Teaching

Since 1994, I have taught a variety of linguistics courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Bergen (Norway) and the European Viadrina University in Frankfurt/Oder (Germany). The following is a list of undergraduate and graduate courses that I have taught.

Graduate Courses

English and German Morphology
German Syntax
Phonology-Morphology Interfaces in English and German
Rhetoric & Stylistics
A Linguistic Approach to Political, Social, and Cultural Opposition: The Case of Texas Germans
The Acquisition of English and German
Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics of English and German
Contrastive Lexical Semantics
Language Contact and Language Death
Contrastive Syntax of English and German: A Construction Grammar Perspective
Expanding Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics
Frame Semantics

Anja Moehring (“Polysemy networks of prepositions”)
Maggie Gemmell (“A frame-semantic approach to the metaphoric transfer of meaning”)

David James, Ph.D. 2003 (“The Second Generation: Language Use among Migrants in Berlin”). Currently employed as Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.
Heiko Wiggers, Ph.D. 2005 (“Dialect Death on the German/Dutch border”). Currently employed as an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University.
Karen Roesch, Ph.D. 2009 (“Texas Alsatian: Henri Castro’s Legacy”). Currently employed as lecturer at Texas State University.
Guido Halder, Ph.D. 2011 (“A frame-semantic approach to selectional restrictions in German Support Verb Constructions: The case of [in X geraten]“). Currently employed as lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh.