• 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 cognitive sociolinguistics of hella.
• in prep. The conventionalization of GET POSS X on: a case of pop-culturally driven diffusion.

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.

(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).

(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).

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).

(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).

(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