer school, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland (with Anita Auer and Tino Oudesluis)

2016 1st Bristol Postgraduate Conference on Language and Society, supported by Multilingual Matters

2014 Forum for Germanic Language Studies & Society for Germanic Linguistics University of Cambridge

2013 Humboldt-Kolleg on The Sociolinguistics of Invisible Languages, UoB (EUR 10,000)

2013 IAS Benjamin Meaker Professorship for Jose del Valle (CUNY), £800, BIRTHA funding: £750

2013 VIIth HiSoN summer school; Metochi Study Centre, Lesbos; External funding from VU Brussel and University of Agder (Norway) (£5000)

2013 Bristolian Language and Identity, M-Shed, Bristol (co-lead)

                        lectures and workshops for A-Level students and general public

2012-3 Ringvorlesung, Kleine Sprachen, University of Flensburg (co-lead)

2012 BIRTHA, lecture series on Why I Love Old Languages,  £500 (co-lead)

2012 VIth HiSon Summer School, University of Augsburg (co-organiser)

2012 Forum of Germanic Language Studies, University of Sheffield (co-organiser)

2011-12 IAS Workshops on Bristol - Region, Language, and Identity

2011 2. Boldener Gespräche, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Language and History (co-lead, with Prof. F. Loetz), University of Zurich

2011 Vth HiSoN summer school; Metochi Study Centre, Lesbos; External funding from VU Brussel and University of Agder (Norway) (£5000)

2011 Lecture Series on Historical Language Contacts (University of Kiel)

2011 1. Boldener Gespräche, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Language and History (co-lead, with Prof. F. Loetz), University of Zurich

2010 IVth HiSoN summer school; Bruges; co-organiser, external funding from VU Brussel (£5000)

2010 Conference of University Teachers of German. Linguistics Section; University of Reading. Organiser and chair of the Linguistic Panel

2010 Forum of Germanic Language Studies, Aberystwyth University (Co-organiser)

2010-11 Local Organiser for lecture series: Representing and Experiencing

            Transnationalism: Germanic Languages and Cultures (PI: Kristine Horner, Leeds)

2009-10 Lecture Series: An Introduction to Old Languages

(co-lead, with Marianne Ailes & Ad Putter)

2009 DAAD funding to invite Prof. Ludwig Eichinger (IDS Mannheim) to the UK to give lectures at Cambridge, London, Aberystwyth, and Bristol

2009 3rd HiSoN summer school,  Metochi Study Centre, Lesbos;

2009 Joint Meeting of the Forum for Germanic Language Studies and the Society of Germanic Linguistics, Banff Conference Centre, Alberta, Canada; co-organiser

2009 Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography, International HiSoN conference, UoB; AHRC funded (£9000), Proceedings published in 2012

2009 Conference of University Teachers of German. Linguistics Section.

            University of Ulster, Belfast. Organiser and chair of the Linguistic Panel

2008 The Interdisciplinarity of Linguistic and Historical Studies, UoB, international workshop (HiSoN), AHRC funded (£1500)

2008 Workshop on Minority and Regional Languages in Europe, University of Bristol, School of Modern Languages;

2008 2nd. HiSoN summer school,

            University of Bristol; AHRC funded (£9000)

2008 Conference of University Teachers of German. Linguistics Section.

            University of Nottingham. Organiser and chair of the Linguistic Panel

2007 1st. HiSoN summer school,

            Metochi Study Centre, Lesbos, External funding from VU Brussel and University of Agder (Norway) (£2500)

2007  Conference of University Teachers of German. Linguistics Section.

            University of Bristol. Organiser of the linguistics panel and local general organisers.

2006 DAAD funding to invite Prof. Andreas Gardt (Kassel) to the UK to give lectures at Cambridge, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford and Bristol (€1500)

2005 IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship for Richard Watts (Berne), (£500)

2005 Language History from Below - Linguistic Variation in the Germanic Languages 1700-2000,

            international HiSoN conference, University of Bristol, external funding: British Academy (£2000, maximum grant), Linguistics Association of Great Britain (£300, maximum grant), BIRTHA (£550), Free University of Brussels (£1200); proceedings published in 2007

2003 IAS  Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship for James Milroy (Ann Arbor, MI), (£750)

2003 Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages.

            University of Bristol, external funding: British Academy Conference Grant (£1930), Linguistics Association of Great Britain (£300, maximum grant), Faculty of Arts (£520), proceedings published in 2005