Sociolinguistics, language variation and change, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, grammaticalization
California youth trends, intensification, quotation, globalization phenomena, attitudes to any of the above.
British dialect research: Testing methodologies to trace morpho-syntactic and discourse variability across space.
1996 Zwischenpruefung / B.A.: University of Erlangen (Germany)
1999 Staatsexamen and Magister Artium: University of Konstanz (Germany)
2004 PhD: University of Edinburgh
2004/5 visiting assistant professor: Stanford University