{"id":29,"date":"2011-02-09T18:38:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:40:21","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching and Advising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Since 1994, I have taught a variety of linguistics courses at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Texas at Austin<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uib.no\/info\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Bergen (Norway)<\/a>, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hu-berlin.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Humboldt University in Berlin<\/a> (Germany), and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.euv-frankfurt-o.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European Viadrina University<\/a> in Frankfurt\/Oder (Germany). The following is a list of undergraduate and graduate courses that I have taught.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/files\/2011\/02\/bling1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/files\/2011\/02\/teachpic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graduate Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list teaching\">\n<li>English and German Morphology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>German Syntax<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phonology-Morphology Interfaces in English and German<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rhetoric &amp; Stylistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Linguistic Approach to Political, Social, and Cultural Opposition: The Case of Texas Germans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Acquisition of English and German<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics of English and German<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contrastive Lexical Semantics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Language Contact and Language Death<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contrastive Syntax of English and German: A Construction Grammar Perspective<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expanding Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frame Semantics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Undergraduate Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list teaching\">\n<li>Introduction to Language<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Language and Society in the German-speaking Countries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduction to Germanic Linguistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advanced German Grammar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Language and Politics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Documentation and Analysis of Texas German<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sprache und Politik (&#8216;Language and Politics&#8217;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Texas-German Experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Texas German Dialect<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>German I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>German II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Former Ph.D. Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ccat.sas.upenn.edu\/german\/people\/faculty_staff\/lecturers\/james.htm\">David James<\/a>, Ph.D. 2003 (&#8220;The Second Generation: Language Use among Migrants in Berlin&#8221;). Currently employed as Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfu.edu\/germanrussian\/German\/wiggerstest.html\">Heiko Wiggers<\/a>, Ph.D. 2005 (&#8220;Dialect Death on the German\/Dutch border&#8221;). Currently employed as an Associate Professor at Wake Forest University (tenured). After a severe illness, Heiko unfortunately passed away in April of 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/karenroesch.com\/\">Karen Roesch<\/a>, Ph.D. 2009 (\u201cTexas Alsatian: Henri Castro\u2019s Legacy\u201d).\u00a0Currently employed as Assistant Professor, Hoyt-Reichmann Scholar of German-American Studies, and Director of the Max Kade German American Resource Center at Indiana University \u2013 Purdue University at Indianapolis.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/germanic\/faculty\/jck235\">James Kearney<\/a>, Ph.D. 2010 (&#8220;Friedrichsburg by Friedrich Armand Strubberg: Translated and Annotated by James C. Kearney&#8221;). Co-supervision with Janet Swaffar. Currently employed as lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washjeff.edu\/guido-halder\">Guido Halder<\/a>, Ph.D. 2011 (&#8220;A frame-semantic approach to selectional restrictions in German Support Verb Constructions: The case of [in X geraten]&#8221;). Currently employed as Assistant Professor at Washington and Jefferson College.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anja Moehring, Ph.D. 2013 (&#8220;Argument marking with prepositions in German: A constructional approach to &#8216;auf&#8217; (&#8216;on&#8217;)&#8221;). Currently employed as lecturer at Baylor University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maggie Gemmell, Ph.D. 2015 (&#8220;Semantic role alignment in metaphor: A frame semantic approach to metaphoric meaning.&#8221;) Currently employed as Adjunct Instructor of German in the Division of Humanities and Culture at Southern Oregon University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.ids-mannheim.de\/direktion\/personal.html\">David Huenlich<\/a>, Ph.D. 2016 (&#8220;The roots of multiethnolects: Effects of migration on the lexicon and speech of German&#8221;). Currently employed as a junior researcher at the Catholic University Eichstaett, Germany.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ryandux.weebly.com\/\">Ryan Dux<\/a>, Ph.D. 2016 (&#8220;A usage-based approach to verb classes in English and German&#8221;). Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics at Bucknell University (2016-17), Mellon-Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for the German Language (2017-2018), Employed as Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Sam Houston State University (since 2018).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Annika VanNoy, Ph.D. 2017 (&#8220;Culture-specific aspects of semantic frames in multilingual frame descriptions&#8221;). Employed outside of academia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alexanderlorenz.weebly.com\/\">Alexander Lorenz<\/a>, Ph.D. 2018 (&#8220;Beliefs about grammar instruction among post-secondary second-language learners and teachers&#8221;). Employed as Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the University of South Carolina (Upstate) (since 2018).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Margo Blevins, Ph.D. 2022 (&#8220;<span data-v-4563aac5=\"\">The language-tagging &amp; orthographic normalization of German-language contact varieties<\/span>&#8220;). Employed as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin (since 2022).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthias Warmuth, Ph.D. 2023 (&#8220;Phonological convergence and variation in a dying language variety: The case of Texas German&#8221;).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ellen Jones Schoedler, Ph.D. 2025 (&#8220;<span data-v-0e8db752=\"\">&#8220;De Spraak achter Pott un Ploog: Gender and Identity in the Maintenance and Loss of Low German&#8221;).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advising of visiting postdoctoral researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tu-dresden.de\/gsw\/slk\/germanistik\/gls\/die-professur\/team-1\/bin-zhang\">Bin Zhang<\/a>, Dresden University of Technology, Germany. Research: Implementation of Construction Grammar in the foreign language classroom with a specific focus on pedagogical approaches to teaching German (<em>Deutsch als Fremdsprache<\/em>). (September 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laura Guse, University of Frankfurt, Germany. Research: Motion Constructions in Texas German. (March-April 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joren Somers, University of Ghent, Belgium. Research: Case marking on subjects. (Oct. 2024 &#8211; Sept. 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jun Li, Lecturer, Central China Normal University, P.R. China. Research: Construction Grammar, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics. (2024-2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yubin Qian, Associate Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China. Research: Corpus-based narrative study: Discourse modeling from a multidimensional perspective. (August 2013 \u2013 February 2024).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yu Miao, Assistant Professor, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China. Research: Multilingual Motivation in Second Language Learning. (August 2023 &#8211; July 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sun Yu, Associate Professor, Heilongjang Bayi Agricultural University, P.R. China. Research: Cultural pragmatics, second language acquisition. (January 2023 \u2013 December 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wu Wei, Professor, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, P.R. China. Research: Psycholinguistics, lexical semantics, second language acquisition. (March 2023 \u2013 February 2024).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Verena Sauer, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, University of Kiel, Germany. Research: German Dialectology, Language Contact, Frame Semantics. (October 2022-October 2023).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jun Li, Lecturer, Central China Normal University, P.R. China. Research: Construction Grammar, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics. (2019-2020; research stay interrupted by Covid-19 pandemic, March 2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wang Yagang, Lecturer, Ningbo University, P.R. China. Research: Cognitive-functional linguistics, constructionalization, evaluative constructions. (July 2019 \u2013 March 2020).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ayodele Ayotunde, Associate Professor, Lagos State University, Nigeria. Research: Discourse Analysis and Online Communication. (August 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhan Min, Associate Professor, Zhejian Financial College, P.R. China. Research: Critical Discourse Analysis. (May 2019 \u2013 August 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yuanyuan Huang, Lecturer, China Pharmaceutical University, P.R. China. Research: Construction Grammar and Second Language Acquisition. (Dec. 2018 \u2013 Dec. 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhou Xiatao, Lecturer, Shanxi University, P.R. China. Research: Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language Testing. (August 2018 \u2013 August 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wang Xiaohui, Lecturer, Ningbo University, P.R. China. Research: Construction Grammar and idiomatic constructions. (October 2018 \u2013 April 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hasebe Yoichiro, Associate Professor, Doshisha University, Japan. Research: Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics. (August 2018 \u2013 August 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhang Xiangming, Associate Professor, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics. P.R. China. Research: Bilingual Lexicography, Lexical Semantics, Contrastive Linguistics.(August 2018 \u2013 August 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Han Guochun, Lecturer, Hangzhou Dianzi University, P.R. China. Research: Second Language Acquisition and Assessment, CALL, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics.(August 2018 \u2013 August 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thomas Schmidt, Director of the Division of Spoken Language Corpora, Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany. Research: Archiving of Spoken Data (February \u2013 April 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Duan Shi-ping, Associate Professor, Zhongyuan University of Technology, P.R. China. Research: Lexicography, Corpus Linguistics, Second language acquisition. (August 2017 \u2013 August 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hsu Ting-Ting, Assistant Professor, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan.\u00a0 Research: Cognitive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Analysis. (July 2017 \u2013 July 2018).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liu Jiang, Associate Professor, Dalian University, P.R. China. Research: Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, Contrastive Linguistics. (April 2017 \u2013 April 2018).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Karen Roesch, Assistant Professor, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN. Research: German language Islands (August-December 2017).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ruiliang Tang, Associate Professor, Southwest University, P.R. China. Research: Cnstruction Grammar and Language Change. (February 2016 \u2013 February 2017).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fujikawa Katsuya. Associate Professor, University of Toyama, Japan. Research: Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar. (September 2016-September 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Katharina Mucha, Postdoctoral researcher, Paderborn University, Germany. Research: Cognitive Sociolinguistics and Construction Grammar. (Sept. 2016 \u2013 August 2017).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shen Lei, Associate Professor, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, PR China. Research: Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics. (September 2016 \u2013 August 2017).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liu Qi, Associate Professor, Hangzhou Dianzi University, PR China. Research Topic: Contrastive Construction Grammar. (August 2015 \u2013 June 2016).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shuguang Li, Associate Professor, Nanjing Normal University, PR China. Research Topic: Construction Grammar, FrameNet, and language teaching. \u00a0(August 2014-August 2015).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guo Xia, Lecturer, University of Sichuan, PR China. Research Topic: Resultative Constructions in Chinese. (August 2014 \u2013 July 2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jianing He, Professor, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, PR China. Research Topic: Business English FrameNet dictionary for Chinese learners. (August 2014 \u2013 July 2015).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heiko Wiggers, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, North Carolina. Research Topic: German language islands. (August &#8211; December 2012)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liusheng Xi, Associate Professor, Wenzhou University, PR China. Research Topic: Resultative constructions in Chinese. (January &#8211; May 2012)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Soojung Kim, Assistant Professor, Changwon National University, S. Korea. Research Topic: Phonetics of English and Korean \/ Maritime Language. (August 2011 &#8211; May 2012)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rove Chishman, Associate Professor, Programa de P\u00f3s-Gradua\u00e7\u00e3o em Ling\u00fc\u00edstica Aplicada Unisinos, Brazil. Research topic: Multilingual Lexicography. (January &#8211; May 2009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chin-Do Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Konkuk University, South Korea. Research topic: Polysemy of Korean and German Adjectives and Prepositions. (January &#8211; May 2002)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advising of visiting Ph.D. students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hong Xia, Ph.D. student, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, P.R. China. Research: Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition (Oct. 2024 &#8211; Sept. 2025).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Caroline Reher, Ph.D. student, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. Research: Relative clauses in Chilean German, Namibian German, and Texas German (March &#8211; April 2023).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Silu Siltaloppi, Ph.D. student, University of Helsinki, Finland. Research: Construction Grammar and Sign Languages. (September \u2013 November 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mansoureh Delaramifar, Ph.D. student, Sistan and Baluchistan University, Islamic Republic of Iran. Research: Computational Linguistics, Lexical Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Dialectology. (February \u2013 August 2018).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Diego Spader de Souza. Ph.D. student, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil. Research: Frame Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, Digital Lexicography. (September 2017 \u2013 January 2018).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tatiane Silva Tavares, Ph.D. student, Federal University of Juiz de For a, Brazil. Research: Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, Lexicography, Machine Translation. (August 2017-December 2017).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deng Lin, Ph.D. candidate, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, P.R. China. Research:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lexicography, Corpus Linguistics, Lexical Semantics. (August 2017 \u2013 August 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mayowa Akinlotan, Ph.D. student, Free University of Brussels, Belgium. Research: New Englishes and Corpus Linguistics (May 2017-May 2018).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chen Yun, Ph.D. student, Sichuan University, PR China. Research: Cognitive Linguistics. (February-November 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gan Qingfeng, Ph.D. student at Shanghai University, PR China. Research topic: Contrastive \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Construction Grammar. (August 2015 \u2013 August 2016).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anna Shadrova, Ph.D. student at the Humboldt-University Berlin. Research topic: Verbs and constructions in German as a foreign language. (March \u2013 June 2015).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alba Luzondo, Ph.D. student at the University of La Rioja, Spain. Research topic: \u201cConstruction grammar and Frame Semantics.\u201d Stay sponsored by the Spanish ministry of education. (Aug. \u2013 Dec. 2010. )<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nuria Del Camo Martinez, Ph.D. student at the University of La Rioja, Spain. Research topic: \u201cConstruction grammar and Frame Semantics.\u201d Stay sponsored by the Spanish ministry of education. August\u2013December 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anderson Bertoldi, Ph.D. student at UNISONOS University, Brazil. Research topic: \u201cMultilingual FrameNets.\u201d Stay sponsored by Brazilian Federal Research Agency CAPES.(Jan. 2010\u2013Dec. 2010).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Han-Chun Huang, Ph.D. student at the National Tsung Hua University, Taiwan. Research topic: \u201cResultative Constructions in Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Hakka.\u201d Stay sponsored by the Taiwanese Science Foundation. 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