Courses Taught

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

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Language 
• Introduction to Germanic Linguistics
• Advanced German Grammar
• Language and Politics
• Documentation and Analysis of Texas German
• Sprache und Politik
• The Texas-German Experience
• The Texas German Dialect
• German I
• German II

 

Current Ph.D. Students and their research areas

• Guido Halder ("A frame-semantic approach to German support verb constructions")
• Anja Moehring ("Polysemy networks of prepositions")
• Hunter Weilbacher ("Language Contact in Texas")

 

Former Ph.D. Students

• 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 Lecturer at Wake Forest University.
• Karen Roesch, Ph.D. 2009 (“Texas Alsatian: Henri Castro’s Legacy”). Currently employed as lecturer at Texas State University.