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Research Projects

 

Corpus Project

  • A Corpus of English Religious Prose. Thomas Kohnen, Sandra Boggel, Tanja Rütten, Dorothee Groeger, Ingvilt Marcoe, Kirsten Gather, Anne Döring, Judith Kaup

Completed Dissertations

  • Metadiscourse in Middle English and Early Modern English religious texts - A corpus-based study. Sandra Boggel 
  • How to do things with texts - Patterns of instruction in religious discourse 1350-1700. Tanja Rütten 
  • The Early English impersonal construction: An analysis of verbal and constructional meaning. Ruth Möhlig-Falke 
  • The pamphlet as a format of publication - A corpus-based study of Early Modern religious pamphlets. Dorothee Groeger 
  • Syntactic dislocation in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 - A corpus-based study. Kirsten Gather
  • Investigating directive speech acts in Early Modern English correspondence. A corpus-based study on factors of language variation and change. Anne Döring

Current Habilitations

  • Modality in Non-Modals. A historical study of performativity. Tanja Rütten
  • Interrogative constructions in instructional texts from Old English to Early Modern English. Judith Kaup