Newcastle University

Introduction

Student consultation hours: Mon 11-12, Tues 11-12, Tuesdays 15-16 (during teaching weeks only)

Background

Carol Fehringer studied Modern Languages at the University of Manchester between 1984 and 1989, before going on to take a Masters course in general linguistics in 1990. In 1993 she was awarded a PhD in Germanic Linguistics from the University of Manchester, after having spent a year researching at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Munster in Germany (funded by a D.A.A.D. scholarship). In October 1993 Dr Fehringer became Lecturer in German and Dutch at the University of Newcastle, School of Modern Languages.

Roles and Responsibilities

Director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Modern Languages
German Exams Contact
Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee Member
University Teaching and Learning Committee Panel Member

Qualifications

BA Double Honours in German and Spanish.
Master of Linguistics.
PhD in Linguistics (Title: On the nature and place of morphology: analogical umlaut in German dialects).
Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Memberships

Societas Linguistica Europaea.
Linguistics Association of Great Britain.
Philological Society.
Association for Low Countries Studies in Great Britain and Ireland.
Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland.

Honours and Awards

DAAD research scholarship (1993)

Languages

English
German
Dutch

Research Interests

Dr Fehringer's main research area is theoretical morphology, with particular emphasis on German, Dutch and English.
She has also written research articles on phonology, specifically metrical phonology, and its application in standard Dutch and in Low German dialects.

Other Expertise

Dr Fehringer has written two pedagogical grammars: a reference grammar of Dutch and a context-based grammar of German.
She has also collaborated on a psycholinguistics project with Dr Christina Fry on the relation between working memory and various aspects of language production in bilingual speakers.

Postgraduate Supervision

Dr Fehringer is willing to supervise postgraduate students in the following areas:
Morphology
Phonology
Dialectology (German, Dutch or English)

Esteem Indicators

Dr Fehringer has acted as a reader for Arnold, Routledge and Cambridge University Press. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the refereed journals 'Dutch Crossing','Word Structure' and the 'Journal of Germanic Linguistics'.

Undergraduate Teaching

SML1019 Introduction to Linguistics (German linguistics seminars)
GER1071 Level B German Language (Grammar lectures)
GER2031 Beginners' Dutch
GER4004 Intermediate Dutch
GER4009 German and English Word Analysis
GER4099 Dissertation (German)

• Fehringer C. Allomorphy in the German genitive. A paradigmatic account. Zeitschrift fuer Germanistische Linguistik 2011, 39(1), 90-112.
• Fehringer C. Nominale Diminutiva bei Komposita im Schwäbischen: Ein "Words and Rules"-Ansatz. Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik 2009, 76(3), 263-279.
• Fehringer C. German Grammar in Context. London: Arnold, 2002.
• Fehringer C. A reference grammar of Dutch : with exercises and key. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Fehringer C. Wie wär's mit einem richtigen Mädelsabend? Plural -s within compounds in colloquial northern German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 2009, 21, 149-165.
• Fehringer C. How stable are morphological doublets? A case study of /[schwa]/ [similar] Ø variants in Dutch and German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 2004, 16(4), 285-329.
• Fehringer C. Prosodic conditions on allomorph selection in Dutch derivational morphology. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 2003, 15(4), 297-324.
• Fehringer C. Morphological 'gangs': constraints on paradigmatic relations in analogical change. In: Booij, G.E., van Marle, J, ed. Yearbook of Morphology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2003, pp.249-272.
• Fehringer C, Fry C. Hesitation phenomena in the language production of bilingual speakers: The role of working memory. Folia Linguistica 2007, 41(1-2), 37-72.
• Fehringer C, Fry C. Frills, furbelows and activated memory: syntactically optional elements in the spontaneous language production of bilingual speakers. Language Sciences 2007, 29(4), 497-511.
• Briel H, Fehringer C. Field Studies. German Language, Media and Culture. Bern: Lang, 2005.
• Carol Chapman. A subject-verb agreement hierarchy: evidence from analogical change in modern English dialects. In: Hogg, Richard M.; and Linda van Bergen, ed. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory: Historical Linguistics 1995. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998, pp.35-44.
• Borjars, Kersti, and Carol Chapman. Agreement and pro-drop in some dialects of English. Linguistics 1998, 36, 71-98.
• Carol Chapman. Diminutive plural infixation and the 'West Franconian' problem. In: Fisiak, Jacek, ed. Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, pp.73-88.
• Borjars, Kersti, Vincent, Nigel, and Carol Chapman. Paradigms, periphrases and pronominal inflection: a feature-based account. In: Booij, Geert E.; and Jaap van Marle, ed. Yearbook of Morphology 1996. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1997, pp.155-181.
• Carol Chapman. Recursivity in the inflectional morphology of English and German dialects. In: Hickey R.; and S. Puppel, ed. Festschrift in Honour of Jacek Fisiak's 60th Birthday. The Hague: Mouton, 1997, pp.1372-1377.
• Carol Chapman. Anomalies in the strong verb paradigms of two West Central German dialects. Zeitschrift fuer Dialektologie und Linguistik 1996, 63(1), 49-57.
• Carol Chapman. Perceptual salience and affix order: noun plurals as input to word formation. In: Booij, Geert E.; and Jaap van Marle, ed. Yearbook of Morphology 1995. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1996, pp.175-184.
• Chapman, Carol. Perceptual salience and analogical change: evidence from vowel lengthening in modern Swiss German dialects. Journal of Linguistics 1995, 31, 1-13.
• Carol Chapman. Ueberlaenge in North Saxon Low German: evidence for the metrical foot. Zeitschrift fuer Dialektologie und Linguistik 1993, 60, 129-157.
• Carol Chapman. A diachronic argument against the Split Morphology Hypothesis: the case of analogical umlaut in German dialects. Transactions of the Philological Society 1994, 92, 25-39.
• Carol Chapman. Review of Christopher Beedham 'German Linguistics: An Introduction'. Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics 1996.
• Fehringer C. The lexical representation of compound words in English: evidence from aphasia. Language Sciences 2012, 34(1), 65-75.
• Fehringer C. A reference grammar of Dutch : with exercises and key. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.