• Idiolinguistics - Grounding Language Study in the Individual ("Pioneer Research", Volkswagen Stiftung, PI: Axel Bohmann)
• Modeling and operationalizing pragmatic associations (PostDoc project)

in progress

• in prep. (with Marco Wiemann). It’s the duck Ø lays the eggs: On the history of zero subject relativizers in EModE.
• in prep. On (the lack of) optionality in regionally stratified intensification strategies.
• in prep. The conventionalization of GET POSS X on: a case of pop-culturally driven diffusion.
• under review. The cognitive sociolinguistics of hella.

2026

• (with Bert Cappelle & Stefan Hartmann). From arch-atheist to archi zinzin: tracing historical and contemporary roots of evaluation and intensification in a set of cognates. Folia Linguistica. aop. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2025-0153.

2025

• (with Ulrike Schneider). Negate me never, negate me not: cross-varietal distributional skews in modal negation from a diachronic perspective. English Language and Linguistics 29(3). 589–608. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674325100312.

2024

• (with David Lorenz). A radically usage-based, collostructional approach to assessing the differences between negative modal contractions and their parent forms. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 21(3). 551–576. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2024-0051.

2023

• Modality, usage and diachrony: Constructional changes in the modal domain in American English. Kiel: Kiel University. https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/macau_mods_00003887.
• (with Bert Cappelle & Stefan Hartmann). The English privative prefixes near-, pseudo- and quasi-: approximation and ‘disproximation’. Journal of Word Formation 7(1). 52–75. https://doi.org/10.21248/zwjw.2023.1.35.

2022

• English modal enclitic constructions: a diachronic, usage-based study of 'd and 'll. Cognitive Linguistics. 33(1). 221–250. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0023.

upcoming

• (with David Lorenz and David Tizón-Couto) Diachronic Construction Grammar vs Grammaticalization Theory: kinda the same or hella different? Paper to be presented at Grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar: Convergences and Challenges, Sep 30–Oct 2, 2026, Montpellier (France).

2026

• (with Bert Cappelle and Stefan Hartman) The archbishop’s archevil archenemy: Contrastive perspectives on the emergence of an intensifying prefix. Paper presented at DGfS2026, Feb 24–27, 2026, Trier (Germany).

2025

• (with Marco Wiemann) (T)here is an existential Ø misses its subject relativizer: on the history of zero subject relativizers in EmodE. Paper presented at ICAME46, Jun 17–21, 2025, Vilnius (Lithuania).

2024

• Hella entrenched and hella (un)conventional: the cognitive-sociolinguistics of hella-intensification. Paper presented at ICAME45, Jun 18–22, 2024. Vigo (Spain).
• The cognitive sociolinguistics of hella-intensification. Paper presented at SLE2024, Aug 21–24, 2024, Helsinki (Finland).

2023

• (with David Lorenz).I can’t say it’s just the verbs: using distributional and experimental data to predict speakers’ choices of negative modal contractions over their full forms. Paper presented at ICCG12, May 19–21, 2023, Prague (Czech Republic).
• (with Ulrike Schneider). Negate me never, negate me not: cross-varietal distributional skews in modal negation from a diachronic perspective. Paper presented at ICEHL22, July 3–6, 2023, Sheffield (UK).

2022

• (with Bert Cappelle & Stefan Hartmann). The English privative prefixes near-, pseudo-, quasi- and sub-: approximation and ‘disproximation’. Paper presented at ApproxiMo, Jan 18, 2022, Leuven (Belgium). Online discontinuous workshop.

• Cognitive (socio-)linguistics
• Usage-based linguistics
• Language variation and change
• Corpus linguistics and quantitative methods
• Morphology
• Extravagance & creativity
• AAL