Welcome to my website

I'm professor of English and Digital Linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology, and I do linguistic research on a wide range of topics that I find interesting, relevant or funny. I cooperate with others to develop the software that I would like to use myself, and I communicate linguistic research to general audiences in my own podcast and on social media.

I love linguistics because it's so varied. It deals with everything related to language - and that's almost anything humans do. This means linguistics spans the whole range from creative new words and strange English spellings to the question how humans communicate with artificial intelligence and what English will be like in the future.

And yes, these are all topics I've dealt with in my own research.

On this website, you can find out more about me and what I do. Feel free to take a look at my publications, to listen to my podcast Linguistics Behind the Scenes - and to get in touch.

What's new

I proudly present:

20 years after the publication of its first edition, dictionary publisher Langenscheidt/PONS asked me to produce an updated second edition of my Spanish phrasebook Langenscheidt – Schnell mitreden – Spanisch: 100 Wörter lernen und 500 Sätze sprechen - and I did!
What I really like about this little book is that you only need to learn 100 Spanish words to express numerous holiday essentials (like making smalltalk or ordering food) in over 500 sentences.
Find out more about my phrasebook in this YouTube short and in the accompanying episode of my science podcast Linguistics Behind the Scenes: 
Episode 23 : How much can you say with 100 words? | Phrasebooks as keys to new languages [Episode Description] [Transcript]

 

 

 

Find out here about:

• My latest publications
• Upcoming conferences, workshops and events that I organize